NEW YORK — The US grounded all flights for several hours Friday, sparking travel chaos across the vast country, after what government officials said was a major communications outage caused by decades old technology. The nationwide stop left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline […]
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump will raise nuclear-arms reduction at a meeting in China next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said on Friday. “He will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous,” Olivia Wales, a […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over,” suggesting that — at least for now – he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy. The president made a surprise visit to the […]
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia of intensifying strikes across the country to put pressure on Kyiv at upcoming talks after an overnight barrage triggered power cuts as temperatures drop. The latest strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure came days before the trilateral US-brokered meeting in Abu Dhabi scheduled for Tuesday and […]
KYIV — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hoped the Democrat triumph in the US midterm elections would boost support for Kyiv and help end the war with Russia. Ukraine and its European allies had been worried about the US getting closer to Russia since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House […]
PARIS (FRANCE) — World leaders voiced hopes for a reset with the United States on Wednesday after voters delivered a huge midterm election defeat to President Donald Trump and his Republican party. The Democrats seized control of both Senate and the House of Representatives, giving them the power to block legislation and hold up Trump’s […]
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump concedes that the war he ordered on Iran was partly to blame for his Republican Party’s sweeping midterms losses — but even as he comes under pressure, analysts said Wednesday that he has few good options ahead. It remains to be seen what path Trump will take after emerging […]
WASHINGTON — US Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that the Iran war had doomed Republicans in the midterm elections, moving to distance himself from the unpopular conflict ahead of a possible 2028 White House run. “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” Vance said in a lengthy […]
KYIV — Ukraine said Monday that Russian strikes on a school distributing humanitarian aid killed at least 26 people, dashing fragile hopes of “progress toward peace” after a local ceasefire in the south expired without violations. Russia resumed its strikes on the southern region of Kherson after the end of a ceasefire in the area, […]
KYIV, UKRAINE — Russia said its emergency warnings app came under a “massive cyberattack” on Monday, hours after Ukraine reported a hack in an apparent exchange of blows between the foes, as their longest truce came to an end. Moscow’s emergencies ministry said hackers posted “false information” on the app, which is designed to warn […]