President Donald Trump of America and his guest, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia have signed historic big deals on behalf of their countries.
While America has made the Kingdom the 21st Major Non-NATO Ally, signed a defence pact with it and is to sell to it the dreaded F-35 fighter jets, Saudi Arabia has pledged to invest some $1trillion in the American economy over the next four years.
The move brings both countries closer together in the strategic military and defence platforms.
The sale of the jets to Saudi Arabia is a major diplomatic breakthrough for the kingdom, given the strident Israeli lobby against it.
The Israeli lobby is at the heart of the subsisting refusal of America to sell the prestigious jets to Turkiye, which Israel respects for its advanced military power.
Poland
Warsaw Closes Last Russian Consulate In Country Over Alleged Sabotage
Poland has closed the last functional Russian Consulate in the country after it accused Russia of hiring Ukrainian saboteurs to attack its railway service earlier in the year.
Warsaw said that it had credible intelligence that two Ukrainians, allegedly hired by Moscow, were behind the recent sabotage of its rail system .
It added that after planting the explosive devices and causing an explosion, the saboteurs fled into nearby Belarus, a country with a pro- Russian government.
Russia strongly denied the charge.
Curacao
Curacao has made history as the smallest country, by demographic size, to qualify for the Soccer World’ Cup holding in America, Canada and Mexico.
The country of 150,000 people drew goalless with Jamaica to pick the ticket to the mundial.
It also made history by qualifying without their coach, Dick Advocat, being available.
Advocat, 78 years old, goes to the mundial as the single oldest coach for the world Cup next year.
He also holds the world record as the only man to have coached the soccer national teams of eight different countries in a lifetime.
America
Senate, Congress Pass Epstein Files Vote
Both the Senate and the Congress have passed votes for the full opening of the Epstein files.
The Senate passed it unanimously, after the Congress passed it by a massive margin in which only one member voted against it.
The development means that the American Department of Justice (DoJ) can proceed to release/ open the entire files of Jeffrey Epstein who died in prison while serving a jail term for sex offences, including the rape of a teenager and the assault of a woman.
President Donald Trump, in a surprising volte- face, urged his co- Republicans to vote for the opening of the files.
Trump has denied any links to the late convict , despite the claims of victims and deep media presentations of proofs of credible links between both men.
Aside from close, apparently warm photographs of the two.men, the media had also presented evidences of their mutual exchanges of affectionate letters.
Trump denied the charges, and has threatened to open an investigation into the alleged links of the files to top Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton from Little Rock in Arkansas.
Turkiye
Zelensky In Turkiye Over Russia War
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is in Turkey as part of his tour of countries considered influential to the fate of his country in its war with Russia.
He is due to meet the President of Turkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a strong advocate for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Turkiye, under Erdogan, has been the host of major diplomatic meetings of officials of both countries.
The talks between both countries’ officials in Ankara , the capital, and Istanbul, had led to the mutual exchanges of prisoners of war and bodies of fallen troops.
Ukraine has been under military pressure of late as Russian troops haul nearly nightly doses of military assaults on Kiev, the capital, Lviv, ,Chernobyl and Kharkiv.
France
France Reopens Door For Israeli Firms As Security Fair Holds
More than 2,600 firms in the military and security technology orbit are participating in this year’s expo holding outside of Paris, capital of France.
The exhibition is attracting firms from all over the world, and, for the first time in several years, firms from Israel are participating after President Emmanuel Macron gave the nod.
In recent years, France had barred Israel, citing its poor treatment of Palestinians and its war in Gaza, from such events..
30 firms from Israel are participating in the fair, the single largest in the world.
