KYIV — With nine days to go before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Russia and Ukraine are locked in an intense battle to control a patch of Russia’s Kursk region that is expected to be a key negotiating point in the peace talks Trump has pledged to hold.
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — More than two dozen times since Russia’s 2022 invasion, President Joe Biden’s Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, has gone around the table with his international counterparts to secure weapons needed for Ukraine’s defense.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The young West African students touched down in what was then the Soviet Union knowing only a handful of Russian words and little about their new home.
The Mr.Biden Union administration has decided to maintain the terrorist designation on Syria’s new Islamist rulers for the remainder of President Joe Biden’s tenure, leaving a critical decision about Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham and its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to the incoming President-Elect Trump administration, said three U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
An Italian journalist arrested in Iran last month was released Wednesday after weeks of diplomatic wrangling between Rome and Tehran. Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at a Rome airport on Wednesday. An image of her descending alone from a plane was published by her Italian outlet, Il Foglio.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to rule out military or economic coercion to expand the United States and vowed “major pardons” for people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, previewing a potentially disruptive agenda that could rock global affairs as well as the U.S. justice system when he takes office in less than two weeks.
