President Trump will meet with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez on September 22 in New York, marking the first in-person meeting between US and Venezuelan leadership since the Trump administration's operation to capture Maduro.
Belarus released 25 political prisoners following negotiations with President Trump's special envoy John Coale, who met with authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. The US lifted some sanctions in return, continuing a series of prisoner-for-sanctions deals since Trump's second term began.
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Kyiv for meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, marking the Trump administration's renewed push to end Russia's war in Ukraine following their earlier visit to Moscow.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with Russian intelligence counterparts on Tuesday in a rare secretive visit aimed at easing regional tensions and warning against attacks on NATO allies and cooperation with Iran. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda confirmed his country had been informed of the visit in advance.
Mali's President Assimi Goïta pardoned Yann Vézilier, a French intelligence officer who was sentenced in June to 20 years in prison for allegedly plotting to destabilize the country. The release follows months of diplomatic negotiations and represents a rare conciliatory gesture amid years of tension between Mali and France.
India and China conducted their 36th Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) meeting in New Delhi on August 7, 2026, reviewing the situation along the Line of Actual Control and discussing boundary delimitation, border management, and trans-border cooperation. Both nations agreed to use existing diplomatic and military channels to resolve outstanding issues and prevent miscalculations.
President Donald Trump called off planned U.S. military strikes against Iran on Thursday at the last minute, saying negotiations had reached Iran's highest leadership levels and claiming Tehran had approved discussions toward a deal involving a ceasefire extension and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's open letter request for direct talks on the four-year conflict, saying he sees no point in such a meeting. Ukrainian officials indicated the letter was aimed at a broader audience including Putin's inner circle and the Russian public.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi in Beijing, with Wang calling the US-Israel war against Iran 'illegitimate.' The meeting occurred as Trump paused Project Freedom and sought diplomatic progress.
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the influential grandson of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, has become a central figure in ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Cuba, even as his grandfather faces a murder indictment in Miami related to a 1996 incident.
