TAG: Weapons
Ukraine hopes to avoid economic doomsday of not getting Western financial aid
KYIV — Ukrainians can’t bear to think what will happen if they don’t get the aid that EU leaders hav...
8 months ago
Expensive fuel and million dollar missiles: Counting the cost of the Red Sea crisis
The combat reports from Western navies operating in the Red Sea in recent days read like missives fr...
8 months ago
2023: The year in figures and charts
2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months ago
Middle East crisis: Houthis hit cargo ship with missile off Yemen
A container ship sailing through Yemeni waters was struck Monday by a rocket launched by Houthi figh...
8 months ago
Houthis vow to continue Red Sea attacks despite US-led strikes
Western airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen overnight won't stop its fighters from harassin...
8 months ago
Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up
Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Frid...
8 months ago
Yemen: West ignored our warnings about Houthis to court Iran for nuclear deal
BRUSSELS — The U.S. and EU were so determined to court Iran for a nuclear deal over recent years tha...
8 months ago
Greek ship hit by missile as Houthis ramp up Red Sea attacks
A Greek-owned, Maltese-flagged cargo ship was reportedly hit by a rocket as it sailed close to the c...
8 months ago
Behind the Macron-Lula bromance
BRASÍLIA, Brazil ― France's Emmanuel Macron and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent three days publicly showering each other with mutual presidential affection, framed by the Amazon's golden sunsets and Brasília's white modernist palaces.It was Macro...
6 months ago
France’s fiscal woes cast a long shadow over Macron’s EU ambitions
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's lofty European leadership ambitions are once again getting a reality check. The French government is scrambling to make savings and reassure financial markets after official figures this week showed that public...
6 months ago
Hand over ‘missing’ €5B in Russian asset profits, Ukraine tells EU
BRUSSELS — Ukraine is pushing for another €5 billion from the proceeds generated by frozen Russian assets that the EU has decided to withhold from the war-ravaged nation.Euroclear, the body holding the vast majority of Russia's central bank assets in Euro...
6 months ago
Von der Leyen dilutes plan to use Russian assets to buy Ukraine arms
BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has tempered her plan to use the proceeds of frozen Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine.The EU executive will propose on Wednesday that a fraction of the approximately €3 billion derived...
6 months ago
Von der Leyen’s Ukraine ammo plan is facing resistance
A handful of governments have opposed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plan to use profits generated by frozen Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine.Hungary, Slovakia, Malta and Luxembourg pushed back against the idea during a meet...
6 months ago
Western allies split over how to make Putin pay
BRUSSELS — America and Europe can’t agree over how far they should go in forcing Russia to pay to rebuild Ukraine. One suggestion, not so long ago dismissed on both sides of the Atlantic as pie in the sky, is now gaining serious momentum — and causing ser...
6 months ago