Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls’ education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl. Yousafzai was evacuated from the country in 2012 after being shot by the Pakistan Taliban, who were enraged by her activism, and she has returned to the…
The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin was open to talks with Donald Trump, after the incoming US president said a meeting between the pair was being set up. “The president has repeatedly stated his openness to contact with international leaders, including the US president, including Donald Trump,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Trump,…
US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin wanted to meet and that a rendezvous between the pair was being arranged. He made the statement just a week and a half before taking office, following promises during his campaign to bring peace to Ukraine, which has been under Russian invasion since February…
Ukraine expects high-level contact with the new US administration immediately after Donald Trump takes office, including an eventual meeting between the US president-elect and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kyiv said on Friday. Kyiv sees cultivating close ties with Trump as a paramount goal and has been making overtures to the Republican who won the US presidential…
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati will on Saturday make his first official trip to neighboring Syria since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, his office told AFP. Mikati’s office said Friday the trip came at the invitation of the country’s new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa during a phone call last week. Syria imposed new…
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met Syria’s new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus Friday, state media said, in the latest such visit from a European diplomat since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. State news agency SANA did not give further details about Tajani and al-Sharaa’s discussions, just over a month after the opposition seized Damascus…
Ukraine hit a Russian ammo depot and drone storage facility in a drone and missile attack in the early hours of Friday, a Ukrainian security source said. The source in the SBU security service said it had launched the joint operation with the navy, Kyiv’s latest cross-border aerial attack on Russian territory. Russian officials earlier…
The European Union could begin lifting sanctions on Syria if the war-torn country’s new rulers take steps to form an inclusive government that protects minorities, the bloc’s top diplomat said Friday. “The EU could gradually ease sanctions provided there is tangible progress,” foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X, a day after a meeting…
Donald Trump avoids jail time or a fine, but the US president-elect’s criminal conviction will be on his record. Donald Trump has become the first former United States president ever sentenced for a crime. But the US president-elect avoided penalties for his conviction for falsifying business documents in relation to hush-money payments made to an…
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived for talks on Ukraine and the Middle East with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Britain on Thursday. Starmer welcomed the French head of state to his Chequers country residence northwest of London, AFP reporters saw. The British leader said they were set for a “really important discussion about a number of issues of mutual…
“On the F-16 program, we’ve been co-leading the international Air Capability Coalition,” Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said The United States, its allies and partners plan to continue training more Ukrainian pilots for combat use of American F-16 fighter jets, Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said at a regular briefing. “On the F-16 program, <…>…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office, his lawyer said on Thursday. “So if the decision is ‘removal’, it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, the lawyer for Yoon,…
Lebanon’s defaulted sovereign dollar bonds climbed for a fifth day on investor optimism that a candidate will be picked after a two-year vacuum The candidate backed by Hezbollah and Amal Movement withdrew from Lebanon’s presidential race late Wednesday and announced his support for the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces. Sleiman Frangieh, a politician from North Lebanon…
The Taliban’s foreign office said they saw India as a “significant regional and economic partner” after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met acting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s…
