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 struggle with Russia. In a social media put up suffering from 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 instructed that the longer term safety of Ukraine wouldn’t be an American downside.
“This Battle is much extra vital to Europe than it’s to us,” he wrote on Reality Social. “We’ve an enormous, lovely 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 instructed that Ukraine had began the struggle. Afterward, Zelensky mentioned Trump had been “caught in a web of disinformation.”
E.U.: Leaders met yesterday for a second emergency meeting in search of 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 international locations 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 international locations within the area will assist fund and oversee Gaza’s reconstruction, whereas holding its residents in place and preserving the potential for a Palestinian state, in line with diplomats and officers. However Israeli leaders oppose postwar plans that may pave the best way to Palestinian sovereignty.
What’s subsequent: Egypt will seemingly suggest a committee of Palestinian technocrats and group leaders, all unaffiliated with Hamas, who might run Gaza after the struggle, in line with 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 choose 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 choose had obtained an indictment that may drive him to resolve 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 known as on Trump to take motion in opposition to the justice in an interview with The Occasions 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 area is getting just a little 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 would speed up the event of every little thing from batteries to medicines to A.I. It used the brand new matter to assemble a tiny chip that would have exponentially extra processing energy than a superconductor.
The tech might leapfrog strategies utilized by opponents like Google. The milestone, Microsoft says, pushes the corporate nearer to the end line in a technological race that could possibly be even greater than A.I. However some lecturers are skeptical. Read why here.
