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  • Chart: The Countries Pledging the Most Military Aid to Ukraine

    As this infographic using data from the Ukraine Support Tracker by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy shows, Poland has been one of Ukraine's most important military aid partners since the war began. In a boost for Kyiv, Ukraine President Zelensky welcomed the news on Thursday that its largest military aid donor, the United States, had committed to sending a further $325 million.

  • Bret Baier interviews Saudi Prince: Israel peace, 9/11 ties, Iran nuke fears: ‘Cannot see another Hiroshima’

    Baier spent a week in Saudi Arabia interviewing various members of the government and local business owners before his historic sit-down talk with the crown prince on the artificial island of Sindalah, built in the Red Sea. Once face-to-face with the leader of the fast-growing G-20 economy, Baier ensured that he addressed the controversial laws and incidents involving Saudi Arabia.

  • Souk al-Zal: Riyadh’s historic marketplace

    In the heart of Saudi Arabia's capital is the marketplace of Souq al-Zal. Local DJ Bassam, aka "BluePaper," shows CNN how its rich heritage inspires his music.

  • Alone together: How the war in Ukraine shapes the Russian-Iranian relationship

    The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the Russian-Iranian relationship. The cooperation between the two countries has reached unprecedented levels, evident in the use of Iranian drones by Russia in Ukraine. The two countries have increased their efforts to jointly resist Western sanctions and political isolation. Iran also continues to expand its nuclear programme at alarming levels – with no opposition from Moscow.

  • Putin’s chef meets his ‘window.’ What does that mean for the future of Ukraine?

    The Kremlin hasn’t taken responsibility for the crash. But Grey Zone, a Telegram channel associated with Wagner, on Wednesday claimed that Prigozhin’s jet had been shot down while traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. A separate Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel claimed that Dmitry Utkin, Wagner’s first commander, is also among the dead.

  • Lapid Slams Minister For Saying Israel Could Okay Saudi Nuke Program

    Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday took to the website formerly known as Twitter to slam a government minister who suggested Jerusalem could, in certain circumstances, give the nod to a Saudi nuclear program. In recent months, Riyadh and Washington have held talks on Saudi conditions for progress on normalization with Israel, including security guarantees and assistance with a civilian nuclear program with uranium enrichment capacity.

  • Ukraine gets two IRIS-T air defense systems from Germany -Zelenskiy

    Ukraine has received two IRIS-T air defense systems from Germany, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his address on Thursday. "Two new IRIS-T launchers have been delivered to Ukraine. This is a powerful and much-needed air defense system," he said and thanked Germany for supplying the weapons.

  • Saudi crown prince invited to visit UK, government source says

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been invited to visit the UK, a government source has said. No 10 said they would confirm the prime minister's engagements in the usual way, with nothing in the diary yet. But a separate government source said there was no reason to think the visit would not happen. It would be the first visit since the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

  • Saudi Arabia Wants to Join UK, Japan, Italy Fighter Jet Program

    Known as the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the initiative aims to produce an exportable sixth-generation combat aircraft by 2035. According to officials in London and Tokyo, the kingdom’s efforts to join the project began in July when it sent a direct request to the government of Japan to make the GCAP a four-nation program.

  • Why is Japan opposed to Saudi Arabia joining UK-Italy GCAP fighter jet alliance?

    As Saudi Arabia pushes to join the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan’s next-generation fighter jet alliance, Tokyo is reportedly opposed to Riyadh’s bid for technical and geopolitical reasons, even as it tries to improve relations with the Gulf kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s request to be the fourth addition to the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) was confirmed by senior officials from London, Tokyo and Rome, to The Financial Times (FT) on Friday. Of the three member countries, the British daily added, Japan is the only one to boldly oppose their induction.