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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the United States remains prepared to help broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine but that fresh proposals would be needed after previous peace ideas failed.
As battlefield injuries mount from a long-running war, Ukrainian companies are racing to meet a high demand for prosthetic limbs. One start-up, Allbionics, is making sophisticated prosthetics that it offers to patients at no cost, with the help of government support and private donations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently made the controversial decision to dismiss Mykhailo Fedorov, his minister of defense. Fedorov, admired both by Ukrainian troops and Western allies, was at the forefront of Ukraine’s increasing technological innovations in the war against Russia., however, tension began to emerge over his own desire to replace General The post.
Europe’s strategic environment is changing rapidly. Russia’s war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing insecurity in the Red Sea and renewed concerns over supply-chain resilience have prompted the European Union (EU) to reassess its external partnerships. At the same time, competition between the EU’s Global Gateway initiative and China’s Belt and Road Initiative The post Why.
The US and Ukraine have signed a statement of intent creating the first formal framework for cooperation on military drones, paving the way for Ukrainian combat drones to be exported to the US for testing and potentially future joint production.
The Ukrainian military struck warehouses belonging to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, in the third such attack in a week, as Kyiv continues to expand its retaliatory long-range strike campaign in an effort to force Moscow into negotiations. Ukraine Hits Russian Retailer Wildberries' Warehouses Again Amid Accusations It Supplies Military. The Ukrainian military struck warehouses belonging to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, in the third attack targeting such facilities in a week, as Kyiv continues to expand its retaliatory long-range strike campaign in an effort to force Moscow into negotiations.
To say Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left office in disgrace would be an understatement by any political measure. Ousted following the student-led uprising of August 2024, she fled the country after months of deadly protests and years of increasingly authoritarian rule marked by enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, the suppression of political opponents and The post H.
At the High-Level Open Debate of the UN Security Council on July 22, India was compelled to reply after Islamabad ‘misused’ the discussion to push a ‘false narrative’ said India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish.
Indonesia is building a battery industry and an EV ecosystem as part of its broader nickel downstreaming agenda. The objective is that downstreaming should not stop at smelters. It must move deeper into industrial components, machinery, batteries and, eventually, electric vehicles. Indonesia’s largest battery industrial hub reflects this ambition.
Effective August 1, 2026, all generic drugs being brought into the United States will continue to have a tariff of zero per cent for a two-year period of time, after which the tariff will be raised to 100% for a one-year period of time, and 200% thereafter, said Donald Trump.
Washington is threatening to impose sanctions on Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies for building their models by distilling outputs from American AI systems, saying it has found evidence of large-scale, covert theft of proprietary US technology. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would investigate whether China’s leading open-weight models had been built by illegally [.
Flash floods have killed at least 26 people across eastern Afghanistan, including 23 in the mountainous province of Nuristan, where homes, markets and roads were swept away and search teams continued looking for people reported missing.
Foreign minister Penny Wong will deliver speech criticising China’s recent launch of a nuclear-capable submarine-launched missileGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPenny Wong will warn China that Australia and other neighbouring nations will not be bullied by its “provocative” actions, after its involvement in another “destabilising and dangerous” incident this week. The for Australia to warn China it won’t be bulled by ‘provocative‘ actions as it builds military and.
Prosecutors seek a one-year sentence and heavy fine after chef garnished dish with insects not approved for consumptionProsecutors in South Korea have asked a court to sentence the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant to one year in prison for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law.
The U. S. faces a complex challenge at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, where powerful bunker buster bombs face hardy geological formations. Success is also limited by a critical minerals crunch, and could force Trump to shift from total destruction to disabling surface infrastructure and subterranean access tunnels Will Trump’s bunker buster bombs punch through Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain?
Nonproliferation experts are raising alarms after Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to ask Congress to approve a deal that could allow Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons., an agreement crafted by the Trump administration would allow the US to share nuclear power technology with the Saudis without proper safeguards that “would stop materia.
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion military spending authorization bill containing a highly controversial provision to increase cooperation between the US and Israeli armed forces. House lawmakers voted 219-206, almost entirely along party lines, to pass HR 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 202.
Iran has executed Mehdi Khaneki, a young man convicted on charges tied to anti-government protests that swept across the country in January. The execution came as some 1,500 death row inmates at the prison continued a hunger strike demanding an end to executions.
Iran executed a man it accused of carrying out "operational actions" during nationwide protests at the start of the year as the country's leadership ratchets up its crackdown on dissent, sparking a hunger strike among hundreds of death row inmates.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on July 22 that a naval blockade of the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels would be “problematic,” as the widening conflict with Iran disrupted two of the world’s most important energy chokepoints.
History suggests geography can be a nation’s greatest economic asset or its greatest geopolitical liability. Whenever maritime arteries have been disrupted. whether by war, conflict or political confrontation. the economic costs have extended far beyond the countries directly involved. The eight-year closure of the Suez Canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war forced ships The post Iran’s Hormu.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Iran's challenge to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz threatened not only global trade but also risked setting a dangerous precedent for Asia's contested maritime routes.
The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goodsA planned joint US-Canada ceremony Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is no longer expected to take place after Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on most Canadian goods.
US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regimeNicaragua’s congress, controlled by the country’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has announced a “work plan” to implement the authoritarian leader’s order that the country should no longer hold elections. The UN and the US strongly condemned Sunday’s announcement by Ortega, who has bee.
Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was closeSperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when they hear the noise of boats, researchers have found. The pattern is so distinct that the scientists who identified it said they can now use it to predict when ships are nearby.
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