17+ hour, 15+ min ago   (305+ words) (Worthy News) – CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, according to U.S. media reports, marking one of the most sensitive known contacts between Washington and Moscow since Russia’s full-scale invasion…...

20+ hour, 39+ min ago   (352+ words) President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Canada Tuesday, openly considering whether Lake Ontario should be renamed Lake America as trade relations...

21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (200+ words) (Worthy News) – President Donald Trump sharply escalated his trade battle with Canada on Monday, threatening to raise tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts and steel to 50% beginning Jan. 1, 2027, after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa collapsed late last week....

22+ hour, 6+ min ago   (257+ words) (Worthy News) – China pushed back Tuesday against the Trump administration’s expanding sanctions campaign on Iran, signaling that Beijing will not submit to Washington’s effort to isolate Tehran through what U.S. officials have described as a sweeping economic offensive. Chinese…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (468+ words) The Trump administration is launching a sweeping campaign to isolate Iran from the global economy, putting foreign governments, banks, shipping interests,...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (625+ words) (Worthy News) – The Trump administration on Monday launched what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called an unprecedented global economic offensive against Iran, unveiling a sweeping sanctions campaign designed to sever Tehran from the international financial system and choke off revenue flowing…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (674+ words) KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – European leaders rallied around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday as Ukraine marked 35 years of independence and its fifth Independence Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion, while senior representatives of the administration of U.S....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (758+ words) KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that holding elections in wartime, as suggested by his former defense minister, would “destroy” the country. In remarks monitored by Worthy News, Zelenskyy said: “I believe that in a war…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1147+ words) KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – The European Union marked Ukraine’s Independence Day by pledging to provide the war-torn nation with 6.1 billion euros ($7.1 billion) for “air and missile defense systems” as well as other “missiles, ammunition and radars.” In a statement obtained…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (864+ words) KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham accused Russia on Monday of “outrageous threats” against the United Kingdom after Moscow warned that his decision to provide Ukraine with newly declassified blueprints for the production of long-range missiles would…...