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The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the White House meeting. The deal is still on the table and only this deal and not all those proposed by EU members at the Sunday meeting in London would be considered.

Sometimes, history changes little by little, almost imperceptibly. Deep beneath the surface, major forces are at work, slowly shaping the future. But, on the surface, everything seems stable, as if nothing is changing. And, sometimes, it moves very fast, almost like a sudden Nor’wester. Pressure builds up over time, and then, all at once, some event of great magnitude happens—like an earthquake that shakes the ground. In these moments, everything seems to change instantly.

LONDON: Israel moved on Monday to scrap the existing ceasefire deal in Gaza and replace it with what it described as a new United States ceasefire plan. Tel Aviv is trying to force the new plan on Hamas by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.

NEW YORK: While many people were shocked by the bullying treatment meted out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office Friday, the whole humiliating show should have come as no surprise.

It appears that one of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts might be nearing its end, and its ramifications will be felt far and wide, following the call for peace by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Türkiye for independence in the southeast of the country, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives and has rippled beyond Türkiye’s borders into Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

If you wanted to know the exact meaning of the English proverb “bearding the lion in its lair”, you should have seen the Oval Office meeting when an embattled president from a small, beleaguered country fought up to the grimaces and attacks from an immeasurably more powerful —what was meant to be — ally.

LONDON: On the one hand, Keir Starmer hosts European and Canadian leaders for a summit on militarisation in response to the abrupt US policy shift on Ukraine. On the other Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu blocks all humanitarian aid to Gaza, threatening to derail the second phase of the fragile ceasefire.

Is the global geopolitics moving a full circle after 80 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945? The question is now extremely relevant after the world saw on Friday in TV channels the unprecedented spat between the United States president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine president visited Trump in the White House to sign a deal on mineral resources apart from discussions on the proposed peace deal with Russia. But what happened in that 45 minute meeting was nothing but, as the London-based newspaper The Guardian termed “one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history”.

NEW YORK: The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a local newspaper who deserted the family when young Hackman was just thirteen. An avid moviegoer from childhood and a big fan of the ultimate urban working-class tough, James Cagney, whom he considered “the consummate actor,” Hackman wanted to act from an early age. But he spent many years, after a post-WWII stint in the Marines, moving furniture and driving trucks and selling shoes for a living while he studied acting and got his training on the New York stage.

US President Donald Trump’s AI-generated video on Gaza, which he uploaded on self-owned 'Truth Social', stumped the majority who sat down to watch it. They didn’t think Ai could have been more realistic than the works of celebrity filmmakers like James Cameron with their creative imaginations.