Thu 22 May 2025: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that his country will “forcefully respond” to any Israeli attack after CNN reported that the Israeli military could be preparing strikes. “Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime of Israel and will decisively respond to any threat or unlawful act by […]
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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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Thu 22 May 2025: Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington, DC late Wednesday, US authorities have confirmed. The victims, identified by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were shot at close range as they exited an event hosted […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: A ‘comprehensive review’ of the US’s chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 has also been ordered. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States is reviewing whether to designate Afghanistan’s rulers, the Taliban, as a “foreign terrorist organization”. Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: South African leader keeps calm in the face of an ‘ambush’ by President Donald Trump about false ‘white genocide’ claims. Johannesburg, South Africa – When the millionaire mining magnate-turned-president of South Africa landed in Washington to meet the billionaire real estate tycoon-turned-president of the United States, it was with a deal 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: The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating, according to “frightening” new data. From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year, losing an area the size […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The newly selected head of the Catholic Church called the situation in the Palestinian enclave “yet more worrying and saddening”. “I renew my appeal… to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the high price of which is paid by children, the […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The Sudanese army said Tuesday that the capital Khartoum is now “completely free” of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following months of intense warfare. “We announce today the full clearing of the entire state of Khartoum from any presence of the Al-Dagalo militia and the purification of our national capital […]
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