EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday the bloc must take a decision on financing Ukraine at a crunch summit this week, with leaders under pressure to agree a plan to use frozen Russian assets.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday that she is “always open” to dialogue with China despite a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over comments she made about Taiwan.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who has threatened to impose European tariffs on China in the coming months, called for a ‘cooperative’ approach with Beijing to reduce trade imbalances with the European Union, in his opinion article published in the Financial Times.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the designation of the Venezuelan regime as a foreign terrorist organization and imposed a naval blockade on “sanctioned oil tankers” heading to and leaving Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas while issuing new demands for access to the country’s crude.
The United States threatened countermeasures against the EU on Tuesday over the bloc’s efforts to tax American firms, pointing to major European companies as potential targets.
Russia on Tuesday said it had “not seen” the European leaders’ proposal to create a multinational peacekeeping force to guarantee peace in Ukraine published a day before, refusing to comment on the plan.
Top European officials on Tuesday met to set up an international body to decide on tens of billions of euros of eventual reparations to compensate Ukraine over Russia’s invasion.
US President Donald Trump said Monday he was classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration’s campaign against drug cartels in Latin America.
Russia said Tuesday it was in control of the key city of Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine, the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks.
The recent 2025 agreement on the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Mediterranean Sea between Cyprus and Lebanon put a definitive end to two decades of ambiguity surrounding the maritime borders of the two states.
