Republicans are using the Democrats’ own words from the 2019 Trump trial A Republican congressman has filed articles of impeachment against US President Joe Biden for withholding deliveries of weapons to Israel, making a point of using the exact same phrasing the Democrats had used to impeach President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Biden told CNN that “we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells” to Israel if it proceeded with plans to attack Rafah City in south Gaza. Republicans quickly pointed out that Democrats had accused Trump of “abuse of power” for allegedly withholdin ..read more

An emergency in Japan follows two landing incidents in Türkiye and a crash in Senegal One Boeing-made plane has crashed and three more have suffered technical problems this week, bringing renewed focus on the US aerospace giant’s production woes. A United Airlines 737-800 series passenger jet had to make an emergency landing about 40 minutes after takeoff on Friday. Flight UA166 from Fukuoka, Japan to Guam had reported a “problem with flaps.” In the early hours of Thursday, an Air Senegal 737-38J skidded off the runway during takeoff from the Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) in Dakar ..read more

The Communist faction in Russia’s parliament has once again abstained from voting to approve the country’s Prime Minister Russia’s State Duma on Friday approved the nomination of Mikhail Mishustin for his renewed tenure as the country’s prime minister. The decision was upheld in a presidential decree signed by Vladimir Putin later in the day. The nomination was backed by 375 MPs out of 432 present during the vote by the 450-member legislature. The whole parliamentary faction of the Russian Communist Party (KPRF), 57 MPs, abstained from voting. The KPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov vowed to abstain ..read more

Backing Kiev pushed Russia and China into an alliance, Dominic Cummings has said The UK and its allies got tricked into backing a “corrupt mafia state” in Ukraine and getting into a war of attrition against a Moscow-Beijing partnership, Dominic Cummings has said in an interview. The longtime Tory political strategist led the Vote Leave campaign for Brexit and was one of the key aides to then-PM Boris Johnson until resigning in November 2020. “We should have never got into the whole stupid situation,” Cummings told the outlet I News in an interview published on Wednesday, commenting on London’s ..read more

Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, was arrested in March in a suspected liquor scam India’s Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who leads the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).  The politician was arrested in March on corruption charges, just weeks before the parliamentary election, which began on April 19. Hours after the top court’s ruling, he stepped out of Delhi’s Tihar jail, surrounded by supporters.  Bail has been granted until June 1, which is the last day of polling. While the politician is permitted to campaign ..read more

The US has threatened to cut off supplies of offensive weapons if Israel enters population centers in the Gazan city A “measured expansion” of Israel’s operation in the densely populated city of Rafah in southern Gaza was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Thursday night, multiple outlets have reported. The reports come after US President Joe Biden vowed to stop the supply of offensive weapons to Israel if its military goes into the city’s population centers. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks and troops entered the eastern part of Rafah in the early hours of Tu ..read more

This could happen to those unable to pay increased fines for violating mobilization rules, Andrey Osadchyuk has said Ukraine could start blocking bank accounts and imposing penalties on the property of those trying to avoid military service amid the conflict with Russia, Andrey Osadchyuk, a member of the country’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has said. The measure might be applied to draft dodgers in line with a law that introduces stricter penalties for breaching the country’s mobilization rules, which the MPs voted on last month, Osadchyuk told journalists on Thursday. Under the legislati ..read more

Moscow’s military has renewed an assault on Ukraine’s Kharkov Region, according to President Vladimir Zelensky Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russian forces have launched a new large-scale offensive on his country’s Kharkov Region. The development was first announced by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, which claimed earlier in the day that Russian forces had attacked defensive positions near the border town of Volchansk. The assault was accompanied by heavy aerial bombardment, the ministry said, adding that fighting “of varying intensity” was continuing along Russi ..read more

The prime minister’s pledge comes after President Biden warned the IDF against a major offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah Israel will continue its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza even if allies disapprove, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. His remarks came shortly after US President Joe Biden warned the Israeli leadership that any large-scale operation in Rafah would mean a halt in the supply of key defense equipment. The city in southern Gaza is the last major population center still not under Israeli control. Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Palestinians have ..read more

The defense minister also announced that Berlin has purchased three HIMARS rocket launcher systems for Ukraine The majority of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) will be under NATO command by 2025, with around 35,000 soldiers placed on the “highest levels of readiness,” Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced during a keynote speech at Washington’s Johns Hopkins University on Thursday. The announcement comes as Germany struggles to resolve major personnel and equipment shortages in its army, with many replacement items purchased for the Bundeswehr being sent to aid Ukraine in its conflict ..read more