
UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that a framework economic deal with the United States is now ready for signing.
But Mr Zelensky said there was still no settlement over the security guarantees that Kiev wants from the US.
Mr Zelensky is due in Washington DC on Friday for what are being described as wide-ranging substantive talks with US President Donald Trump.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE