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A senior Kremlin foreign policy aide said European leaders at the recent G7 summit likely put forward misleading or harmful information to U.S. President Donald Trump about the situation in Ukraine. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov also maintained that Trump is a determined leader who retains his own judgment, and said Moscow expects a visit from Trump en…
A large, privately financed campus honoring the 44th U.S. president is scheduled to be dedicated in Chicago amid broad fanfare and cultural programming. The Obama Presidential Center spans 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park and features an eight-story granite museum, performance spaces, recreational facilities and extensive landscaping. Organizers…
As Canada co-hosts the World Cup with the United States and Mexico, many Canadian fans vocalize discomfort with sharing the tournament with their southern neighbor amid heightened political tensions and trade disputes. While some urge putting politics aside for the sake of sport, a majority of those interviewed say they will not travel to the U.S. …
New York City will hold a ticker-tape parade Thursday to honor the NBA champion New York Knicks after their Game 5 clinching victory. Municipal authorities are coordinating the event, which Mayor Zohran Mamdani said could be the largest in the city's history. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has ordered 10,000 officers to Lower Manhattan as offici…
Four years after the Azov Regiment surrendered the final pocket of Mariupol in May 2022, the formation has been reconstituted and expanded into a corps that is mounting an organised campaign of drone strikes against Russian-held infrastructure. Recent operations have struck Mariupol's port and nearby electrical and repair facilities, and corps lead…
Thailand has renewed plans for a 1 trillion baht (about $30.45 billion) Land Bridge logistics corridor that would connect two new deep-sea ports on the Andaman and Gulf coasts via rail and road, offering an alternative routing to the crowded Strait of Malacca. The proposal promises cost and time savings for certain cargo flows and could handle up t…
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te urged swift approval of a new U.S. arms sale package and stressed that bolstering the island's defence and rejecting rule by the Chinese Communist Party are not provocations. Lai affirmed continued communication with the U.S. and reiterated a desire for talks with Beijing based on parity and respect, while noting China…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he held an extended conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump during a leaders' dinner at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, describing the talks as making significant progress on peace for the Korean peninsula and bilateral ties. Lee left the summit with a pen Trump had been using and recounted a person…
On June 18, Kyiv came under missile attack as air raid warnings spread across most of Ukraine. The strikes occurred hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders aimed at coordinating efforts to end the war. Authorities reported casualties in multiple locations, damage to cultural heritag…
The United Nations released its annual Children and Armed Conflict report showing a record number of children affected by grave violations in 2025. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that Israeli settler groups could be added to the U.N. blacklist if high levels of violations continue in 2026, and highlighted an alarming increase in attacks …
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said the central question in upcoming discussions between Tehran and Washington is how Iran's nuclear programme will be monitored. While officials from both sides say they have reached a memorandum of understanding to end hostilities and open wider talks, the minister urged that durable, enforceable verification arra…
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte hosted U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday. The visit, which included a formal greeting on the palace steps and a planned dinner, came after G7 talks where leaders reached a joint statement on Ukraine. The encounter was presented as a gesture to reinforce relati…
U.S. and Iranian negotiators will reconvene in Switzerland after months of hostilities, attempting to convert a recently agreed memorandum of understanding into a comprehensive peace deal within 60 days. The interim pact postpones the most contested issues to later talks, leaving open questions on Iran's nuclear materials and enrichment, the future…
At the end of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, President Donald Trump publicly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he should adopt a 'softer touch' in operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump reiterated that he had provided Netanyahu with the U.S. 'memorandum of understanding' reached with Iran and said the accord clears the way f…
Kenya is reportedly close to sealing an arrangement with the United States that would enable the country to carry out downstream processing of its critical minerals on Kenyan soil. The agreement, according to the president, would encompass rare earths and other strategic minerals and reflects a regional shift toward domestic processing to preserve …
A senior U.S. official said both Iran and the United States retain the option to walk away from a 14-point memorandum of understanding slated for signature on Friday, and that forthcoming talks in Switzerland are likely to concentrate on the precise sequencing of steps outlined in the preliminary accord. The official, speaking anonymously, read out…
The United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have a 14-point interim memorandum that, according to a draft text, would end active hostilities, lift a naval blockade, resume merchant shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, and initiate a 60-day negotiating window toward a comprehensive final agreement. Key elements include commitments on respect for…
On June 17 in Hebron, Israel approved construction of a 1,000 square metre building to expand a Jewish school in the centre of the Palestinian city. The decision, announced by Finance Minister Bezalal Smotrich, follows his recent move to cancel a deal that gave the Palestinian municipality planning authority in parts of Hebron’s historic area. Pale…
Tropical Storm Arthur formed near the Texas shoreline and is forecast to produce heavy rainfall and potentially life-threatening flash flooding across parts of the southeastern United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported. The system, the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, was located roughly 40 miles east-northe…
Iranian officials have framed an interim agreement with the United States as a win that pauses war, but many residents report little immediate improvement to living standards after months of strikes and a port blockade. Interviews show widespread financial strain, anxiety over fresh crackdowns and skepticism that the deal will hold through the summ…
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the G7 summit that negotiations with AI developer Anthropic are "going fine" after a meeting with global leaders and technology executives that included Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The company and the administration remain at odds over foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced models, Fable 5 and Myth…
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at a Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains that he had spoken with Syria’s leader Ahmed al-Sharaa about confronting Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. The comments followed his public criticism of Israeli operations in Beirut and his praise for Sharaa, who took power in 2025. Washington had previously en…
A fragile lull following an interim agreement between Iran and the United States has allowed residents and authorities in Lebanon to begin assessing the damage from three months of conflict. The southern city of Tyre and surrounding areas have suffered heavy losses: homes reduced to rubble, healthcare facilities repeatedly struck, and large-scale i…
A joint United Nations report from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme says extreme hunger has intensified across 13 identified "hunger hotspots." The report highlights Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Northeast Nigeria and Gaza as places at immediate risk of famine unless rapid humanitarian action is taken. It cit…
Russian authorities accused Ukraine of striking a bus transporting Belarusian schoolchildren on June 17, an incident Moscow says left one adult dead and several other passengers wounded. Ukraine’s General Staff denied carrying out unmanned aerial vehicle attacks in the relevant area, and Russian investigators opened a terrorism inquiry. Independent…
