Germany has to do “everything” to support Ukraine but that does not mean sending just any weapons it has in its stockpiles to Kiev, Eva Hoegl, the Bundestag’s commissioner for the Armed Forces, told Handelsblatt daily on Wednesday. Berlin has already been doing “more than suggested in the public debate” …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that certain Western countries are failing to pay on time for the delivery of Russian energy. “Banks from most ‘unfriendly’ countries are delaying the transfer of payments,” the head of state said. According to Putin, despite the calls to reduce energy supplies, Western …
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Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal on Thursday rejected an offer by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to buy out Twitter for $41 billion. The Prince, one of Twitter’s largest shareholders, said that Musk’s offer doesn’t come close to the social media platform’s “intrinsic value.” “I don’t believe that …
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Israeli missiles targeted the countryside around Damascus late on Thursday, the Syrian military said, adding that some of the projectiles were intercepted by the country’s air defenses. The rockets allegedly came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, and caused material damage but no casualties. The attack came around …
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NATO planners are updating the US “nuclear sharing” program to account for most European allies planning to buy F-35 joint strike fighter jets, the alliance’s director of nuclear policy said this week. Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation fighter has been embraced by multiple US allies, including most recently Germany, despite the Pentagon’s …
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German police have arrested four people on suspicion of plotting to kidnap public figures, including Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, as well as planning to carry out a series of attacks on power facilities with the intent to cause a nationwide power outage. “The two main suspects are believed to have agreed with …
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Amid the fog of war in Ukraine and the total absence of any due process to assess the various violent scenes emerging from the conflict there – a process which normally takes years – the Biden administration is already looking for a way to get the International Criminal Court in …
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The European Union is readying a total embargo on Russian oil imports, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Given that Russia is the bloc’s largest oil supplier and such a decision would have a political and economic fallout. That’s why EU officials are waiting until after the upcoming French …
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Greece has announced that it won’t send any more weapons to Ukraine because it doesn’t have any to spare, and can’t afford to weaken its own defenses. The country has been among the states that have armed Kiev after Russia launched its offensive in February. “The defense equipment we sent to Ukraine …
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Following the calls from Poland and the Baltic states, the European Union has quietly deleted a sanctions exemption that had allowed EU weapons manufacturers to do business with Russia, Reuters reported on Thursday citing anonymous officials. Brussels blocked the export of arms and ammunition to Russia in July 2014, citing …
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