Mon 19 May 2025: After more than two hours, the call between Trump and Putin is over, according to Russian state media. The Russian president described the talks as “substantive, candid and very useful,” the RIA Novosti news agency said. He also “expressed gratitude to Trump for the US role in resuming direct negotiations between […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has submitted a bill to the Knesset seeking to bar Qatar from mediating in negotiations involving Israel by officially labelling it a “state sponsor of terrorism.” According to the Hebrew-language newspaper Haaretz, Likud Knesset Member Moshe Saada introduced the bill, which targets Qatar’s role in […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has assured the public that the withdrawal of the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) is currently underway and proceeding according to plan. This comes after a media report claimed that the South African soldiers were stranded in […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said he refused a request by the head of France’s intelligence service to ban Romanian conservative voices ahead of the country’s elections. Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: RSF also called for the immediate release of media professionals detained for doing their job and for the abusive legal proceedings against them to be dropped. New Delhi: The organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has noted a decline in the media economy and worsening conditions for journalism in India. In a press […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: The humanoid robot market is expected to grow nearly fivefold over the next decade amid rising global competition and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, a sector representative told Anadolu. Meric Atalay, chairman of the Turkish Purchasing Professionals’ and Managers’ Association (TUSAYER), said that Türkiye must prepare for a shift […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump will speak by phone on Monday evening. During a press conference in Moscow on Monday, Peskov confirmed that the call is scheduled for 5 pm Moscow time (GMT1400). According to him, the purpose of […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, has been placed on leave until an investigation conducted by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) is completed. “The investigation into alleged misconduct by the Prosecutor is conducted by the OIOS upon request by the […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: Actor calls on filmmakers to ‘keep telling the stories, keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are’. Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal has called on members of the film industry to “fight back” and keep expressing themselves amid what he appeared to describe as a political climate of fear […]
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Mon 19 May 2025: The two countries have clashed over alleged persecution of white South Africans and Israel’s war on Gaza. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will begin a state visit to the United States on Monday in what his government describes as an attempt to “reset” the relationship between the two countries, which many […]
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