The residents of the western region of Darfur in Sudan face starvation. It is a grim sign of the humanitarian toll of the war at a time when a permanent fracturing of the state looks increasingly likely https://t.co/2qSedY5g7e ...

Israel's Gaza City plan means more misery for Palestinians and big risk for Netanyahu https://t.co/YZnEL8ueu0 ...

The sort of going logic in Washington right now is that an in-person meeting would represent a win in itself for Vladimir Putin. Is that how you see this. It is.Vladimir Putin clearly wants this meeting. They've already started working on the preparing for that meeting. They are looking for a venue. They say they have a venue.This is all way out in front of what's going on here in Washington, as you point out, Joe. So Putin clearly wants this meeting. Just a way for him to get back in, to come in from the c ...

Israel has been accused of all manner of misdeeds in Gaza that concern every level of its war machine. They fall into three broad categories https://t.co/xPQCTbnCI3 ...

Israel saying it's now planning to take over Gaza City in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. That decision made after a late night meeting of top officials and coming despite growing fears of famine in Gaza and mounting international calls for Israel and Hamas to end their nearly 2-year-old war. Yesterday on Fox News, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlining a more sweeping plan for a total takeover of Gaza, at least on a temporary basis.But it appears Israel's decision will stop short of that ...

Welcome back. Moscow has now responded to President Trump's announcement that he plans to meet with President Putin with a Kremlin aid saying that meeting will take place in the coming days. The Trump administration has also been pushing for Ukraine's President Sinski to be part of that summit.But in comments today, President Putin said certain conditions need to be met for him to meet with Silinski, and those conditions are still far away. No formal date or location has been announced by either side. The p ...

Ukraine has largely quelled Russia’s push into northern Ukraine’s Sumy province, underlining how neither side has gained a decisive advantage in the three-and-half-year war https://t.co/jjpbroWT9f ...

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House. Kelly, in listening to the questions there, largely focused on what could be a meeting as early as next week between President Trump, President Putin, and President Zalinski with the goal of trying to bring the war there to an end. And the president was asked about the deadline that he imposed, saying that he would impose tariffs this week if this war did not end on Russia. He was asked about that.Does that deadline hold. He said, "Well, that's up to him." Meaning Putin w ...

Vladimir Putin exchanged “signals” with Donald Trump on the war in Ukraine at Kremlin talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff, a top Russian official said Wednesday. “On our part, in particular, some signals were conveyed on the Ukrainian issue,” the Russian president’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters, without elaborating. “Corresponding signals were also received from President Trump.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/trump-envoy-arrives-in-moscow-in-us-gamble-to-end-war-in-uk ...

Every morning at 8:15, the chimes ring out across Hiroshima, marking the moment in 1945 when a US bomber overhead dropped the world's first atomic weapon of war. Here, a signature mushroom cloud rising over widescale death and devastation. The target was this bridge.It's T-shaped, but the bomb veered toward the dome, which after the blast was the only building in a onem radius still standing. Thousands were killed outright. Radioactive black rain, poisoning countless more.Taruko Yahhata was 8 years old that ...