The president is hoping to smooth over a historically icy relationship between the two neighbors in order to bolster military cooperation in the region.
We can no longer stand back and hope for the best; instead we must be strong partners to those promoting peace and freedom, says German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock
The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.
"...to provide capital to developing economies, the New Development Bank had to borrow from Wall Street as well as Chinese lenders. So despite its mission to de-dollarize lending, about two-thirds of its own borrowings were dollar-denominated, the Journal said....
The United States is giving tentative backing to a plan that would remove barriers to Ukraine’s entry into NATO without setting a timeline for its admission, a modest step that American officials hope can bridge divisions among member nations over Kyiv’s path to joining the transatlantic military alliance....
"House conservatives on Wednesday proposed raising the US retirement age to collect Social Security, handing Democrats damaging political ammunition ahead of the 2024 election."...