Rutte:

I know that America greatly appreciates all the efforts that have been made in Afghanistan and acknowledges the many casualties of non-American allies.

Trump’s threats over Greenland alarmed U.S. allies and Congress, with some Republican and Democratic lawmakers warning senior officials that any military invasion without congressional approval could prompt an impeachment investigation.

Lawmakers privately urged the administration to back off, fearing Trump was moving toward the use of force without consulting Congress.

Source: Reuters

Albanian PM Edi Rama at Israel's Knesset on Palestine:

They failed to recognize that the jailer of Gaza is Hamas, no one else but Hamas.

Until Hamas is fully dismantled, its two million prisoners will never be truly free and no peace can endure.

I wish that a few of the tunnels of terror Hamas built—where the hostages taken on 7th of October were killed, raped, and tortured—will be preserved as defining testimony in favor of lasting peace among the two future states.

NATO's Rutte:

We are all supportive of a defense industry and that is vital, but it cannot at the moment provide nearly enough of what Ukraine needs to defend itself today and to deter tomorrow.

Please keep Ukraine’s needs first in focus.

We all know that without this flow of weaponry from the US we cannot keep Ukraine in the fight. Literally not.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar on Türkiye:

We had very good relations with Türkiye in the past, but in recent decades we have seen these relations deteriorate.

There is no need for normalization with Türkiye because we already have relations with Türkiye. We have had diplomatic relations with Türkiye for decades.

Unfortunately, in recent times the relations have worsened. This was their choice. I will not speculate here about the reasons. This is simply a fact.

We have no interest in making our relations with Türkiye worse than they already are.

About a month ago, senior officials from both sides met in order to create a mechanism that could be useful in such situations.

In the past, my colleague, the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, conveyed some messages from us to them, but recently this stopped.

I hope that we will reach a different and better future in our relations with Türkiye, but this depends entirely on the Turks.

Source: APA

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

I think Europe has shown strength and unity in these past weeks. I am grateful, but I also have to say that this is the only way forward.

We have to build a much stronger Europe. We need to become more self-sufficient, more competitive, and more independent.

Trump:

Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength.

I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future.

He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!

Germany’s Merz on Minnesota:

I find the news we've been getting from the USA in the last few days indeed worrying. And it's obviously always one region or one city that is affected.

I assume that the American authorities will now really clarify whether it was necessary to shoot here, whether there really was a threat to the officers involved.

In any case, I have to say I find this level of use of violence in the USA worrying, to put it that way.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

I think, or I hope, that all Europeans can now see that it was a huge mistake to be dependent on Russian fossil fuels. We should never have been.

And now we have to make sure that we will have no dependencies on other countries outside Europe, not only in energy but in everything.

Netanyahu:

Albania understands Israel, just as Israel understands Albania.

Small states are tested daily on their very existence — on what I call the safeguarding of life itself.

Existence comes before everything else.

Netanyahu:

History proves that if human evil is not stopped in time, it will spread and in the end it will threaten all nations and all continents.

Netanyahu on Gaza:

What is the next stage? The next stage is the dismantling of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu:

Any attempt by Iran to harm us will be met with a decisive response.

It would be a very grave mistake — one mistake too many.

White House:

Nobody in the White House, including Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America's streets.

This includes Renee Good, Alex Pretti, the brave men and women of federal law enforcement, and the many Americans who have been victimized at the hands of illegal alien criminals.

White House:

Let's be clear about the circumstances which led to that moment on Saturday.

This tragedy occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota...

Trump to Axios:

Hamas worked very hard to get the body back. They were working with Israel on it. You can imagine how hard it was.

Now we have to disarm Hamas like they promised.

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Netanyahu:

After we lost our land, we were spread around the world. In these distant lands, we were prominent.

When you are prominent, you raise a human passion called envy.

When you fuse envy with vulnerability, the combination of being weak and prominent is antisemitism.

Netanyahu:

Antisemitism took a respite for a few decades. You couldn't really do that in polite society.

But it raised its head again.

Netanyahu:

Social media is the new battlefield; this is where we must counter with our own weapons.

We are late in the game, but we will win this battle too because we are developing the means to fight this.

France is blocking an EU plan that would let Ukraine use EU funds to buy British Storm Shadow missiles.

Paris says the money should be spent only on EU-made weapons to support Europe’s own defense industry.

Source: The Telegraph

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A Syrian Foreign Ministry official told Rudaw that the U.S. has decided to withdraw its troops from Syria following recent gains by the Syrian Army in the northeast.