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Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London following Trump Oval Office clash
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was warmly greeted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing St. in London on Saturday, a day after Zelenskyy’s tense exchange with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.
Zelemskyy and Starmer, who met with Trump in Washington on Thursday, embraced, shook hands, waved and gave a thumbs up to reporters before heading inside the prime minister’s residence for their meeting.
The scheduled London visit comes after Zelenskyy’s blowup with Trump and Vice President JD Vance during Friday’s televised meeting in the Oval Office.
Zelenskyy was peppered with questions from shouting reporters about Trump outside the prime minister’s residence, but remained tight-lipped.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, greets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, for a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Saturday. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
Starmer told Zelenskyy when he greeted him: «Well, let me just say that you’re very, very welcome here in Downing Street. And as you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom, and we stand with you with Ukraine for as long as it may take.»
He added, «And I hope you’ve heard some of that cheering in the street. That is the people of the United Kingdom coming out to demonstrate how much they support you, how much they support Ukraine, and our absolute determination to stand with unwavering determination and to achieve what we both want to achieve, which is a lasting peace, a lasting peace for Ukraine based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine, so important for Ukraine, so important for Europe, and so for the United Kingdom. So I’m much looking forward to discussions here this afternoon. Thank you very much for taking the time to chat.»
Zelenskyy answered: «With pleasure. Thank you very much.»
He added that the British people have given Ukraine «big support from the very beginning of this war.»
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraces Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, in London, Saturday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Zelenskyy said that he is also «very happy» to be meeting with King Charles III at his residence in Sandringham on Sunday.
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Tensions increased during the Oval Office meeting on Friday over a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine after Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted and had breached other agreements.
Trump and Vance then accused Zelenskyy of not being grateful for the support the U.S. has provided over the years and said the Ukrainian leader was in a «bad position» at the negotiating table.
«You’re playing cards,» Trump said. «You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III. You’re gambling with World War III. And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.»
Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, as President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
After Vance told Zelenskyy Ukraine had manpower and military recruiting problems, Zelenskyy said war means «everybody has problems, even you,» adding the U.S. would feel the war «in the future.»
«Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel,» Trump responded. «We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.»
Zelenskyy was asked to leave the White House after the exchange, a scheduled news conference was canceled and a deal for Ukraine to give the U.S. its rare earth minerals was left unsigned.
Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude for America’s help after the meeting.
«Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit,» he wrote on X. «Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.»
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pauses during an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News’ «Special Report» in Washington, D.C., Friday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The Ukrainian president told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier in an interview after the meeting on «Special Report» that he believes Ukrainian-U.S. ties can be salvaged.
«Yes, of course, because it’s relations more than two presidents,» he said in the exclusive interview. «It’s the historical relations, strong relations between our people. And that’s why I always began … to thank your people from our people.
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«Of course, thankful to the president and, of course, to Congress,» Zelenskyy added, «But, first of all, to your people … we wanted very much to have all this strong relations and where it counted. We will have it.»
Zelenskyy said he was «not sure we did something bad» when asked about the heated exchange but conceded the dustup was «bad for both sides.»
Fox News’ Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.
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Leading evangelicals in push to have President Trump recognize Israeli sovereignty over ‘biblical heartland’
TEL AVIV, Israel – Last week, an influential group of American Christians publicly reaffirmed the Jewish people’s right to Judea and Samaria as the biblical heartland of Israel. The Judea and Samaria area is more commonly known as the West Bank.
The declaration was unveiled at the annual National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas by American Christian Leaders for Israel and was expected to be signed by 3,000 religious leaders before being delivered to President Donald Trump.
The push to apply Israeli sovereignty to the area comes after Trump said last month that his administration would make an announcement on the matter in the coming weeks when asked about annexation.
The Oslo Accords, forged under the Clinton administration, divided the West Bank into three regions: Area A, under full Palestinian jurisdiction; Area B, under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control; and Area C, under full Israeli authority.
