As the war in Ukraine and the Middle East’s vexed geopolitics have prompted the US president to reverse course after having vowed to make the Wahhabist monarchy a “pariah” because of the 2018 killing of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A crucial meeting began with a fist bump as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) welcomed Biden at a…
Drove from one country to another trying to find a place that “feels like home”. Russia invaded Ukraine that day, and the 26-year-old social media and marketing manager immediately made a decision to leave, threw things into her car and set off for the Polish border. But, after two weeks in Poland and a month…
A sullen driver takes her Ukrainian post office van past barricaded checkpoints and positions so dangerously exposed to Russian fire that soldiers try to blend into the surrounding forests. He then leaves her parked on a patch of grass for hours on end while she counts out the cash owed to every pensioner and writes…
Accusing Ukrainian forces of committing war crimes and claiming the EU was “ignoring” them, Putin told Macron “the West could help stop these atrocities by putting relevant pressure on the Kyiv authorities, as well as halting the supply of weapons to Ukraine”. Putin also said Kyiv was not being consistent or ready for “serious work”…
which has been wreaking havoc on Russian tanks in Ukraine, that they are part of a historic battle for democracy. “These weapons touched by the hands, your hands, are in the hands of Ukrainian heroes, making a significant difference,” Biden said at the Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama, which has produced more than 50,000…
A contradictory figure, he was best known as an award-winning war reporter covering both Chechen wars for US-funded Radio Free Europe’s Russian-language station. In 2000, he was taken prisoner by Russian forces and handed over to Chechen rebels in a bizarre swap that prompted international condemnation. After Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, however, Babitsky strongly…
Price told journalists he could not discuss the specifics of the final remaining issues in the 11 month-old negotiations over restoring the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which aims at preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “We are not in the practice of negotiating in public,” Price said, amid reports that a deal…
The construction worker, who declines to give his full name, was at home in France when Russia invaded its neighbour on February 24. What he saw on his TV screen made him so angry, he says, he decided to set off for Ukraine the very next day. “I couldn’t just sit on my settee and…
He stressed that he and President Vladimir Putin were the only principles able to thrash out a deal to stop the fighting, now in its fourth week. But he signaled he would lay down red lines against ceding Ukrainian territory, including two pro-Moscow breakaway regions. “I’m ready for negotiations with him,” Zelensky told CNN show…
which have been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rallies, which took place in Spain’s main cities, were called by the far-right Vox party which sought to tap into growing social discontent over the spiralling cost of living that has left many families struggling to pay their bills. Outside City Hall in Madrid, a…
