Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
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Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Humanitarian initiatives can enhance American “soft power,” supporters say, which can buy the United States good will and leverage in countries across the world for a comparatively small fraction of federal spending. In 2023, U.S.A.I.D. funding represented .07 percent of the U.S. federal…

Russia, Seeking to Salvage Military Bases, Goes Hat in Hand to Syria
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Russia, Seeking to Salvage Military Bases, Goes Hat in Hand to Syria

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The time had come to bend the knee — or at least bend to reality. A delegation of Russian diplomats arrived last Tuesday in a caravan of white SUVs for a summit in Damascus and an unenviable assignment: lay the groundwork for Russia…

Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It
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Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions. President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim…

Opinion | Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America
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Opinion | Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a campaign rally in Virginia in June, Donald Trump hinted at the new kind of relationship America might have with Russia, China and North Korea if he were to be re-elected. “If you have a smart president, they’re not enemies,” Mr. Trump…

Chastened by Past Wars, Kremlin Tries to Elevate Its Veterans
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Chastened by Past Wars, Kremlin Tries to Elevate Its Veterans

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Ilya Rusinov returned to the Russian work force after rehabilitating a vertebra damaged in the Ukraine war, his first job was teaching in a school. But he had also launched a side project, a patriotic club he called Zveno, or “Squad,” that…

Ukraine Sends Volley of Drones at Russia, Hitting Oil Refinery
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Ukraine Sends Volley of Drones at Russia, Hitting Oil Refinery

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ukraine fired a large volley of exploding drones at Russia on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials and the Russian military, in a barrage that set an oil refinery and pumping station on fire and briefly closed multiple airports, including several serving Moscow. The…

Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show
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Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since Russia invaded his country three years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has survived a military assault on his capital, assassination plots, corruption scandals in his government, political infighting and ominous setbacks in his army’s fight against Russia. He had enough support…

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War
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Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is killing soldiers at a pace unseen in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian artillery fire, explosive drones and mines are killing Russian troops, as they repeatedly charge across the no-man’s land. As Ukrainian positions…

Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
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Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Britain on Wednesday warned that it faced a growing threat of aggression from Russia, asserting that a Russian spy ship had passed by the English coast for the second time in three months, in the latest incident that seemed designed to test British…

Opinion | It’s Trump’s Messy, Dangerous World Now
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Opinion | It’s Trump’s Messy, Dangerous World Now

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines We live in an increasingly dangerous and threatening world. There are more flashpoints in today’s global geopolitics than we have seen in decades, presenting a generational challenge to the incoming administration of Donald Trump and all of America’s elected leadership. At the Panetta…