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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.

Five days after the White House cast President Joe Biden as a man on a mission to be “leader of the free world” ahead of his disastrous tour of Europe, he returns to the diplomatic stage Tuesday to meet visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

U.S. President Joe Biden has earned a rebuke from the once-admiring British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for his “dangerous” remarks on Russian regime change.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Israel was “concerned” over the prospect of the U.S. removing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terror list amid a renewed nuclear deal with Iran.

Foreign ministers from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt will gather in Israel for the first time ever in a historic summit U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said would have been “unimaginable” a few years ago.

Ukraine’s intelligence services are  working in “close cooperation” with their Israeli counterparts, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s said Thursday according to the Haaretz daily.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday evening about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said in a statement.

President Joe Biden continued raising the alarm Tuesday about Russian President Vladimir Putin employing chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Israel opened a field hospital in the Ukraine on Tuesday, sending several tons of equipment as well as medical staff from major Israeli medical centers.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met on Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in  Sharm el-Sheikh, in a bid to boost regional ties.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Israel was spearheading many efforts to hold talks between his country and Russia and suggested Jerusalem might host a peace summit between the two sides.

President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in a video call on Friday, as Russia continues escalating its war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy veteran who was jailed in Iran for nearly two years sued the Iranian government on Thursday for $1 billion, alleging that he was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured.

President Joe Biden began his term by proclaiming that “diplomacy is back,” but White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted Thursday that neither he nor his administration were involved in ongoing diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the president would travel to Brussels, Belgium, to attend a NATO summit on March 24.

Multiple reports on Monday revealed the White House is weighing a trip for President Joe Biden to Europe amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces.

The Jerusalem Municipality on Sunday took down images of the Ukrainian and Russian flags alongside doves of peace hours after they were first projected on the walls of the Old City.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held an hour-long telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday evening, after the Ukrainian leader proposed Jerusalem host peace talks with Russia.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog was greeted with pomp and ceremony at the palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, marking the first time a leader from Israel has visited Ankara in nearly a decade and a half.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told American Jewish leaders on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was guilty of “pure Nazi behavior,” and compared Putin’s rhetoric against the Ukrainian people to that of chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, The Times of Israel reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed gratitude to Israel for its mediation efforts on the Ukraine-Russia war in a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Tuesday in Latvia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin would have never invaded Ukraine if he “had known what was going to happen,” the Russian president’s former speechwriter and political consultant told Israeli media on Sunday.

Russia’s envoy to the Iran nuclear talks said on Saturday that Tehran “got much more than it could expect” in the latest iteration of the nuclear deal, expected to be inked by Iran and world powers imminently as talks in Vienna intensify.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rebuked his fellow Republican colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) for calling on the assassination of Vladimir Putin. 

The United Arab Emirate’s decision to abstain from a U.S.-led resolution at the UN Security Council condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the result of frustrations over the U.S.’ response to a recent attack on Abu Dhabi weeks earlier, the Axios website reported citing Emirati, U.S. and Israeli sources.

A Russian delegation is prepared to resume talks with Ukrainian officials about the war in Ukraine within hours, a Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden went after Russian President Vladimir Putin hard during his State of the Union address on Wednesday, but withheld harsh words for Chinese President Xi Jinping — whose goal is for China to supplant the United States as the world’s superpower and whose government was responsible for not controlling the coronavirus outbreak within its borders.

U.S. “crisis eating” policies aligned with those of the free West are solely to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared Tuesday, before calling Washington a “mafia regime” responsible for all the trouble in the world.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel should be more cautious about its attitude to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and instead put its focus on the Iran nuclear deal, which was more of an “existential security threat.”

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to provide military assistance to the embattled eastern European nation, Israeli media reported Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett offered to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, a statement from the Kremlin said.

There has been a “total collapse of diplomacy” under President Joe Biden, former Acting Director of United States National Intelligence Ric Grenell said Friday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a failure of U.S. diplomacy, and that, to the contrary, diplomacy actually “succeeded very effectively” at “bringing the world together,

In its first statement on the Russia-Ukraine standoff, Israel’s Foreign Ministry expressed concern Wednesday over the “serious escalation” and supported Ukraine’s sovereign rights, but stopped short of blaming Moscow.

President Joe Biden’s is in a world of trouble at home and abroad as his dismal approval ratings show voters regard him as a nowhere man on a host of critical issues.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced in a statement late Sunday that President Joe Biden “accepted in principle a meeting” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a week after Biden completely ignored a personal invitation to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.