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Putin skips Ukraine talks in Turkey as Russia shirks pressure from Trump, hurls insults at Zelenskyy instead

Istanbul — Russia and Ukraine traded insults on Thursday as negotiators were due, tentatively, to meet in Turkey for the first direct peace talks in more than three years. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Russia for sending a “decorative” delegation as he touched down in Ankara for a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip…

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US set to cut capital requirements for banks, FT reports

(Reuters) -U.S. authorities are preparing to announce one of the biggest cuts in banks’ capital requirements in over a decade, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Regulators were in the next few months poised to reduce the supplementary leverage ratio (SLR), the newspaper reported, citing several people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately…

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