US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran of the “consequences of not making a deal” ahead of talks between the United States and the Islamic republic in Geneva.
Some 100 US soldiers are being deployed to Nigeria as part of increased military cooperation to fight insecurity in the West African country, the Nigerian Defense Ministry announced.
The United States is leading a diplomatic push aimed at engineering a Moroccan–Algerian reconciliation as part of a broader effort to resolve the long-running Western Sahara conflict, according to a Western diplomatic source. Peace talks over Western Sahara began in Madrid last week in a renewed push to resolve the half-century-old frozen conflict.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps began a series of military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, state media reported, a narrow and strategic waterway in the Gulf.
France needs to boost its defense spending to turn warm words about European sovereignty into concrete capabilities, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Monday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un touted a newly built street of flats for families of soldiers killed supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine, state media reported on Monday (Feb 16), with photos showing him accompanied by his daughter.
US President Donald Trump’s top envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will head to Geneva this week for talks with Iranian negotiators over Tehran’s nuclear program, the White House confirmed Sunday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the Trump administration welcomes Europe shaking its “dependence” on US power, saying the United States is “not asking Europe to be a vassal”.
China confirmed that Canadian and British citizens will be able to visit the country visa-free from Tuesday, after the two countries’ leaders had announced such agreements following official trips to Beijing.
Director of Latvia’s Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB), Egils Zvedris, said the militarization of the Russian economy will not stop with the end of the war in Ukraine, warning that Moscow’s post-war aggression will depend primarily on whether international sanctions remain in place or are lifted.
