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US–Russia flashpoint looms over Putin’s plans for African naval base
The Trump administration is warning of «serious consequences» over Russia’s plans to open a naval base in war-torn Sudan. News of the development of the base has triggered an unusual warning from the State Department, Fox News Digital was told.
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, «We encourage all countries, including Sudan, to avoid any transactions with Russia’s defense sector.»
The Kremlin appears to be desperate to join the Horn of Africa global powers «naval club,» with its approved plans for a base for warships and nuclear-powered submarines at Port Sudan. This is not far down the Indian Ocean coast from Djibouti, where there are U.S. and Chinese bases. With the new Syrian government likely to kick the Russians out of their base in Tartus, Port Sudan would be Russia’s only foreign naval base.
«Moscow views Sudan, because of its strategic location, as a logical place to expand Russia’s footprint into Africa, which Putin views as a key place of geopolitical confrontation with the United States and China,» Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst, told Fox News Digital.
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This picture taken on Feb. 28, 2021, shows a view of the Russian Navy frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich (494), anchored in Port Sudan. (Ibrahim Ishaq/AFP via Getty Images)
«Russia views the U.S. and China as its top adversaries, with whom Moscow may in the long-term have a kinetic conflict. Hence, Putin wants intelligence and military capabilities stationed close to the U.S. Djibouti base and Chinese facilities,» she said.
«Given that the U.S. and China already have [a] naval presence off of the Horn of Africa,» Koffler added, «Russia is looking at Port Sudan as a logistics hub for weapons transfers, storage of military hardware ammunition, all sorts of war-fighting capabilities.»
«The potential Russian naval logistics facility in Sudan would support Russian power projection in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean,» John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital. He added that «this issue has gained greater importance for Moscow, given the uncertainty over the future of its Tartus naval logistics facility.»
A Russian naval base in the Indian Ocean has strategic military implications — it’s a relatively short sailing distance to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, a choke point through which an estimated 12% of the world’s shipping passes, while 61% of global oil tanker traffic is also said to use the canal. Koffler said this poses a significant security threat.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and his Sudanese counterpart Ali Yousuf Al-Sharif shake hands during a press conference in Moscow on Feb. 12. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
«If Russia perceives an impending escalation against Russia, let’s say in Ukraine — such as an impending deployment of NATO forces or draconian economic measures designed to tank [the] Russian economy — I would not rule out the possibility that Putin could authorize something disruptive to exploit the choke point and destabilize or disrupt global shipping, as a way of deterring Western actions threatening Russia.»
The deal permitting Moscow to build a military base has been given the green light, although there are serious logistical challenges involved. «The agreement between Sudan and Russia was finalized in February, following a meeting between Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Yusef Sharif and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow,» Koffler explained.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov at the Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Sept. 23, 2014. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Hence the strongly worded comments to Fox News Digital from the State Department that «the United States is aware of the reported deal between Russia and the SAF [Sudanese Armed Forces] on establishing a Russian naval facility on Sudan’s coast. We encourage all countries, including Sudan, to avoid any transactions with Russia’s defense sector, which could trigger serious consequences, potentially including sanctions on entities or individuals associated with those transactions.
«Moving forward with such a facility or any other form of security cooperation with Russia would further isolate Sudan, deepen the current conflict, and risk further regional destabilization. «
On the (very) dry land that is Sudan, the situation Monday around the city of Al Fasher and the neighboring massive Zamzam refugee camp in the Darfur region is «horrifying,» U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Tom Fletcher posted.
Maxar satellite imagery of the ground at the Main Market Zamzam IDP civilian camp in Al Fasher on Feb. 13. (Satellite image (c) 2022 Maxar Technologies via Getty images)
The civil war in Sudan, between the government’s SAF and the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has just passed its grisly second anniversary. Tens of thousands have been killed, and an estimated 13 million people have been uprooted from their homes. The U.N. describes it as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and UNICEF calls it «hell on earth.»
«There can be no overstating the brutality and destructiveness of the RSF assault on Zamzam (refugee camp),» Sudan researcher Eric Reeves told Fox News Digital this week. «The camp that has existed since 2004 is no longer, even as it had grown to more than 500,000 people.»
Ominously, Reeves added that «the real dying has only just begun. Nearly the entire population of Zamzam has fled, and in all directions the threat of RSF violence remains. This creates insecurity of a sort that prevents humanitarians from reaching these scattered people. Tremendous numbers will die either from RSF violence or the lack of food, water and shelter.»
Fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel group active in Sudan’s Darfur State, which supports army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, attend a graduation ceremony in the southeastern Gedaref state on March 28, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
Another 30 were reported killed on Tuesday in a fresh RSF attack on Al Fasher. And just this past week, the RSF rebels announced they are setting up their own government. The State Department told Fox News Digital, «The United States is deeply concerned about the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and aligned actors’ declaration of a parallel government in Sudan. This attempt to establish a parallel government is unhelpful for the cause of peace and security and risks a de facto partition of the country.»
«It will only further destabilize the country, threaten Sudan’s territorial integrity, and spread wider instability throughout the region. The United States has made clear that our interest is in the restoration of peace and an end to the threats the conflict in Sudan pose to regional stability. The best path to peace and stability is an immediate and durable cessation of hostilities so that the processes of establishing a civilian government and rebuilding the country can begin,» the spokesperson said.
Sudanese displaced people gather at the Zamzam refugee camp outside the town of El-Fashir in the Darfour region of Sudan on July 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
Caleb Weiss, editor of the FDD’s Long War Journal and also a Defections Program Manager at the Bridgeway Foundation, put some of the blame for not ending the Sudanese war on the Biden administration. He told Fox News Digital that it «stopped short of seriously facilitating any sort of meaningful peace talks/mediation/or being tough on outside backers of various groups to really get them to be serious in previous negotiation attempts. This is where the Biden administration failed.»
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Weiss continued, «President Trump should continue to be aggressive on sanctioning those committing acts of violence, but also sponsor and back serious peace talks that include both parties, offer financial incentives or even threaten financial penalties, and seriously hold international backers accountable for exacerbating the conflict.»
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Incoming NGA Chair ‘disappointed’ in Dem governors ‘playing politics’ in bipartisan group
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Colorado Springs, Colo. – Incoming chair of the National Governors Association (NGA), Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Okla., is «disappointed» that some Democratic governors might stop paying their dues to the bipartisan group.
The Atlantic reported ahead of the NGA’s summer meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo., that at least two Democrats, Govs. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Laura Kelly of Kansas, plan to stop paying their dues when asked to renew their membership this month over the NGA’s response to President Donald Trump’s second term.
«We shouldn’t be playing politics like they do in Washington, D.C.,» Stitt told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview at the summer meeting. «But sometimes, if you’re a governor running for president or a higher office, you make it political.»
Kelly is chair of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), the partisan gubernatorial arm that has been vocal in resisting the Trump administration. As Walz weighs a third gubernatorial run, the former vice presidential candidate has remained a leading critic of Trump’s administration since losing the White House alongside Vice President Kamala Harris last year.
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Incoming National Governors Association (NGA) chair Gov. Kevin Stitt spoke to Fox News Digital during the NGA summer meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
The Democratic discontent comes as Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado prepares to cede his chairmanship to Stitt, a Republican, at this weekend’s summer meeting. Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., is set to become vice chair.
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«I would tell anybody, listen, do you want your leaders to take their ball and go home just because they get mad at something? That’s not the way to solve problems,» Stitt said, adding that he likes both Walz and Kelly.
«Listen, this isn’t the time to take our ball and go home. Let’s sit down and debate what the best policies [are] going forward,» Stitt added.
The Oklahoma governor said it can be «frustrating» when Democrats are constantly targeting Trump, but as a business leader, he said there are plenty of instances in which governors can find common ground, including a reduction of the United States’ more than $36 trillion in debt.
National Governors Association (NGA) outgoing chair Gov. Jared Polis discusses American education with Education Secretary Linda McMahon at the NGA Summer meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday, July 25, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey – Fox News Digital)
Ahead of the summer meeting, Eric Wohlschlegel, NGA communications director, emphasized the bipartisan nature of the NGA and told Fox News Digital the NGA’s «mission hasn’t changed.»
According to The Atlantic report, Democratic members of the NGA complained the group «did not respond forcefully enough» when the Trump administration paused federal funding early this year, as Gov. Janet Mills of Maine clashed with Trump over biological men playing in women’s sports and, more recently, when Trump authorized the National Guard to California to amid the anti-ICE protests.
«Every public statement NGA issues reflects bipartisan consensus. So far this year, all but one statement has had that consensus, and when governors don’t agree, we simply don’t issue one. That’s how we preserve our role as a bipartisan convener, a principle we won’t compromise,» Wohlschlegel explained.
Thirteen Republican and seven Democratic leaders planned to attend the summer meeting, featuring discussions with Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, vice chair of the NGA, speaks as chair Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado listens at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meeting in Washington, D.C. (Fox News/Charlie Creitz)
A source familiar with the situation blamed the controversy on «Democratic infighting, unspoken campaign jockeying and a few anonymous voices looking to reshape a nonpartisan institution into a political one.»
