Wed 28 May 2025: Foreign minister Wang Yi is meeting top diplomats from 11 Pacific nations in the Chinese city of Xiamen. China is hosting a high-level meeting with 11 Pacific Island nations as it seeks to deepen ties and build what it calls a “closer” community with “a shared future” in the strategic region. […]
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Wed 28 May 2025: The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor, was set to pursue arrest warrants for two far-right Israeli cabinet members before taking a temporary leave in May. According to current and former ICC officials, Khan targeted Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister […]
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Wed 28 May 2025: Trump Media says the money will be used to create a ‘Bitcoin treasury’. The Trump Media and Technology Group will raise about $2.5bn to invest in Bitcoin, United States President Donald Trump’s social media firm says, as it looks to diversify its revenue streams with a push into the financial sector. […]
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Wed 28 May 2025: Israel has received 940 aircraft and vessels loaded with US weapons and military equipment since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. “The 800th aircraft in the comprehensive military equipment and weapons airlift operation that commenced immediately following the (Gaza) war has […]
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Tue 27 May 2025: Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes, Reuters reported five people familiar with the matter saying. The contacts mark a significant development in ties between states that […]
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Tue 27 May 2025: Israel’s breaches of international law in Gaza risk setting ‘anarchy’ loose upon the world, a signatory says. The United Kingdom must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and take steps to “prevent and punish genocide” in Gaza, according to a letter signed by more than 800 lawyers, academics […]
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Tue 27 May 2025: The high court has declined to hear a bid to block a project that Indigenous groups say would destroy a site of religious significance. The United States Supreme Court has declined to weigh a bid from a Native American advocacy group to block the construction of a large copper mine on […]
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Tue 27 May 2025: The Supreme Court acquitted A.T.M. Azharul Islam, a Jamaat-e-Islami party member detained since 2012, of crimes against humanity and ordered his release. Born in 1952, Islam was one of six senior politicians convicted during Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year authoritarian rule, which ended in August 2024 after a student-led uprising forced her to […]
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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. Tue 27 May 2025: ECB President Christine Lagarde argues the US economic policy shifts have created inroads for the euro to the standard currency for future global trade. The euro could become a viable alternative to the US dollar as the global standard currency for international trade, […]
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US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem placed a note in the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Tue 27 May 2025: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the US president ‘wants peace’ but will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Washington, DC – United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says she delivered a […]
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