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White House says US president wants both leaders to come to table; Ukraine proposes next round of talks before end of JuneRuth Michaelson is reporting from Istanbul and will be providing updates on the talks. Here is some colour from outside Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace:A fleet of black sedans arrived outside the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul, signalling the arrival of some of the negotiations teams. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/02/ukraine-russia-istanbul-talks-vladimir-putin-voldymyr-zelenskyy-latest-news-live Author : Léonie Chao-Fong (now); Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe and Martin Belam (earlier) Publish date : 2025-06-02 18:33:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Appointment of Northern Irishman behind Loewe hype machine sets storied fashion house on experimental pathLong before the designer Jonathan Anderson stepped down from his role at Loewe in March, it was rumoured he would be heading for Dior. So when it was finally announced – six months after Dior’s menswear designer left, and four days after its womenswear head, Maria Grazia Chiuri, showed a collection in Rome – it surprised no one.Yet Anderson’s newfound position at luxury’s centre of gravity still sets Dior, a grand fashion institution, careering down an experimental path. As Delphine Arnault, the chair and CEO of

Former Tory MP will work with Czech billionaire’s EP Group in the UK and GermanyBusiness live – latest updatesThe former Conservative trade minister Greg Hands has been appointed as a strategic adviser to a Czech conglomerate best known in the UK for acquiring Royal Mail.EP Group – which also has investments in the energy, media and property sectors – is run by the multibillionaire Czech tycoon Daniel Křetínský, who Hands said he has known for “a long time”. The group received approval for its takeover of Royal Mail in December 2024, after long-running UK government efforts to assess the national