Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to stop targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days after another two-and-a-half-hour phone call with President Donald Trump last week—which fell short of the unconditional ceasefire that Trump sought.
Another day, another atrocity committed by Israel, and no outrage.
The IDF on Saturday carried out a massive wave of airstrikes inside Lebanon on Saturday after accusing Hezbollah of lobbing rockets into northern Israel—a claim that the group denied, accusing the Israelis of using the allegation to justify its latest round of aggression.
Aharon Barak, the former Israeli Supreme Court chief justice, said last week that he is concerned about the growing risk that the country is on a path to a civil war over recent actions by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
The Gazan civilians got what was coming, according to the White House.
Israel Katz, the head of the IDF, said last week that Tel Aviv will begin evicting Gazans and annex parts of the enclave if Hamas continues to hold the remaining hostages—stating that the longer the group continues to keep the hostages, the “more territory, it will lose and be annexed to Israel.”
Sigrid Kaag, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, issued a report last week that accused Israel of expanding settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and using violence to achieve its goals.
Companies from PayPal to Bank of America are getting ready to issue their own stablecoins as regulators take a softer approach and Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies has given the idea new energy.
Someone other than Donald Trump has a trade beef with China. Russian officials have put a fee equivalent to about $7,500 on Chinese passenger vehicles coming into the country.
On 12 March, as expected, the Bank of Canada took another quarter point off its key interest rate, lowering the rate to 2.75 percent.