Trump says he had "very productive meeting" with Putin, but no deal reached

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he had a "very productive meeting" with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, but the summit ended without a deal on the Ukraine crisis.

The two presidents held a joint press conference after concluding their talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Trump said they agreed on "many points," adding that the two sides made some headway, though no deal was reached.

Trump seeks to hold trilateral summit as early as Aug. 22: media

U.S. President Donald Trump has told European leaders after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he wants to arrange a trilateral summit with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as soon as Aug. 22, U.S. online media outlet Axios said Saturday.

Zelensky said in an X post Saturday that he will meet Trump in Washington on Monday. Trump also invited the European leaders to join Monday's White House meeting, according to Axios.

31 killed, 13 injured in paramilitary forces attack in W. Sudan: volunteer groups

At least 31 people were killed, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and 13 others injured on Saturday in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the city of El Fasher, western Sudan, according to volunteer groups.

The Sudan Doctors Network, a volunteer group, said in a statement that the RSF conducted a "heinous crime" by "deliberately targeting" the Abu Shouk displacement camp with artillery shelling.

Portugal wildfires burn 139,000 hectares by mid-August

Around 139,000 hectares of land have burned in Portugal so far this year, with almost half of the total destroyed in just the past two days. This is 17 times the area burned during the same period last year, according to provisional data released Saturday by the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF).

The ICNF said 74,931 hectares had burned between Jan. 1 and Aug. 14. By Saturday, the figure had surged to 139,091 hectares, with 64,160 hectares consumed in the past two days alone - 46 percent of the year's total.

Car bomb explosion rocks Damascus neighborhood, no casualties reported

A car bomb exploded on Saturday night near the Golden Mezzeh Hotel on the Mezzeh highway in western Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

The blast, which could be heard across parts of the capital, did not result in any human or material losses, SANA quoted Damascus police chief Osama Mohammad Khair Atkeh as saying.