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Ukraine LIVE: Shameless Putin demands ‘written’ NATO pledge as Trump issues peace deadline | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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On Wednesday, the funeral for Tamara, 8, Stanislav, 12, and Roman Martyniuk, 17 — all from the same family — was held in Korostyshiv in northern Ukraine.

The siblings were killed over the weekend when debris from a Russian cruise missile struck their home. The children were killed as they slept in their beds at 3am.

The children’s father, also injured, was released from the hospital to attend the funeral alongside his two surviving children.

“The three kids were incredibly bright, incredibly polite, the smartest, best students, always ready to help, always ready to support others,” said 22-year-old Yuliia Skok, Roman Martyniuk’s teacher.

Under Merz, more Continuity than Change in German Policy toward the Middle East • Stimson Center– www.stimson.org

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European opinion toward Israel appears to be shifting in a more negative direction as the war in Gaza grinds on. But in Germany, where a new government was formed on May 6, foreign policy will likely feature more continuity than breaks with the past.

The new government is led by the center-right Christian Democratic Union and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), which together took 29 percent of the vote. Friedrich Merz, a 69-year-old West German with no prior experience in a governing coalition, is the new chancellor.

German political commentators expect Merz’s chancellorship to be strongly oriented towards foreign affairs in a context of uncertainty over the outcome of the Ukraine war and Donald Trump’s tariff policies. In a sign of the importance Merz attaches to foreign policy, he was willing to make concessions to his partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), in the allocation of other ministries in exchange for securing for his party the foreign ministry, which in Germany has traditionally gone to the government’s junior partner.

Merz also plans to create a national security council that would tie Germany’s foreign policy closer to the work of the chancellor. The choice of Johann Wadephul, a personal friend, to head the council is part of this effort to centralize foreign policymaking.

Starmer to attack Farage’s spending plans as ‘mad experiment’ – UK politics live | Politics– www.theguardian.com

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The UK has said it wants to accelerate negotiations to conclude a trade deal with Donald Trump in the wake of the US court ruling that the sweeping tariffs he imposed on imports from more than 60 countries were illegal.

Despite Keir Starmer sealing the first deal with Trump since his so-called “liberation day” at the start of April no legal text exists to bring the concessions he won into force. The UK is also still threatened with a 10% reciprocal tariff on all exports outside the deal which was seen as a life saver for the car and steel industries.

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is expected to meet US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick at a meeting of the OECD in Paris next Tuesday.

Ukrainian Drones Slam Into Moscow Apartment Buildings– www.themoscowtimes.com

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Ukrainian drones struck at least two apartment buildings in and around Moscow overnight, Russian media reported Thursday, as officials sought to downplay the extent of the damage.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defense systems had destroyed three drones targeting the capital city. “There were no serious damages or casualties,” he wrote on Telegram.

However, images published by Telegram news channels showed the charred facade of a high-rise apartment block in Moscow’s southwestern Troparyovo-Nikulino District. The building is located around 800 meters (0.5 miles) from Russia’s Military Academy of the General Staff, according to reports.

Another video showed a drone slamming into the top floor of a high-rise in Odintsovo, a town west of Moscow near the Skolkovo tech hub.

Spain denies power grid ‘experiment’ caused giant blackout– www.channelnewsasia.com

pgnewser May 28, 2025 0

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MADRID: Spain’s government on Wednesday (May 28) denied a press report that an “experiment” on the national power grid caused a huge blackout that crippled the Iberian Peninsula one month ago.

Authorities have been scrambling to find answers after the Apr 28 outage cut telecommunications, halted transport and plunged cities into darkness across Spain and Portugal.

Conservative British daily newspaper The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources in Brussels, that Spanish authorities “were conducting an experiment before the system crashed, probing how far they could push reliance on renewables in preparation for Spain’s rushed phase-out of nuclear reactors from 2027”.

