Ukraine-Russia war - live: Putin and Kim shake hands for 40 seconds as weapons talks begin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Zuppi, accompanied by an official from the Vatican secretariat of state, will be in Beijing from Wednesday to Friday.
54% : Zuppi, accompanied by an official from the Vatican secretariat of state, will be in Beijing from Wednesday to Friday.
47% : Namita Singh reports:North Korea's Kim Jong-un arrives in Russia ahead of arms deal meeting with PutinCNN's Jake Tapper spoke for many of us when he asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken this direct and blistering question on yesterday's State of the Union.
44% : The sustained assaults, on a daily basis, by hostile states and allied criminal gangs are taking place as the intelligence and security services report a notable increase in secret operations by countries like Russia, Iran and China, and when Vladimir Putin is forging links with a 'pariah' country, North Korea.
40% : The EU needs unanimity of all the bloc's 27 member states to impose sanctions, which are renewed every six months.
40% : The war has sown devastation across swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine, killed or injured hundreds of thousands and triggered the biggest rupture in Russia's ties with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
39% : One of the four sources, all of whom work on sanctions and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the listings were considered legally weak, meaning the EU was not certain they would stand up in court if challenged.
38% : The EU needs unanimity among all the bloc's 27 member states to impose sanctions, which are renewed every six months.

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