US President Donald Trump has said he will slash the 50-day deadline he gave for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to reach a ceasefire with Ukraine by weeks, to just “10 or 12 days” from now.

The US and China are holding their next trade talks in Stockholm tomorrow and Tuesday and there is some expectation that higher tariffs could be suspended for another 90 days. A few days ago Trump said the US was “getting along with China very well” and implied that the major sticking point of rare earth metals exports had been overcome.