Latest news - International Affairs

MAIN PAGE > Rubrics > Latest news

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

10:54 09.03.2025

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

Concern about a potential U.S. withdrawal or downgrade in Europe's security architecture has set off one of the biggest geopolitical crises to hit the continent in decades, with leaders engaging in a frenzy of diplomacy over the past two weeks, writes POLITICO. Despite everything that's happened in the six short …

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

9:49 08.03.2025

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

The Oval Office blow up between Zelenskiy and Trump laid bare for many Europeans that something critical has broken in their relationship with Washington, notes Bloomberg. European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone. In interviews with Bloomberg, …

FOX: Zelenskyy irritated not only Trump but Biden also

9:47 08.03.2025

FOX: Zelenskyy irritated not only Trump but Biden also

Trump isn't the first US commander in chief to lose patience with Zelenskyy, notes FOX News, reminding a 2022 report. Months after war broke out between Russia and Ukraine, then-President Joe Biden had a fiery private phone call with Ukraine Zelenskyy, which included Biden allegedly losing "his temper" and calling …

Trump to revoke legal status for more than 210,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations

9:45 08.03.2025

Trump to revoke legal status for more than 210,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations

President Donald Trump intends to launch a “light speed” mass deportation campaign as soon as he “puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office,” top aide Stephen Miller has boasted, writes ‘The Washington Post’. The universe of potential deportees — immigrants living in the United States …

Arab Summit Declaration rejects displacement of Palestinian people, supports Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan

9:44 08.03.2025

Arab Summit Declaration rejects displacement of Palestinian people, supports Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan

The Extraordinary Arab Summit held in Cairo on Tuesday reasserted the united Arab position, rejecting any displacement of the Palestinian people, whether from Gaza or the West Bank, while supporting Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan and calling for an international conference to recognize Palestinian statehood, Al Ahram reports. In their final …

Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech

13:04 07.03.2025

Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech

Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech: In the run-up to the EU summit dedicated to Ukraine crisis and confrontation with Russia, and clearly trying to set the tone for the upcoming gathering, French President Macron made an extremely aggressive anti-Russia speech calling our country, as he did …

NYT: Trump and Vance are stripping away foreign policy illusions

11:58 07.03.2025

NYT: Trump and Vance are stripping away foreign policy illusions

Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger remarked in 2018, “may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretenses.” That general first-term comment might as well be marching orders for Trump’s …

Macron spoke out against peace in Ukraine

11:53 07.03.2025

Macron spoke out against peace in Ukraine

About Macron's speech to the citizens of France, as well as the reaction to his words in Russia, in ‘Izvestia’: On Wednesday evening, March 5, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an address to the nation and made a number of statements that provoked a strong reaction in the world. Among …

FT: Hong Kong HKEX targets creation of rival to Euroclear

11:52 07.03.2025

FT: Hong Kong HKEX targets creation of rival to Euroclear

Hong Kong authorities are pushing to create an Asian rival to Europe’s influential securities depositories, in a bid to lessen dependence on western financial infrastructure and boost global use of the renminbi, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which runs the stock market, said on Tuesday it …

Israel preparing ‘Hell Plan’ for Gaza that would cut electricity and water

11:50 07.03.2025

Israel preparing ‘Hell Plan’ for Gaza that would cut electricity and water

Israel is preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn't accept its terms, stresses Anti War. The Israeli government is preparing a “hell plan” for the Gaza Strip that would involve cutting all electricity and water to the territory on top of the …

« first previous Page 166 of 727. next last »