US President Donald Trump gave Hamas an ultimatum of “three or four days” on Tuesday to respond to his plan for Gaza, as the militant group reviewed the proposal backed by Israel.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Tuesday told a rare gathering of top brass called back from bases around the world that the US military will be reformed to end what he called “decades of decay.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military would stay in most of Gaza, after he gave his backing to a peace plan for the Palestinian territory unveiled by US President Donald Trump.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) alleged that Kyiv is not abandoning its attempts to drag European NATO countries into an armed confrontation with Russia.
US Vice President JD Vance said that the federal government was “headed to a shutdown” ahead of the shutdown deadline of Tuesday midnight, blaming congressional Democrats for placing conditions on support for a short-term budget bill.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing for a wide-ranging Gaza peace plan that would bring an immediate ceasefire. The plan, which Trump has circulated to Arab leaders, was released after Trump met Netanyahu in Washington.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that Israel’s security “is not achieved through political agreements, commitments, guarantees, or changing governments.”
Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Monday said her pro-EU party’s win in weekend legislative polls “showed that we know how to be united when the future of our country is in danger”.
US President Donald Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg has floated the possibility of long-range strikes by Ukraine against Russia with American weapons, following the administration’s recent pivot on the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday congratulated Moldova’s ruling pro-EU party on winning parliamentary elections and said Moscow had failed to upend the vote in the ex-Soviet country.
