Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that a draft plan outlining American security guarantees for Kyiv was “essentially ready” to be submitted to US President Donald Trump for his approval.
Russia on Thursday accused the United States of stoking tensions and threatening international shipping with its seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic a day earlier.
Japan said on Thursday it had lodged a protest with China over the operation of a mobile drilling vessel in an area of the East China Sea rich in gas deposits.
Russia on Thursday said it would consider the presence of any foreign troops in Ukraine a legitimate military target, in Moscow’s first comments after Kyiv’s allies said they had agreed to key security guarantees for Kyiv at a summit in Paris.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday he was prepared to deploy troops to Palestine for peacekeeping “when the opportunity presents itself”.
Turkey’s military was ready to “support” Syria in its battle with Kurdish fighters in the northwestern city of Aleppo if Damascus asks for help, a defense ministry official said Thursday.
Several Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish opposition parties have called for a general strike on Thursday in Iran in support of the protests in the Islamic republic, one of the exiled parties told AFP.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wanted to increase the US defense budget by half next year to a giant $1.5 trillion to deal with “troubled and dangerous times.”
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Wednesday ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organizations as they “no longer serve American interests,” the White House said.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was arranging to meet with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro “in the near future,” days after threatening military action against the South American nation.
