Ukraine faces a critical moment in the Donbas as Russian forces push forward, threatening key cities and testing the resilience of exhausted defenders. Meanwhile, Sweden’s escalating gang wars spill across Nordic borders,

The Trump administration is also issuing bans and restrictions on legal immigration, including refugees displaced by violence.

An international affairs consultant discusses the status of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the new Trump Administration might help secure peace.

A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire that never lost the Cold War. The only way to end the war in Ukraine is to ensure that Russia loses and that Ukraine wins.

It was the No. 1 issue for Democrats during the campaign. It was also a winning issue for them in the 2022 midterm election, and one that Trump was able to apparently neutralize in the presidential race with his promise to leave the issue of abortion access to the states in the post- Roe era.

Soldiers and civilians alike say that after so much loss, the new U.S. president must push for a just settlement, not peace at any cost.

Trump followed through on several of his Day One promises with a flurry of executive orders, but he left some on the table, including imposing tariffs and ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump has said he will issue executive orders on his first day in office to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico if the two US neighbors do not clamp down on the flow of drugs into the US and people entering the country illegally.

Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente spoke with the new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about security and migration issues in a first official contact between the two diplomats, Mexico's president told reporters on Wednesday.

Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes US President Donald Trump pushes through. It is part of an established policy but is not always popular.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.