US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Sweden and Finland will soon become NATO allies, despite Turkey's concerns about the two countries joining the Western military alliance.

Planned talks between Russia and the US over a nuclear treaty have been postponed but not cancelled, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says, as tensions continue between Washington and Moscow.

The United States has said that a “nuclear war is something that must never be fought,” after Putin stated that nuclear tensions had risen because of the war in Ukraine.

The US is set to further strengthen its military presence in South East Asia amid growing tensions with China.

Half of Americans (47 percent) say that Ukraine should be forced to reach a peace deal with Russia, according to recent survey.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the United States would oppose illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The US military may run out of money for the Ukraine conflict as Republicans are planning to cut Pentagon appropriations for Ukraine, according to to report.