Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s preparation to enter Gaza City, NATO’s discussions about security guarantees for Ukraine, and M23 attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Preparing for a New Offensive The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will call up around 60,000 reservists to supplement its forces as it prepares…
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Washington — Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Trump to allow the U.S. and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine, special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday. “We were able…
According to Zelenskyy, Russia has failed to conquer the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has pushed to control since 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin “has been unable to take it for 12 years, and the constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible … to give up territory or trade land,” Zelenskyy said. The New…
A Ukrainian company is developing an unjammable fiber-optic drone that can roam nearly 100 kilometers from its operator — more than doubling the reach of current models — in a bid to radically extend the reach of one of the war’s most feared weapons. The co-founder of Fold, who asked to only be identified as…
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…
Donald Trump says his meeting with Vladimir Putin has a “25 per cent chance” of failing, as locals in Alaska hold days of peace prayers in the lead-up to the highly anticipated talks. Friday’s meeting at a military base in Anchorage has been on the minds of many in Alaska’s biggest city, but particularly inside…
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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…