After President Donald Trump's heated exchange with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House last week, the Ukrainian president met with a summit of European leaders at Lancaster House in London to discuss Russia's war.

White House officials were expecting a positive meeting and said they had little reason to anticipate animosity before things deteriorated.

Conservatives and Republican Party figures appear to be divided over the heated meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized for just over two weeks fighting double pneumonia, is in a stable condition and has not had further breathing crises, the Vatican said on Saturday. The 88-year-old pontiff suffered a constriction of his respiratory airways on Friday,

The Vatican said on Saturday evening that the Pope had not suffered further breathing crises and had responded well to oxygen therapy. It did not share a prognosis, but said the pontiff remained "alert and well oriented".

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To seasoned diplomatic observers, US President Donald Trump’s furious dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was a planned political mugging, a trap set by the Trump administration to discredit the Ukrainian leader and remove him as an obstacle to whatever comes next.