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The secretary of state of the Holy See said Thursday that the Palestinian population “must remain in its land.” Pietro Parolin rejected any forced deportations in remarks at a summit between Italy and the Holy See, according to the ANSA news agency. “The Palestinian population must remain in its land. This is one of the fundamental points of the Holy See: no deportations,” Parolin said in response to reporters. “No deportations also because someone on the Italian side has underlined how this would create tension in the area,” he added. His remarks were in response to US President Donald Trump’s…
The number of people missing in the war between Ukraine and Russia has doubled to 50,000 over the past year, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. “Last year, the number of missing persons that the ICRC has documented was 23,000. A year later that number has more than doubled; the ICRC has documented around 50,000 cases of missing persons,” said Dusan Vujasanin, head of the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency Bureau for the conflict. About 90% of those missing were servicemen and women, he said. ICRC did not provide a breakdown of missing persons by nationality. Since…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,” Trump said on Truth Social. He said they each talked about the strengths of their nations and the “great benefit” that they will someday have to work together. “But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his Treasury chief will travel to Ukraine. “I am sending Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet President (Volodymyr) Zelensky,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “This war must and will end soon — too much death and destruction.” Saying that the US has “spent billions of dollars globally, with little to show,” Trump argued that “when America is strong, the world is at peace.” According to sources who spoke to the Bloomberg media outlet, Bessent’s agenda during the discussions in Ukraine is to secure US access to critical…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said that he plans to offer a territorial exchange to Moscow if US President Donald Trump manages to organize negotiations with Russia. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Zelenskyy said that his country could give up territory it has controlled in Russia’s border region of Kursk, where Kyiv launched an incursion just over six months ago, in exchange for Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. “We will swap one territory for another,” Zelenskyy was quoted as saying. However, he did not specify which Russian-controlled territory of Ukraine they would seek in return, adding: “All our…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver unique images of the universe. Most recently, it captured a fascinating image of the HH30 protostar. This object was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope, but thanks to JWST’s advanced technology, HH30 has been examined in unprecedented detail. Located in the Taurus constellation, about 450 light-years away from Earth, HH30 is hidden within the dark molecular cloud LDN1551. This system hosts a newborn star surrounded by a dense gas and dust disk. HH30 is a bright nebula classified as a Herbig-Haro object. Such nebulas form when fast, ionized gas jets…
NASA will launch four satellites as part of the PUNCH mission to uncover the Sun’s mysteries. By creating an artificial solar eclipse, high-resolution images of the corona will be obtained. The launch is set for February 27 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA is initiating a groundbreaking mission to study the Sun’s greatest mysteries and its effects on the Solar System. The U.S. space agency announced that under the PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, four suitcase-sized satellites will observe solar activity in 3D. Although Earth is relatively close to the Sun, scientists are still seeking…
US President Donald Trump said he had held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, discussing efforts to end the Moscow-Kyiv war, according to The New York Post. Speaking to The Post on Friday, Trump declined to specify how many times the two leaders had spoken but insisted that Putin is eager to see an end to the conflict. “He wants to see people stop dying,” Trump said. “All those dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They’re like your kids, two million of them-and for no reason.” Trump asserted that the war, now in its third year, “never…
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 workers with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave before a midnight deadline. The move came after two labor unions — American Foreign Service Association and American Federation of Government Employees — filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration stating that employees would suffer “irreparable harm” with the pause. “This is the full-scale gutting of virtually all of the personnel at an agency,” a lawyer for USAID employees said in a statement, adding that the mass downscaling of workers from a nationwide total of more…
Palestinian resistance group Hamas released the names of three hostages on Friday to be released the following day under the ceasefire agreement that began last month. The hostages are Eli Sharabi, Ohad ben Ami and Or Levy, Hamas armed wing spokesperson Abu Obeida said in a post on his telegram channel.