Russia signals scaled-back war aims as Ukraine advances
The ceasefire deadline Trump set for Russia is set to expire on Friday. LONDON — President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to Russia later this week, the president told reporters on Sunday, in a bid to secure an elusive ceasefire deal “where people stop getting killed.” Witkoff will travel to…
NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Investors sold off a host of technology stocks from Tokyo to New York on Monday as they worried that the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model would threaten the dominance of current AI leaders such as Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab. Startup DeepSeek launched a free AI…
ZURICH, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed relaxing restrictions on arms exports to try to bolster its domestic industry and security policy, a sensitive move for the neutral country which has blocked the re-export of its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. The cabinet said it sent a proposal to parliament to…
Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official Rik Peeperkorn said. It will be rolled…
Greetings from Tyler, The State of the Union was last night, I didn’t watch. I waited for the aftermath, and it’s all over the map. Apparently the pretender needed to prove he was “with it.” That might have been a strategic error. His own Department of Justice just concluded that he was too elderly…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024 and almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Even as Russian troops and tanks moved into Ukraine in February 2022, Russian natural gas…