Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent with 30 years' reporting abroad for the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has reported from more than 80 countries, with a focus on USSR/Russia and Eastern Europe.
Stock market plunges in every major index have prompted prominent economists and central bankers to warn a recession is looming for the European Union, the United States and most other countries of the developed world.
The increasingly aggressive approach of the Trump White House to acquiring the world’s biggest island has so offended Greenlanders and Danes that no one in the government or business communities wants anything to do with the United States.
Seasoned analysts of Russia’s imperialist objectives note that Putin has no interest in ending the war, having staked his reputation and legacy on “reuniting” what he sees as the cradle of Russian culture and religion with today's landmass.
“As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom,” Starmer said, gesturing to a crowd cheering the Ukrainian leader. “We stand with you, with Ukraine, for as long as it may take.”
Trump's misguided strategy for bringing any lasting peace to Ukraine is capitulation to whatever Putin wants. “If you give Putin everything he wants he’s just going to ask for more.”
The newly assembled U.S. security and foreign policy team spent the weekend effectively endorsing Trump’s assurances to Russian President Vladimir Putin that his unprovoked war against a sovereign neighbor will end with the Kremlin achieving its main objective.
In a menacing ultimatum more befitting a mafioso than a newly empowered world leader, Trump has declared that Greenland will become an American property one way or another.
Trump’s appointment of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to helm the State Department infused a note of sobriety into expectations of how to stop the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.Â
Elon Musk, the billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump’s successful 2024 run for the White House, has earned the title of Shadow U.S. President by pressuring the president-elect to scuttle...
After more than half a century of tyrannical rule, Syria’s Assad dynasty has come to an end following a lightning 10-day offensive that sent dictator Bashar al-Assad fleeing for...