Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Donald Trump

Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a campaign event at the Chrome Horse Saloon on January 14, 2024 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday, two days before the New Hampshire primary. … Read more

Haley fires back at Trump attacks as New Hampshire primaries near

Haley fires back at Trump attacks as New Hampshire primaries near

With U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at his side (L), U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with ambassadors of countries on the UN Security Council at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2017. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has been throwing harder punches … Read more

Biden admits airstrikes on Houthis aren’t working

Biden admits airstrikes on Houthis aren’t working

Houthi followers lift rifles and shout slogans against the U.S.-U.K. during a tribal gathering on January 14, 2024 on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels are enthusiastically “confronting America directly,” the organization’s leader said in a televised speech, vowing to continue the group’s … Read more

Ukraine dismisses Trump-Putin relationship, brushes off U.S. election fears

Ukraine dismisses Trump-Putin relationship, brushes off U.S. election fears

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba attends a joint briefing with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Hanke Bruins Slot. Future Publishing | Getty Images Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNBC Thursday that he does not think there would be a big shift in support away from his country if Donald … Read more

Biden hosts Speaker Johnson, Sen. Schumer, push Ukraine, Israel aid

Biden hosts Speaker Johnson, Sen. Schumer, push Ukraine, Israel aid

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., attend a Menorah lighting to celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images President Joe Biden hosted Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader … Read more

U.S. and allies must ‘persuade countries, not dictate to them’

U.S. and allies must ‘persuade countries, not dictate to them’

Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that the U.S. and other powerful nations must “persuade countries, not dictate to them” in an increasingly multipolar world. Much of the conversation at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has focused on a breakdown of … Read more

Biden designates Houthis terrorist group, as U.S. ramps up Red Sea counterstrikes

Biden designates Houthis terrorist group, as U.S. ramps up Red Sea counterstrikes

Houthi supporters hold up rifles as they rally to protest the killing of Saleh al-Samad, a senior Houthi official, by a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Hodeidah, Yemen April 25, 2018. Abduljabbar Zeyad | Reuters The U.S. State Department on Wednesday designated the Iranian-backed, Yemen-based Houthi rebels as specially designated global terrorists, or SDGTs, in … Read more

Iran strikes Syria, Iraq and Pakistan as Middle East tensions spike

Iran strikes Syria, Iraq and Pakistan as Middle East tensions spike

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Within 24 hours, Iran launched missile and drone strikes on targets in three countries — Iraq, Syria and Pakistan — and took the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks, triggering anger from its neighbors. The developments have heightened concerns over the possibility of a wider Middle East … Read more

China’s Taiwan approach ‘has been counterproductive’

China’s Taiwan approach ‘has been counterproductive’

Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, speaks with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that China’s growing aggression toward Taiwan has undermined the country’s own interests. “I think the approach that they’ve shown in recent … Read more

Is a war with Hezbollah next? Growing fears over Israel-Hamas war

Is a war with Hezbollah next? Growing fears over Israel-Hamas war

Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants chant slogans as they walk in the beginning of the funeral procession of the party top commander Wissam tawil in the southern Lebanese village of Khirbit Selem. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Is a wider Middle East war — expanding beyond the borders of Gaza and Israel — inevitable? … Read more