The United Kingdom took steps on Tuesday to ramp up its defense spending ahead of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s meeting with President Donald Trump this week.Starmer said that in the face of continued Russian aggression against Ukraine and, by extension, Europe, the UK will increase its defense spending to…

The United States voted against a United Nations resolution laying blame on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and demanding Moscow remove its troops from Ukrainian territory, as the Trump administration is chasing a peace deal between both sides. Russia and North Korea joined the U.S. in voting against the Europe-backed…

As Egypt reportedly rejects President Donald Trump’s resettlement proposal, citing the need to protect the Palestinian cause and its national security while coordinating with Arab leaders on an alternative plan, voices from war-ravaged Gaza say they want out.Gazans, desperate to escape, told Fox News Digital they support President Donald Trump’s relocation proposal –…

Taiwan’s coast guard (CGA) detained the Chinese crew of a Togolese-registered vessel suspected of severing an undersea fiber optic cable connecting the islands of Taiwan and Penghu on Tuesday.The CGA says the vessel, the Hong Tai 168, had been loitering within roughly 925 meters of the cable since 7 p.m.…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is willing to consider cooperating with the U.S. in mining rare earth minerals both in Russia and parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.Putin, in an interview broadcast on Russian state television Monday, emphasized Russia’s vast deposits of rare-earth minerals and their importance for the…

An American woman was arrested in Paris after she allegedly threw a newborn baby out of a hotel window, according to reports.The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the incident, first reported by local outlet Paris Match, with the New York Post on Monday. The child was thrown out of the window…

UNITED NATIONS — Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon is demanding the international body break its silence on Hamas’ atrocities not only on Oct. 7, 2023, but in the months since then, as released hostages detail the brutal conditions in which they were held.”We demand justice for all of them to…

Pope Francis’ health showed a “slight improvement” Monday as he “resumed work” at the hospital and called a priest at a parish in the Gaza Strip, the Vatican announced. “The clinical conditions of the Holy Father in their criticality show a slight improvement. Even today, there were no episodes of asthmatic…

The U.S. State Department and Department of the Treasury reimposed what they describe as “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran’s “shadowy” oil trade on Monday as tensions between Tehran and Washington remain high after President Donald Trump took office last month.The State Department designated 16 entities and vessels part of a…

Germany’s chancellor-elect, Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party, said his “absolute priority” upon taking up the top job will be to secure Europe so that it can “achieve independence” from Washington.”I would never have thought that I would have to say something like this in a…