Russia has strongly condemned the US seizure of an oil tanker, heralding a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington that could spread to other areas and affect President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade Russia to end its nearly four-year war in Ukraine. The seizure Wednesday of the Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said he can “fairly confidently” predict that 2026 will see an upswing in India’s ties with Europe and Luxembourg can give the support to ramp up New Delhi’s relationship with the European Union. Highlighting that there is a fair amount of volatility and unpredictability in the world, and every...
US President Donald Trump and his officials are “actively” discussing a potential offer to buy the Danish territory of Greenland, the White House has confirmed. It is “something that’s currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team”, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday. Both Greenland and Denmark have...
India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2026 are expected to carry strong diplomatic significance, with European Union (EU) leaders likely to attend as chief guests. According to media reports, the EU has officially accepted India’s invitation, underlining the growing importance of the India–EU Strategic Partnership at a time of shifting global economic and geopolitical alignments. The expected chief guests...
Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president in a parliamentary session that began with demands for the release of ousted leader Nicolás Maduro from US custody. Rodríguez, 56, vice president since 2018, said she was pained by what she called the “kidnapping” of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were seized by...
President Donald Trump announced that the US will run Venezuela until a ‘proper transition can take place.’ The United States launched strikes against the country and captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on 3 January. Trump said Maduro and his wife were captured from a fortress-like house and will be taken to New...
Zohran Mamdani, the Indian-origin mayor of New York City, courted controversy on social media after clips from his inaugural event went viral, showing the 34-year-old briefly extending his right arm and waving to the crowd. Some MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters claimed Mamdani’s gesture appeared to resemble a Nazi salute. Some even compared it...
Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. In response to a question from the BBC about the new role of Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, Trump said the US needed Greenland for...
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would back a U.S. proposal for three-sided talks with the United States and Russia if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners and paved the way for meetings of national leaders.Zelenskiy, speaking to local journalists in Kyiv, also said top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov had told him of...
House Democrats have released several dozen more photos on Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, showing his associations with the rich and famous. The release of the 68 photos came a day before the deadline to release all unclassified Epstein case files. Under a law signed by US President Donald Trump,...