After Trump threat, Hamas refuses to release more hostages without phase 2 ceasefire deal

Denmark’s defense minister is warning Friday that “new knowledge” indicates Russia could attack a NATO country within the next three to five years.  Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that there is no direct threat against his country but “Russia’s capacity to produce military equipment has increased tremendously,” according to Reuters.  […]

Half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are experiencing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time this century in a historical reversal of development, the World Bank said in a report on Monday. The differential between per capita income growth in the poorest countries and the richest has widened over […]

Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska dismissed the latest U.S. sanctions on a series of companies that the U.S. Treasury said were connected to a scheme to evade sanctions and unlock frozen shares as nonsense. “This balderdash isn’t worth the time,” Deripaska said by message via a spokesperson in response to a Reuters request for comment about […]