Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday his government will propose $40 billion in additional defense spending over eight years.
The Israeli military on Wednesday announced a new “counterterrorism” operation in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Powerful explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, an AFP journalist heard, as the air force issued a countrywide missile warning early Tuesday.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping pressed the ever-sensitive issue of Taiwan in a phone call on Monday with US President Donald Trump, as he stressed the need to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers.
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to begin the process of designating certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group, as foreign terrorist organizations.
The White House pushed back against criticism, including from within the Republican Party, that US President Donald Trump is favoring Russia in efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that after the United States and Europe discussed steps toward a Ukraine peace, “the next step must be: Russia must come to the table”.
China slammed on Monday Japan’s decision to push ahead with a planned deployment of missiles on an island near Taiwan, escalating a weeks-long diplomatic spat.
The Kremlin said on Monday that it was not informed on results of talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva over the weekend.
EU chief Antonio Costa said on Monday he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of an emergency meeting of European Union leaders to discuss the updated plan for Ukraine.
