Taiwan welcomed US President Donald Trump’s call with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, saying on Thursday it will help “stabilize” the region as China increases military pressure on the island.
Russia said on Wednesday it was “no longer bound” by New START, a nuclear treaty with the United States that is set to expire on February 5.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would not have picked former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh as the central bank’s next chief if Warsh were not in step with lowering interest rates.
The United States will still hold nuclear talks with Iran on Friday in Oman, a White House official told AFP, after a report that the negotiations were collapsing due to disagreements over the location and format.
Around 55,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, adding a “great number” were also missing in action.
Greenland is not an independent country but an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. It exercises a high degree of self-governance and has re-emerged in the strategic calculations of major powers amid intensifying great-power competition.
China’s leader Xi Jinping held a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Beijing’s state media said without immediately providing further details.
The death toll in an attack by gunmen on Woro village in central Nigeria’s Kwara state has risen to 67, a Red Cross official said on Wednesday.
A second round of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine mediated by the United States has begun in the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine’s lead negotiator announced Wednesday.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin hailed Moscow’s economic, political and security ties with Beijing as a “stabilizing” factor in turbulent times globally, in a video call with China’s Xi Jinping on Wednesday.
