President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expressed three wishes last month: he sought $61.4bn in funding from Washington for Ukraine’s war effort next year, $20.5bn from the European Union, and an EU invitation to start membership talks. Zelenskyy asked for his wishes to come true before Christmas, but it now seems possible he will not get any of … Read moreUkraine’s war effort could sputter out, as US, EU delay funds
British Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a new treaty to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after the United Kingdom’s top court declared the deportation scheme unlawful. The agreement was signed by Cleverly, who travelled to Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Tuesday, and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta. The details of the new agreement were not … Read moreUK home secretary signs new asylum treaty in Rwanda
On Friday, a survivor of the 1937 Guernica massacre and a Palestinian protester will sound an alarm in the Spanish marketplace bombed by a Nazi legion, to pay tribute to the victims of Israel’s bloody campaign in Gaza. Hundreds of people in the Spanish town, which became an international symbol of the horrors of war … Read moreAmid Israel’s onslaught of Gaza, Spain’s leader shows empathy for Palestine