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30.12.2023, Moscow. The United States intends to use the South Caucasus as a foothold for opening a “second front,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said, RIA Novosti informed on December 30. “Washington has long made no secret of the fact that it considers the South Caucasus as a foothold for opening a ‘second front’ against Russia,”…

When Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone this month to Benjamin Netanyahu, their first conversation in weeks, the two leaders found themselves in an unusual dynamic, engaging not as partners but against the backdrop of historic tensions.Once touting their friendly relationship – Netanyahu has used billboards showing himself next to Putin during election…

The war started by Vladimir Putin should end only with Ukraine strong enough to defeat any future aggression from Moscow, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says, with its maps comparing the latest situation on the ground with territory held before Russia’s 2022 invasion.In an analysis published New Year’s Eve, the Washington, D.C., think tank…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, delivering a landmark decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas.The planned overhaul sparked months of mass protests, threatened…

The center of Gaza’s second-largest city has seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory that has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened dire humanitarian conditions. Distribution of food, water and medicine have been prevented outside a sliver of southern Gaza, and new military…

By Kathryn Watson Updated on: December 6, 2023 / 1:38 PM EST / CBS News President Biden on Wednesday reiterated his plea to Congress to pass a national security funding request that includes money for Ukraine, as the White House warns Ukraine funding will dry up by the end of the month. The president directed his message to Republicans in particular,…

As 2024 begins President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to The Economist’s Editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, about his political and military goals for the coming year and why he won’t compromise with Vladimir Putin.

A businessman who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy, says he will lay out a “legal and constitutional basis” for shutting down federal agencies with executive power during a speech Wednesday at the America First Policy Institute at Washington, D.C.   Shutting down the Department of Education has long been a Republican…

Azerbaijan-Armenia-Georgia New Year videos from Baku, Yerevan, and Tbilisi Baku Video JAMnews Tbilisi Video JAMnews / David Pipia Yerevan Video JAMnews / Tika Martirosyan …

Former Mossad Chief, Yossi Cohen, said if Israel wants to continue its war in Gaza, it must listen to the United States and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Strip. Cohen added that he has always opposed transferring money to the Gaza Strip, and that Israel now needs to build an “Arab coalition” to manage Gaza’s affairs after…

This week the FBI took the unprecedented step of executing a search warrant on the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump. No former president has ever been the subject of such an investigative practice. In response, chief Trump supporter and MAGA cheerleader Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed outrage at the FBI’s actions by tweeting, “DEFUND…

Veteran singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is currently promoting his album Rough and Rowdy Ways, with the epic song “Murder Most Foul” — a deconstruction of the John F. Kennedy assassination and the larger 1960s, full of paranoia, intimations of conspiracy and foreboding. While the song reconstructs the world of the ‘60s, it is also, with its allusions to…

NewsWorld News”Shut It Down”: Vivek Ramaswamy Says FBI Can’t Be ReformedWorld NewsEdited by NDTV News DeskUpdated: December 31, 2023 2:26 pm ISTVivek Ramaswamy’s remarks have sparked a debateNew Delhi: US Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed his strong opinions about the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).In a post on X…

A Times investigation found that troops were disorganized, out of position and relied on social media to choose targets. Behind the failure: Israel had no battle plan for a massive Hamas invasion.Sign up for the Israel-Hamas War Briefing.  The latest news about the conflict.Far beneath the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, in a bunker…

In a new investigation by the New York Times, fresh evidence has come to light about the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which left many killed and triggered a fresh escalation in the area. Israeli soldiers operate at the Shajaiya district of Gaza city amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the…

Adult film producer Michael Lucas, known for his pro-Israel stance, faces a career blow after tweeting an image of an Israeli Defense Force missile signed with his name. Lucas tweeted, “Hahaha I actually asked to write my name” on Dec. 17. Iranian-American porn star Shahrokh Mosavinejad leads boycott against Michael Lucas for being an ‘accessory…