Moscow has for weeks defied Western pressure for a full, unconditional and immediate truce in Ukraine, where its more than three-year offensive has killed tens of thousands of people. Despite direct talks in Istanbul with Ukrainian officials and a call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump earlier this week, the […]
Macron will meet with senior officials today to discuss a report that describes the Muslim Brotherhood as a “threat to national cohesion” in France, warning it risks undermining “the fabric of society and republican institutions”. The ban proposed by the Renaissance party would forbid “minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,” phrasing […]
Israel has come under international pressure to abandon its intensified military campaign in Gaza and to allow aid into the territory, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade has sparked critical food and medicine shortages. Israel said 93 aid trucks had entered Gaza from Israel on Tuesday, but the United Nations said the aid had […]
Storms have already dumped more than four months of rain in just two days in parts of New South Wales, engulfing homes, businesses and roads in muddy waters, authorities said. “We have a situation where the rain has been falling quite heavily and hard, and it has not been moving away. Part of that is […]
Washington has sought in recent years to curb exports of state-of-the-art chips to China, concerned that they could be used to undermine American dominance in AI. US President Donald Trump’s administration last week rescinded some export controls on advanced computing semiconductors, answering calls by countries that said they were being shut out from crucial technology […]
The program, first ordered by Donald Trump in January, aims to create a network of satellites, perhaps numbering in the hundreds, to detect, track, and potentially intercept incoming missiles. Trump told a White House press conference that U.S. Space Force General Michael Guetlein would be the lead program manager for an effort widely viewed as […]
Britain announced it was suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning its ambassador over “egregious policies” in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, while European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas asked for a review of the EU-Israel trade deal, according to Dutch news agency ANP. The war, now in its 20th month, has left […]
This action is against the international students in the US who have expressed support for Palestinians. Marco Rubio on student visa cancellations explained that while no students have been deported, only their visas were cancelled due to violations. “You come here to study, but then break institutional and national laws. We are going to cancel […]
“I have concluded that we need to conduct a comprehensive review to ensure that accountability for this event is met and that the complete picture is provided to the American people,” Hegseth wrote in a memo. A special review panel will “thoroughly examine previous investigations, to include but not limited to, findings of fact, sources, […]
The UK’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, directly communicated the decision to the Israeli ambassador, stating that the alarming situation of hunger for millions of citizens in Gaza is an “appalling act.” David Lammy additionally condemned the Gaza aid blockade that lasted for 11 weeks as “cruel” and called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to […]
