Source link A US-brokered agreement could halt the fighting in Gaza for two months, officials told the paper Israel and Hamas are on course to reach a prolonged ceasefire deal within the next two weeks, the New York Times has reported, citing unnamed US officials close to the negotiations. The US-brokered agreement could see Hamas […]
Source link The immigration issue has been “broken,” and “it’s long past time to fix it,” the US president said US President Joe Biden has again urged the Republican lawmakers to agree to the long-stalled budget deal, vowing to shut down the country’s southern border as soon as he’s given the authority to do so. […]
Source link The US-led bloc is struggling to meet Ukraine’s demand for 155mm artillery shells NATO has signed contracts worth $1.2 billion to purchase hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to replace those sent to Ukraine, the military bloc announced on Tuesday. The contracts, however, will only replace a fraction of the shells already donated […]
Source link The militants were reportedly offered to gradually release the captives in exchange for a two-month ceasefire The Israeli government has offered Hamas a “pause” in the fighting of up to 60 days so all the remaining captives could be released, Axios reported on Monday, citing two unnamed officials. Hamas seized around 240 Israelis […]
Source link President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has said Ethiopia’s attempts to seize Somali territory are unacceptable Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has declared support for Somalia in the Horn of Africa nation’s dispute with landlocked neighbor Ethiopia. Tensions have escalated since the start of the year, when Addis Ababa struck a deal with breakaway Somaliland […]
Source link The former US president says he ‘probably’ wouldn’t select Nikki Haley as his running mate if he secures the GOP nomination Former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley does not have the capacity for high level politics, Donald Trump told supporters at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Friday. The former […]
Source link A long-shot lawsuit over the 2010 presidential plane crash was purely political, Warsaw has said Warsaw does not intend to pay a million zloty to a British barrister for a futile case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has announced. On Thursday, the Polish […]
Source link Budapest will continue negotiating with the European Commission, but it’s unclear how fast an agreement can be reached, said Gergely Gulyas Hungary and the European Commission remain far apart on a multi-billion euro aid package for Ukraine, and there is no certainty that a deal could even be reached, Gergely Gulyas, the head […]
Source link Somalia has insisted on Ethiopia terminating its “illegal” agreement with Somaliland Somalia has rejected mediation in a dispute with Ethiopia, insisting that resolution is only possible if its landlocked East African neighbor cancels a Red Sea access agreement it concluded with breakaway Somaliland. Relations between Mogadishu and Addis Ababa have deteriorated since Ethiopian […]
Source link The recent diplomatic spat between India and the Maldives has a complex context, and it is not limited to the rivalry with Beijing On January 15, Maldives President Muizzu’s government set a March 15 deadline for India to withdraw its troops from his country, following months of negotiations on the matter and a […]
Source link The agreement makes Kiev “a bargaining chip” for the West, the Russian Foreign Ministry says The UK-Ukraine security agreement signed last week is further proof that London maintains a firm grip on the Kiev government and is eliminating any prospect of peace, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. On Friday, UK […]
Source link Ukraine had the chance to make peace at the 2022 Istanbul talks but something or someone changed President Vladimir Zelensky’s mind, according to an interview with his former aide, Aleksey Arestovich, published on Monday. Freddie Sayers, the editor in chief of the British outlet UnHerd, interviewed Arestovich almost a year after Ukraine’s top […]
Source link Bilateral discussions with Iran were focused on the International North-South Transport Corridor Iran and India signed a bilateral agreement to further develop the Chabahar Port, establishing a “long-term cooperation framework” for the strategic maritime facility located on Iran’s southeastern coast, the Economic Times reported on Monday. India’s external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, who […]
Source link The European Commission is reportedly willing to allow the Hungarian leader to opt out of the funding deal after one year European officials are reportedly prepared to bow to the demands of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban regarding the €50 billion ($54.6 billion) aid package for Ukraine, according to several senior EU sources […]
Source link The decision comes after Pyongyang fired volleys of artillery near the border with the South South Korea has signaled that it will restart military exercises which were paused as part of a 2018 security pact with the North, saying it was considering scrapping the deal altogether following recent shows of force by the […]