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The United Nations Security Council will meet today to discuss the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack The United Nations Security Council will meet today to discuss the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistan’s foreign office said yesterday it would brief the UN on…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected Putin’s short ceasefire offer by saying it’s “more of a theatrical performance” on the Russian president’s part. DW has the latest. Russia carries out drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says Ukraine said Russia had launched a drone attack on Kyiv overnight, causing damage to several buildings in the city. Falling debris from…

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced he was going to step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year. He has tapped Berkshire Hathaway executive Greg Abel replace him. Warren Buffett announced Saturday during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting that he will step down as CEO of the $1.1 trillion (€973 billion) conglomerate at…

Buckingham Palace has issued a rare statement after Prince Harry lost an appeal Friday to regain taxpayer-funded security in the UK and later told the BBC that he wanted to reconcile with his family. “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion,” a Palace…

THE US has announced it will no longer act as the mediator to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine after Vladimir Putin refused to accept a full ceasefire. The State Department said the country is changing “the methodology of how we contribute” to the talks and will no longer “fly around the world at the…

GRAND plans are being made for a massive military parade on Donald Trump’s birthday – with some 7,000 troops marching and 50 helicopters flying over Washington DC. The president reportedly plans to splash a whopping $100 million on the full-blown military spectacle to show the US might. A source in Washington DC has revealed that Trump is…

Vance: Russia’s war in Ukraine not ending ‘any time soon’ US Vice President JD Vance said he did not believe the war in Ukraine was going to end “any time soon.” It is “going to be up to the Russians and Ukrainians now that each side knows what the other’s terms for peace are. It’s going to…

THE US and Ukraine have finally signed the historic minerals deal, leaving Vladimir Putin furious. The long-awaited agreement blames Putin for the three-year-long war, spares Ukraine from payback and will even allow Kyiv to join the EU. The US and Ukraine signed the minerals deal two months after it was derailed by Trump and Zelensky’s Oval Office…

China’s national flag was recently unfurled on a disputed reef in the South China Sea by its uniformed troops, an act broadcast by state media in what analysts believe to be a first public display in decades of what had previously been quiet actions. In contrast with how Chinese fishermen, maritime militia, and even civilian groups have…

The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday (Apr 30) signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump’s administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid. Ukraine said it secured key interests after protracted negotiations, including full sovereignty over its own rare earths, which are…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved additional relief for domestic automakers from his 25% vehicle and auto parts tariffs set in motion less than a month ago, saying it would help the industry to move more production back to the U.S. Trump’s latest orders mark the latest softening of his multi-layered tariff assault on trading partners…

Spain and Portugal held emergency Cabinet meetings as evacuations from some public spaces took place. Spain’s Interior Ministry has declared a state of emergency for affected regions that need it. Follow DW. Over 61% of electricity restored in mainland Spain Electricity has been restored to over 61% of mainland Spain following the massive blackout that affected the…

A protracted rift between Malaysia’s national oil corporation Petronas and the Sarawak state government appears to be causing investor disquiet following a surprise withdrawal by United States oil firm ConocoPhillips from an oil project off the Borneo coast. In a little-publicised surprise move this month, ConocoPhillips decided to withdraw from operating the Salam-Patawali deepwater oil and gas…