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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — France and the United Kingdom, Europe’s two nuclear-armed powers, have agreed to coordinate their atomic arsenals in response to major threats against the continent.The decision comes as part of a series of defense agreements signed by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. While nuclear coordination is set to deepen under the agreement, as is nuclear research cooperation between France and Britain, the document makes it clear that the atomic arsenals will not be fused entirely.“The respective deterrents of both countries ...

China has agreed to sign a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons, Malaysia’s and China’s foreign ministers confirmed, in a move that seeks to shield the area from rising global security tensions amid the threat of imminent United States tariffs.The pledge from Beijing was welcomed as diplomats on Thursday gathered for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ meeting, where US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also due to meet regional counterparts and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.Malaysia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan told reporters China had ...

The United States has begun resending weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon said some deliveries should be paused, the Ukrainian president's office confirmed Thursday.At the beginning of July, the Pentagon halted[1] shipments of some air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine because of worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles had fallen too low.The decision to withhold some military aid came as Ukraine faced some of the largest Russian attacks since the beginning of the war[2].On Wednesday night, Kyiv was hit by a massive Russian strike, killing two ...

Ukraine says it has arrested a Chinese father and son on suspicion of spying on its Neptune anti-ship missile programme, a key part of Kyiv’s growing domestic arms industry that is critical to its defence against Russian forces.The announcement by Ukraine’s security service (SBU) follows assertions by Kyiv in recent months that Beijing, which has sought to project an image of neutrality, is helping the Kremlin’s war effort.Counterintelligence officials arrested a 24-year-old former student in Kyiv after they provided him with “technical documentation” related to Neptune production, the SBU said ...

US and Ukrainian leaders discuss defence capabilities on call after Trump ‘disappointed’ by conversation with Russia’s Putin.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he agreed with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to work to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences, as concerns mounted in Kyiv over US military aid deliveries.The two leaders had a “very important and fruitful conversation” by phone on Friday, Zelenskyy said.“We spoke about opportunities in air defence and agreed that we will work together to strengthen protection of our skies,” he added in a post on the social media platform X.The ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Thursday.The Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, or SEANWFZ, has been in force since 1997, limiting the use of nuclear power by members to peaceful purposes, such as power generation.ASEAN’s objective is for the world’s nuclear powers, including China, the United States, Britain, Russia and France, to sign the treaty and commit to non-use or movement of nuclear weapons in ...

With an album release on the way, one of the Inland Northwest’s own is making a homecoming with a pair of performances.Izzy Burns was born and raised in Moscow, Idaho. It was here that she spent the first few years of her life essentially voiceless after falling ill with pneumonia and needing a tracheostomy (as well as several other airway surgeries) in order to breathe.“As a baby and a little kid, having surgeries and things like that, not being able to breathe, was really scary,” Burns said. “Probably more scary ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signalled strong support for a sweeping new sanctions bill aimed at pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. The proposed legislation, the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025[1], includes a controversial provision to impose a 500% tariff on imports from countries such as India and China that continue purchasing Russian energy products.“I’m looking. It’s totally my option. They pass it totally at my option, and to terminate totally at my option. And I’m looking at it very strongly,” Trump told ...

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Published on 10/07/2025 - 7:30 GMT+2•Updated 10:22ADVERTISEMENTA video circulating widely online falsely claims to show NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte describing Ukraine as a US territory during the Alliance’s recent summit in The Hague.The video, in which Rutte speaks in English, has been subtitled in Russian to falsely quote Rutte as saying the NATO Alliance must ensure “Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will never, ever again try to take away a single square kilometre of Ukrainian territory from the Americans".Euroverify has detected the video circulating widely on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram TikTok and X, ...

ADVERTISEMENTArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are meeting on Thursday in Abu Dhabi to discuss next steps in finalising the peace agreement, their offices confirmed. This is the first formal bilateral meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan since they agreed on the draft text of the peace agreement, following nearly four decades of conflict. The results of this meeting will ultimately shape the future of the South Caucasus not only because of what the two leaders agree upon, but also because of Russia being for the ...

