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Description: Israel and Iran continued exchanging barrages of aerial attacks with the war entering its fifth day as Netanyahu and then US President Donald Trump warned residents in Tehran to start evacuating in crucial areas of the city. Trump attended the G7 Summit in Canada when he expediently left due to addressing the Middle Eastern crisis and according to him something much more important. The death toll rises by the day as Israel and Iran continue to execute attacks which so far, with the exclusion of Israel’s elimination of the Iranian government and military echelon, have struck civilian and infrastructure targets. Israel has the aerial dominion over Iranian airspace
Description: Leaders from the seven countries met in Alberta, Canada where global security was abruptly introduced as the main agenda in line with the recent escalation of the Israel – Iran war. Canadian Prime Minister Carney managed to ascertain a one-on-one meeting with Trump which reportedly resulted in a potential trade deal in order to ease up tensions between the neighbors. Trump also met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and concluded the trade agreement with UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The US President would miss meeting Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, meetings which were deemed of high val
Description: Thailand and Cambodia have prolonged their negotiations over the disputed border demarcations after Cambodia threatened to ban Thai food imports if the latter didn’t quickly lift border restrictions. The border dispute severely escalated on 28 May when gunfire erupted between border patrols from both countries and left one Cambodian soldier dead. Leaders from the government and military forces have announced their intent to resolve the dispute through the already established bilateral mechanism, however, the Cambodian State Secretariat of Border Affairs recently stated they intent on abandoning the mechanism. Cambodia also stated the country would try and pursue
Description: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has stated they have conducted a financial restructuring and are now requesting for a budget of $29 billion in aid instead of the predetermined $44 billion requested in Dec. Cuts in funding and personnel come after the UN’s largest donor, the US, under the Trump administration, unilaterally withdrew funding for foreign aid organizations with other countries also significantly reducing their contributions. Humanitarian and aid needs across the globe have surged in the past couple of years with wars in Sudan, Ukraine, the DRC and Myanmar causing refugee and humanitarian crisis of massive propor
Description: The latest clashes between the Sudanese military forces supported by a military fraction comprised of Arab militants called the Joint Forces further plunged the country towards humanitarian devastation and a prolonged military crisis. The RSF recently managed to push the Joint Forces from the trilateral border region between Sudan, Libya and Egypt as it continues to push towards el -Fasher in the Darfur province. The war has so far inflicted irreparable humanitarian crisis causing massive refugee waves which have displaced more than 14 million people. The most recent peace initiative in London delivered no concrete proposals as most of the leadership from the wa
Description: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the effective reconstruction of his party’s leadership structure, following last week calls for snap elections and accountability. Party member Santos Cerdan was heavily implicated in a corruption scandal and called before Spain’s Supreme Court to testify which prompted opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo to lead massive demonstrations in the capital Madrid and call for snap elections. Sanchez named a replacement team for Cerdan and would initiate intercoalition talks in order to repair the damage caused by the corruption scandal. The Prime Minister is set to meet Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz, from the junior coal
Description: Israel and Iran exchange massive aerial barrages over the weekend while the war intensified as the international community scrambled to avoid another prolonged Middle East crisis which would have global implications and consequences. After crippling Tehran’s Islamic leadership by eliminating almost half of the military, intelligence and nuclear leadership in the country Israel continued its aerial attacks on critical infrastructure within Iran such as oil and gas pipelines. The IDF expanded the targeted attacks on various other nuclear enrichment sites risking radioactive leakages while Iran responded by launching several salvos of ballistic missiles on Tel – Av
Description: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Cyprus where he met with the Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, where they discussed the potential for Cyprus to become India’s trade corridor to Europe. PM Modi and President Nikos will officially meet on Monday where Modi is expected to visit the Cypriot Presidential Palace, however, they met on Sunday attending an unofficial business reception where reportedly several memorandums of cooperation between the two countries were agreed upon. Modi’s visit to Cyprus is considered as a diplomatic signal towards Turkey, which vigorously supported Pakistan in the latest armed confrontations between the two Asian countr
Description: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving Japanese Nippon Steel investment in US Steel. The companies later announced they eliminated all the conditions that previously represented a national security obstacle for the deal to be finalized and stated they went forward with the $14.9 billion investment. Nippon Steel would complete the initial investment of $11 billion by 2028, on top of making improvements by investing additional $3 billion in a renewed steel mill, while the US government would have the so – called golden share, which enables the US to remain in control over the company’s executive decisions in the future. Even though the effec
Description: Anti – immigration protests continued to engulf the US on a nationwide level, while Trump was attending the Washington military parade, celebrating and commemorating 250 years of the US Army. Massive protests erupted last week due to Trump’s enlarged illegal deportations which sparked civil unrest in various cities across the US. Los Angeles turned into a political battlefield between Governor Gavin Newsom and President Trump while they exchanged blame over Trump’s deportations and his decision to deploy members of the California National Guard and the Marines on the streets of LA. The protests were labeled as No Kings protests alluding to Trump’s overstepping o