Israel and the United Arab Emirates are pressing the United States to provide security guarantees as part of any new nuclear agreement with Iran, amid concerns that an accord will increase Tehran’s belligerence, Bloomberg reported Monday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said nuclear war is “back within the realm of possibility” as Russia gave new orders to its nuclear forces as the war on Ukraine drags on.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could plunge the world’s food supply into chaos, with rising prices and the inability of Ukrainian farmers to plant crops, including wheat.
In a daring act of defiance and risking jail, a Russian state television worker has interrupted the live broadcast of Russia’s most-watched news show yelling “Stop the war!” and holding a sign saying, “They’re lying to you here.”
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, witnesses say intense fighting is raging on the outskirts of Kyiv. Russian forces attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital as part of a broader military campaign across the wartorn nation.
Talks are ongoing within Washington about setting up a humanitarian and military air bridge to wartorn Ukraine amid concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will use nuclear and biological weapons.
The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill (HR 2471) was passed by the House on Wednesday and by the Senate on Thursday evening. The bill is now on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced Saturday night the Biden administration has approved $200 million more in emergency military aid to Ukraine as Russian forces intensified their attacks in multiple cities as military and civilian losses mounted in the three-week-old war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is conducting purges of military generals and intelligence personnel, including arrests of FSB (Federal Security Service) officers, according to an analysis by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, which cited Ukrainian officials and media reports.
Jerusalem is a constructive place to hold ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Saturday as he gave a positive boost to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s efforts to mediate an end to the war.
The head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency warned the FBI and the Pentagon of tensions in Jerusalem escalating to a full-fledged round of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians during the holy month of Ramadan, Ynet has learned on Sunday.
The war in Ukraine was brought to the doorstep of the NATO military alliance Sunday with officials saying dozens of people were killed as Russia fired missiles at an army base near the border of NATO member Poland.
Ukraine’s government says it has raised some $106 million in global donations in cryptocurrency for its army. At the same time, nations rush to launch their digital currencies as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
Fearing a world war, U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday his country would not intervene militarily against Russia in Ukraine, as Russian forces stepped up their bombardment across Ukraine.
Hungarian legislators elected Katalin Novák as the first female president of Hungary on Thursday at a time when the nation faces a massive influx of refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Ukraine.
The spokeswoman of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says Russia’s President Vladimir Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine and will lose power.
The House passed a $1.5 trillion government funding bill Wednesday night, setting the first new spending levels under the Biden administration, providing $13.6 billion in measures to support Ukraine, and marking the end of months of bipartisan budget negotiations.
Inflation grew worse in February amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine and price pressures that became more entrenched.
The danger of China conducting a major military attack on Taiwan has increased in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, senior military and defense officials told Congress on Wednesday.
Around a hundred Jewish orphans aged 2-18 years old were evacuated from war-torn Ukraine to Israel on Sunday, i24 News reports. The children were taken by bus from their orphanage in northwest Ukraine to Romania, where an Israeli El Al plane picked them up and flew them in.