Last week, the European Political Community (EPC) summit held in Armenia had a special guest. It was Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, who became the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of this intergovernmental forum that since 2022 brings together about fifty countries from the continent.
The United States is considering a formal accusation against former Cuban president Raúl Castro in connection with the downing of planes from the humanitarian organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996, according to sources cited by CBS. This investigation has come to light after it was revealed that the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, met this Thursday in Havana with high-ranking officials of the Cuban Government, as confirmed by both Executives.
The Trump administration has taken a further step in its decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Europe and has canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers to Poland as part of a more ambitious plan to cut its military presence on the continent.
A group of young Israeli settlers corners an ultra-Orthodox Jew in one of the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem: “traitor, coward, you are a disgrace to this country,” spits a teenager, dressed in loose clothing and the characteristic tzitzit, the four cords tied at the waist traditional of the Jewish religious attire. The crime of his compatriot is wearing one of the purple vests of the Standing Together association, dedicated to the peaceful protection of Palestinians against settler attacks in the West Bank.
With a grand parade of flags waved by children, a military review of the honor guard, a visit to the sacred Temple of Heaven, and an opulent banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Xi Jinping has charmed Donald Trump with a pomp superior to that usually granted to his visiting counterparts. The American leader has returned the hospitality with a level of praise that his European allies, including the kings of the United Kingdom who visited the White House two weeks ago, will hardly hear.
The Prime Minister of Latvia, Evika Siliņa, has resigned this Thursday after her coalition government has been shaken in recent weeks following a collateral incident of the war in Ukraine.
The war in Iran has left the Gulf countries in a very delicate situation. The missiles and drones launched by Tehran in the first weeks of the conflict have shattered their image as an oasis of stability, while the blockade of Hormuz threatens to ruin their economy, which is highly dependent on crude oil exports.
Wes Streeting, British Secretary of Health and representative of the right wing of the Labour Party, has resigned to, presumably, run as an alternative to the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
Just minutes after the first meeting of the summit between China and the United States began, Xi Jinping issued a warning to Donald Trump about Taiwan. If Washington mishandles the issue of the island, he told him, the two countries could enter into “a situation…
The long-awaited summit between China and the U.S. kicked off this Thursday in Beijing, with apparent harmony between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. Despite the commercial focus, the shadow of Iran and Taiwan looms over the meeting from the start. Xi, in fact, pointed out that the Taiwan issue is the most important in the relationship between China and the U.S.: “This will be stable if handled well, otherwise there will be clashes and even conflicts, which will pose a great danger.”