Netanyahu Has Made Israel A U.s. Adversary

In recent months, the U. S. and the E. U. have sought to portray a mostly united front when it comes to China. Both Washington and Brussels have called out Beijing over its support for Russia amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and both have firmly opposed any attempts to alter the status quo around Taiwan, the self-governed democracy to which Beijing lays claim. But as much as American and European leaders may appear to be in lockstep on China, the same cannot be said for their respective populations.

As Rishi Sunak arrived in Washington on Wednesday for his first White House visit as U. K. Prime Minister, it became clear that his relationship with Joe Biden has improved significantly since the U. S. President mistakenly called him “Rashi Sanook” just months earlier. On Thursday, Biden, 80, and Sunak, 43, will meet for the fifth time since the latter’s appointment in October, when he became the U.

As the U. K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes his first visit to the White House on June 8 to renew the “special relationship,” it is crucial that President Biden urges him to take decisive action against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The time to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organization is now. As an advocate for human rights and freedom of speech, I have first-hand experience with the IRGC’s reign of terror.

The Vatican said in a statement that Pope Francis, 86, will receive intestinal surgery and will be put under general anesthesia.       

KYIV, Ukraine — The fallout from the breach of a river dam along a frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine continued to wreak havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment on Wednesday. The dramatic rupture of the Kakhovka dam that upheld Ukraine’s largest reservoir began releasing a torrent of water a day earlier in areas where tens of thousands of people live along the Dnieper River.

A day after a dam in southern Ukraine was badly damaged, some towns are submerged, structures swept away and mass evacuations are ongoing. Satellite images detail the destruction.