Rosenberg: Is Putin's 'Easter truce' cause for scepticism or chance for peace?
Steven Rosenberg
Last month the Trump administration proposed the idea of a 30-day comprehensive ceasefire.
Ukraine agreed. Russia did not. Or rather, it came up with a long list of conditions.
Instead of 30 days, the Kremlin decided on 30 hours. On Saturday, President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral Easter truce in Ukraine until midnight Sunday night in Moscow.
Indian, Chinese students sue Trump over visa rules
Three Indian and two Chinese students are part of a suit brought against the Trump administration over the termination of several international students' F1 visas.
Three Indian and two Chinese students in the US have sued the Department of Homeland Security and other immigration officials for terminating the F-1 visas of several international students.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) before the US District Court in New Hampshire, accuses the Trump administration of "unilaterally terminating the F-1 student status of hundreds, if not thousands, of international students."
‘War, or the possibility of war, is what enables the EU to assert itself’
The illusion of a common EU defence policy
Invoking the ‘Russian threat’ has created European unity, in appearance at least. But with the US disengaging from Europe’s defence, has the EU’s strategic compass lost its bearings?
by Anne-Cécile Robert
There’s no shortage of magical thinking in discussions about a common defence policy, especially that of a united Europe capable of responding to geopolitical threats. The reality, though, is that the EU is not playing the leading role. The UK, though it left the EU in 2020, hosted the first major summit since the US and Russia’s recent rapprochement, in London on 2 March. Eleven of the EU’s 27 member states and three non-EU countries – Norway, Canada and Turkey – took part in the London meeting. Turkey, a NATO member, has spent 40 years waiting for EU accession. On 11 March talks held in Paris on a potential peace plan brought together 37 chiefs-of-staff from across Europe and Canada, as well as Australia, which is interested in a peacekeeping role.
‘Professional failures’ led to killing of Palestinian medics in Gaza, says Israeli military
The Israeli military says “professional failures” led to the killing of 15 paramedics and first responders in an incident in Gaza in March, according to an investigation released Sunday.
The investigation identified several failures during the incident, as well as breaches of orders and a failure to fully report the incident, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
The IDF said the troops did not engage in “indiscriminate fire” during the incident, but they opened fire on what they believed to be a “tangible threat” amid what the military called “operational misunderstandings.”
Trump's Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation.
Declan and Ivor visited five soup kitchens across Khartoum to document the effects of American aid cuts.
The children died one after the other. Twelve acutely malnourished infants living in one corner of Sudan’s war-ravaged capital, Khartoum.
Abdo, an 18-month-old boy, had been rushed to a clinic by his mother as he was dying. His ribs protruded from his withered body. The next day, a doctor laid him out on a blanket with a teddy bear motif, his eyes closed.
Keio railway operator using AI to return lost-and-found items
By SERI ISHIKAWA/ Staff Writer
April 20, 2025 at 07:00 JST
Railway operator Keio Corp. has been hopping aboard artificial intelligence to dramatically increase the rate of returning lost-and-found items to their rightful owners.
Like other railway operators, Keio faced difficulties returning items left on its trains because riders had to notify officials at the nearest station or go to the company’s lost-and-found storage location to retrieve a missing item.
Many users simply gave up finding their lost belongings because of the time and effort.
