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Nov 23, 2025 - World

Pageantry and trillion-dollar promises reveal how Washington’s loyalties may be tilting toward the GulfThe White House welcome bestowed on the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was the most lavish of the Trump presidency, and a gaudily clear statement of its foreign policy priorities.It was billed as a mere working visit, but it was more extravagant than any previous state visit. The president greeted the prince on the south lawn, the White House’s biggest stage. There were uniformed men on horses bearing flags and a flypast of fighter jets. Continue reading...

Nov 23, 2025 - World

Environment ministry says most of the deaths were in the mountainous central province of Dak LakThe death toll from major flooding in Vietnam has risen to 90, with 12 more people missing, the environment ministry said on Sunday after days of heavy rain and landslides.Relentless rain has lashed south-central Vietnam since late October and popular holiday destinations have been hit by several rounds of flooding. Continue reading...

Nov 23, 2025 - World

A peace plan being thrust upon Ukraine was actually written by Russia, according to reports, and Marco Rubio is taking heat for confusing messaging.Foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin reported the news on X:"BREAKING: After talking to @SecRubio, @SenatorRounds announces that the 28 point plan was a Russian document, not a US document," he wrote.Sen. Angus King, one of the senators who broke with the majority of the Democratic caucus to support a deal to end the federal government shutdown, confirmed that Rubio report, saying, "According to Secretary Rubio, this plan is not the administration’s position — it is essentially the Russians’ wish list that is now being presented to the Europeans and to the Ukrainians."That sparked outrage.Former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman, an ex-Republican and current Democratic campaign consultant, said, "This is the most incompetent and idiotic Administration in history," and then added, "Who is in charge?"Political scientist Norman Ornstein responded to Wellman, saying simply, "Putin."But there's a twist, because a State Department spokesman, Tommy Pigott, issued the following statement:"This is blatantly false. As Secretary Rubio and the entire Administration has consistently maintained, this plan was authored by the United States, with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians."That led to senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio to chime in with, "A truly bizarre series of events.""Senators from both parties said in Halifax that Rubio told them via phone today that the Ukraine peace plan is actually a Russian document, not a U.S. proposal," he added. "State Department spox says that’s not true, it’s a U.S.-authored proposal. ???"MeidasTouch also added, "Holy s---: here’s a tweet where Vance pushed the Ukraine 'peace plan' that Marco Rubio just admitted was written entirely by Russia. This may be one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history."

Nov 22, 2025 - World

Christian group revises up number of students and teachers missing after one of country’s largest mass abductionGunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said on Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.The early Friday raid on St Mary’s co-educational school in Niger state in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls. Continue reading...

Nov 22, 2025 - World

U.S. Representative Don Bacon of (R-NE) broke from Donald Trump on Saturday with a grim reminder about what the congressman says could be Trump's "legacy."Bacon, who has spoken out about Trump's attitude regarding Ukraine and the war Russia has imposed on it, over the weekend weighed in on a recent proposal from the Trump administration to end the brutal foreign war by forcing numerous concessions from the victim nation.Over the weekend, Bacon took to social media to push back against that plan, posting an image of a wasteland with three distressed eagles and the words, "In the war between Ukraine and Russia, the first to surrender was America."He issued a grim warning with the image, writing, "This will be President Trump’s legacy if he forces this surrender plan on Ukraine."Ex-Republican insider Stuart Stevens added, "It will be the Republican Party's legacy."It will be the Republican Party's legacy. https://t.co/NDyxNq1TAp— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) November 22, 2025