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The Cave of the Patriarchs, also known as the Cave of Machpelah. The site is the burial place of Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish people, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, and is situated in Hebron in Judea and Samaria, also more commonly referred to as the West Bank.
A 2020 Trump plan, dubbed Peace to Prosperity, envisioned Israel annexing parts of Judea and Samaria, but was shelved in favor of the Abraham Accords, which normalized Jerusalem’s ties with four Arab countries.
«The evangelicals gave Trump the presidency. He will support our position on the Bible and that’s why he chose Mike Huckabee [as ambassador to Jerusalem], who supports Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,» Dr. Mike Evans, founder of Friends of Zion, which boasts just under 30 million members, told Fox News Digital.
The declaration reaffirms «the Jewish people’s inalienable right to the Biblical Heartland of Israel and reject all efforts—both from the United States and the international community—to pressure the Jewish people to relinquish their ancestral homeland in Judea and Samaria.»
The Tomb of Joseph near Shechem (Nablus). Samaria, Jul 6, 2021. (Roee Oz/TPS)
Evans said evangelicals support Israel «because they believe in moral clarity, good versus evil, they are friends of Zion. They see Jews being killed because they’re Jews, not because of land.»
Pastor John Hagee, the influential founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel, told Fox News Digital that Evangelicals «know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will always keep His word to the Children of Israel. From beginning to end, the Bible is a Zionist document mandating that all believers stand with, and bless, Israel and her people.
«For almost half a century, I have been preaching the message that Israel does not occupy the land, Israel owns the land, the title deed of which is recorded in the pages of the Bible. The land was endowed by God to the Jewish people for all time,» added Hagee.
Aerial view of Joshua’s Alter in Judea and Samaria, more commonly referred to as the West Bank. (TPS-IL)
Earlier this week, Fox News Digital reported that some Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) urged the president to recognize Judea and Samaria as Israeli territory. Their letter to the president expressed support for Jerusalem applying sovereignty over the area, which the lawmakers said was «the heart of our shared Judeo-Christian heritage.»
Israel’s Parliament Speaker Amir Ohana on Feb. 23 urged the government in Jerusalem to extend sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, saying full control over the region was the «one and only way» to achieve lasting peace.
Another Likud lawmaker, Dan Illouz, told Fox News Digital that Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre «proved that any withdrawal, any concession, any illusion of coexistence with those who seek our destruction is not just naive—it is suicidal … we withdrew from Gaza, and in return we got Hamas and the massacre of our people. Judea and Samaria cannot become another terror state.»
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President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answer questions during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4, 2025. ( REUTERS/Leah Millis)
«A push for sovereignty in Judea and Samaria would be the end of Israel,» Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli lawmaker and an architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, told Fox News Digital. «If Israel were to become a minority of Jews dominating a majority of Palestinians, it would be neither Jewish nor democratic. I don’t believe it could ever happen, but just waving this [idea] is bad enough,» he said.
«The right in Israel believes that Trump would support whatever they demand. But five years ago, he suggested there could be a two-state solution. As such, it is not as clear-cut as it seems,» he added.
Late last month, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to conduct a «massive» counter-terrorism operation in Judea and Samaria after three buses exploded near Tel Aviv, and bombs were found on two others in what is being investigated as a coordinated attack.
Israeli soldiers take part in an operation in Jenin, as it seeks to take out Iranian-backed terror groups. Feb. 24, 2025. (REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta)
«This brutality and forceful displacement of civilians in the West Bank… was never about self-defense, but rather a colonial expansion scheme and an ethnic cleansing campaign,» Ahmad Fattouh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s dominant Fatah faction, told Fox News Digital.
«Annexing the West Bank will set us back to 1948 and destroy any future stability or prospects for peace. Every rational voice understands too well that there is no way forward except the two-state solution; otherwise, it will lead to endless havoc,» he added.
