Barely a month after U.S. President Donald Trump hailed “progress” in talks with Beijing, prospects for a highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping have dimmed. The two sides are scrambling to salvage the meeting scheduled…
Natalia Pryprosta was tending to her pigs when fire swept into the village of Studenok, near the city of Izium in eastern Ukraine. There was no time. She grabbed her papers, pulled her elderly mother into a friend’s car, and tried to get the…
ReutersUS President Donald Trump announced “tremendous” new sanctions against two of Russia’s largest oil companies on Wednesday, in a bid to pressurise Moscow…
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Reuters has some more detail on the bills voted on yesterday by Israeli lawmakers mentioned in the previous post:
A bill applying Israeli law to the occupied West Bank, a…
The oil price has jumped after the US has sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies to increase pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate an end to its war against Ukraine.
The White…