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Pressure Builds on Germany to Approve Tanks for Ukraine

Sunday 22-01-2023 04:38 PM

Pressure mounted on Germany to approve the transfer of its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, a day after Western allies meeting at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany failed to reach an ...

Iraq Economy Reels as U.S. Moves Against Money Flows to Iran

Friday 20-01-2023 04:27 PM

Iraqis are blaming an unexpected culprit for a weakening currency that has caused the price of food and imported goods to rise: a little-noticed policy change by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal ...

Germany’s Standoff Over Tanks for Ukraine Overshadows West’s Arms-Deal Meeting

Friday 20-01-2023 03:59 PM

Western defense chiefs are set to gather Friday for a critical meeting designed to showcase a major new arms package for Ukraine that has been overshadowed by an escalating dispute over whether ...

U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea

Thursday 19-01-2023 03:09 PM

For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv ...

Berlin Won’t Allow Exports of German Tanks to Ukraine Unless U.S. Sends Its Own

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:50 PM

Germany won’t allow allies to ship German-made tanks to Ukraine to help its defense against Russia nor send its own systems unless the U.S. agrees to send American-made battle tanks, senior German ...

Russian Spy or Ukrainian Hero? The Strange Death of Denys Kiryeyev

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:19 PM

Days after Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian intelligence agents left a corpse on a sidewalk in the center of Kyiv with a bullet hole in the back of the skull. The dead man, 45-year-old banker ...

Saved from death at sea, Syrian refugees face deportation

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:25 PM

On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon. Since the ...

Qatar's German Empire

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:11 PM

Last summer, as European media became increasingly critical of Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup, Doha decided to go on the offensive and dispatched Hassan Al Thawadi, the event’s chief organizer, ...

Russian Strikes Sap Ukraine Mobile Network of Vital Power

Monday 16-01-2023 06:37 PM

Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid are straining the war-torn country’s mobile-telephone network, leading to a global hunt for batteries and other equipment critical for keeping the ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Supports Indefinite U.S. Troop Presence

Monday 16-01-2023 06:30 PM

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, signaling a less confrontational posture toward Washington ...

As Russians Steal Ukraine’s Art, They Attack Its Identity, Too

Monday 16-01-2023 02:29 PM

One morning in late October, Russian forces blocked off a street in downtown Kherson and surrounded a graceful old building with dozens of soldiers. Five large trucks pulled up. So did a ...

How Western Goods Reach Russia: A Long Line of Trucks Through Georgia

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:35 PM

Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia. Each day, the line seems to get longer. The trucks wait for days with ...

Biden Administration to Ask Congress to Approve F-16 Sale to Turkey

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:15 PM

The Biden administration is preparing to seek congressional approval for a $20 billion sale of new F-16 jet fighters to Turkey along with a separate sale of next-generation F-35 warplanes to ...

South Korean President Says Country Could Develop Nuclear Weapons

Friday 13-01-2023 04:09 PM

South Korean President Yoon Suk -yeol said the country could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy them on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows, in the ...

‘Burying Us Alive’: Afghan Women Devastated by Suspension of Aid Under Taliban Law

Friday 13-01-2023 01:36 PM

For years before the Taliban seized power and the economy collapsed, Jamila and her four children had clung to the edge of survival. After her husband died trying to cross the Iranian border five ...