US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was not sure the US should be spending anything on NATO, telling reporters the US was protecting NATO members, but they were "not protecting us."Trump has long demanded that other members of the transatlantic alliance spend more of the gross domestic product on defense after years of not meeting the NATO target of 2%.Trump has said members of the military alliance should spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense – a huge increase from the current 2% goal and a level that no NATO country, including the United States, currently achieves.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he wanted to immediately meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had told him he was ready to make a deal to end the war.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud will visit Damascus on Friday and meet with top officials in the new Syrian administration, a Syrian official said on Thursday.

The governor of Russia's Ryazan region southeast of Moscow said emergency crews were dealing with the aftermath of an air attack early on Friday on the main town in the region, also called Ryazan.Governor Pavel Malkov, writing on Telegram, said air defence units had destroyed drones in the region.Unofficial Telegram channels posted videos of what bloggers described as large blazes in the city and said an oil storage are and a power station had been hit.Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he plans to seek to engage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un anew after the two men developed a working relationship in Trump's first term."I'll reach out to him again," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity.