1 Zelenskyy arrives in Japan as G7 ramps up pressure on Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday for the G7 summit, in a show of solidarity from the world’s seven largest economies. Zelenskyy’s trip comes just a day after the G7 nations issued a statement calling for global cooperation on…
1 White House and Republicans reach tentative debt ceiling deal The White House and Republicans reached a tentative deal on Saturday night to extend the debt ceiling for two years, avoiding a catastrophic national default. While the details are still being hammered out, President Biden tweeted that the deal was “an important step forward that…
1 Default deadline pushed to June 5 as Biden says deal is near Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Friday that the deadline to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling had been extended to June 5, bumping it back four days from the previous June 1 cutoff date. Yellen noted that during the first week…
While the headlines have recently been looking to the stars for the next iteration of military prowess, the United States is focusing on a different playing field to hone the next generation of war that may be just as foreign as outer space: the seabed. Less than 10% of the ocean floor has been mapped…
The NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, on Tuesday raised the number of its troops injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs to 30. The Serbs had tried to take over the offices of one of the municipalities in northern Kosovo where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week. A statement said that…
1 Zelenskyy says Bakhmut is still under Ukrainian control Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied assertions on Sunday that Russia had taken control of the city of Bakhmut. Russian forces had previously claimed to have captured the city, which Zelenskyy said at the end of 2022 was totally destroyed. However, when asked during a G7 meeting if…
Turkey’s presidential election appeared headed to a runoff on Sunday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not obtaining enough of the vote to win the contest outright. With over 90 percent of the votes counted, Erdogan has 49.6 percent of the vote, while his main challenger, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has 44.5 percent, according to Turkey’s state-run news outlet Andalou Agency. Because neither…
1 Ceasefire appears to hold between Israel and Gaza militants A tense ceasefire between Israeli forces and militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) appeared to hold Sunday, at least for the most part. The truce comes following a series of rocket attacks from the PIJ-held Gaza Strip late Saturday night, causing Israel to launch a…
has unveiled what it calls the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program. Authorities showed off the Khorramshahr-4 to journalists at an event in the capital of Tehran, with the missile on a truck-mounted launcher. Defence Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said the missile…
A ship has run aground in the , causing fears that the world’s busiest shipping lane could be blocked. Leth Shipping Agency reported that tugboats had raced to the scene to refloat the vessel as reports suggest four ships were al comes nearly three years after the 400-metre-long Ever Given became stuck diagonally across a…