Ursula Asta, a geopolitical analyst from Argentina, views the actions of the Zionist regime in West Asia as part of a broader project aimed at preserving Western hegemony and preventing the decline of the U.S.-led unipolar world order. In this interview, she emphasizes the political fragility of the Israeli regime and the prominent role of neoconservatives in the U.S. political structure, arguing that the regime’s resort to war and targeted assassinations against Iran stems not from genuine security concerns, but from a strategic effort to maintain geopolitical dominance and block ...

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ROME (AP) — Italy is hosting the fourth annual conference on rebuilding Ukraine even as Russia escalates its war, inviting… ROME (AP) — Italy is hosting the fourth annual conference on rebuilding Ukraine[1] even as Russia escalates its war, inviting political and business leaders to Rome to promote public-private partnerships on defense, mining, energy and other projects as uncertainty grows about the U.S. commitment to Kyiv’s defense.Premier Giorgia Meloni[2] and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy[3] were opening the meeting Thursday, which gets under way as Russia accelerated its aerial and ground ...

Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some US$50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a “fortress Russia” economic model during the war in Ukraine, research showed on Wednesday.The conflict has been accompanied by a significant transfer of assets as many Western companies fled the Russian market, others’ assets were expropriated and the assets of some major Russian businesses were seized by the state.In response to what Russia called illegal actions by the West, President Vladimir Putin signed decrees over the past three years ...

The war in Ukraine is not ending the way the U.S.-led West had hoped. Russia has not been defeated, and Ukraine will not[1] enter NATO or reclaim all its captured territory. Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and even some members of the Republican party have responded with fury to President Donald Trump’s effort to resolve the conflict. But with whom should they be upset? Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine cannot be justified. But, from their perspective, the war became inevitable when three factors collided.The first was NATO expansion eastward right up to ...

The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen[1], is preparing to face a rare vote of censure in the European parliament that is likely to reveal discontent about the rightward drift of EU policies.Von der Leyen is expected to comfortably survive a vote on Thursday on the censure motion, which in theory could trigger the downfall of her commission. While her survival is considered a certainty, the debate has lifted the lid on simmering discontent among centrist, centre-left and green MEPs who voted her back into office just under one ...

July 10, 2025TOKYO – A private library in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, started by a Ukrainian woman and featuring Ukrainian-language books, has become a place of respite for Ukrainians who have fled the war and are now taking shelter in Japan. The books have been collected through various channels.The library was established by Dariia Murakami, 41, of Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture. In 2014, she fled the military conflict occurring in her home country of Ukraine and moved to Japan.Murakami hopes that Ukrainian evacuees in Japan will feel a sense of belonging to ...

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Europe's top human rights court has ruled unanimously that Russia was responsible for downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.MH17 was shot down on July 17, 2014 as it flew eastern Ukraine on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.Among those killed were 38 Australian citizens and residents.Russia has always denied responsibility, disputing findings from official investigations that the Russian military had supplied the surface-to-air missiles to Ukrainian separatists.On Wednesday, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Russia was responsible for ...

S Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his Russian counterpart in Malaysia on Thursday, as Moscow unleashed its second major attack on Ukraine in as many days. Rubio's first visit to Asia as secretary of state also comes as US President Donald Trump ramps up his trade war, threatening more than 20 countries with punitive tariffs.The top US diplomat is to meet Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, a senior State Department official said.Russian ...

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KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia pounded Ukraine’s capital with another mass missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, causing fires in areas across the city and injuring at least 10 people a day after the heaviest aerial attack of the three-year war[1] so far, according to Ukrainian officials.In a post on the Telegram messaging app, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescue workers were working at a residential building in Shevchenkivskyi District, after falling debris caused a fire on the top floor of an apartment building.Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Regional ...

Reuters'Fortress Russia' has seized $50 billion in assets over 3 years, research shows[1]MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a "fortress Russia" economic model during the war in Ukraine, research showed on Wednesday. The conflict has been accompanied by a significant transfer of assets as many Western companies fled the Russian market, others' assets were expropriated and the assets of some major Russian businesses were seized by the state. In response to what Russia ...

