Shortly before Air Force One took off from Turkey at the end of last month’s NATO summit, President Trump secretly escaped from the presidential plane and was transferred to another plane with the help of an airport catering truck, according to a US official with direct knowledge of the matter. The ruse was employed because … Read more
LONDON (AP) — Timing is everything in comedy and, it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a trash can on his head. Count Binface, a self-styled intergalactic space warrior, landed at the center of the U.K. political universe ahead of a special election Thursday that was derided as a sham … Read more
Zelensky mocks Putin over Russia’s dependence on North KoreaOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch on international newsVolodymyr Zelensky has mocked Vladimir Putin for his dependence on ally North Korea, saying Russia is no longer capable of waging its war … Read more
Update: On the evening of August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court removed Yabloko from the ballot for the State Duma, the lower house of the country’s parliament, ruling in favor of a suit filed by the Rodina party.What’s happening with Yabloko ahead of the election?Yabloko last cleared the threshold for the State Duma in 1999, when it won 5.93 percent of the vote — above the 5 … Read more
An Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which he secretly flew from Turkey on an alternate military plane while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Washington Post has learned.
Donald Trump has said he will demand that Iran pay compensation for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and Iranian civilians themselves killed over the past decades, in the latest sign that his negotiations to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz have reached an impasse. The US president is trying to … Read more
Hunter Biden sat in on a lengthy two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson that premiered today, during which he called President Donald Trump an “existential threat” to the United States, while mildly criticizing people who say he’s simply a symptom of broader political rot. “The only existential threat I think we face, as a country, is … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu’s public rejection of a US-backed deal for Gaza drew scepticism in Israel, amid reports he was personally hammering out details of a pilot military withdrawal days earlier.The Israeli prime minister is struggling to balance incompatible demands on Gaza policy from his key domestic and international allies.The far-right Israeli politicians who prop up Netanyahu’s … Read more
Several patients are trapped under the rubble of a partially fallen hospital in Cali, western Colombia, according to a local official. Some sections of the Cali’s University Hospital “have collapsed,” the governor of Valle del Cauca, Dilian Francisca Toro, told local media. “Consequently, there are people trapped,” she said in a video posted to X. … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan unlikely to be final word BBCNetanyahu calculates upsetting Trump is his least-bad option cnn.comNetanyahu Walks ‘Political Tightrope’ on Trump’s Gaza Disarmament Deal The New York TimesNetanyahu rejects Trump-backed Gaza plan for Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal The Washington PostWhy Netanyahu’s ‘coup’ against Gaza plan risks endless war Al … Read more