The highly anticipated and hastily arranged Alaska summit was never likely to mirror the map-redrawing summit of Yalta, where Joseph Stalin cajoled — some would say coerced — a physically ill and mentally exhausted Franklin Roosevelt and a grumbling Winston Churchill to carve up Europe between Western and Soviet spheres. Nor was it going to…
It was born as the Islamic Resistance Movement. It is more usually known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas. But talks taking place in Cairo could determine whether the Palestinian militants drop the middle word, abandon their 22-month war in Gaza against Israel and reinvent themselves as a political party. PREMIUM Photograph: AFP On August 12th…
The Trump administration’s initial preparations for the Aug. 15 Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared shaky. But the meeting could advance a lasting settlement of the war if President Donald Trump avoids Putin’s predictable traps, decides to ramp up the pressure on Russia, and makes clear that the United States will back Ukraine’s…
Moscow claims it’s transferring Ukrainians to safety from the conflict, yet refuses to return the children to their relatives, putting them into the adoption system as orphans instead and immersing them in Russian propaganda. Recently, the Trump administration made it even harder to track and retrieve Ukrainian children in Russia after it disbanded Yale University’s…
Demonstrations in Tel Aviv attracted more than 100,000 protesters demanding an immediate end to the military campaign and the release of the hostages, the Guardian reported, citing the organisers. Netanyahu has said the expanded military operation “will help free our hostages,” though most of the hostages who have been freed emerged as a result of…
“We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force,” the leaders stressed. Trump said on Friday that there will be “some swapping of territories” as part of a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, a proposition that was quickly rejected by Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said Kyiv is “ready to work together with…
The outspoken vice president even resisted the chance to criticize laws governing freedom of speech and belief in the U.K., of which he has been damning in the past. He acknowledged he had “raised some criticism, concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic” but specified that “many of the things that I…
President Donald Trump is reconsidering his approach to ending the conflict in Ukraine, wavering on his self-imposed deadline for Russia to stop its invasion or face economic sanctions.On Thursday, Trump appeared to back away from his previous stance that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must be part of peace talks with Russia. When asked if Russian…
Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images US President Donald Trump has suggested that Vladimir Putin does not want a ceasefire in Ukraine but rather to “keep killing people”. Source: Trump talking to reporters on Friday evening on board Air Force One, as reported by European Pravda Details: Speaking about his conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy the day…
Ukraine still can’t produce its own analog of a missile that would be as effective a defense as the Patriot against ballistic and hypersonic missiles that Russia uses daily against civilian areas, in addition to waves of drones. Europe seems to be struggling to help us as well. On Friday, U.S. Independence Day, Russia attacked…