Ukraine's capital Kyiv is again under a massive overnight Russian drone attack, local officials say, with at least 10 people reported injured and fires burning across the city.Authorities in Kyiv say drone wreckage has hit the roof of a residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district.Footage on social media, as yet unverified by the BBC, shows explosions in the night sky, as air defence units begin repelling the attack. Ukraine's military has also warned of a threat of a ballistic missile attack.Last night, Ukraine reported the biggest ever aerial attack ...

Ukrainian air defence units were defending Kyiv against Russian drones early on Thursday for the second night running, with officials reporting a fire in a city-centre apartment building and drone fragments landing in different districts. At least two people were injured in the latest attacks, according to the AFP news agency.A Russian air strike killed three people and injured one in the front-line town of Kostiantynivka[1] in Ukraine’s east, national emergency service officials said. A post on Telegram said the strike also destroyed a one-storey administrative building. Firefighters also extinguished ...

Who wants to defend Europe? - The Korea Times North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte, right, and outgoing Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Christopher G. Cavoli attend a ceremony where U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich takes over as NATO's new SACEUR, at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), in Casteau, Belgium July 4. Reuters-Yonhap By Nicu Popescu and Goran Buldioski

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused, U.S. officials said Wednesday.The weapons heading into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS, two officials told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to provide details that had not been announced publicly. It’s unclear exactly when the weapons started moving.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the pause on some shipments last week to allow the Pentagon to assess its weapons stockpiles, ...

This is the 'most insidious' part about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax: Marc Thiessen  Fox News

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Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. For the second night in a row, explosions and air raid alarms rocked Ukraine's capital and cities far from the front lines, as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack across the country on July 10. Throughout late spring and early summer 2025, Russia[1] has ramped up aggression against Ukraine with a series of record-breaking mass strikes[2]. The night of July 10 saw yet another wave of aerial terror from Moscow.At around 1:15 a.m. local time, Kyiv Independent ...

Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are prepared to move forward on a bill that would impose harsher sanctions on Russia and buyers of Russian fossil fuels, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on July 9. The bipartisan legislation[1], introduced on April 1 by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, seeks to impose a 500% tariff on imports from countries that continue purchasing Russian oil[2] and raw materials."(Russian President) Vladimir Putin has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable ...

San Candido is Italy — if only someone would tell the locals. Even before you arrive, past needle peaks and pine trees, you’ll notice the road signs: “Innichen” defiantly above, “S. Candido” almost a nickname below. Once you reach the centre, the houses are all Alpine shutters, and the villagers cry “Grüss Gott” (God bless) for hello. In the cafés, you can sip on schnapps, or gorge on strudels the size of your fist. Spend long enough here, where Italy nuzzles Austria, and even the cows seem to moo for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A large, bipartisan group of senators is rallying behind legislation that would impose tough new sanctions on Russia as its war against Ukraine drags on. But President Donald Donald Trump has not endorsed the legislation, raising questions about its fate.What You Need To KnowMore than 80 senators support a bipartisan bill to impose new sanctions on RussiaPresident Trump has not yet endorsed the legislationThe White House has asked Senate Republican leadership to delay advancing the billA bill introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., ...

Europe’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands, finding Moscow shot down flight MH17, killing all passengers, including 38 Australians.Judges at the European court of human rights ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law, from shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children[1] after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of 2022.Reading the decisions in a packed courtroom in Strasbourg, the court’s president, ...

The European Union is considering establishing a fund for Ukraine worth 100 billion euros ($117 billion) in the next seven-year EU budget, Bloomberg reported on July 8, citing sources familiar with the proposal.Sources told Bloomberg[1] that the proposed funding, which is set to be presented later in July, would begin to be disbursed in 2028 as a means to provide additional assistance to the war-torn country amid waning U.S. support.The proposal for an approximately 100 billion euro fund was previously touted by European Union Commissioner for Defense and Space, Andrius ...