The source added that «no governors are on the record expressing discontent with the NGA. No allegations of misconduct, governance failure or mismanagement have been raised.»
And without addressing the controversy directly, Conor Cahill, a spokesperson for Polis, told Fox News Digital the governor «has been honored» to lead the NGA and to «work across the aisle with governors on education, permitting reform, standing up to federal efforts to strip away gubernatorial authority around the National Guard and elevating the priorities of states.»
He added that «during this polarizing time, bipartisan organizations are needed more than ever, and NGA must continue to demonstrate value to all governors and effectively communicate governors’ opinions on various matters with the public and the federal government.»
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Abegail Cave, a spokesperson for Stitt, told Fox News Digital ahead of the NGA that «people seem to forget NGA is a bipartisan organization, not a political one.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz and Kelly for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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Una muestra en Barcelona revela la infancia de Claude y Paloma Picasso junto a sus padres artistas
“No es fácil ser hija de Pablo Picasso, pero tampoco de François Gilot“, ha confesado Paloma Picasso en la presentación de la exposición Crecer entre dos artistas, con el que el Museo Picasso de Barcelona rinde homenaje a su hermano Claude.
Calificada por el director del museo y cocomisario, Emmanuel Guigon, como “sensible, emocionante y poética”, la exposición se podrá ver desde mañana viernes hasta el próximo 26 de octubre, y el público podrá seguir un viaje emotivo por la infancia de Claude y Paloma Picasso junto a sus padres, en Vallauris, en el sur de Francia, adonde se trasladaron tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Impulsada por la propia Paloma Picasso, la muestra reúne cerca de un centenar de obras icónicas, y muchas de ellas inéditas como La Guenon et son petit, entre pinturas, cerámicas, juguetes y fotografías familiares, así como correspondencia, que ofrecen “una mirada íntima y excepcional a la vida familiar del artista”, remarca Guigon.
Las obras de la exposición, que ha contado con el apoyo de toda la familia Picasso, transmiten, según Guigon, “la felicidad de la vida familiar, y al mismo tiempo una vida centrada en el trabajo”, porque, como ha precisado Paloma, sus padres eran “por encima de artistas, dos trabajadores”.
Comienza la exposición con los retratos de los cuatro integrantes de la familia, convertidos en sombras chinas, pero que “también se podría interpretar como las figuras de las cerámicas griegas”, anota el director del museo barcelonés.
En una segunda sala hay retratos de la familia, algunos inéditos como un retrato de Françoise Gilot de 1946 (Mujer joven sentada), cuadros en los que se ve a los niños jugando, muchos recortes de papel convertidos en pequeños objetos para jugar, fuera un mosquetero, un autobús o un “arlequín dislocado”.
En este mismo espacio se encuentra la escultura La mona y su cría (1951) y los dibujos preparatorios, que muestran el proceso seguido por Picasso para convertir en una mona unos cochecitos que le había regalado Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler a Claude y que el artista ‘robó’ a su hijo.
“Esta escultura es la demostración de que Picasso, más que un genio, es humano, porque decir que es un genio es como si su creatividad le hubiera caído del cielo, y detrás de cada obra había mucho trabajo, como se ve en los dibujos en los que esos coches de Claude se convirtieron en una mona», ha señalado Guigon.
En el ecuador del recorrido, se pueden contemplar, por primera vez en España, algunas de las obras de Gilot, centradas en Claude y Paloma y la vida familiar en Vallauris, en la casa de La Galloise.
Se trata de una obra muy influenciada por Picasso, como se puede comprobar en óleos como Claude y Paloma jugando con una pelota (1953), Mis hijos jugando (1952), Claude a caballo sobre un juguete (1952), La lección de lectura o La mesa del jardín con Claude, éstas sin fecha.
Al final de la exposición, se exhiben algunas cerámicas picassianas con Claude como protagonista, una filmación en la que se puede ver al artista transformar un vaso en una paloma, así como la película que el propio Claude dirigió con Thierry Spitzer un año después de la muerte del malagueño, Atelier 74, que documenta el estado del taller de La Californie, prácticamente intacto desde que Picasso lo abandonó en 1961 para instalarse en Mougins.
Paloma Picasso ha destacado que “en aquel ambiente familiar no había diferencia entre las obras importantes y los juguetes que hacía Picasso“, como unas muñecas que creó con la cara de su hija, que “apenas las hizo -ha recordado- me las quitó, así es la vida”.
