Trump and Zelensky traded blows in an escalating feud
President Trump yesterday called Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “dictator” who took cash from the U.S. to go to battle with Russia. In a social media submit plagued by falsehoods, Trump didn’t point out President Vladimir Putin, or that Russia seized some Ukrainian territory in 2014 earlier than its full-scale invasion in 2022.
Trump additionally prompt that the long run safety of Ukraine wouldn’t be an American downside.
“This Battle is way extra necessary to Europe than it’s to us,” he wrote on Fact Social. “We now have an enormous, stunning Ocean as separation.”
The feud started after White Home and Kremlin officers in Saudi Arabia started peace talks that excluded Ukraine. After that assembly on Tuesday, Trump prompt that Ukraine had began the battle. Afterward, Zelensky stated Trump had been “caught in a web of disinformation.”
E.U.: Leaders met yesterday for a second emergency meeting searching for to recalibrate relations with the U.S. as Trump moved nearer to Russia.
Arab leaders are engaged on a proposal for Gaza’s future
Envoys from 5 Arab nations are set to meet in Saudi Arabia tomorrow to begin fleshing out a vision for Gaza. They’re anticipated to satisfy once more at an even bigger summit on March 4 in Cairo.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates hope that nations within the area will assist fund and oversee Gaza’s reconstruction, whereas maintaining its residents in place and preserving the potential of a Palestinian state, based on diplomats and officers. However Israeli leaders oppose postwar plans that may pave the best way to Palestinian sovereignty.
What’s subsequent: Egypt will doubtless suggest a committee of Palestinian technocrats and neighborhood leaders, all unaffiliated with Hamas, who may run Gaza after the battle, based on two Arab diplomats and two Western officers.
Hostages: Israelis are ready anxiously for the anticipated launch tomorrow of the bodies of four captives held by Hamas.
Israel: A army prosecutor charged 5 reservist troopers with abuse of a Palestinian detainee.
Trump Media sued a decide in Brazil
President Trump’s media firm sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice yesterday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media. Hours earlier, the decide had acquired an indictment that may pressure him to determine whether or not to order the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, the previous Brazilian president.
Context: Bolsonaro was indicted on Tuesday on expenses that he plotted a coup after dropping the 2022 election, together with by collaborating in plans to assassinate the justice. Bolsonaro had referred to as on Trump to take motion towards the justice in an interview with The Instances final month.
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Cambodia’s nationwide museum is going through an issue: About 300 stolen artifacts have been returned over the previous six years, and house is getting a bit of cramped.
Growth and renovations are challenges, however so is designing galleries for sacred objects. Some Cambodian guests don’t see the items as cultural curiosities or artworks, but as divinities that hold their ancestors’ souls. For them, that is extra of a temple than a museum.
Lives lived: Gil Received-ok, one of many final survivors of sexual slavery for Japan’s World Battle II troops, and who campaigned for justice, died at 96.
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Microsoft introduced yesterday that it created a brand new state of matter in its quest to construct a quantum pc — a machine that might speed up the event of every thing from batteries to medicines to A.I. It used the brand new matter to assemble a tiny chip that might have exponentially extra processing energy than a superconductor.
The tech may leapfrog strategies utilized by opponents like Google. The milestone, Microsoft says, pushes the corporate nearer to the end line in a technological race that might be even greater than A.I. However some teachers are skeptical. Read why here.
