Mladenov is a former Bulgarian defence and foreign minister who served as the UN envoy to Iraq before being appointed as the UN Middle East peace envoy from 2015-2020.
The leadership in Damascus signed a deal with the SDF in March for it to merge with the Syrian army by the end of 2025 but there have been disagreements over how that would happen.
US special forces snatched president Maduro and his wife in a lightning raid on Saturday and whisked them to New York to face trial on drug and weapons charges.
Dozens of protesters gathered early Thursday outside of a federal building on the edge of Minneapolis that is serving as a major base for the immigration crackdown.
Greenland is not for sale. But the episode is a reminder that the rules of the game are being tested. And that complacency about those rules would be the costliest mistake of all, Professor Aurélien Colson writes in an opinion article for Euronews.
As the Ukrainian president said that the Ukraine-US security guarantees are now ready for US President Donald Trump’s approval, Moscow rejected the idea of European peacekeepers deployed to Ukraine, threatening the allies' troops as a “legitimate target” for Russia.
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Donald Trump’s proposal to take control of Greenland faces opposition not just in Europe, but in the US – even in Trump’s own Republican Party.
Washington and Bogotá have enjoyed security cooperation for decades but ties have deteriorated since Trump began his second term last January.
According to local media outlet Rijnmond, police believe youths were throwing snowballs at passing cars which led to a physical altercation with the 60-year-old victim.
