Israel backs U.S. proposal for Ramadan, Passover truce

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel accepted the proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel has approved a U.S. proposal to extend the truce in Gaza through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish Passover holiday in mid-April, Israel … Read more

Friedrich Merz | The conservative turn

Friedrich Merz | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar While addressing the media after the results of Germany’s Feb. 23 election were out, the leader of the leading conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, Christian Social Union, Friedrich Merz, opined that the staggering rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), … Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Twisting in the whirlwind

“Our two nations are allies in this battle,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his address to the U.S. Congress in December 2022. “We have to defeat the Kremlin…This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live…,” he said. The Ukrainian President was accorded a hero’s welcome in Washington DC, and both Biden … Read more

U.K.’s Starmer embraces Zelenskyy, a day after White House blowout

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraces and greets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, London, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (March 1, 2025) and told him he had the nation’s unwavering support a day after the blowout at the … Read more

Has Trump put up entry into the U.S. for sale? | Explained

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on February 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: U.S. President Donald Trump recently unveiled plans to sell $5 million “gold card” resident permits to non-Americans worldwide, a long-term visa policy that might eventually offer … Read more

Japan battles biggest wildfire in decades

An aerial views shows a building on fire due to the spread of a wildfire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, February 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of … Read more