Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time. He was nominated by the members of the Pakistan World Alliance (PWA) for his efforts to protect human rights and democracy. The PWA, an advocacy group founded last December, announced the nomination of Khan. “We are pleased…
The Kremlin announced on Monday that Russia and the United States are exploring ideas for a possible peace settlement in Ukraine and ways to strengthen bilateral relations. This comes despite US President Donald Trump saying that he was “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin. Trump told NBC News he was very angry after the Russian leader…
Ukraine thought it had a deal in place to suspend the fighting in the Black Sea immediately. Russia said economic sanctions would need to be lifted first. And the United States didn’t address the question of timing at all, merely repeating President Trump’s broad demand that the killing stop. The conflicting statements released this week…
US negotiators are attempting to broker a 30-day partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine amid ongoing hostilities, with separate talks underway with both sides in Riyadh. The primary sticking point remains defining the targets that would be off-limits during the ceasefire. While the US advocates for protecting energy and critical infrastructure, Russia insists on limiting…
US special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Sunday ahead of high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia over the war in Ukraine and said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to end the three-year-old conflict. “I feel that he wants peace,” Witkoff told Fox News. A US delegation is due to hold talks later on…
Moments after Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a limited ceasefire following a one-hour call between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said that a “lasting ceasefire” is under discussion and that the two sides have never been closer to peace. “Right now, we’re…
The U.S. Institute of Peace and many of its board members have sued the Trump administration, seeking to prevent their removal and stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from taking over and accessing the building and systems of the independent nonprofit. The lawsuit filed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington describes the…
A standoff occurred at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) on Monday when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tried to take over the organization. The government officials’ standoff with activists soon escalated into a tense dispute. The US Institute of Peace, which was founded by Congress in 1984, has been devoted for years…
PM Modi on India-Pakistan relations on podcast with Lex Fridman In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in detail about India’s troubled relationship with Pakistan while calling out the neighbouring country for state-sponsored terrorism and failed peace efforts. The discussion, which was part of a three-hour-long podcast episode released on Sunday,…
After hours of exhausting negotiations that ended with Ukraine agreeing to a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia, it was not until the delegation from Kyiv was flying home that it got the news it was most desperate to hear: American military assistance was flowing again. “I will only say that there…