Israel’s security cabinet approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total number approved over the past three years to 69, an official statement said Sunday.
The Kremlin on Sunday denied that three-way talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States were on the cards, as diplomats gathered in Miami for talks on ending the conflict.
Vladimir Putin is ready to talk with France’s Emmanuel Macron over the war in Ukraine, the Russian president’s spokesman said in an interview published Sunday.
The United States “apprehended” an oil tanker off Venezuela on Saturday, the latest salvo in a pressure campaign against Caracas, the US government said Saturday.
North Korea said on Sunday that Japan’s nuclear ambitions “must be prevented at any cost”, after a Tokyo official reportedly suggested the country should possess atomic weapons.
Russia on Thursday called on Donald Trump’s administration not to make a “fatal mistake” in the Venezuela crisis, calling for restraint and saying it was in “constant contact” with its ally Caracas.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday said an EU failure to seal a landmark trade deal with South America’s Mercosur this week would be “very frustrating” as France and Italy pushed for a delay.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Ukrainian and US delegations would hold new talks on Friday and Saturday in the United States, aiming to end the Russian invasion.
A senior Ukrainian diplomat announced on Thursday he had arrived in Beijing, a close ally of Russia, where he was expected to hold talks with Chinese officials.
The war of words and weapons between the US and Venezuela involves much more than a conflict over drug trafficking and democracy; it’s a test of how effectively President Donald Trump can project power in America’s own hemisphere without creating more problems than he solves.
