The meeting is scheduled to begin around noon. Ahead of the negotiations, Dmitriy Peskov, press secretary to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, announced that Vladimir Medinsky would lead the Russian delegation.

United States-mediated talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine have begun in Geneva, Switzerland, days before the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of its neighbour.

The United States and Iran will begin indirect talks in Geneva as tensions rise between the countries over nuclear weapons.

US special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff led a whirlwind day of negotiations in Geneva — opening talks with Iran over its nuclear program before shifting to trilateral discussions with Russia...