Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Israel’s allies for their support and advice, but stressed that Israel would be making its own decisions, after meeting with UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday. During the meeting with Cameron and Baerbock, Netanyahu insisted on Israel’s right to self defense. Netanyahu … Read more
“If allies face a choice between meeting NATO capability targets and providing more aid to Ukraine, my message is clear: Send more to Ukraine,” he said, adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would attend a NATO-Ukraine Council on Friday. Shortly after Stoltenberg’s press conference, NATO announced he would join the G-7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Italy … Read more
The Chinese leader was responding to an investigation Brussels launched last year into Beijing’s electric vehicle subsidies. More recently the European Commission has announced a probe into state support for Chinese wind turbines being pitched for European generation projects, which followed similar checks on rail and solar projects. He told Scholz, who was in China … Read more
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“I am sure that Ukraine will raise an argument that if one non-NATO country has been provided with air defense when attacked by a hostile adversary, why should Ukraine be treated differently? Given the dire and urgent situation that Ukraine now faces, that argument is rather convincing,” he added. Asked why Britain couldn’t offer the same … Read more
“A big part of it is the arrogance of power,” the EU official continued. “She mistakenly thought she could get away with everything. So some smaller mistakes are now being used against her.” Like other officials quoted in this article, the EU official was granted anonymity to speak freely about the powerful German politician within the … Read more
Exhorting international leaders to take “every effort” to “prevent a further escalation” of the fighting in the Middle East, the Ukrainian leader argued that “Iran’s actions threaten the entire region and the world, just as Russia’s actions threaten a larger conflict.” And then he brought his point home: “Words do not stop drones and do … Read more
It also restated that French citizens should “absolutely refrain from traveling to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine.” Meanwhile, German airline Lufthansa on Sunday announced it won’t be conducting any flights to Amman, Erbil and Tel Aviv until Tuesday and flights to Beirut and Tehran until Thursday at the soonest. The announcement comes after the airline … Read more
Czech authorities in March sanctioned the Prague-based Voice of Europe website over claims that European politicians had engaged with the outlet, using their influence to discourage support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Two of the channel’s executives — including Viktor Medvedchuk, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — were hit with sanctions. … Read more
A TANGLED web of wartime espionage and black magic remains at the centre of a gruesome murder mystery – 81 years after a skull was found stashed in a tree. The chilling tale began in April 1943 as war-ravaged Britain grappled with air raids and strict food rationing. 6 The skull was found in a … Read more
