Shorouk Express Trump says US will attend Ukraine peace talks with Europe but doesn’t want to ‘waste time’ On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Donald Trump’s top envoy and his son-in-law are set for crunch…
Shorouk Express “This is not the time for self-congratulation,” Rutte said. “I fear that too many are quietly complacent. Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now.” Rutte warned Russia may be strong enough to attack NATO territory…
Shorouk Express Moscow accuses Poland of ‘legal tyranny’ after citizen arrested in Warsaw Moscow has accused Poland of “legal tyranny” following the arrest of a Russian archaeologist at Ukraine’s arrest. Alexander Butyagin, an employee of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, was detained on arrival in Warsaw, according to Russia’s foreign ministry. The ministry…
Shorouk Express Putin declares Russia will take all of Ukraine’s Donbas region by force Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow intends to seize full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region through military force, unless Ukrainian troops withdraw – a demand Kyiv has unequivocally rejected. The declaration, made in an interview published on Thursday in…
Shorouk Express Zelensky says next steps for peace talks ‘agreed’ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the “next steps” for talks with the US about post-war Ukraine have been agreed. Zelensky joined his negotiators for a “very substantive and constructive” call with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during the third day of…
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 Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro asserted Thursday evening that Americans do not care about the “double tap” boat strike controversy embroiling Defense Secretary Pete…
Shorouk Express Nato must be ready to respond to hybrid threats, top commander says Nato must be ready to respond to increasing hybrid threats in order to defend its member states’ territory, the alliance’s top military commander said. Hybrid threats refer to both military and non-military tactics designed to undermine an adversary’s security and typically…
Shorouk Express Putin accused of ‘wasting the world’s time’ after Trump’s peace plan stalls Senior Ukrainian and European officials have accused Russia of not pursuing “any kind of peace” and wasting the world’s time. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said the Russian president Vladimir Putin “should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to…
Shorouk Express Putin’s infamous meeting table Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Ushakov sit round a table. This isn’t the start of a bad joke: it’s what is going on right now in the Kremlin, where top US officials are seeking agreement from Moscow for a peace deal in Ukraine. They…
Shorouk Express Spanish police on Monday said they had broken up a cell of “The Base”, a transnational neo-Nazi white supremacist group designated a terrorist organisation by the European Union, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The US-founded movement operates through a decentralised, international network of paramilitary cells with the aim of perpetrating attacks and…
