Ukraine, allies push for 30-day ceasefire with Russia – CBS News Watch CBS News The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. They’re threatening to ratchet up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin if he does not accept an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the conflict. Be the first…
At first glance, it looks much like any mid-20th century factory scene. Women seated at tables, hard at work making clothes. But it is their shell-shocked expressions that are the giveaway – signs that they are unwilling participants in one of the lesser-known horrors of the Second World War. As a new exhibition highlights, it…
“A local music promoter yesterday described ticket sales complaints by Elton John fans as ‘misleading and unreliable’,” reported the South China Morning Post on March 13, 1984. “‘We have reserved more than 80 per cent of tickets for the public for Elton’s first concert in Hongkong,’ said Mr Johnson Chiu, assistant to the managing director…
Even if the Volksbund is cautious in its dealings with AfD members, Germany’s far-right party is vocal about its support for the group and its mission. On the AfD website, a petition by its leader, Alice Weidel, lists funding the group as one of its legislative priorities, along with establishing a “National Day for Unborn…
Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, set European pigeons flying in circles when he suggested last month that given rising mistrust in President Trump’s commitment to NATO, he wanted to talk to France and Britain about extending nuclear deterrence over Germany. Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put Poland, as well as Ukraine,…
Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put Poland, as well as Ukraine, in an “objectively more difficult situation,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland on Friday said his country must drastically increase the size of its military and even “reach for opportunities related to nuclear weapons.” Mr. Tusk, in a detailed speech…
Here are the key developments on the 1,088th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Sunday, February 16: Fighting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wanted United States President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, to visit his country’s eastern front line to report back to Trump on…
The meeting will take place on Monday, according to two EU officials. It was not immediately clear whether the meeting would involve all EU leaders, or only a smaller group of countries, and if other European leaders like U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer would also be invited. A French spokesperson was not immediately able to…
NATO split Trump’s demand is splitting the alliance’s European nations into three groupings, said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary-general who’s now a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. A “relatively small group” that includes the Baltic nations and Poland is already spending nearly 5 percent of GDP on defense…
Finland, Latvia, Germany, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Poland, and More Drive Estonia’s Tourism Growth, Welcoming Over four Million Visitors…