Israel Ganz, head of the Yesha Council, the umbrella group representing Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, is working in conjunction with the government in Jerusalem to push for sovereignty.
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Pastor John Hagee speaks during «March For Israel» at the National Mall on Nov. 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
«We started a campaign to push for it, but we won’t do it without the support of the U.S.,» he told Fox News Digital. «Many in the Trump administration are very connected, they know the area, and they believe in our right to this place. They understand that if they want to stabilize the situation, we must have sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.»
«For Israel to be able to continue to survive and thrive along the coastal plain, which produces about 80% of the country’s GDP, then it must keep control of the high grounds in Judea and Samaria,» Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus (ret.), a former IDF international spokesperson and now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
«If any other entity, Palestinian or otherwise, holds that, it would be used as a way to threaten Israel’s security; its core infrastructure, including Ben-Gurion Airport, and also its population– concentrated in a narrow strip between Haifa [in the north] and Ashdod [in the south]–approximately 15 kilometers wide,» he said.
Palestinian terrorists take up position during a confrontation with the Israeli army in Jenin on July 3, 2023. The Israeli army said it had launched drone strikes in Jenin as part of an «extensive counterterrorism effort.» (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
Another element, Conricus explained, is that some 500,000 Israelis currently live in Judea and Samaria, and they need to be protected.
«The trends of escalation in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem are highest now since Oct. 7. We see significant terrorist activity in almost all Palestinian cities and continued weakness of the P.A. in exercising control,» he said.
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Ze’ev Orenstein, director of international affairs at the Jerusalem-based City of David Foundation, told Fox News Digital that the Jewish people’s millenia-long connection to the Land of Israel bestows upon them an inherent right to Judea and Samaria.
«The reality is that there is likely no other people on the planet today with a deeper–and longer–connection to any piece of land than the Jewish people with the Land of Israel, in general, and Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, in particular; where the inhabitants continue to worship the very same G-d, speak the same language, practice the same faith, celebrate the same festivals, and walk upon the very same stones, as their ancestors did so many thousands of years ago,» Orenstein added.
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La salud del papa Francisco: el Sumo Pontífice superó la última crisis respiratoria y «descansó bien toda la noche»
El papa Francisco superó la crisis bronquial del viernes que causó preocupación y, según los médicos que lo atienden en el hospital Gemelli, pasó una noche tranquila. No ha requerido más la ventilación mecánica y no hay señales de una nueva infección.
El Papa sigue recibiendo oxígeno suplementario de alto flujo a través de un tubo nasal.
La crisis que sufrió el viernes hizo temer una nueva infección pulmonar porque el Papa inhaló algo de vómito que los médicos le aspiraron, pero no hay señales de que esto haya provocado alguna infección.
La estabilidad se prolongó al domingo cuando el Papa recibió al secretario de Estado o “primer ministro”, el cardenal italiano Pietro Parolin y su segundo, el arzobispo Edgar Peña Parra.
El encuentro para hablar de temas del funcionamiento vaticano sirvió también para mostrar el mejoramiento del pontífice argentino. Ambos han sido recibidos dos veces anteriores por Francisco.
El Papa no pronunció ayer, por tercera vez consecutiva, el Angelus de los domingos. Envió un texto escrito. En el mensaje, en el que reiteró su condena de la guerra que sufren numerosos países, el Papa aseguró sentir en su corazón “la bendición que se esconde dentro de la fragilidad”.
El Papa agradeció a los fieles que rezan por su salud. “Siento vuestro afecto y vuestra cercanía. Me siento como “llevado” y sostenido por todo el Pueblo de Dios”, remarcó.
Los médicos señalaron los progresos del paciente pero no cambiaron el pronóstico reservado que mantuvieron desde que el Papa fue internado el 14 de febrero. Esta reserva significa que no está claro aún que el ilustre paciente haya superado el riesgo de una nueva infección.
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