US futures showed little movement on Monday after the major indexes failed to recover from last week’s sell-off amid new comments from President Donald Trump on upcoming tariffs. Futures for the S&P 500 (ES=F) and Dow Jones (YM=F) ticked up .01%, while Nasdaq (NQ=F) futures held steady. CBOT – Delayed Quote • USD As of…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday spoke to Syria’s new leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such top-level contact since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Kremlin said the “constructive and business-like” conversation touched upon “acute issues of practical cooperation in trade and economic, education and other spheres,” adding that…
(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court refused to consider supervisory appeal of prominent nationalist and former militia commander Igor Girkin against his four-year jail term, TASS agency reported early on Monday. Girkin accused President Vladimir Putin and the army of failures in the war in Ukraine and was convicted a year ago of inciting extremism, a…
President Donald Trump has vowed to be a peacemaker in his new term, but his aggressive early actions threaten to alienate US friends in a way that could hinder his ambitions, experts say. In an inaugural address on Monday, Trump said that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier” and…
(Reuters) – Russia transported Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted as Syria’s president by a lightning rebel offensive, very securely to Russia, the country’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, told NBC News in an interview aired on Tuesday. The Kremlin said on Monday that President Vladimir Putin had made the decision to grant asylum in Russia…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Gela Gogishvili and Haoyang Xu led a happy life as a gay couple in Russia, even as President Vladimir Putin’s government took an increasingly anti-LGBTQ+ stance. Their social media posts and videos drew thousands of followers, and they were greeted by them sometimes on the streets in Kazan, in Russia’s Tatarstan…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan opposes a U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to attack inside Russia, saying it would further enflame the conflict, according to a readout shared by his office on Wednesday. Ukraine used U.S. ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory on Tuesday, taking advantage of newly granted…
By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) – A special hotline in place to deflate crises between the Kremlin and the White House is not currently being used, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, as nuclear risks rise amid the highest tensions between Russia and West in decades. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday lowered the threshold for a…
US stocks recovered from steeper losses in afternoon trading on Tuesday as fears over a nuclear escalation to the Russia-Ukraine war rattled markets, stealing focus from Nvidia (NVDA) earnings and other corporate results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the declines, down about 0.5% but off of the lows of the session. The benchmark…
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. Putin’s endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day after he sent troops into Ukraine,…