French President Emmanuel Macron used his visit to the U.S. to publicly push back on President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Ukraine.

Without confirming an agreement had been reached, the US president said in return for the deal Ukraine would get "the right to fight on".

U.S. President Donald Trump says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will soon come to the U.S. to sign a deal to give America access to Ukraine’s critical minerals.

The decision came as a surprise — with the AP widely expected by the White House press corps to be favored to win the initial ruling in the standoff triggered by the organization’s refusal to change its style guide to identify the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” after Trump changed the official US name.