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Kazakh police are investigating the brief appearance of the Ukrainian flag on a large LED screen in the capital city, Astana, during a visit there by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan’s interior ministry said on Thursday. Ukraine’s flag – with its horizontal bands of blue and yellow – briefly appeared late on Wednesday instead of the Russian white, blue and red tricolor on a screen located on one of Astana’s main thoroughfares. Putin was already in the city at the time, and the screen was soon switched off, but images and videos of the incident quickly circulated online. The interior…
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he hoped President-elect Donald Trump would rethink his plan to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada, saying it could “screw up” relationships with close allies. “I hope he rethinks it. I think it’s a counterproductive thing to do,” he told reporters in Nantucket. “We’re surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and two allies: Mexico and Canada. The last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships.”
Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski delivered a stunning performance with a brace in a commanding 3-0 victory over Brest on Tuesday, becoming only the third player in Champions League history to score 100 goals, joining Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the exclusive club. The win lifted Barca to second in the 36-team standings with 12 points from five matches, one point behind leaders Inter Milan and tied with third-placed Liverpool, who host Real Madrid on Wednesday. Brest fell to ninth with 10 points. Lewandowski reached the milestone in the 10th minute, converting a penalty after being fouled by goalkeeper Marco Bizot,…
Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski delivered a stunning performance with a brace in a commanding 3-0 victory over Brest on Tuesday, becoming only the third player in Champions League history to score 100 goals, joining Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the exclusive club. The win lifted Barca to second in the 36-team standings with 12 points from five matches, one point behind leaders Inter Milan and tied with third-placed Liverpool, who host Real Madrid on Wednesday. Brest fell to ninth with 10 points. Lewandowski reached the milestone in the 10th minute, converting a penalty after being fouled by goalkeeper Marco Bizot,…
Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski delivered a stunning performance with a brace in a commanding 3-0 victory over Brest on Tuesday, becoming only the third player in Champions League history to score 100 goals, joining Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the exclusive club. The win lifted Barca to second in the 36-team standings with 12 points from five matches, one point behind leaders Inter Milan and tied with third-placed Liverpool, who host Real Madrid on Wednesday. Brest fell to ninth with 10 points. Lewandowski reached the milestone in the 10th minute, converting a penalty after being fouled by goalkeeper Marco Bizot,…
The ceasefire deal for Lebanon will provide the conditions needed for a return to calm in the country, and France and the United States will both work to ensure the ceasefire is fully implemented, U.S President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier on Tuesday that he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah.
Russia is continuing work to put its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile – part of its strategic nuclear arsenal – on combat duty, state news agency TASS said on Wednesday. The RS-28 Sarmat missile is designed to deliver nuclear warheads to strike targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe, but its development has been dogged by delays and testing setbacks. In September, arms experts said Russia appeared to have suffered a catastrophic failure in the missile’s latest test, leaving a deep crater at the launch silo.
Donald Trump has tapped Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who has presented him with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve as a special envoy for the conflict, the president-elect wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. Kellogg, who was the chief of staff for the White House National Security Council during Trump’s 2017-2021 term and national security adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence, will likely play a central role in attempting to resolve the conflict in his new position. While there is currently no special envoy for the war in Ukraine, Trump had privately expressed interest…
The ceasefire deal for Lebanon will provide the conditions needed for a return to calm in the country, and France and the United States will both work to ensure the ceasefire is fully implemented, U.S President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier on Tuesday that he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah.
Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday any decision by President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration to cut support for Ukraine would be a “death sentence” for the Ukrainian army, while accusing Kyiv of trying to drag NATO countries into direct conflict with Russia in the meantime. Speaking to the U.N. Security Council, Dmitry Polyanskiy accused the outgoing Biden administration of trying through its increased support to Ukraine to create a “mess, both in Russia and with the new team in the White House.” Polyanskiy said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was terrified of the return of Trump in January, and had…