White House Announces Biden’s Planned Trip To Brussels

Key Takeaways: Biden Will Head To Europe Next Week, Oil Prices Fall Under $100 A Barrel

• President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for meetings with European leaders, including a meeting at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and a separate summit with a European council.
• A Fox News cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski, was killed while reporting near Kyiv on Monday, and Zakrzewski’s Fox News colleague Benjamin Hall remains hospitalized due to injuries sustained in the same incident.
• The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday it had renewed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and applied them for the first time to his wife, Halina Radzivonawna Lukashenka, blocking their property and interests in the U.S. and prohibiting Americans from making transactions with them. i
• European benchmark Brent crude fell below $100 per barrel for the first time in almost three weeks on Tuesday as ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine alleviated some concerns of supply disruptions; Brent was down more than 7% to $99.15 in Thursday afternoon trading.

—Derek Saul and Anna Kaplan