Category: Politico News

The deteriorating war of words between the U.S. and China over Taiwan “could easily escalate” and is being closely watched in European capitals, according to senior diplomats.  Tensions are growing between the world’s two biggest superpowers as Beijing ratchets up its threats over a possible visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in […]

Cameron Khansarinia is the policy director for the National Union for Democracy in Iran. Kaveh Shahrooz is a lawyer and a senior fellow at Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute.   On July 14, Sweden’s judiciary struck a blow for international justice, when it sentenced Hamid Nouri — an Iranian prison official involved in the mass killing of political prisoners […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Sunday that she will be visiting Asia but did not mention whether she will make a stop in Taiwan. “Today, our Congressional delegation travels to the Indo-Pacific to reaffirm America’s strong and unshakeable commitment to our allies and friends in the region,” the California Democrat said in a statement. “In Singapore, […]

Spain reported its second monkeypox-related death as concerns grow about the spread of the disease.  In a situation report published on Saturday, the country’s Ministry of Health said Spain had 4,298 confirmed cases of monkeypox as of July 29.  Of the cases where information is available, 3.2 percent of patients have been hospitalized and two have […]

The EU should designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said, after an attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war on Friday renewed calls to further isolate Moscow on the international stage.  “We see all the brutality of Russian forces, that actually resemble a lot of ISIS, […]

U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive again for COVID-19 late Saturday morning, the White House physician said, and he is not experiencing any symptoms at this time. “The President has not experienced any reemergence of symptoms and is feeling quite well,” White House physician Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memo released Saturday. “This being the […]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday reminded Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that race-based discriminations are against EU values. “All EU member states, including Hungary, signed up to common global values,” von der Leyen told Slovak news website aktuality.sk on Saturday, adding that “discriminating on the basis of race is to trample […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of a “war crime” for bombing a jail containing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern Donetsk region. “It was a deliberate Russian war crime, a deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war,” Zelenskyy said in a video-message Friday night. More than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war died […]

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Just about everything these days passes through this south-central city: Western arms being rushed to the front, reinforcements from Kyiv to shore up Ukraine forces and humanitarian aid for desperate civilians. And one of the key officials making sure it all runs smoothly is Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov — a tough-talking, chain-smoking, […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to accept a “significant proposal” to bring home Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, Blinken told reporters Friday. Blinken would not characterize Lavrov’s responses, or say whether an agreement was “any more or less likely” after the call. Blinken on Wednesday declined to […]