International Affairs

President Donald Trump last week indicated that discussions had started around a summit to address how to end the Ukraine war.

The U.S., which is the single most significant contributor to the United Nations budget, has pressured the organization to drop DEI language.

There is a veritable roadmap to environmental salvation.

"We're getting close to this moment where there will be a last stand and a decisive battle," an IDF brigadier general told Newsweek.

Trump told reporters his administration is open to restarting denuclearization talks on Thursday.

North Korea closed its borders five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they have remained shut ever since.

"It has been shown that the Israelis are lying," a Hezbollah spokesperson told Newsweek.

"Talking directly to our adversaries from a position of strength" is a way Trump can ensure peace, according to a former official.

A Hamas report shared with Newsweek cited a "deliberate delay in the second phase and the introduction of impossible conditions."

Indian businesses have invested more than $40 billion in the U.S., generating nearly 425,000 American jobs.

Beijing "will move quickly to replace the U.S. in many countries," a former director of the agency told Newsweek.

Some critics have suggested that President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Gaza is motivated by ambitions for offshore natural gas reserves.

The U.S. attorney general has disbanded an anti-Russian oligarch sanctions task force to shift resources to anti-cartel activities.

So far, Western pressure has proved to be less than meets the eye.

"Some see it as an immoral step that exposes Palestinians to additional suffering," PLO official Faisal Aranki told Newsweek.

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk's support, has moved to shut down USAID, sparking questions about the agency's funding.

It is entirely unclear whether this previously cozy relationship will become transactional—or frosty.

How valuable is Saudi Arabia to the United States, really?

By taking away the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Americans and foreigners, threatening the very survival of many, eroding trust and credibility between foreign people and their governments, and eliminating foreign people and their government's ability to trust American promises, the Trump administration itself is endangering its own people.

"We need to break the cycle of violence and find a sustainable solution," a Qatari official told Newsweek.

The president has repeatedly discussed his desire to "retake" the Panama Canal and take possession of Greenland.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.

"Terrorism is the common enemy of all mankind," Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek.

Pyongyang's monthly troop losses could skyrocket if it deploys more troops to the frontlines in Kursk and continues sustaining high losses.

Sudan's crisis offers a preview of how climate change and health care collapse can transform political conflicts into comprehensive humanitarian catastrophes.

"It is striking that Israel was not mentioned in the president's inauguration speech," a senior Hamas official told Newsweek.

Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek that "China is willing to work with the new U.S. government."

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told Newsweek.

Netanyahu's "fear of Trump is greater than his fear of his extreme right-wing coalition partners," Israeli expert told Newsweek.