Author: Disha Mishra
Forelines – On Thursday Russia stated that Ukraine would “of course” be engaged in meetings to end the war, but there would be a separate United States-Russia’s strand to the negotiations. Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman further added it could take up to various months to arrange a talk between Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and U.S. president Donald Trump, potentially in the Saudi Arab’s capital Riyadh. The two leaders addressed on Wednesday and declared their intention to meet face-to-face, shortly following Donald Trump’s defense secretary bluntly said allies that Washington did not support NATO membership for Ukraine and that it was…
The Palestinian militant group Hamas signalled on Thursday that a crisis threatening to unravel the Gaza ceasefire deal could be avoided despite uncertainty over the number of hostages due to be released on Saturday and disagreements over aid supplies. The 42-day ceasefire has appeared close to failure this week as Israel and Hamas each accused the other of violating the agreement sealed last month with the help of Egyptian and Qatari mediators and U.S. support. Hamas said it did not want the deal to collapse, though it rejected what it called the “language of threats and intimidation” from Israeli Prime…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come bearing gifts when he meets Donald Trump on Thursday, hoping concessions on tariffs, fresh business deals and the prospect of cooperation on China will win the U.S. president’s favor. Trump, not yet one month into his presidency, has wielded the threat of tariffs against friend and foe alike to try to extract new trade deals, investment or law enforcement help. India may not be an exception: Although Trump had a warm relationship with Modi in his first term, he has called India a “very big abuser” on trade and his levies on steel…
(Forelines) – United States intelligence alerts that Israel is likely to carry out a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program by middle of the year, according to the Washington Post on Wednesday, quoting several intelligence reports. Such a strike would set back Iran’s nuclear program by weeks or months while rising tension in the area and risking a wider dispute, as per several intelligence reports from the end of the Biden administration and begin of the Trump administration, as per the Washington Post report. The White House refused to comment. The Washington Post stated the government of Israel, CIA, Defense…
More than 10 million devout Hindus seeking absolution from their sins took a dip in holy waters in northern India during a span of four hours on Wednesday, authorities said, as they braced for millions more to swarm the site of the Kumbh Mela. Authorities stepped up the numbers of police officers and put air ambulances on standby in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state on one of the holiest days of the Hindu festival, considered the world’s largest gathering of humanity. “There are more people in this city in one day than the population of many countries,…
Ukrainian natural gas production facilities were damaged in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s central Poltava region overnight, the state-run oil and gas firm Naftogaz and Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Tuesday. “Naftogaz Group’s production facilities in the Poltava region were damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties,” the company said in a statement. Naftogaz “is taking all necessary measures to stabilise the gas supply situation in the Poltava region”, it added. Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK said that its gas production facility in the Poltava region was also hit. “The facility is out of operation. Damage and destruction are…
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked an appeals court to put on hold a U.S. judge’s decision forcing it to comply with his order barring it from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance, saying the decision constituted “intolerable judicial overreach.” The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Monday to put on hold an order that a Rhode Island federal judge issued earlier that day, after finding the administration had defied his January 31 ruling by continuing to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding. Monday’s order marked the first…
(Forelines) – Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary stated on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is not sending U.S. soldiers into Ukraine. While addressing with reporters in Germany, Pete Hegseth further stated that he would push European allies to devote more on defense when Hegseth meets with them this week. According to Pete Hegseth, “The European continent deserves to be free from any aggression, but it ought be those in the neighborhood investing the most in that individual and collective defense.”
(Forelines) – According to military authority stated on Tuesday, the Islamic State armed group assaulted military bases in northeastern Puntland state in Somalia overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces resisted the attack and airstrikes killed 70 militants, as per Reuters report. Puntland declared a key offensive against Islamic State and a rival Islamist group, the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, in December and allegations to have since eliminated dozens of foreign fighters, claimed several IS bases, and forced a chief commander to surrender. “Puntland’s anti-terrorist forces knew the information and so foiled and shot dead the suicide…
A Hamas official said on Tuesday Israeli hostages can be brought home from Gaza only if a fragile ceasefire is respected, dismissing the “language of threats” after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would “let hell break out” if they were not freed. Hamas has begun releasing some hostages gradually but postponed freeing any more until further notice, accusing Israel of violating the terms with several deadly shootings as well as hold-ups of some aid deliveries in Gaza.Israel denies holding back aid supplies and says it has fired on people who disregard warnings not to approach Israeli troop positions. Trump,…