A 37-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter died on Saturday from injuries they sustained when an Afghan national drove a car into a crowd in Munich on Thursday, German police said on Saturday, the first fatalities from the incident. Prosecutors had said on Friday that at least 39 people were injured, some of them critically,…
Russia said Saturday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had spoken with US Secretary of Marco Rubio by phone, agreeing to show will for “cooperation” on Ukraine and to work to restore dialogue. The call came ahead of an expected summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin amid mounting concern from Ukraine and its European allies that…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US President Donald Trump Saturday for his “full support” in Gaza following the completion of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange of a nearly month-old truce. “Prime Minister Netanyahu… appreciates the president’s full support for Israel’s decisions regarding the Gaza Strip in future developments,” his office said after Trump posted on…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel late on Saturday on his first trip to the Middle East, after a widely condemned proposal by President Donald Trump to displace Palestinians in Gaza. Trump first floated the suggestion that Egypt and Jordan should take in Palestinians from Gaza on January 25, a proposal they…
Palestinian militants released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian inmates freed by Israel, completing the latest swap despite fears the Gaza truce deal was near collapse. An AFP journalist saw masked Hamas gunmen parade the hostages onto a stage in front of a crowd in Gaza’s southern city of Khan…
Buses carrying hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel under a ceasefire deal with Hamas arrived in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Saturday, an AFP journalist said. The convoy organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross dropped off jubilant prisoners, who threw victory signs and waved at a crowd welcoming them, the…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that a bilateral critical minerals deal being discussed with the United States was not yet ready and that it did not contain the provisions Kyiv wants to protect its interests. The deal is central to Kyiv’s push to win the backing of Donald Trump as the U.S. president…
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki al-Faisal has called for a US-led Marshall Plan for Gaza, rejecting President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly relocate Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan as “not selling anywhere.” Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the former Saudi intelligence chief dismissed Trump’s proposal as unworkable and instead urged Washington to help with the…
Ukraine has little chance of surviving Russia’s assault without US support, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday after phone calls this week by US President Donald Trump with Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Probably it will be very, very, very difficult. And of course, in all the difficult situations, you have a chance. But…
China believes all stakeholders in the Russia-Ukraine conflict should participate in the peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, underscoring Europe’s role in them after a flurry of US messaging on how to end the war. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Wang said “we hope that all parties and stakeholders directly involved participate…
Russia has detained another US citizen, after customs officials found cannabis-laced marmalade in his luggage, Russian media said Friday, days after a Moscow-Washington prisoner swap that the White House called a diplomatic thaw and a step toward ending the fighting in Ukraine. Russian police said the 28-year-old American had attempted to smuggle a “significant amount”…
Russian forces have taken control of two frontline settlements in eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. A ministry report said Russian forces had captured the village of Zelene Pole located between Pokrovsk, the focal point of Russian attacks in the region, and Velyuka Novosilka, a settlement that Russia’s military said it…
This was a disorienting week for those anxious over how the new Trump administration will fulfill Donald Trump’s vow to end the Ukraine war. As the US president took his first steps toward diplomacy over the nearly three-year conflict, comments from his top officials left many unsure what he has planned for the biggest security…
Arab countries are putting together a plan that would rebuild Gaza without displacing its people, guarantee security and governance, Jordan’s foreign minister said on Friday, adding that his country could not take more Palestinians. Arab countries were dismayed earlier this month after US President Donald Trump announced a plan to “clean out” Palestinians from Gaza and resettle…
North Korea said on Saturday that the United States should abandon military threats if it has concerns about its mainland safety, state media KCNA reported, citing an official at North Korea’s defense ministry. The KCNA report cited the head of US Northern Command recently commenting on North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missiles’ (ICBMs) capability of reaching the…
