Thu 22 May 2025: US President Donald Trump, during a phone call with European leaders on Monday, said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready to end the war in Ukraine as he believes he is winning, according to three Wall Street Journal sources who were familiar with the conversation. The newspaper said the “acknowledgment was what European leaders had long believed about Putin—but […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: Relentless downpours battered eastern Australia for a second day on Thursday, with overflowing rivers flooding roads and isolating nearly 50,000 people. In Taree, 300 km north of Sydney, police discovered a 63-year-old man’s body in a flooded home, and another body, likely a missing man in his 30s, was found in […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The US has accepted a 747 jetliner as a gift from Qatar, the US media outlets reported Wednesday, citing a defense department spokesman. According to the report, the Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to rapidly upgrade the plane so it can be put into use as […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Statement from Biden’s office comes after US President Donald Trump expressed doubt over timing of diagnosis. Former United States President Joe Biden was not diagnosed with prostate cancer before last week, and received his “last known” blood test for the disease more than a decade ago, his office has said. The […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: The EU approved on Tuesday its 17th sanctions package against Russia. “The EU has approved its 17th sanctions package against Russia, targeting nearly 200 shadow fleet ships,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced on X. She added that new measures also address “hybrid threats and human rights.” Underlining that […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: The Russian president is said to have denied Kadyrov’s request. The health of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who earlier this month sought to resign, is deteriorating rapidly, sources and observers have told Al Jazeera. But Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want Kadyrov to be succeeded by his third son, they […]
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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: 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: 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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Sun 18 May 2025: A large-scale prisoner exchange involving 1,000 captives each from Ukraine and Russia may take place next week, Ukrainian intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said Saturday following peace negotiations in Istanbul. “I hope it will happen next week,” Budanov told Ukrainian broadcaster TSN. “There will be an exchange — whoever we can take, we will take. And give it back in the same way,” […]
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