AI image for representation only. US President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring Ukraine to sign an economic deal that would transfer a significant share of its natural resources, ports, and industrial profits to a US-controlled fund in exchange for continued backing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected the latest proposal, calling it “unfair” and insisting…
Friedrich Merz wins against outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) was defeated in Germany’s national elections, recording their worst postwar result with just 16% of the vote.Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance secured victory with over 28%, positioning him as the next chancellor. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged…
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Russia. (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday declared that “God willed it” for him and his army to defend Russia, framing the war in Ukraine as a mission of fate.“Fate willed it so, God willed it so, if I may say so,” Putin told…
AI image for representation only. As US President Donald Trump pushes to end the war in Ukraine through direct negotiations with Russia, observers are asking whether Trump’s overtures to Moscow might have a deeper strategic motive: to break apart the growing alliance between China and Russia, in what some are calling a “reverse Nixon.”Driving the…
Elon Musk has no love for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. One of the most-important persons in Donald Trump‘s administration — Elon Musk has not only slammed Zelensky openly but also many a times made fun of him. And here Elon Musk seems to be sharing US President Donald Trump’s not-go-happy opinion about Zelensky. Elon Musk has…
AI image for representation only. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince may not have been inside the room on Tuesday for the first high-level talks between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s war on Ukraine, but Mohammed bin Salman still won the day for hosting the gathering that could eventaully be the start of something game-changing…
TOI correspondent from Washington:Tulsi Gabbard wasn’t yet born when Bollywood spun out the movie Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (I am the sacred basil in your courtyard) in 1978, movie about fidelity. On an icy Wednesday evening in Washington DC, America’s first female, Hindu-American lawmaker and newly-minted intelligence czar, whose fealty to the US has…
US President Donald Trump held a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which they agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine “immediately,” Trump said.According to the Kremlin, the conversation lasted 1.5 hours, with both leaders agreeing that “the time has come to work together.” Giving details…
NEW DELHI: India and Russia look to intensify inter-parliamentary dialogue and cooperation with a visit to India this week by state duma (lower house of Parliament) chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. In the annual summit meeting last year in Moscow, PM Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin had underlined the importance of regular meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Commission…
Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (File photo) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is open to peace talks with Ukraine but ruled out direct negotiations with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he dismissed as “illegitimate” due to his term expiring under martial law.Zelenskyy hit back, accusing Putin of using “cynical tricks” to prolong the…
