内容摘要：While it’s promoted for tourism, the train is actually a lifeline for

While it’s promoted for tourism, the train is actually a lifeline for

Meanwhile, Putin on Saturday held a series of bilateral talks with foreign officials who had attended Moscow’s own celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent attempt to underscore the West’s failure to isolate it on the global stage. Putin’s interlocutors included To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the leaders of Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and the Palestinian Authority.France’s President Emmanuel Macron, left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, sit during a summit at the Mariinskyi Palace, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)

France’s President Emmanuel Macron, left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, sit during a summit at the Mariinskyi Palace, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)Progress on ending the three-year war has seemed elusive in the months since Trump returned to the White House, and his previous claims of imminent breakthroughs have failed to come to fruition. Trump has previously pushed Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war,Since the start of U.S.-mediated talks, Russia has kept up attacks along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line,

The ceasefire would include a halt to fighting on land, sea and in the air. The European leaders threatened to ratchet up sanctions, including on Russia’s energy and banking sectors, if Putin did not comply.The priority was to make it too costly for Russia to keep fighting in Ukraine, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.

When asked how the monitoring mechanism would work, Sybiha told The Associated Press the details were still being discussed.

Addressing skepticism over whether fresh sanctions against Moscow, which has so far managed to keep fighting in the war, Merz said “almost all member states of the European Union and a large coalition of the willing around the world are determined to enforce these sanctions even if our initiative of the weekend should fail.”Jay North, young star of the new “Dennis the Menace” series, right, attempts to handcuff Dean Martin, center, as they play with a stuffed toy with Tony Curtis on Sept. 15, 1959. (AP Photo, File)

Jay North, young star of the new “Dennis the Menace” series, right, attempts to handcuff Dean Martin, center, as they play with a stuffed toy with Tony Curtis on Sept. 15, 1959. (AP Photo, File)North was 6 when he was cast as the smiling troublemaker in the CBS sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham’s popular comic strip that took place in an idyllic American suburb.

Often wearing a striped shirt and overalls, Dennis’ mischievous antics frequently frustrated his retired next-door neighbor George Wilson, played by Joseph Kearns. After Kearns died, Gale Gordon played Wilson’s brother. Dennis’ patient parents were played by Herbert Anderson and Gloria Henry.The show ran on Sunday nights until it was canceled in 1963. After that it was a fixture for decades in syndication.