US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy indicated in comments to the Sydney Morning Herald that Washington might be open to a plea deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that could keep him from being extradited and imprisoned in the United States for exposing...
China on Sunday vowed it would take "strong measures" as Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te stopped in the US on his way to Paraguay, one of the few nations that has diplomatic relations with Taipei. "The US and the Taiwan authorities arranged for Lai to engage in...
President Biden will spend his first-ever Camp David summit working to form a new trilateral alliance between the US, Japan, and South Korea as part of his strategy against China in the Asia Pacific. Biden has invited Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South...
The Biden administration on Monday announced a $200 million arms package for Ukraine using funds made available by a Pentagon "accounting error" that includes munitions for Patriot air defense systems, HIMARS rocket systems, and other equipment. In June, the Pentagon...
Moscow says Ukrainian forces have launched several drone attacks over the past week targeting Moscow and Crimea. After the sensitive Kertch bridge was targeted, the Kremlin denounced the strikes as “terror attacks” and vowed a response. On Wednesday and Thursday,...
The Ukrainian military has struggled to work through Russia’s heavily mined defensive lines as its counteroffensive has dragged on for ten weeks with little to show. Kyiv is now appealing to its allies for more demining equipment. Ukrainians assigned to be deminers –...
Washington and Helsinki are working on a new deal to govern the military relationship between the two nations. Finland recently became the thirty-first member of NATO, doubling the alliance’s border with Russia. According to YLE News, Finnish state media, Helsinki and...
A delegation of Nigerian Islamic scholars traveled to Niamey for meetings with the leaders of the military junta who took power last month. The group says the coup leaders expressed an openness to diplomacy, Reuters reported on Sunday. However, this account has been...
On Thursday, government lawyers went to court to defend federal meddling in content moderation decisions on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. On July 4, Judge Terry Doughty of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ordered the...
Per Syrian state media, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani condemned a Friday Islamic State attack on a Syrian military bus (other sources claim the target consisted of two trucks), which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 government soldiers....
