Can seized Russian assets help pay for Ukraine aid?
Western leaders have agreed to the concept of using the interest from frozen Russian financial assets to help support Ukraine fight Russia and rebuild after the lengthy war.
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The war in Ukraine will likely intensify this summer. Here's what to know
You might look at the war in Ukraine — now over two years old — and think it grinds on with little or no headway being made by either side. But a great deal still hangs in the balance.
Today in Politics: PM Modi heads to Italy for G7 Summit; Pema Khandu to take oath as Arunachal CM for third term
With the Lok Sabha elections getting completed and the new Council of Ministers in place, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning his focus to foreign policy now.
G7 leaders agree to lend Ukraine billions backed by Russia’s frozen assets. Here’s how it will work
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to engineer a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine in its fight for survival that would use interest earned on profits from Russia’s frozen central bank assets as collateral.
Hollywood’s A-listers are lining up behind Joe Biden. Will their support matter in November?
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Robert De Niro showed up outside a Manhattan courthouse to decry Donald Trump as his New York hush money trial was winding down, it sparked a life-imitates-art screaming match with a nearby group of the former president’s supporters.
Republican candidates for Utah’s open US House seat split on aid for Ukraine
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — All five Republicans battling for Utah’s only open U.S. House seat agreed in a debate Wednesday that they see an urgent need to reduce federal spending, but only some said cutting military aid to Ukraine would be an effective way to achieve that goal.
Ukrainian winemakers visit California’s Napa Valley to learn how to heal war-ravaged vineyards
RUTHERFORD, Calif. (AP) — As the head of an association of winemakers in southern Ukraine, Georgiy Molchanov knows a lot about how to cultivate grapes; not so much how to grow them amid undetonated mines.
Biden and Zelenskyy will sign a security deal, as G7 leaders agree to use Russian cash to help Kyiv
BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a bilateral security agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine on Thursday when they meet on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Italy.