I think we are in a transition process. It's happening in stages. Sometimes we don't see that certain preconditions must be met for this electoral process to take place. The United States, which has become a key player in domestic politics, has said so. Marco Rubio confirmed it in his meeting with the Caribbean countries: we are heading towards an electoral consultation.
Suffice it to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts in open sea like that. It's not something that happens every day. It's something, frankly, that hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time.
France cannot accept any form of interference or manipulation of its national public debate by the authorities of a third country. The ambassador took note, expressed his willingness not to interfere in our public debate, and recalled the friendship that binds France and the United States.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver addresses on the first day of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), with Russia's four-year war in Ukraine high on the agenda and amid strained ties between the United States and Europe. Merz will open the conference at 1:45pm local time (12:45 GMT), while his French counterpart will close Friday's official programme with a speech at 7pm (18:00 GMT), according to the MSC agenda.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday that he will join President Donald Trump's newly created Gaza Board of Peace. In a statement on Wednesday, the Israeli leader said he would take part in the body, which was formally established by the president as part of a sweeping 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas and oversee Gaza's reconstruction.
Asked about Macron's decision not to join the board, Trump dismissed the French president's position. "Did he say that? Well, nobody wants him because he will be out of office very soon," Trump said. "I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes, and he'll join, but he doesn't have to join," Trump said. A source close to Macron told the AFP news agency on Monday said France "does not intend to answer favourably" to the invitation.
The European Union's executive arm, Russia, Belarus and Thailand on Monday were the latest to be asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace that will supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan, as a top Israeli official said the initiative is "bad for Israel" and should be scrapped.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, says he hopes for a leaders' summit in the US by the end of January to discuss proposals on how to end the war with Russia. Security advisers from Ukraine's top allies met in Kyiv on Saturday for talks on a US-brokered plan to end the war, days after Kyiv announced a deal was 90% ready.
A peace deal is "90 percent ready...but the remaining 10 percent contains, in fact, everything...that will determine the fate of peace, the fate of Ukraine and Europe, and how people will live," he said in the televised address. "What does Ukraine want? Peace? Yes." "But at any cost? No. We want the end of the war. Not the end of Ukraine," he added.
The central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk came under attack by dozens of Russian drones and missiles overnight, causing power and water outages, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi and the Ukrainian air force said on Sunday. The city, located on the Dnipro River 259 km (161 miles) from the capital, Kyiv, is a major industrial hub and the site of one of Ukraine's biggest oil refineries.
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), carrying about 500 people including the climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, said it had an encounter with Israeli navy vessels that circled the fleet's lead boat for around six minutes while remotely disabling its communication systems. In the early hours of this morning, Israeli occupation naval forces launched an intimidatory operation, it said in a statement.
On Monday, September 22, a moment of decision will take place on New York's East River at the United Nations General Assembly. France, Canada, and Belgium intend to recognize Palestine as a state, and the United Kingdom is also likely to take the step. The goal is to exert pressure on Israel to end the Gaza war and initiate a new peace process. Of the 193 UN members, almost 150 have already recognized Palestine as a state.
The small, resource-rich Gulf state has helped negotiate deals to release United States citizens held in Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela, and return Ukrainian children to their families after they were taken to Russia. Qatar has also presided over diplomatic breakthroughs between Sudan and Chad, and Eritrea and Djibouti, as well as the 2011 Darfur peace deal. In 2020, Qatar helped negotiate the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan with the extremist Taliban group.
More than half a million people in Gaza City and parts of the south and central areas of the territory face "starvation, destitution and death," the body responsible for monitoring world hunger has found. DW has more. UN agencies have been warning of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory for monthsImage: Hatem Khaled/REUTERS Skip next section What you need to know Famine confirmed in Gaza for first time by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) monitor
I've solved six wars in six months. That was U.S. President Donald Trump's response to criticism of his role as mediator between Russia and Ukraine, just hours before receiving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a delegation of European heads of state on Monday at the White House. It is also a claim that has become increasingly common in the Republican's messages from the Oval Office, in statements to the press, and in his posts on Truth Social, his social network.
