Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a cagey initial response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s cease-fire proposal, backing the idea in principle but listing a series of additional demands that make any meaningful progress unlikely. Officials in Kyiv will be…
As tempers flared during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous Oval Office standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance last month, Trump offered a stark assessment of Ukraine’s limited options in any future negotiations with Russia. “You…
Shield AI’s new valuation nearly doubles the company’s previous valuation of $2.7 billion after it raised $200 million in a Series F round in October 2023. San Diego-based Shield AI builds a range of intelligent autonomous systems for the defense…
The purchase of the cash-generating Sval Energy portfolio could be followed by the acquisition of other assets in Norway and elsewhere to realise DNO’s growth ambitions. The deal will quadruple DNO’s North Sea production to approximately 80,000 barrels of oil…
Under CEO Vimal Kapoor, industrial giant Honeywell International has focused on expanding its presence in the aviation, automation and energy sectors while shedding unrelated assets. Honeywell last month announced plans to split into three independently listed companies, months after activist…
Zelensky’s visit to Washington was supposed to strengthen Ukraine’s relations with the US, but it turned into a diplomatic fiasco: a public dispute, an early end to the meeting, and hints of a review of aid. Was this risk justified,…
The heated dispute between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States ended with Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaving the White House prematurely, but with support from European leaders on social media. The world media is calling this meeting an open conflict,…
More than 1,000 people, including about 700 civilians, have been killed in clashes between new government forces and remnants of the ousted regime, according to a military observer. Three days of clashes between militants linked to Syria’s new leaders and…
Residents described gunfire outside their homes and bodies in the streets in the worst unrest in Syria since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, with more than 1,000 people killed since Thursday, a military monitor said. The shooting began at dawn…
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol was released from prison a day after a Seoul court lifted his arrest to allow him to stand trial on sedition charges without detention. Emerging from a detention centre near the capital, Yun waved,…