Israeli official says Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas hit last-minute snag, holding up deal
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli official says Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas hit last-minute snag, holding up deal.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli official says Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas hit last-minute snag, holding up deal.
OTTAWA — Ottawa should block Donald Trump's chosen ambassador to Canada until the U.S. president stops questioning Canada's sovereignty, says one expert.
Russia has offered to make its fifth-generation stealth fighter jet Sukhoi Su-57 in India for the Indian Air Force, a Russian and an Indian official said on Tuesday, as Moscow looks to boost defence ties with New Delhi. Russia has for decades been the main weapons supplier to India, the world's biggest arms importer, and its fighter jets are part of India's military fleet.
France is in advanced talks with India to buy a multi-barrel rocket launcher system, a top Indian official said on Monday, a potential deal that would be the first time India's second-largest arms supplier buys weapons from New Delhi. India is the world's biggest arms importer, but has been trying to boost local production to meet its defence requirements and has been steadily raising its defence exports. The domestically made Pinaka rocket system with a range of up to 90 km (56 miles) was demonstrated to a French delegation in India around three months ago and was found to be satisfactory, a second official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Russian soldiers would be treated in North Korean medical facilities, said Matsegora, Moscow's longtime diplomat to Pyongyang.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is due to visit Britain on Thursday to hold talks with his British counterpart David Lammy in a sign that relations between the countries are normalising after years of tensions. Issues to be discussed include international security and the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesman told reporters. Lammy and Wang will revive the UK-China Strategic Dialogue, a forum last held in 2018 to discuss bilateral issues.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its war against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages on Saturday.
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has posted pictures of himself exercising with American marines in Germany ahead of his first NATO meeting this week. Mr Hegseth posted pictures of himself in a sweat-soaked navy t-shirt running and lifting various weights, as well as a group photograph with a battalion based in Panzer Kaserne, near Stuttgart. The defence secretary is on a week-long trip to Germany, Belgium and Poland with the aim of "strengthening deterrence, supporting warfighters, and advancing America's national security interests", according to his department.
A spokesperson for Hamas says it will delay the next hostage release after accusing Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement.
BRUSSELS — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Brussels today as Canada works to deepen its trade and defence ties with Europe.
China is helping Russia's military drone production by becoming a hub for the smuggling of critical Western components for Moscow's armed forces, Estonia's foreign intelligence said in its annual national security report published on Wednesday. Some 80% of such components reaching Russia now come from China, it said.
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait this week in the first such mission since President Donald Trump took office last month, drawing an angry reaction from China, which said the mission increased security risks. The U.S. Navy, occasionally accompanied by ships from allied countries, transits the strait about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, says the strategic waterway belongs to it.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. thanked Cambodia’s king on Tuesday for granting a royal pardon last year to 13 Filipino women who were convicted of illegally serving as surrogate mothers in the Southeast Asian kingdom.
After U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze donations in January to Cambodia's largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington's past wars in Southeast Asia, the group announced new funding - from China. Beijing has doubled its contributions over the past three years to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), which helps clear millions of unexploded munitions, said Heng Ratana, who leads the group. On Feb. 5, CMAC said it had received a pledge from Beijing to contribute $4.4 million - surpassing the $2 million donated by the U.S. last year.
The Trump administration plans to push European allies to buy more American weapons for Ukraine ahead of potential peace talks with Moscow, said two people with knowledge of the matter, a move that could improve Kyiv's negotiating position. The plan, if formalized, will offer some reassurance to Ukrainian leaders who have worried that President Donald Trump might block further aid to the country, whose military has been slowly losing territory under fierce Russian assault in the east. European countries previously had purchased American weapons for Ukraine during the Biden administration.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — All architecture student Amirhossein Azizi wanted for his 19th birthday was the latest iPhone — and for Iran's cash-strapped theocracy, it was just the gift they needed as well.
A former senior Chinese diplomat has called for China and the US to work together to head off the risks of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI). But the prospect of cooperation was bleak as geopolitical tensions rippled out through the technological landscape, former Chinese foreign vice-minister Fu Ying told a closed-door AI governing panel in Paris on Monday. "Realistically, many are not optimistic about US-China AI collaboration, and the tech world is increasingly subject to geopoli
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that there was nothing new to report on discussions around Ukraine with the United States. Peskov repeated a statement that contacts between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia had begun at different levels and had intensified, but said there was nothing more to add for now. Asked about unconfirmed reports on Telegram and X that U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff may have flown into Moscow, Peskov said he had no information about the matter and that no meetings with him were on the agenda.
JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel's military has called up reservists in preparation for a possible resumption of fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to meet a Saturday deadline to release more Israeli hostages and a nearly month-old ceasefire breaks down. Under the ceasefire deal in force since January 19, the Palestinian militant group agreed to free three more hostages on Saturday. U.S. President Donald Trump responded by saying all hostages must be freed by noon on Saturday or he would "let hell break out".
Russia warned on Monday that the outlook for extending the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control between Moscow and Washington, the world's two biggest nuclear powers, did not look promising and that the situation appeared to be deadlocked. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, which caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them, is due to run out in less than a year - on February 5, 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump, during his first presidential term, withdrew the U.S. from another important treaty - the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty - and the New START agreement is now the only pact remaining.