2025-05-18
25 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Sunday the 18th of May, these are our main stories.
President Trump says he'll be speaking to Vladimir Putin on Monday in a new push to end the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have entered a new phase as Israel steps up its offensive in Gaza.
Storms and tornadoes in the US states of Kentucky and Missouri have left more than 20 people dead.
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People accepted it with quite mixed feelings because it was aesthetically nothing too special,
but it's been there and I don't see nobody being particularly bothered by it,
nor that anyone would gain a particular value by taking it.
The theft of a statue of US First Lady Melania Trump from her hometown in Slovenia.
All that remains of the giant bronze figure are the feet.
The US President Donald Trump has announced he'll have separate phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine next week in an attempt to end what he called the bloodbath in Ukraine and to push for a ceasefire.
It follows talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul this week,
the first of their kind in three years.
I asked our correspondent Jo Inwood how these conversations may go.
That is a very, very good question.
And one I can't answer right yet.
We do know how it's going to take place or when it's going to take place.
And that is Monday at 10 a.m. U.S. time.
And Donald Trump is going to speak to President Putin.