I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track.

Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to

Historic decisions change history. Good to have you back, America 🇺🇸

Celebramos que la Cámara
de Representantes de EE.UU. haya aprobado una ayuda vital para Ucrania en un momento crucial.
Todos unidos debemos apoyar al pueblo ucraniano y defender la libertad y la democracia.
#StandWithUkraine

“It's a serious misjudgment to say that Russia doesn't matter.” I ask Britain’s ex-spymaster John Sawers if far-right Republicans are falling victim to Putin’s propaganda. “If you're looking at the next decade or two, the real security threat comes from Russia,” he warns.

The suspicion that Putin is recruiting agents in our country to carry out attacks on German soil is extremely grave. We will not allow Putin to bring his terror to Germany. This was communicated to the Russian ambassador today during a summons. Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock

“External fixators, which hold together fractured bones, are having to be removed from dead people & reused on living patients.”

Our CEO Melanie Ward speaking to Isa Soares about the lack of equipment in Gaza’s hospitals due to Israel’s systematic dismantling of the health system.

🇬🇪 Pres Salome Zourabichvili speaking to me on the controversial “foreign agents bill” “It’s a Russian strategy. It’s a provocation to the Georgian people and to our partners. What we see here at work is the Russian soft power”.

'The question of war and peace hangs in the balance now.'

📺 Fawaz Gerges (@LSEIRDept) spoke to CNN's Isa Soares on his fear that the Biden administration is sleepwalking the U.S. into another war in the Middle East

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'I want to see the EU use every lever at its disposal to exert the maximum amount of pressure to bring about a ceasefire,' Ireland's new Taoiseach Simon Harris TD tells Christiane Amanpour.

This involves 'like-minded countries coming together to recognize the state of Palestine,' he says.

Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza.

A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

Statement from the Goldman family:

Polish FM: “The EU has spent double what the U.S. has spent on helping Ukraine. We are often suspected, in the U.S., including in Congress, of being free riders. Well, on this one, we have done the right thing. We now need 🇺🇸 to do what the President has promised”

🇵🇱 Radek Sikorski “The Pres of the US went to Kyiv in wartime & assured Ukraine that the US will do ‘whatever it takes’. That ‘whatever it takes’ surely includes antimissiles artillery…to defend Ukrainian cities. If it doesn’t, the US credibility will be at stake.”

'The most important thing the United States can do is say to Mr. Netanyahu: you cannot continue this horrific war, you cannot allow children by the thousands to face starvation, or you're not getting another nickel,' Bernie Sanders tells Christiane Amanpour.

“Once we have weapons and concrete steps from our partners, we will break Putin’s backbone' Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський tells Frederik Pleitgen

Norwegian FM Espen Barth Eide tells me tonight that Israel’s report into the aid convoy strikes,“brought home to us how easy it is for the Israeli forces to fire at people they believe to be or think are terrorists on what seems to be not very convincing evidence to put it mildly”

“I was together with most of my Western foreign minister colleagues at the NATO meeting in Brussels & I could really feel that frustration even among those who have been most supportive of Israel until now, is that this is really going too far” tells me Espen Barth Eide

Quite a criticism of IDF standards from former CIA Director Leon Panetta: “You have to be able to verify, to take time…and I have to tell you that in the past, at least in my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions.”

A sad dark night here in Israel. I still don’t know whether the IDF attack on the aid convoy was a horrible miscalculation, a murderous act of an officer gone rogue, or - worse - military commands conflicting with both morality and the laws of war.
In the latter case, it would

CNN's Isa Soares Isa Soares speaks with photographer @edwardburtynsky about his exhibit in London at Saatchi Gallery, which highlights nature's beauty and our destruction of it.

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