Shorouk Express After he snubbed last year’s edition of the gathering, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending the gathering. Relations between India and the U.S. reached a low point this month after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Indian goods over the country’s purchase of Russian oil. Putin will…
Shorouk Express Last month, E3 members warned they could reintroduce sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran is seeking to rebuild following American and Israeli airstrikes in June. The European Commission has, meanwhile, proposed extending the sanction pause to give Iran time to “meet their legal obligations,” without laying out a specific time. “Since 2019,…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email The U.S. could impose crippling secondary sanctions on Russia if the three-year-old war it has been waging against Ukraine is not brought to…
Shorouk Express Slovakia could back a new EU sanctions package against Russia on Tuesday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said, as long as it first reaches a deal with European partners to cushion the effect of a proposed ban on Russian gas entering the bloc. Slovakia has blocked the sanctions package over Bratislava’s concerns that a…
Shorouk Express “We will have a presentation and first exchange of views among EU ambassadors (Coreper) still tonight,” said Ignacy Niemczycki, Polish Secretary of State for European Affairs, one of the top officials coordinating Warsaw’s six-month rotating presidency. “I am optimistic we can succeed.” Von der Leyen also said that a ban on imports of…
Shorouk Express Al-Sharaa, a former Al Qaeda member, has received a cautious welcome from the international community after his forces toppled brutal Syrian dictator Bashar Assad late last year. He has vowed to protect minority groups in Syria and to pursue more inclusive policies. But sectarian violence in recent months, including two bloody days in…
Shorouk Express Russia claims to have taken control of Zaporizhzhia settlement in Donetsk Russia’s defence ministry says it has captured Zaporizhzhia, a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, after a missile attack. “Battlegroup Center units completed the liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People’s Republic through successful offensive operations,” the ministry said in…
Shorouk Express European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gathered in Paris on Thursday for a summit aimed at boosting Ukrainian security ahead of any potential ceasefire with Russia. During the meeting, European leaders will aim at finding a collective response to United States President Donald Trump’s intention to ease sanctions on Moscow as an…
Shorouk Express The wide-ranging package — which includes a ban on imports of Russian aluminium — will be formally adopted by EU foreign ministers on Monday, the third anniversary of Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. The EU’s 16th round of sanctions on Russia comes as US President Donald Trump has undercut Kyiv and its…
[ad_1] Security researchers say the Chinese government-linked hacking group, Salt Typhoon, is continuing to compromise telecommunications providers, despite the recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on the group. In a report shared with TechCrunch, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future said it had observed Salt Typhoon — which the company tracks as “RedMike” — breaching…
