Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Britain and other Western allies of giving Hamas a “prize,” saying: “It will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.” LONDON — The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday, a significant shift in foreign policy and…
U.S. military officers visited Belarus to observe the Zapad-2025 joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises, the country’s defense ministry said Monday. “We’ll show you whatever you’re interested in, whatever you want. You can go and see for yourself, talk to people,” Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin told the American officers at the Borisovsky training ground in the Minsk…
The US Navy on Monday sunk a boat in international waters off Venezuela’s coast, killing three, President Donald Trump said, the second such operation so far this month that the US has justified as counter-narcotics enforcement. The “kinetic strike”, announced by Trump in a social media post that included a video of the attack, following…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, dealing a powerful rebuke to one of the world’s most prominent far-right populist leaders. The conviction ruling by…
Poland has announced that it will close its border crossings with Belarus due to Minsk hosting large-scale joint military exercises with Russia. “For national security reasons, we will close border crossings with Belarus at midnight on Thursday night,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a meeting with his cabinet on Tuesday afternoon. “As you know,…
Poland’s new president is cultivating a new “special relationship” with the Trump White House. Just four months after their first meeting, Karol Nawrocki was back in the White House, this time not as a political candidate but as the President of the Republic of Poland. Aside from the big smiles and characteristic thumbs-up flashed by…
President Trump shared dramatic footage of the US military obliterating a boat carrying drugs and Tren de Aragua gangbangers off the coast of Venezuela on Tuesday. The video showed the small boat being blown out of international waters and exploding into flames after it was struck by a single missile, killing all aboard. Trump said the boat was occupied…
Pope Leo XIV has met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome in…
Serhiy K is believed to have been onboard boat from where 2022 attack on gas pipelines was carried out A Ukrainian man alleged to have been involved in the 2022 detonation of the Nord Stream pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Germany has been arrested in Italy, according to German authorities. The man, identified only…
US president will propose money-making opportunities to encourage Russia to end Ukraine war Donald Trump is preparing to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare earth minerals to incentivise him to end the war in Ukraine. The US president will arrive at the much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday armed with a number of…