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Updated February 27, 2025 - 8:46 PM EST

House OKs $100 BIllion Military Spending Hike

Israel Refuses To Leave Philadelphi Corridor

		Hamas Releases Bodies, Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners
		Trump Shares AI Video of 'Trump Gaza,' Drawing Backlash
		Rep. Mast Tells Staff To Refer to West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria'
		Biden, Blinken, Austin Referred to ICC Over Aiding Gaza Genocide

Trump: Ukraine Can 'Forget' About Joining NATO

Trump Confirms That Zelensky Will Visit on Friday

Israeli Strikes Kill Three in Eastern Lebanon

Turkey Kills 12 in Strikes on Kurds in Northeast Syria

Trump Returns to Maximum Pressure on Venezuela

Trump Removes Biden Order on Arms Transfers

Pompeo Lands Job at Columbia Teaching 'Diplomacy'

Romanian Police Arrest Election Frontrunner Georgescu

Viewpoints

	Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter by Jonathan Cook
	Grenell Vs. Rubio: Team Trump's Competing Latin America Politics by Lee Schlenker

	The (Inconvenient) Truth About the War in Ukraine by John Mac Ghlionn
	Achieving Peace in a Warmonger's World by George Ford Smith
More Viewpoints

Spotlight

Silencing Dissent: The Arrest of Yves Engler
by Faisal Kutty

Frontline

	Max Blumenthal Harassed at US Airport in Attack on Journalism
	Just 33% of Democrats Have a Favorable View of Israel, Gallup Poll Finds
	Graffiti Left by Israeli Soldiers Turn S. Lebanon Homes Into Canvas of War

House Foreign Affairs Chair Tells Staff To Refer to Israeli-Occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria'

Ukraine

	Estonia To Send 10,000 Shells to Ukraine With New Aid Package
	Norway Allocates $312 Million To Support Kyiv, Buy Equipment From Ukrainian Firms
	Ukraine To Not Accept Even 10 Cents of Debt Repayment in Agreement With US, Says Zelensky
	Ukraine Outlines US Minerals Deal, but Touts No Concrete Security Guarantees
	Photos: Returning to the Front Line in Ukraine

United Kingdom

	Keir Starmer's Plan for UK Growth: The Ukraine War
	Hundreds of British Celebrities Call on BBC To Restore Gaza Documentary

Italy

	EU Needs To Do More To Boost Defense Spending: Italy's Meloni
	US Air Base in Italy Goes on Lockdown for Several Hours

Europe

	Spanish Armed Forces Deploy LTR 25 Radar for NATO Mission in Romania
	US Can't Keep Subsidizing 'Rich' Western Europe: Secretary of State Rubio
	Denmark: Protesters Shut Down Maersk Entrance Over Arms Transfer to Israel

Japan

	Japan Reaffirms 'Unwavering' Support for Ukraine, Calls for Peace on Third Anniversary of War
	Japan Targets Weapons Sales Through Indo-Pacific, as Industrial Ties Lag Strategic Ones

Asia Pacific

	China's PLA Offers Details on Live-Fire Pacific Drills Led by Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi
	Cook Islands PM Beats No-Confidence Vote, Slams New Zealand
	North Korean Leader Directs Military To 'Intensify' Training, Prepare for 'Modern Warfare'

The War at Home

	Columbia's Barnard College Is First To Expel Students Over Gaza War
	New Report Details Police Repression of Palestine Activism at UCLA
	Army Will Field Its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon by End of Fiscal Year
	Gabbard To Fire 100 Intelligence Officers Over 'Sexually Explicit' Chats
	VA Claims $2 Billion in Savings From Contract Cuts, Vows No Benefits Impact
	Give Carmakers a Shot at Making Weapons, Deputy Defense Secretary Nominee Says
	Jeff Bezos Exerts More Control of Washington Post Opinion, Says Focus Will Be on 'Personal Liberties and Free Markets'
	USAID Staff Given 15 Minutes To Gather Belongings From Washington, DC, Office
	Trump Administration Appeals Deadline To Release US Foreign Aid Funding

Mauritius

	Chagos Deal Will Not Go Ahead if Donald Trump Rejects It: UK Foreign Secretary
	UK PM Starmer Declines To Say Whether Defense Spending Increase Includes Chagos Cash

Israel/Palestine

	Palestinian Organization Unveils Map That Shows Israel Controls 44.5% of West Bank Amid Increased Settlement
	Another Gazan Detainee Dies in Israeli Detention
	Israel Arrests Dozens of Palestinians in Overnight West Bank Raids
	'Designed To Humiliate': Israel's Torture of Gaza's Healthcare Workers
	Bibas Family Threatens To Sue Israeli Govt as Official Propaganda on Hostage Killings Unravels
	Bibas Family Demands Israeli Government Stops Using Captives' Deaths in Public
	US To Pitch Arab Developers on Trump Gaza 'Takeover' Plan
	Israel's 'Gazafication' of West Bank Forcing 'Largest Displacement Since 1967'
	Rubble Into Mass Graves: The Fate of Gaza's 14,000 Missing
	US Airman Who Self-Immolated in Solidarity With Gaza Commemorated Outside Israeli Embassy
	UN Rejects 'Annexation' Proposals for Palestinian Territories
	A Gaza Mother's Heartbreak as Her Son's Release Is Postponed
	EU Lawmakers Denied Entry to Israel Call for Bloc's Strong Response
	West Bank Becoming 'Battlefield,' Over 50 Killed in Five Weeks: UNRWA Chief
	UN Rights Chief Warns of 'Unprecedented' Violations in Occupied Palestine, Calls for Accountability

Iraq

	Iraqi Delegation To Visit Syria on Border Security, ISIS Threat
	Iraq Confirms Agreement With KRG To Resume Kurdish Oil Exports

Middle East

	Lebanon's New Government Wins Confidence Vote in Parliament
	Iran Denounces New US Sanctions as 'Sign of Hostility'
	Exclusion of Kurds From Syrian National Dialogue Conference 'Bad Sign': ENKS Political Party
	Buoyed by Record Contracts, Turkish Defense Firm Racks Up $417.2 Million Net Profits in 2024

Sudan

	UN Food Agency Pauses Aid to Famine-Hit Sudan Displacement Camp of Half a Million People
	Death Toll in Sudan Military Plane Crash Rises to 46
	How the RSF's Parallel Govt Could Divide Sudan – and Africa
	Turkey's Drones Boost Sudanese Army Against RSF

Egypt

	Egypt Rejects Proposal for It To Run Gaza as 'Unacceptable': Foreign Ministry
	Egyptian-British Activist's Mother at 'Risk of Sudden Death,' as She Marks 150th Day of Hunger Strike

Africa

	US Ends Power Africa Initiative After a Decade
	Meeting of Russian, US Diplomats To Take Place in Istanbul on Thursday: Russia's Foreign Minister
	Rwanda Slams UK Sanctions Over DR Congo Violence
	Somali Govt Claims 70 Al-Shabaab Killed in Military Operation