KREMLIN ANNOUNCES PUTIN-TRUMP PHONE TALKS ON MONDAY EVENING

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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ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR KARIM KHAN ON LEAVE AMID SEXUAL MISCONDUCT PROBE

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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SOUTH AFRICA’S RAMAPHOSA TO VISIT TRUMP: CAN THEY FIX TRICKY RELATIONS?

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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MOHAMMED SINWAR, BROTHER OF FALLEN HAMAS CHIEF, LIKELY KILLED, ISRAEL SAYS

Mon 19 May 2025: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed Sunday that the army likely killed Mohammed Sinwar, a Hamas commander and the brother of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, Anadolu reports. “All indications show that Sinwar was killed,” Katz said at a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. “There is no official […]

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MOGADISHU SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 10 AT ARMY RECRUITMENT DRIVE

Sun 18 May 2025: At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber targeted a queue of young recruits registering at the Damanyo military base in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Reuters. Teenagers were lining up at the base’s gate when the attacker detonated their explosives, they said. A military captain […]

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UKRAINE, RUSSIA PREPARE FOR 1,000 TO 1,000 PRISONER OF WAR EXCHANGE AFTER ISTANBUL TALKS

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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EIGHT QUESTIONS TO THE NARENDRA MODI GOVERNMENT AFTER A TERROR ATTACK, AN OPERATION AND A CEASEFIRE

Sun 18 May 2025: With the guns silenced, it is time to take stock and try to make sense of the developments of the past weeks. Narendra Modi came on television on the evening of May 12 and told the nation that Pakistan had begged for a ceasefire, and that India had conceded because it had already […]

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UK HOME OFFICE ‘OBLIVIOUS’ TO HORRIFIC INCREASE IN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, GIRLS

Sun 18 May 2025: One in 12 British women and girls are victims of violence every year and the Government will struggle to keep its promise to cut numbers by half, according to a report. The shocking findings were published in a report on Friday by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Anna Dixon, […]

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ARAB LEAGUE CALLS FOR FUNDS TO REBUILD GAZA AT SUMMIT IN BAGHDAD

Sun 18 May 2025: The war on the Palestinian territory dominated the summit, especially after Israel approves plans to expand its offensive. Arab leaders have urged the international community to fund their plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip after United States President Donald Trump reiterated a proposal to take over the Palestinian territory. An Arab League summit […]

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COURT REJECTS AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER’S DEFAMATION APPEAL OVER AFGHAN KILLINGS

Sat 17 May 2025: Decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith failed to have reports that he ‘murdered four Afghan men’ quashed. Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost an appeal against a civil court ruling that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Australia’s Federal Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday, […]

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