Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday accused Donald Trump of succumbing to Russian “disinformation,” deepening a rift between Kyiv and the new US administration. Speaking to reporters at a press conference on Tuesday, Trump echoed many of Russia’s talking points on the three-year war in Ukraine, blaming Kyiv for having “started” the fighting and suggesting…
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised the outcome of Russia-US talks in Saudi Arabia and said that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war. “Without increasing the level of trust between Russia and the United States, it is impossible to resolve many issues, including the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said in his…
The Trump administration has put a pause on all immigration applications filed by migrants from Ukraine and Latin America who were allowed into the United States under some Biden-era programs, CBS News reported on Tuesday. Concerns over fraud and security were cited for the halt, it added, citing two US official and an internal memo.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday condemned a “reprehensible” assault on two Muslim women at a shopping center, rejecting criticism that Islamophia was treated less seriously than anti-Semitism. The country’s Islamic community, joined by Test cricketer Usman Khawaja, have pointed to the February 13 incident in Melbourne as an example of the insufficient government…
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund expects a number of US companies to return to Russia as early as the second quarter of 2025, its chief said on Wednesday, after the most senior US-Russian meeting on the Ukraine war since it began in 2022. At the talks, Russia set out its conditions, demanding NATO scrap its 2008 promise to…
Unknown armed men killed seven passengers on a Lahore-bound bus in southwest Pakistan’s Balochistan province late on Tuesday, officials said. The attack took place in Barkhan, a district of southwestern Balochistan. The province bordering Afghanistan and Iran is a key battleground in Pakistan’s decades-long fight against separatist insurgents, who want greater autonomy and a share…
An extraordinary Arab League meeting on Gaza, initially set for next week, has been postponed to March 4, host Egypt said on Tuesday. The Egyptian foreign ministry said the new date was agreed with Arab League members as part of “substantive and logistical preparations” for the summit. The meeting was called in response to US…
The UAE Tawazun Council, the defense and security acquisitions authority for the UAE armed forces and Abu Dhabi police, has signed five deals worth 5.8 billion dirhams ($1.58 billion) at exhibitions in Abu Dhabi, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. The deals were signed with local and international companies, the ministry said in its post…
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he might meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month and dismissed Ukraine’s concern about being left out of US-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia on ending the Ukraine war. “Probably,” Trump said as he ended a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach when asked if he…
Ukrainian forces have struck and knocked out a North Korean self-propelled howitzer on the eastern front of the nearly three-year-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday. A statement by the Khortytsia, or East, group of forces said it was the first time since the start of the conflict that a North Korean М-1978…
Russian air defenses downed 21 Ukrainian drones in the space of an hour late on Tuesday, most over western Bryansk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry, in a post on Telegram, said air defence units had downed 20 drones between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (1830 and 1930 GMT) over the Bryansk region on the Ukrainian…
This week, the US military showcased its capabilities in the Middle East with a flyover of B-52 bombers and other fighter jets, according to US Central Command. This mission follows the recent end of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group’s two-month deployment to the region. The flyover, which involved two B-52 bombers based in…
US President Donald Trump painted Elon Musk as his enforcer-in-chief Tuesday, hailing the tech billionaire’s zeal in implementing the blizzard of executive orders the president has issued since returning to office. In a joint interview broadcast on Fox News, the two men spent substantial time singing the other’s praises and dismissing concerns that Trump is overstepping his…
Oil loadings from Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiisk were suspended on Tuesday due to a storm, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. CPC Blend oil loadings from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Black Sea terminal near Novorossiisk continued, unaffected by the storm, the sources added. Severe storms in the Black Sea region…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Syed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the United States to displace Palestinians from the war-devastated Gaza Strip, saying it “will go nowhere.” Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. “The idiotic American plans or some other plans regarding…
