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US should abandon hostility toward North Korea: China foreign minister

Yvonne A-Baki believes that Russia and Ukraine should sit together in the United Nations and talk

Explosions were reported near Feodosiya, Crimea

As noted in the explanatory note, the ratification will contribute to expanding cooperation between the two countries in such areas as satellite navigation, space communications, satellite TV and radio broadcasting

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on five Russian individuals and four organisations linked to the production and distribution of the popular animated series Masha and the Bear.

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Amputee children in Gaza are learning to swim as part of a programme helping them rebuild confidence and mobility.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's comments underscored how Trump is shifting to economic rather than military pressure on Tehran as his unpopular war drags toward the six-month mark.
“This was supposed to be a blatant Turkish violation of the understandings,” Leiter said. "We made clear that this was a violation of our understandings—and that is why Israel acted as it did.”

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. military said Thursday that it is aware ...
Melania Trump shows up: I heard you missed me. Here I am.
The Ukrainian Finance Ministry has been given a clear mandate to accelerate the sale of Sense Bank, with the proceeds to be used to finance Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Yevgen Korniychuk thanked Israel for its support for Ukraine in its struggle for “independence and peace and prosperity,” citing polls showing that over 85% of Israelis support Ukraine in its war.
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov called for mandatory military service for women, saying it would "immediately double the mobilization resource." Gender equality means women must also serve in the army. They can fill many rear and logistics positions, freeing men to move closer to the front. He cited Israel as the model, where women serve alongside men under similar threat levels. Ukraine's official position remains that there are no plans for compulsory female mobilization.

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Former Turkish Special Forces Commander Zekai Aksakallı: Israel cannot compete with us. We are not like other countries.
JD Vance on Charlie Kirk's killing: I understand the desire to not buy the official narrative, but if you're going down a rabbit hole that leads you to attack Erika Kirk, all we can ever do is trust our instincts, but also trust our rationality. I know Erika. She's a very, very good person, and she's trying to raise two kids who just lost their father, and she just doesn't deserve the attacks that have been leveled against her.

Attacks by Sudan's paramilitary RSF on villages southwest of El Obeid have left six civilians dead and forced over 1,000 people to flee on foot, local sources tell Sudan Tribune. The fresh influx adds pressure on overcrowded camps in North Kordofan. https://t.co/3X8sOV1pmW #Sudan #NorthKordofan #ElObeid #RSF #SudanWar
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JD Vance on Iran: We're kind of now in a new phase where the most effective tool that we have is the economic pressure that we can apply to them. And this is a delicate dance because we apply economic pressure to them. They're going to try to apply economic pressure to us. But what has been true over the last couple of weeks is they felt a lot more pressure than we have. We're going to keep that going because we think that's the best way.

Washington's new measures against the ICC have been widely condemned but welcomed by Israel.
JD Vance on Iran: If we can get enough oil and gas out to give some Americans some ease at the pump, some ease on energy prices, meanwhile, the Iranians are punished for shooting at commercial ships. That just applies a lot of economic pressure to them and that changes their calculus for, you know, what kind of a deal they want to make, what kind of arrangement they want to have with the United States of America. Do they want to have their economy strangled for the rest of time or do they w

US Treasury chief urges China to back proposed Iran sanctions US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged China to “get with the programme” over proposed sanctions on Iran, saying Beijing would benefit from the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lower energy prices. Asked in a CNBC interview whether Washington could target China for doing business with Iran, Bessent said such discussions were best held in private but that the United States was confident everyone wanted the strait reopened and

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Netanyahu is holding a high-level security meeting with defense and intelligence chiefs to discuss potential developments, with a particular focus on Syria and tensions with Türkiye. Source: i24

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The commander of the 64th Motorised Rifle Brigade Dmitry Shabayev a brigade known for the Bucha Massacres has been severely injured in a strike on a command post by Ukrainian forces in Hulyaipole.

The US treasury secretary says allies will need to decide whether they "are with us or against us".

SDF chief Mazloum Abdi declares the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Asayish security forces into Syria’s Defense and Interior Ministries complete. The move formally places the SDF under the Defense Ministry and Asayish forces under the Interior Ministry, according to Abdi.

A Croatian court has ordered the detention of Ukrainian national Volodymyr Zhuravliov, who was arrested in Pula under a European arrest warrant issued by Germany over the Nord Stream explosions.

The USS Abraham Lincoln began its journey home to San Diego on Thursday after a nine-month deployment, much of it supporting U.S. operations against Iran. Its roughly 5,000 sailors spent nearly all of the 272-day deployment at sea, amid reports of supply shortages, water and plumbing problems, and worsening conditions aboard the carrier. The Japan-based USS George Washington has replaced the Lincoln in the Middle East. The Lincoln now faces a roughly 13,000-mile journey home, expected to tak

A U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III taking off from Christchurch, New Zealand, returned after receiving a “potentially hazardous” space activity notice.

A U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III taking off from Christchurch, New Zealand, returned after receiving a “potentially hazardous” space activity notice.

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