Russia Dismisses Ukraine’s Offer For Territorial Exchange
Russia rejected exchanging occupied territory with the Ukrainian capital as part of any future peace agreement on Wednesday, just hours after attacking Kyiv with a volley of missiles and drones that left one person dead. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had floated the idea of exchanging occupied land, the latest strikes showed that the Kremlin was not interested...
Saudi Arabia Unveils $5 Billion Investment In AI Data Centre
A $5 billion artificial intelligence data center will be constructed in the futuristic city of NEOM by a Saudi company, according to state media. The agreement, signed between DataVolt and NEOM, would fund the creation of a fully sustainable AI data center with a 1.5 gigawatt capacity, the official SPA news agency said. The project will be located in Oxagon, an...
Trump Dismisses USAID Inspector General Amid Controversy
US media outlets reported Wednesday that US President Donald Trump had fired the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) independent inspector general. Paul Martin’s dismissal came a day after his office issued a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, the Washington Post, CNN, and others reported. They cited a two-sentence email from the White House sent...
UK Set To Deny Citizenship To Migrants Arriving By Boat, Vehicles
On Wednesday, the British government announced that it was strengthening immigration laws to make it nearly impossible for undocumented migrants who come in small boats to obtain citizenship in the future. Under new guidance, migrants arriving by sea or hidden in the back of vehicles will normally be refused citizenship. “This guidance further strengthens measures to make it clear that anyone...
Trump Pushes For U.S. Control Of Gaza As Jordan King Pushes Back
The visiting King Abdullah II of Jordan resisted President Donald Trump's Tuesday reaffirmation of his plan to expel Palestinians and place a rebuilt Gaza under "US authority." “I reiterated Jordan’s steadfast position against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is the unified Arab position. Rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the dire humanitarian...
Pope Francis Takes Aim At Trump’s Deportation Policy
Pope Francis issued a new condemnation of US President Donald Trump's deportations of undocumented migrants on Tuesday, calling them a "major crisis" that "damages the dignity of men and women." “I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering...
Five Dead In Suicide Bombing Outside Afghanistan Bank
According to police, a suicide bomber killed five people Tuesday in an explosion outside a bank in northern Afghanistan, including Taliban security forces. Seven people were also wounded in the attack, which targeted a queue of people waiting to collect their salaries from a bank in the city of Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province. “A suicide bomber, who had improvised...
Turkey Rejects Trump’s Plan, Urges Gaza Reconstruction
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, has vehemently disagreed with former US President Donald Trump's plan to rebuild Gaza, insisting that Israel should be in charge of doing so. Gaza has been left in ruins following a year of intense conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group. Last week, Trump suggested relocating Palestinians from the enclave to...
Gaza Ceasefire Tensions Rise Following Trump’s Warning
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump threatened to unleash "all hell" unless Hamas freed all Israeli hostages by the weekend, casting doubt on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The truce, in place since January 19, largely halted more than 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip and saw five groups of Israeli hostages freed in exchange for hundreds...
“EU To Retaliate Against New US Tariffs” — France
The French foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, warned on Monday that the European Union would retaliate by replicating any tariffs imposed on it by the United States, warning Washington against a trade war. “There is no hesitation when it comes to defending our interests,” Barrot said in an interview with TF1 after US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Washington...
