Ukraine is trying to keep its international backers close as diplomatic gifts, war fatigue and elections threaten to disrupt its alliances and damage public support for its cause. Opinion polls in both Europe and the United States show that there has been a general decline in support for measures supporting Ukraine, particularly when it comes…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the first batch of US-made M1 Abrams tanks is “already in Ukraine.” The tanks will “reinforce our actions against the occupiers. And it will be a significant reinforcement,” he said Monday in his evening speech. President Biden committed in January to sending 31 of the advanced tanks. U.S. military…
The meeting comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula as Pyongyang ramps up weapons tests and turns the tide on Russia. South Korea has hosted senior diplomats from China and Japan for a rare trilateral meeting seen as an attempt to ease Beijing’s concerns about Seoul and Tokyo’s deepening security ties with the United…
By Meryl Sebastian BBC news 26 September 2023, 05:13 BST Updated 3 hours ago image source, Getty Images caption, Brandon Stanton started Humans of New York as a photography project in 2010 A fight has broken out after the founder of the popular photo blog Humans of New York criticized a similar Indian platform’s stance…
The Entity List is a tool Washington uses to slap trade restrictions on entities it deems to threaten US national security. It has recently been used to curb Chinese technology and punish involvement in the Russian war machine. China’s Ministry of Commerce said it strongly opposes the US blacklisting of Chinese companies. A broken window…
An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh looks on from a car upon arrival in Armenia’s Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, Monday. Thousands of Armenians have poured out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military regained full control of the breakaway region last week. Vasily Krestyaninov/AP hide caption change caption Vasily Krestyaninov/AP An ethnic Armenian boy from…
Nine years after 43 students from a teacher’s college in rural Mexico disappeared, their parents find themselves in an uphill battle. “It’s complicated. You’re looking for your son and the government is denying you justice,” Antonio Tizapa, the father of one of the missing students, said in an interview. “If they don’t want us to…
News By Allie Griffin Released 25 September 2023, at 10:55 PM ET President Biden botched a simple acronym while speaking to Pacific Island leaders Monday in his latest verbal blunder. Biden, 80, was stunned when he tried to dictate the shorthand of his administration’s Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative at a White House forum. “Today, I…
(1/3)South Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Chung Byung-won, Japan’s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Funakoshi Takehiro and China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong pose for photographs during their meeting in Seoul, South Korea, September 26, 2023. Get license rights Read more SEOUL, Sept 26 (Reuters) – South Korea hosted senior diplomats from China and…
Russian Admiral Viktor Sokolov was reportedly killed in a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol last week. Ukraine’s special forces said the head of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor Sokolov, and 33 other officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on the navy’s headquarters in the Crimean port of…
