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Russia’s Battlegroup North liberated four settlements in the Kharkov Region in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The South Korean government's response to China's forced repatriation of North Korean escapees has seemed somewhat subdued, amid desperate efforts to maintain the cautious improvement of bilateral ties between Seoul and Beijing and eventually pave the way for a long-delayed three-way summit including Japan, anticipated later this month.

Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he’s facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New York hush money case “a Biden show trial.”

Polls have opened in Catalonia in a regional parliamentary election whose outcome will reverberate in Spain’s national politics.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 219th day, has killed at least 34,971 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,641.

Mission accomplished: Given China's ambitions, this was probably the dominant feeling in the Chinese presidential plane as it took off from Budapest on Friday, May 10, at the end of Xi Jinping's first tour of Europe in five years. The trip, which took the Chinese president to France, then Serbia and Hungary, principally enabled him to display the commercial and geopolitical objectives of Chinese power, without offering any concessions to the leaders of the European Union.

Academics have called on the government to avoid “inflaming” the situation on British campuses, as students protest against the war in Gaza and their universities’ links to Israel.

Social media users have launched 'operation blockout', where they block celebrities they believe have not used their platforms to shed light on pressing issues in Gaza, Sudan and beyond

The UN General Assembly convened again in New York on Friday for an emergency special session on the Gaza crisis and overwhelmingly passed a resolution which upgrades Palestine’s rights at the world body as an Observer State, without offering full membership. It urged the Security Council to give “favourable consideration” to Palestine’s request.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 218th day, has killed at least 34,943 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,572.