Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The head of the Russian delegation accused Ukraine of "putting on a show" during Monday's peace talks. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The Pacific Climate Change Data portal provides site-specific historical climate information as well as trends in mean and extreme indices for the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste. The portal was ...