Hamas team heads to Cairo for Gaza talks as Israel strikes kill 26
by AFP Staff Writers
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) April 22, 2025
A Hamas delegation left for Cairo to discuss “new ideas” aimed at securing a ceasefire…
Hamas team heads to Cairo for Gaza talks as Israel strikes kill 26
by AFP Staff Writers
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) April 22, 2025
A Hamas delegation left for Cairo to discuss “new ideas” aimed at securing a ceasefire…
Russia resumes attacks on Ukraine after Easter truce
by AFP Staff Writers
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 21, 2025
Russia launched a wave of aerial attacks at Ukraine on Monday in an abrupt end to a fragile 30-hour Easter truce between…
UK hosts new Ukraine talks after Russian strikes shatter brief truce
By L�on BRUNEAU
London (AFP) April 23, 2025
Envoys from Washington, Kyiv and European nations gathered for talks in Britain on Wednesday amid a new US push to…
Ukraine calls in Chinese envoy to express ‘serious concern’ over war activities
by AFP Staff Writers
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) April 23, 2025
Ukraine’s foreign ministry called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday to raise “serious concern”…
Vladimir Putin says he’s open to holding direct, ‘limited’, cease-fire talks with Ukraine
by Paul Godfrey
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held out the prospect of direct peace talks…
“It’s no secret that I would like to see an ambitious regulation on child sexual abuse,” Hummelgaard said.
The EU won’t stop there. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, this month unveiled a new internal security…
Jannik Hartmann, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, confirmed that a U.S. pullback — from Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, for instance — would leave Europe without basic loading gear like ramps and flatbed wagons. Europe…
“I initially hesitated to join the FIDE presidential campaign, but seeing the deep ties between chess and politics, and inspired by my wife’s insights on Ukraine and Lithuania’s role, I felt it was my duty to stand up for transparency and…
This is not an isolated act. Rather, it’s part of a broader authoritarian playbook — one that treats democracy, civil society and free speech as threats to be neutralized. For example, just last week, the regime also amended the…
One said the atmosphere in the Lords is now “very divided and quite heated,” and the prospect of “converting” some peers “would take a lot of heat out of the future of the hereditaries’ bill, not to mention the rest of the passage…