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Pentagon head Pete Hegseth - has said that Washington could restart the war with Iran at any time if it wanted. His remarks follow days of talks and a two-hour meeting in the White House situation room - that has yet to produce a deal between the US and Iran. Analysis by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor, Shirli Sitbon.
SOCIAL AFFAIRS: After decades covering the world’s defining conflicts, veteran journalist Oren Nahari now faces a deeply personal battle with ALS.
Europe has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's demands to increase defense spending.
The enemy continues to attack railway infrastructure and industry workers: on Saturday in Zaporizhia, a UAV hit a diesel locomotive, killing a driver, the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine reports.

The White House had signalled Trump was close to a decision on a potential deal, though Tehran denied there was a final agreement on ending the conflict.

Gaza death toll rises to 72,938 as Israeli attacks continue The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 72,938, with 172,919 people wounded since 7 October 2023, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The ministry added that Israeli strikes have killed 929 Palestinians and wounded 2,811 others since a nominal ceasefire took effect on 11 October.

Israel’s military has advanced beyond Lebanon's Litani River for the first time since 2006.

Israeli military readies for possible surge in fire from Lebanon The Israeli army warned that it expects an escalation in fire from Lebanon towards northern Israel, amid its expansion of military operations in southern Lebanon, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Sirencs sounded in several northern Israeli communities as the army attempted to intercept a drone launched from Lebanon, it added.

[The Conversation Africa] On the evening of April 26, the Egyptian merchant vessel Sward was hijacked by armed men a few miles off the Somali coast. It was steered towards an anchorage near the port of Garacad in Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in north-eastern Somalia.
Head of the Center for Human Rights and War Memorialization at Kyiv School of Economics and former head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINR) Anton Drobovych believes Ukraine should do its utmost to steer the historical discussion with Poland into a constructive channel.

The world faces challenges from “hegemonism” and “bloc confrontation” driven by “certain countries”, China’s delegation to Asia’s premier security conference said on Saturday, without directly naming the United States. Major General Meng Xiangqing, the head of the Chinese delegation to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, sent the warning during a special session on managing threats to strategic stability. Meng, a professor at the People’s Liberation Army National Defence University, also used.
Trump was fined $200 for failing to disclose stock trades worth tens of millions of dollars within the required 45-day reporting deadline. Source: WaPo
Trump bought up to $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Group Holdings, UFC’s parent company, shortly before heavily promoting a UFC event at the White House. Source: HuffPost

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On May 30, Russian military forces attacked railway infrastructure in the Zaporizhzhia region with a drone, killing a locomotive engineer.

Lebanon army says targeted Israeli strike wounds two soldiers Lebanon's military has said that a "targeted" Israeli strike wounded two soldiers in southern Lebanon, a day after military delegations from the two countries met in Washington. In a statement, the Lebanese army said "two soldiers were seriously wounded as a result of being targeted inside a vehicle by a hostile Israeli drone" near the southern city of Nabatieh.

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Ukraine's Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, held talks with his Danish counterpart, Troels Lund Poulsen. The two sides discussed further steps in cooperation aimed at helping Ukraine maintain the initiative across all domains of the war.

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Divisive foreign political narratives are being wrongly cast as religious discourse within our Muslim communities.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel in a televised address on Saturday of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” following new Israeli strikes in the south of the country. A ceasefire between Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah officially took effect on April 17 but has not been observed.

Lebanon's prime minister accused Israel on Saturday of pursuing a "scorched-earth policy" in his country's south, urging a halt to the fighting as Israel carried out fresh airstrikes and issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen locations.

The president has wavered on whether to move ahead with an agreement with Iran to end the war. On Friday, he vowed to make a “final determination” soon.

Hundreds of vulnerable children in Hong Kong are waiting for temporary homes, with a local charity urging more households from diverse backgrounds to step forward as demand for foster placements continues to outstrip supply. Mother’s Choice said 222 children remained on the official waiting list for placement, adding that single carers now make up nearly 10 per cent of foster parents in its Project Bridge programme, while the rest are married or same-sex couples. The charity, which supports...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Saturday wrote to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan, urging immediate judicial intervention to ensure transparency in the upcoming GB elections amid what he described as an “alarming” deterioration in the electoral environment. The move came amid a series of reported incidents involving PTI leaders during the ongoing election campaign in the mountainous region. PTI senior leader Asad Qaiser on Saturday claimed

Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for Amazon satellite launches and bolstering SpaceX’s dominance in the commercial launch market. The mishap, which occurred during a test fire of the engines for the New Glenn rocket’s launch next week, comes at a critical time for Jeff Bezos’ business empire. His companies Blue Origin and Amazon are seeking to establish themselves as viable chal

Egypt races to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israeli attacks and displacement threats push deal to the brink of collapse.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed two decrees enacting decisions of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine on synchronizing sanctions with decisions of the European Union, the presidential press service has reported.

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Pete Hegseth: The policy we have on Taiwan is the same as it was at the beginning of this administration. The only change you might see is how we talk about the entirety of it.
Pete Hegseth on Iran: Iran wants to say that they control the strait, but we do. And everything behind the scenes shows that we are in control when it comes to that.
Pete Hegseth on Iran: The blockade is very much still in place.
Pete Hegseth: Where we can help Ukraine, we have. Where we can enable Europe to do more, we have. If you look at the amount of money that's been spent, Europe has stepped up and Ukraine has been just as, if not more, effective in the process. So, we want them to be able to defend, and we'll find a way to make sure we can help them.
Pete Hegseth: What you'll see in President Trump's 2027 budget is $56 billion in investment in drone dominance. We continue to learn from what Ukraine has done on the battlefield. We've learned so much from Ukraine and how they operate. We intend to not only be at par, but the best in the world at it.

101 East investigates the plight of two North Korean POWs in Ukraine and the campaign to transfer them to South Korea.
Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia for the second time this morning, killing one person and injuring another.
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