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With each passing day, it becomes increasingly evident that Western support for Ukraine has become ensnared in various domestic and geopolitical developments that have nothing to do with Ukraine’s struggle to defend itself. Although economists rarely agree on anything, there is a broad consensus that the cost of failing to provide Ukraine with enough support to win the war would be far greater than the cost of assisting it. The problem is compounded by political divisions within and among Western countries.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah will increase efforts to get more airlines in western countries to offer direct flights into the state, says Datuk Christina Liew.

Dozens of people, mainly Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, demonstrated Tuesday against a decision by Western states to stop their payments to the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The Islamist movement Hamas called on protesters to gather in front of the UNRWA headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut to denounce the decision of several countries following allegations 12 UNRWA workers participated in the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. "The decision to stop payments

Russia will respond to any attempts by Western countries to confiscate its Russian property and assets abroad, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

The battle lines were drawn in Geneva on Tuesday, as China faced a twice-a-decade United Nations public grilling over its human rights record. On one side was a group of mostly Western countries that roundly lambasted Beijing's "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang and Tibet, and urged it to repeal the national security law it had imposed on Hong Kong. On the other were most Global South nations, many of which praised China's poverty alleviation policies, and Beijing's long-standing part