The chief of the thoracic surgery department at Rome’s Policlinico Umberto I hospital said on Monday (October 12) there was likely only a 1 or 2% chance Pope Leo’s recently discovered lung nodule was malignant, Reuters reports. Federico Venuta said that complications to the diagnosis and treatment of such cases are rare, at a rate…
According to Flightradar24, a United Airlines plane flying from Washington to Amsterdam issued a distress signal while over the Atlantic Ocean and changed course toward Canada. The aircraft departed Washington for Amsterdam on Sunday at 8:47 PM local time. However, while flying over the Atlantic, it later transmitted a “Squawk 7700” signal, indicating a general…
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas assured that Europe will not ease pressure on Moscow following the deal between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, she said this in a post on X. According to Kallas, more than 80 Ukrainian civilians have been killed by Russian strikes…
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov commented on the phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Ushakov noted that, during the conversation with Trump, Putin accused Kyiv of escalating the conflict and prolonging it. “Although the possibility of resuming trilateral negotiations involving the United States and Ukraine had been discussed during the presidents’ previous conversation,…
Several powerful explosions were reported in the southern passage of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly after oil tankers struck naval mines, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported, citing military sources. The explosions occurred minutes earlier in the southern passage of the strategic waterway, according to the broadcaster The sources said oil tankers using “unauthorized”…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Iran’s conditions for ending the war and a deal with Oman on the security of the Strait of Hormuz, saying Iran’s terms have been clearly and firmly explained, Mehr News Agency reported. Esmail Baghaei, speaking about the latest developments in Iran-US negotiations, said, “The considerations and conditions of the Islamic…
The European Commission wants to inject new momentum into its enlargement process, which has seen some candidate countries waiting for decades to join, DW reports. Albania, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine are currently the frontrunners to join the bloc, with EU officials expressing the hope that Montenegro could do so as early as 2028. “A larger…
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on October 6 on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason, with Der Spiegel reporting that investigators were examining possible links to Azerbaijan’s intelligence service. Hanning, who led Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, known as the BND, from 1998 to 2005, allegedly used classified information in his private…
Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has warned that any further miscalculation by Iran’s adversaries would lead to new fronts and larger surprises, IRNA reported. “Every miscalculation by the enemy against Iran has resulted in a heavy defeat for it,” Rezaei wrote on social media platform X on Monday. “The next mistake…
Relations between Armenia and Iran are strategic in nature; a meeting took place between Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan shared a video of the meeting on social media. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
The United States has made the abrupt decision to withdraw its bombers from the Royal Air Force (RAF) base Fairford in the western part of the United Kingdom, citing concerns about a potential attack, AL Jazeera reports. Media reports emerged on Sunday that an urgent redeployment was under way, with B-1 bombers leaving RAF Fairford…
During Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine on the morning of October 3, five aerial targets exploded within the country’s territory. Based on an analysis of the data, they were identified as three missiles and two drones, according to the Moldovan Ministry of Defense. “Amidst the Russian Federation’s massive attacks on Ukraine this morning, the National…
North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, a day after it rejected Seoul’s accusation of its mines wounding soldiers, The Guardian reports. The missile was launched from the Wonsan area at about 6.30am towards the East Sea – also known as the Sea of Japan –…
On October 2, Sargis Khandanyan, Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly, met with a delegation led by Kristina Kvien, President of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Khandanyan welcomed the delegation to Armenia, discussed the work of the newly elected parliament and outlined its priorities. Responding to questions from…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will use all weapons at his disposal if it considers its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad to have come under direct attack, BBC reports. The Russian president insisted that Moscow was “not threatening anyone” and merely responding to statements by Western leaders that it was preparing for war in…
Reuters. Russia will expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Budapest last month expelled 10 Russian diplomats. “As a reciprocal measure, a group of staff members from the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow and the Hungarian Consulates General in St Petersburg and Kazan must…
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog as it forges ahead with plans to disengage from international and multilateral organizations that it accuses of exceeding their mandates, being inefficient or not adapting to U.S. policies, ABC News reports. The Council of Europe said Tuesday that the U.S. formally…
Spain’s Senate rejected a friendship and cooperation treaty with France on Tuesday, the first day of French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Madrid, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE reported. The agreement, previously approved by the lower house, received 106 votes in favor, 142 against, with one abstention in the Senate, where the opposition People’s Party…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and five other EU leaders have threatened to withhold agreement on the bloc’s next seven-year budget unless “hundreds of billions” of euros in spending cuts are secured, Financial Times reports. The ultimatum underscores divisions over the EU’s new spending priorities, including defence and efforts to shore up ailing industries against Chinese…
Sadiq Khan has reportedly called on Andy Burnham to lay the groundwork for Britain to rejoin the European Union – arguing that the case should be made well before the next general election. In a press interview ahead of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, the Mayor of London said he believed the government should…
Through post-Soviet criminal networks, Russia has offered a $20 million reward for information on the whereabouts of Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces, The Wall Street Journal reports. “The Unmanned Systems Forces says the Kremlin has put out the word through post-Soviet criminal networks of a $20 million reward…
President Donald Trump predicted on Saturday that the US and Cuba will reach an agreement and that he does not think military action will be necessary, Reuters reports. “I would say that Cuba and us will make a deal. I don’t think we’ll need the military,” Trump told reporters at the White House. The Trump…
At least six people were killed and multiple people were injured in Russian strikes across Ukraine over the past day, according to local authorities, Euronews reports. In Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southeastern Ukraine, two women died and seven people were injured following attacks on the region, regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported on Saturday morning. “A total…
National governments are already laying the groundwork for a second round of EU migration legislation, just months after the bloc’s major overhaul of border security and asylum rules took effect, Euractiv reports. Ministers from a broad group of EU countries will gather in Munich on Saturday to discuss potential changes to the Pact on Migration…
US President Donald Trump welcomed China’s President Xi Jinping to the White House for a lavish state dinner where both leaders touted a new chapter in their friendship, the BBC reports. Xi said the countries “must act as responsible major countries to meet the expectations of our peoples” while Trump toasted a future of “harmony,…
The war in Ukraine is rapidly changing the technology of air attacks, while Europe is failing to keep pace with these developments. This creates new risks for NATO, says Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview with The Guardian. Rinkēvičs noted that technological development in the field of drone warfare in Ukraine is taking…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historical reliance on the United States after a whirlwind week in which he embraced the prospect of becoming the European Union’s first associate member, AP reports. Carney, who returned from Europe on Thursday night, said Canada and Europe had “launched…
US President Donald Trump on Friday signed the sweeping Russia sanctions bill into law, the White House said in a statement, paving the way for increased economic pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reports. The legislation targets Russia’s energy and defense industries, as well as its “shadow fleet” of tankers that…
Poland has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition with Ukraine and other allies, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, Reuters reports. “From today, Poland is part of this major project … we agreed on the forms and frameworks of this cooperation,” Tusk said in a video posted on X. Tusk attended a summit…
Reuters. The Kremlin said on Thursday (September 17) that further U.S. sanctions against Russia would make it harder to reach a peace deal in Ukraine. On Wednesday (September 16), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping sanctions package intended to increase economic pressure on Russia over its war in Ukraine, sending the bill…
