Most United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members have slammed Israel’s recognition of Somaliland at a meeting convened in response to the move, which several countries announced may also have serious implications for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The United States has announced it will contribute only $2bn in United Nations humanitarian assistance – a small fraction of its traditional funding scope – as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to heavily downsize its role in foreign aid.
The leader of Yemen’s Houthis has warned any Israeli presence in Somaliland would be considered a “military target”, in the latest condemnation of Tel Aviv’s move to recognise the breakaway region.
US President Donald Trump has stated that a deal to end the war in Ukraine is “closer than ever” but has admitted that “thorny” questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida.
US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to discuss a number of issues related to the Ukraine peace negotiations ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov has stated.
Tel Aviv's recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland "is a threat to the security and stability of the world and the region," Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told an emergency parliamentary session on Sunday.
Representatives of 21 Arab, Islamic, and African countries have expressed their rejection and condemnation of Israel’s decision to recognize Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent state, warning that the move violates international law and threatens regional stability.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for the United States on Sunday and meet with President Donald Trump in Florida a day later, an Israeli official told AFP news agency.
The White House wants to move beyond phase one of the Gaza ceasefire process in January, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back, creating friction with United States President Donald Trump’s senior team, according to a report.
China has announced fresh sanctions on 20 US defence firms, including a Boeing subsidiary, over Washington's latest weapons sales to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own.
The African Union has stressed it "rejects any recognition of Somaliland" after Israel declared it viewed the breakaway Somali territory as a sovereign state.
The European Union would only hurt itself if it decides to go its own way in the field of security, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told dpa news agency. The European members of the bloc need to comply with Washington’s demands and spend more on their militaries instead, he stated on Friday.
Four senior former army officers have written to the UK prime minister urging a full arms embargo on Israel and a suspension of involvement with any Israel-linked defence firms.
Nearly 50 Democratic members of Congress have urged US President Donald Trump to address Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza and to withhold US assistance if attacks continue.
Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media reported.
Over the past year, the amount of US aid to Ukraine has dropped by a whopping $45 billion, with Kiev’s European supporters so far unable to make up for the difference, ZN.UA media outlet has reported.
Public opinions in countries which are closely allied with Washington have shifted sharply against the US amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing foreign policy overhaul, according to a poll published by Politico.
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has died in a plane crash near the Turkish capital, shortly after the private jet he was travelling in took off from an airport in Turkey.
Russia’s Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, has stressed that Iran has the right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to continue its peaceful nuclear program.
China is likely to have loaded over 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles across three silo fields and has no desire for arms control talks, according to a draft Pentagon report which highlighted Beijing's growing military ambitions.
Brussels hit back on Monday at Beijing’s decision to slap duties of up to 42.7 percent on some dairy products from the European Union, calling the move “unjustified.”
The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis, according to a report by AFP.
