A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in December, told a judge Friday that her client was illegally searched during his arrest and she would seek to exclude that evidence from his trial on state murder and terrorism charges.

US and Russian officials held their first talks on Ukraine this week in Saudi Arabia in a meeting that excluded Kyiv and European representatives - raising fears across the continent that Donald Trump may be willing to sacrifice Ukrainian interests in the hope of a deal with Vladimir Putin.

Clarity is beginning to form around Donald Trump’s plans for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, with his administration appearing to accept some of the Kremlin’s key demands that Ukraine should not join NATO nor return to its pre-2014 sovereign borders.