President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv. Author: 13wmaz.com Published: 5:31 PM EDT July 9, 2025 Updated: 5:31 PM EDT July 9, 2025

President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv. Author: 13wmaz.com Published: 5:29 PM EDT July 9, 2025 Updated: 5:29 PM EDT July 9, 2025

Russia has targeted Ukraine with a record 728 drones, hours after United States President Donald Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv and aimed unusually sharp criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin.[1]The attack overnight was the latest in a series of escalating air assaults in recent weeks that have involved hundreds of drones in addition to ballistic missiles, straining Ukrainian air defences at a perilous moment in the war.Ukraine's military downed almost all the drones, but some of the six hypersonic missiles launched by Russia had caused unspecified ...

Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine[1] in a single day since the war began more than three years ago, the Ukrainian Air Force said Wednesday. In a statement, the air force said Russia fired 728 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as 13 missiles, overnight. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post most of the Russian drones were taken down by Ukrainian interceptor drones, but some of the weapons did get through air defenses. Ukrainian prosecutors were quoted by the French news agency AFP as saying five ...

A Kyiv resident describes it as her favourite morning sound. She is referring to the crisp, clear sound of a trumpet coming from a nearby street. The music is beautiful and soulful, played by a military veteran who sits in the same spot every weekend.“I am inspired by this strong person who not only plays but also brings a ray of hope to the whole district with his music,” the interviewee reflects. Existing research on war and sound has mainly focused on what J. Martin Daughtry, associate professor of ethnomusicology ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused.The weapons now moving into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It’s unclear exactly when the weapons started moving.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the pause last week to allow the Pentagon to assess its weapons stockpiles, in a move that caught the White House by surprise[1]. The Pentagon has denied that Hegseth acted without consulting President ...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson became the latest lawmaker to get on board Wednesday with efforts to ratchet up sanctions against Russia, blasting Moscow’s president, Vladimir Putin, for being unwilling to end his invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]“I don’t know any details yet but I know there’s an interest in that in the House side, so we’ll have to see,” Johnson told reporters.“Vladimir Putin has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable and to talk seriously about brokering a peace, and I think we have to send him a message — that’s my view.”The ...

(The Center Square) – Top congressional leaders signaled Wednesday that they are ready to move forward in imposing sanctions on Russia by the end of the month after Russian President Vlaimir Putin “has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable” during Ukraine peace talks.President Donald Trump said he is “very strongly” considering Congress’ plans to introduce a sanctions bill after expressing sharp frustration with Putin during a cabinet meeting Tuesday.The bipartisan bill would impose a 500% tariff on countries importing Russian gas, oil and uranium, which includes China and India. The ...

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, today condemned the arrest and ongoing arbitrary detention of Maria Bontsler, a 64-year-old human rights lawyer from Kaliningrad, who suffers from a serious chronic medical condition.“This is a deeply troubling case of judicial harassment and criminalisation of a lawyer for simply doing her job,” Katzarova said. “Maria Bontsler’s arrest and prosecution are politically motivated and represent yet another example of the continuing attack on the independence of the legal profession in Russia.”Bontsler ...

Russia pummelled Ukraine Wednesday with its largest missile and drone attack in more than three years of war, hours after US President Donald Trump launched an expletive-filled attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.AFP journalists in Kyiv heard explosions ringing out and drones buzzing over the capital during the barrage after air raid sirens sounded.The air force said Russia fired 728 drones and 13 missiles, specifying that its air defence systems intercepted 711 drones and destroyed seven missiles.The strike, which officials said killed one civilian in the Khmelnytsky region, beat a ...

US President Donald Trump said Russia just wanted to "keep killing people" and hinted at sanctions  after Moscow launched its largest ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the three-year-old war.Trump said Friday he was "very unhappy" about his telephone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying: "He wants to go all the way, just keep killing people, it's no good".The US president said he and Putin talked about sanctions "a lot", adding: "He understands that it may be coming".Hours-long Russian bombardments sent Ukrainians scurrying for shelters across the ...