LONDON — For the first time in modern history, far-right and populist parties are simultaneously topping the polls in Europe’s three main economies of Germany, France and Britain. A poll Tuesday showed Alternative for Germany — which is under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services over suspected extremism — is now the most favored by…
MUNICH — President Donald Trump will join a video call Wednesday with European leaders and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will implore him not to capitulate to Russia’s demands during Friday’s high-profile summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Despite Russia’s invasion impacting them most directly, European powers and Ukraine have not been invited to the Trump-Putin…
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A Chinese man has admitted to smuggling around 850 protected turtles and other animals worth an estimated $1.4 million from the U.S. to Hong Kong, the Justice Department said. The man, Wei Qiang Lin, “labeled the boxes as containing ‘plastic animal toys,’ among other things,” the DOJ said Monday in a statement. “Law enforcement intercepted…
The choice of Alaska — a territory the United States purchased from the Russian Empire 158 years ago — for talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is being seen as symbolic by some Russian commentators who are framing it as a nod to historic ties and a chance for closer relations in future….
A Chinese warship crashed into one of its own country’s coast guard vessels as it chased a patrol boat belonging to the Philippines, officials in Manila said Monday, after the latest territorial dispute in the South China Sea. The dramatic collision near the Scarborough Shoal, a contested island, came as the Filipino vessel was delivering…
TEL AVIV, Israel — New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. The video released Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would try to return territory to Ukraine as he prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and lay the groundwork for a deal to bring an end to the grinding multiyear war between Ukraine and Russia. “Russia has occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They’ve occupied…
Though Zelenskyy has noisily rejected that at every turn, what really worries many of his supporters is that Ukraine will be forced to hand over these lands without the appropriate “security guarantees” from its allies, perhaps in the form of peacekeeper deployments in the hope of deterring Putin from simply regrouping to launch his next…
Australia said Monday that it plans to recognize a Palestinian state, joining a growing list of Western governments making the move as Israel becomes increasingly isolated over the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government would recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in New York…
