Category: Politico News

A truce in Gaza starting Sunday evening has been agreed to by Israel and Palestinian militants, mediated by Egypt, after three days of fighting, according to media reports. Israel accepted the Egyptian plan for a ceasefire after saying it had achieved most of its military objectives during the three-day campaign, which began on Friday afternoon, […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel after an atomic power plant in Ukraine was shelled. “Russian nuclear terror requires a stronger response from the international community, [including] sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel,” he said on Twitter after speaking with European Council President […]

Two senators on Sunday urged the Biden administration to go further in its support for both Ukraine and Taiwan, as U.S. tensions with China bubble up after Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan. In an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) backed the House speaker’s travel […]

A second senior commander of the militant Islamic Jihad group was killed overnight, Reuters reported on Sunday, amid continuing fighting between Israel and Palestinians that has seen some 30 Palestinians killed since Friday. Commander Khaled Mansour was killed in an airstrike. His death follows that of another senior commander, Tayseer Jabari, who was killed on […]

A group of ships carrying grain left Ukrainian ports on Sunday, the second shipment since an agreement late last month to unblock the ports, the country’s minister of infrastructure said. The group includes four vessels loaded with almost 170,000 tons of agricultural products, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a tweet early Sunday. He said […]

China’s massing of ships, aircraft and missiles near Taiwan is giving the U.S. a never-before-seen glimpse of how Beijing might launch a military campaign against the island. But China is also learning plenty of lessons that could eventually prove more important in how it plans for any future strike against the island of 23 million […]

The head of the U.N.’s atomic agency warned on Saturday about the “very real risk of a nuclear disaster” due to the shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the bombing on Friday at Zaporizhzhia, the biggest nuclear facility in Europe, with both sides calling it an […]

The U.K. National Crime Agency is examining a cyberattack that has affected some systems used by the National Health Service. Advanced, a software firm providing services to the NHS, said that it identified “a security issue” on Thursday. “The NCA is aware of a cyber incident affecting the company Advanced and is working with partners […]

Israeli forces continued to hit targets in Gaza on Saturday while Palestinians responded by firing rockets at Israel as the fighting spilled into a second day. Israel said it launched its military operation on Friday to eliminate “a concrete threat” against its citizens and to target “terrorists and their sponsors.” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said […]

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is expected to extend the COVID-19 public health emergency once again, ensuring that federal measures expanding access to health coverage, vaccines and treatments remain in place beyond the midterm elections, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO. The planned renewal follows extensive deliberations among Biden officials over the […]