Posts tagged nancy pelosi
WORLD BRIEFING: July 5, 2024

Britain’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory Friday morning, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years in an anti-incumbent revolt that heralded a new era in British politics. Only days into it taking over the rotating presidency of the European Council and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán has drawn the ire of Brussels for his unscheduled visit to Vladimir Putin in Moscow

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WORLD BRIEFING: July 1, 2024

The far right makes big gains in the French parliamentary election first round, according to exit polls. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday presented a new alliance with Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest hard right-wing group in the European Parliament

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 24, 2023

Reports that the Ukrainian military has crossed the Dnipro River and established positions on the eastern side heightened expectations on April 23 that Kyiv is on the verge of its long-awaited counteroffensive

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 23, 2023

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomed Defense Secretary Oleksii Reznikov to the start of the 11th Ukraine Defense Contact Group summit at the Ramstein air base in Germany

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 22, 2022

President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a surprise, historic visit to Washington - his first known trip outside Ukraine since the start of the war. He met with President Joe Biden and addressed a rare joint session of Congress ahead of political changes on the Hill. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 5, 2022

Convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently left prison in Russia face being conscripted to fight in Ukraine under a change to the law. The situation remains dangerous at the Zaporyzhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 4, 2022

Shocking revelations emerge about the treatment of Ukrainian staff at the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv in the run up to Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian forces blow up a strategic railway bridge leading out of occupied Crimea. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 3, 2022

As US house speaker Nancy Pelosi touches down in Taiwan, possibly triggering a retaliation from China, Ukrainians nervously look on. Odesa port at a standstill some 24 hours after the first vessel in months departed mined Black Sea waters for world markets

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