The first trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States concluded in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, as all sides struck an optimistic tone following two days of discussions.

Abu Dhabi hosts trilateral meeting with the U.S., Ukraine and Russia in a possible sign that the nearly four-year war could be coming to an end.

BBC Verify Live has been focusing on a series of AI-generated fake videos claiming to show huge snow drifts in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.

The debate around the Arctic is becoming hotter than ever as US President Donald Trump insists Greenland should become part of the United States. Security, shipping routes and mineral wealth are all in the mix.

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday its forces had completed the takeover of the village of Starytsya in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the territorial dispute was a central issue for the tripartite talks.

The talks, held in the United Arab Emirates, were the "first format of this kind in quite some time," Zelensky wrote in an X post.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into an oil tanker intercepted by the French navy in the Mediterranean Sea.