Cut off from Ukrainian talks, EU leaders come together
European leaders are set To summon an emergency meeting In Paris today to discuss the war in Ukraine and European Security, French officials said yesterday. The objective is to coordinate a response to the opening by the Trump administration of talks with Russia at the end of the war with Ukraine, without an apparent role for Europe – or kyiv – in the process.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, from Ukraine, reiterated in the interviews this weekend that his country would never accept a peace agreement concluded by the United States and Russia If Kyiv did not have a seat to negotiations.
What is the next step: Three of President Trump’s main foreign policy aid should meet with Russian officials In Saudi Arabia later this week to discuss a path towards the end of the war.
Security: Recent remarks by vice-president JD Vance and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth have fueled the concerns that the United States will move away from Europe and align with Moscow. Such a change, according to analysts, would give Putin a previously unthinkable victory much greater than all the objectives in Ukraine.
No matter: Trump suggested that Ukraine will sign more than half of its mineral resources in exchange for past and future support in the United States. Zelensky rejected such an agreementciting a lack of security guarantees.
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Rubio went to Israel to discuss the future of Gaza
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met yesterday With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu From Israel to Jerusalem, where they discussed Trump’s call to grasp Gaza and force his Palestinian residents.
Rubio is expected to go to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the coming days, where Arab leaders are almost sure to press it for more clarity in Trump’s Gaza.
What is the next step: Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy in the Middle East, said yesterday that talks on phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement would take place this week. The Netanyahu office said that the Israeli chief would summon the security firm today to discuss the second phase of the agreement.
Hostages: Hamas has released three other Israeli hostages On Saturday, while Israel released 369 Palestinian prisoners.
The growing pain of the youngest Asian nation
The East Timor is the youngest country in Asia and its poorest, having acquired independence in 2002 after a brutal Indonesian occupation. The country’s economy is based strongly on oil and gas revenues, which evaporates rapidly, and more than 40% of the country’s 1.4 million people are estimated in poverty.
But by other measures, the East Timor is a success. He built a young resilient democracy and held competitive elections with multiple transfers of power. The East Timor ranks among the highest in Asia for Press Freedom. Life expectancy has increased and the whole population now has access to electricity. Experts say that the country is a positive case study For young post-conflict nations.
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An unofficial network of researchers is looking for thousands of missing Yézidis women and girls, members of a religious minority that have been removed, sexually enslaved and systematically murdered by the Islamic State. Many are probably dead and official entities have largely forgotten them, But this army of ragas.
Lived life: Edith Mathis, a Swiss soprano who was a favorite of several of the giants who dominated the concert halls in the middle of the 20th century, Died at 86.
Translate the risk as a reward
The inclined axis, a small British press, is known for its truncating trends to seek subversive and revolutionary literature in translation. In the process, the publisher has won the prices and praise of criticism for writers unknown of the English -speaking world. Now the inclined axis is heading to the United States
With only eight part -time employees, Tilted Ax published 42 pounds translated from 18 languages, notably Indonesian, Telugou, Tamil, Oriental Armenian, Kazakh, Kannada, Bengali and Uzbék. The press has left its mark, not only on the world of literature but on the field of translation. Read more here.
