
Russia, Ukraine seek grain and energy ceasefire, says US Secretary Rubio
A potential ceasefire could stabilize global markets, but ongoing military actions highlight the complexities of achieving lasting peace.
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„Rubio's dual role centralizes US foreign policy power, potentially reducing checks and balances”
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CryptoBriefing ↗„his unprecedented pressure campaign against the island”
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A potential ceasefire could stabilize global markets, but ongoing military actions highlight the complexities of achieving lasting peace.

Sen. Mich McConnell (R-Ky.) and three other Republican senators are calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to release billions of dollars in stalled national security assistance for Taiwan, reminding the senior Cabinet officials of their past statements in support of defending Taiwan’s sovereignty. The senators in a letter…

A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging action to secure the release of an American journalist unjustly imprisoned in Iran. The letter was sent one day before U.S. officials indirectly talked with Iranian officials in New York. Reza Valizadeh, 49, is a dual Iranian-American citizen and former…

US secretary of state Marco Rubio to meet Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as Donald Trump set to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping

Russia pounded Kyiv with drone strikes on Wednesday, hitting railway infrastructure, warehouses and fuel stations, just hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

President Trump has signed a commission permanently making Secretary of State Marco Rubio the national security adviser, according to a White House official. Rubio is the first person to hold both roles at the same time since Henry Kissinger. The development was first reported by MS NOW. Rubio had previously been serving in the role…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the Ukrainian military targeted U.S.-linked ships and infrastructure several times in recent months. “The one thing we are concerned about, however, is that over the last few months on a number of occasions American-linked ships, American oil supplies, have been targeted — probably not deliberately — but…
Reza Valizadeh, a U.S.-Iranian dual citizen and former journalist for U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Farda, has been imprisoned in Iran since September 2024.

Rubio's dual role centralizes US foreign policy power, potentially reducing checks and balances and altering diplomatic dynamics globally.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleged U.S.-linked oil infrastructure has been targeted in recent weeks by Ukraine amid its war with Russia in an interview with Fox News.

The White House launched 'Trump TV' as major networks suspended the television pool covering the US president.

President Trump is open to meeting the Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly while he is in New York, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. Rubio, who also serves as national security adviser, made the remarks in an interview with Fox News, saying the president operates with “common sense”…
Secretary of state Marco Rubio delivered off-the-cuff remarks and met with members of the media during the event in New York, one journalist says

Geopolitical instability in key regions may lead to sustained oil market volatility, impacting global economic stability and energy policies.

Rubio's stance may heighten US-Iran tensions, reducing diplomatic resolution chances and increasing potential for military conflict impacts.

Marco Rubio should not dismiss this new and highly effective form of propaganda.

The Palestinian Columbia student snatched by ICE writes about his Kafkaesque ordeal with a quiet fury Mahmoud Khalil was completing a master’s degree at Columbia University when, in March 2025, plain-clothed officers from the Department of Homeland Security snatched him from his home in New York and took him to an immigration detention centre; he was then transferred to another facility in Louisiana, more than 1,000 miles away. As a green card holder, Khalil has permanent US residency, but secretary of state Marco Rubio had determined that his continued presence in the country would have “adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”, and sought his deportation under a legal provision dating back to the McCarthy era. Khalil was released on bail in June 2024 after a federal judge ruled his detention unconstitutional, but the Trump administration is still trying to have him removed. Khalil – who was born to Palestinian parents in a refugee camp in Syria – had been targeted because of his advocacy on behalf of pro-Palestinian protesters during campus protests over Columbia University’s links to Israel. They were calling for Columbia to cut its ties with Israeli academic institutions and companies profiting from Israel’s onslaught on Gaza; in response, the university called in the NYPD. There was no suggestion that Khalil had done anything unlawful, and no criminal charges were brought against him; the government had simply identified him as an influential pro-Palestinian voice on campus, and for that reason alone they wanted him gone. He spent a total of 104 days in detention, missing the birth of his son. Continue reading...

Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions Spanish hotel chains . A Canadian mining firm . European shipping giants . Visa and Mastercard . Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer over fear of being hit with potent, new secondary sanctions . Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told Axios last month there are “no escape valves” from his unprecedented pressure campaign against the island. But not everybody is losing out. A growing cast of Washington and Florida insiders – from billionaire Trump cronies and Rubio-linked lobbyists to Cuban exiles – are jockeying for control of the communist-ruled island-nation’s key assets, charging top dollar to help clients navigate the ever-expanding web of sanctions, and positioning themselves for lucrative business opportunities in the case of regime collapse. Continue reading...

The visa restriction policy targets South African nationals who US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims are responsible for "race-based discrimination" against white citizens.