Muhamad Yehia The Trump administration wants to make sure the commitments it wants from Kyiv in exchange for help with defence and rebuilding efforts would take precedence over any future trade or investment deals Ukraine might strike with the EU, UK or other allies. Washington wants to ensure that any …
Read More »Zelenskyy open to Western troops providing security for end to war in Ukraine
Muhamad Yehia KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining …
Read More »Control of the US House hangs in the balance with enormous implications for Trump’s agenda
Muhamad Yehia WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House majority hung in the balance Wednesday, teetering between Republican control that would usher in a new era of unified GOP governance in Washington or a flip to Democrats as a last line of resistance to a Trump second-term White House agenda. A few individual …
Read More »Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy’s pillars
Muhamad Yehia WASHINGTON (AP) — American presidential elections are a moment when the nation holds up a mirror to look at itself. They are a reflection of values and dreams, of grievances and scores to be settled The results say much about a country’s character, future and core beliefs. On …
Read More »Israel’s strikes are shifting the power balance in the Middle East, with US support
Muhamad Yehia WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran’s armed allies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two decades of Iranian ascendancy in the region, to which the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq inadvertently gave …
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