Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said last week that Tehran will not negotiate with the U.S. while the Trump administration tries to threaten it into submission, stating that he has not interacted with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, nor has Iran “requested talks.”
Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, has taken steps to prepare his country for another war with the U.S., and President Donald Trump says Tehran must agree to his terms, or face the might of American forces steaming into the region.
Populist movements across Europe that were big Donald Trump fans, such as their support for his anti-immigration crusade, now roundly rejected his threat to seize Greenland.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, told reporters last week that he wanted to have constructive talks with the Trump administration, but identified “territorial integrity” as a “red line” in these discussions.
Defense stocks in Europe are continuing to see their prices surge amid all the global instability, with its main index, the STOXX Europe TM Aerospace and Defense index, increasing by 14 percent to begin the year, according to a report.
Poland announced last week that it will attempt to revamp its navy to be better able to defend itself and its interests in the Baltic Sea amid claims from European countries that Russia has exploited the waters during the Ukraine War.
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was on the receiving end of another major Russian drone and missile attack early Saturday as negotiators met with the UAE to continue talks to bring an end to the war.
Western governments are working to remove any possibility of online anonymity that is aimed at advancing “censorship” and repressing what these countries see as the risk of influencing young people with political messages, WSWS wrote.
Gen Z protests have spread to Serbia as thousands of students took to the streets to voice their anger toward President Aleksandar Vucic, whom they see as a curse on the country due to rampant corruption.
Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian general staff, said in an interview last week that his military is making gains on nearly all fronts in Ukraine and has seized control of another 300 square kilometers since the start of the year, and the Ukrainian leadership is hardly paying attention to the losses.