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Tucked down in Terry Ahwal’s basement is her private wall of fame: Here she is on the Obama White House Christmas party. Here is a framed thank-you observe from President Bill Clinton. There she is grinning alongside Jennifer Granholm, the previous governor of Michigan. President Biden, Ms. Ahwal says, is not going to seem on […] More

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Sunday that Israeli forces would push into the southern Gaza Strip metropolis of Rafah whatever the end result of talks to pause the preventing that seem to have been making some progress in current days. “It needs to be accomplished,” the Israeli prime minister stated. “Because complete victory is our […] More

In solemn ceremonies and small vigils, state visits, stirring speeches and statements of solidarity, Ukraine and its allies marked the daybreak of the third yr of Russia’s unprovoked invasion with a single message: Believe. “When hundreds of columns of Russian invaders moved from all instructions into Ukraine, when hundreds of rockets and bombs fell on […] More

Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has the capability to maintain Kyiv equipped with the weapons, know-how and intelligence to fend off a takeover by Moscow. But Washington is now perceived round Europe to have misplaced its will. The Europeans, in distinction, have the need — they simply dedicated one other […] More

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel launched on Friday his most detailed proposal but for a postwar Gaza, pledging to retain indefinite navy management over the enclave, whereas ceding the administration of civilian life to Gazans with out hyperlinks to Hamas. The plan, if realized, would make it nearly unimaginable to determine a Palestinian state […] More

The United States plans to impose sanctions on greater than 500 targets on Friday in its response to Russia over the loss of life of the opposition chief Aleksei A. Navalny, the most important single package deal in a flurry of financial restrictions because the nation’s invasion of Ukraine two years in the past, in […] More

When David Ben-Gurion, one among Israel’s founding fathers, was warned in 1955 that his plan to grab the Gaza Strip from Egypt would provoke a backlash within the United Nations, he famously derided the U.N., taking part in off its Hebrew acronym, as “Um-Shmum.” The phrase got here to represent Israel’s willingness to defy worldwide […] More

Already struggling to comprise intractable crises within the Middle East and Ukraine, the United States can also be grappling with an deadlock within the Balkans over a gasoline pipeline into Bosnia, a problem that’s freighted with large geopolitical stakes. The undertaking, backed by each the United States and the European Union however blocked by the […] More

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken confronted President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on Wednesday about his latest sharp feedback on Israel, together with the Brazilian chief’s comparability of Israel’s assaults in Gaza to the Holocaust. The sparring confirmed how the enduring battle in Gaza has continued to develop right into a broader […] More