No ha ocultado también su satisfacción de que se pueda ver en Barcelona la obra de su madre, algo que frustró la pandemia.
Sobre la relación con dos padres artistas, Paloma Picasso ha comentado: “Mi padre vivía y compartía cosas con nosotros, ponía su vida como ejemplo, y mi madre, con un pensamiento más intelectual, expresaba su temor de que acabáramos odiando el arte, porque era el arte el que nos robaba tiempo con nuestros padres; pero vivir en un ambiente tan creativo es lo mejor para un niño”.
Ha asegurado que no tiene muchos recuerdos de sus padres juntos, pues cuando se separaron ella tenía cuatro años, pero “lo hicieron bien, porque ninguno de los dos hablaba mal del otro”.
De ambos heredó la idea de “no conformarse con lo que sabes hacer, sino ir más allá” y fue así como se acabó dedicando al diseño de joyas.
Fuente: EFE
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The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to fire numerous Democrat-appointed members of independent agencies, but one case still moving through the legal system carries the greatest implications yet for a president’s authority to do that.
In Slaughter v. Trump, a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission has vowed to fight what she calls her «illegal firing,» setting up a possible scenario in which the case lands before the Supreme Court.
The case would pose the most direct question yet to the justices about where they stand on Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the nearly century-old decision regarding a president’s power over independent regulatory agencies.
John Shu, a constitutional law expert who served in both Bush administrations, told Fox News Digital he thinks the high court is likely to side with the president if and when the case arrives there.
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The Supreme Court is photographed, Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
«I think it’s unlikely that Humphrey’s Executor survives the Supreme Court, at least in its current form,» Shu said, adding he anticipates the landmark decision will be overturned or «severely narrowed.»
What is Humphrey’s Executor?
Humphrey’s Executor centered on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to fire an FTC commissioner with whom he disagreed politically. The case marked the first instance of the Supreme Court limiting a president’s removal power by ruling that Roosevelt overstepped his authority. The court found that presidents could not dismiss FTC commissioners without a reason, such as malfeasance, before their seven-year terms ended, as outlined by Congress in the FTC Act.
However, the FTC’s functions, which largely center on combating anticompetitive business practices, have expanded in the 90 years since Humphrey’s Executor.
«The Federal Trade Commission of 1935 is a lot different than the Federal Trade Commission today,» Shu said.
He noted that today’s FTC can open investigations, issue subpoenas, bring lawsuits, impose financial penalties and more. The FTC now has executive, quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions, Shu said.
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If the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily allow two labor board members’ firings is any indication, the high court stands ready to make the FTC less independent and more accountable to Trump.
In a 6-3 order, the Supreme Court cited the «considerable executive power» that the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board have, saying a president «may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf.»
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS)
The order did not mention Humphrey’s Executor, but that and other moves indicate the Supreme Court has been chipping away at the 90-year-old ruling and is open to reversing it.
The case of Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya gets closest to the heart of Humphrey’s Executor.
Where does Slaughter’s case stand?
Slaughter enjoyed a short-lived victory when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., found that Trump violated the Constitution and ruled in her favor on July 17.
She was able to return to the FTC for a few days, but the Trump administration appealed the decision and, on July 21, the appellate court paused the lower court judge’s ruling.
Judge Loren AliKhan had said in her summary judgment that Slaughter’s case was almost identical to William Humphrey’s.
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Rebecca Slaughter, commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«It is not the role of this court to decide the correctness, prudence, or wisdom of the Supreme Court’s decisions—even one from ninety years ago,» AliKhan, a Biden appointee, wrote. «Whatever the Humphrey’s Executor Court may have thought at the time of that decision, this court will not second-guess it now.»
The lawsuit arose from Trump firing Slaughter and Bedoya, the two Democratic-appointed members of the five-member commission. They alleged that Trump defied Humphrey’s Executor by firing them in March without cause in a letter that «nearly word-for-word» mirrored the one Roosevelt sent a century ago.
Bedoya has since resigned, but Slaughter is not backing down from a legal fight in which Trump appears to have the upper hand.
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«Like dozens of other federal agencies, the Federal Trade Commission has been protected from presidential politics for nearly a century,» Slaughter said in a statement after she was re-fired. «I’ll continue to fight my illegal firing and see this case through, because part of why Congress created independent agencies is to ensure transparency and accountability.»
Now a three-judge panel comprising two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee is considering a longer-term pause and asked for court filings to be submitted by July 29, meaning the judges could issue their decision soon thereafter.
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