Category: Politico News

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 […]

Beijing targeted a limited range of U.S.-China military and diplomatic cooperation initiatives Friday in China’s latest expression of public rage over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 19-hour visit to Taiwan earlier this week. In a terse eight-point statement, China’s Foreign Ministry announced the cancellation of upcoming military-to-military talks and suspended joint efforts to tackle the climate […]

Taipei said that Chinese military drills involving naval and aerial forces that Beijing carried out on Saturday may be a “possible simulated attack” on the island. The operations are part of unprecedented military drills Beijing launched in retaliation for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. China also suspended climate and military talks with the […]