U.S. President Joe Biden has been publicly pressuring House Republicans for months to pass a Ukraine aid package. Johnson, however, leads a fractious GOP caucus that has so far rebuffed efforts to get fresh funding to Ukraine. Cameron, who has previously traveled to the U.S. to give Ukraine aid the hard sell, painted a gloomy … Read more
BRUSSELS — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will propose a $100 billion, five-year fund for Ukraine when alliance foreign ministers meet on Wednesday, two diplomats told POLITICO. The financial package will be part of a broader initiative to incentivize allies to support Kyiv, as a $60 billion U.S. military aid package is stalled in Congress. One … Read more
New report links secret Russian intel unit to ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases A new “60 Minutes” investigative report alleges a connection between “Havana Syndrome” and Russian intelligence. The US government has assessed it is unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible, according to US intelligence officials familiar with the assessment. The reporter who led the investigation, Christo … Read more
Rutte is visiting China with the country’s Foreign Trade minister, Geoffrey van Leeuwen. The trip comes after a year in which the Netherlands decided, under pressure from the United States, to restrict some of the export of advanced chip printing machines by Dutch chips champion ASML to China. ASML estimates that the impact of the … Read more
Macron now hopes to step in as a mediator with a new U.N. draft resolution, which he said would be prepared with “several regional partners, in particular in the Arab world,” which will help lift the Chinese and Russian vetoes. “It’s with this procedure that we hope to advance this text,” he said. Meanwhile, Israeli … Read more
Some business credit cards offer introductory 0%-APR periods for purchases and/or balance transfers. These deals can be a great way to finance business expansions or to reduce the interest you’re paying on existing debt. But there’s more to these cards than just a limited-time no-interest offer. The ongoing benefits and the rewards you earn on … Read more
The food travelled 200 kilometers by sea from Larnaca to a makeshift jetty off Gaza, arriving Friday. A convoy of eight trucks from the World Food Programme brought the aid to its final destination. The Cyprus government said a second vessel, Jennifer, loaded with some 500 metric tons of aid is ready to leave Cyprus … Read more
Putin chose the moment to make his first public remarks on Navalny’s death, claiming in a victory press conference Sunday night that he’d agreed to swap the opposition leader in a prisoner exchange days before he died in an Arctic jail. “We can only consider that this election has been taken in the middle of … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The big news this week, President Joe Biden said at a weekend Washington roast, was that two candidates had clinched their party’s nomination for president. But one was too old, too mentally unfit for the job, he said. “The other’s me,” Biden quipped. The digs against Republican Donald Trump kept coming from … Read more
Hear from undecided voters in Georgia CNN’s Gary Tuchman speaks to undecided voters in the swing state of Georgia about which candidates they support going into the 2024 presidential election. Source link