“The government seems to have pushed the pace recklessly, before making the necessary investments in a sophisticated 21st-century smart grid capable of handling it,” it added.

Asked about the report in parliament, Ecological Transition Minister Sara Aagesen said: “It is false, totally false, that the government carried out any sort of experiment on the grid prior to the outage.”

Germany charges 3 people with spying for Russia, potentially with intent to kill– abcnews.go.com

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BERLIN, Germany — Three people in Germany were charged with working for one of Russia’s intelligence agencies and could have been plotting to kill a man, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday.

The three men arrested in the “particularly serious case” on June 19, 2024 in Frankfurt were identified as Robert A., a Ukrainian citizen; Vardges I., an Armenian national; and Arman S., a Russian citizen. Their full names weren’t released in line with German privacy rules.

“The spying operation presumably served to prepare further intelligence operations in Germany, possibly even leading to killing,” the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.

German prosecutors said at the beginning of May 2024, Vardges I. received an order from a Russian intelligence agency to spy on a man living in Germany who fought in Ukraine’s armed forces after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

To do this, Vardges I. recruited Robert A. and Arman S., who are accused of trying to lure the man to a meeting in a cafe in downtown Frankfurt with the aim of identifying him and gathering further information about him. Because the man had previously been in touch with German police, no meeting ever took place, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said, adding that the three men remain in custody.

Moscow accuses Merz of trying to force Ukraine ‘to continue fighting’– www.yahoo.com

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Russia has accused the German government of warmongering over its promise of further support for Ukraine, after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Berlin and Kiev are aiming to jointly produce long-range weapons.

Commenting on the statement made following a meeting between Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the German leader of further fuelling the war with his remarks.

“This is nothing more than an attempt to force the Ukrainians to continue fighting,” he said, accusing Berlin of torpedoing efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

During Wednesday’s meeting, Merz said the German and Ukrainian defence ministers are to sign a letter of intent on the “procurement of long-range weapons systems from Ukrainian production.”

Germany’s Merz promises to help Ukraine produce long-range missiles– www.bbc.com

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Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky that Berlin will help Kyiv produce long-range missiles to defend itself from Russian attack.

“We want to talk about production and we will not publicly discuss details,” he said, when asked by reporters in Berlin if Germany would supply Kyiv with its Taurus missiles.

Merz took office earlier this month, promising to beef up German support for Ukraine, and said this week that there were “no longer” any range restrictions on weapons supplied by Kyiv’s Western allies.

The Taurus has a range of 500km (310 miles) and could reach deeper into Russian territory than other far-range missiles.

Emmanuel Macron & wife Brigitte put on united front for cameras day after shocking face slap drama– www.thesun.co.uk

pgnewser May 27, 2025 0

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EMMANUEL Macron and his wife Brigitte have put on a united front for the world’s cameras a day after the shocking face slap drama.

Viral footage that has overshadowed the start of the couple’s Southeast Asia tour shows the French leader’s wife shoving him in the mouth and jaw after landing in Vietnam.

Furious Macron attempted to downplay the incident last night by claiming the pair were “squabbling and, rather joking”.

He added that the unbelievable incident has been overblown into “a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe”.

The French leader also argued that the clip and viral reaction to it offered a cautionary tale about disinformation in the social media age.

Today, Macron and the First Lady were captured arm-in-arm after arriving at Hanoi’s University of Science and Technology for the French president to make a speech.

IOC upholds ban on Russian teams for 2026 Olympics– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser May 27, 2025 0

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“The IOC Executive Board recommendation from March 2023 with regard to teams of athletes with a Russian passport remains in place,” an IOC spokesperson said, according to a report. “It is based on the fact that, by definition, a group of Individual Neutral Athletes cannot be considered a team.”

Affirmation of a continued ban, which began as part of sanctions imposed on Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, arrives after International Ice Hockey Federation President Luc Tardif was quoted as saying the IOC had planned to exclude Russia and its star-studded hockey team from next year’s games.

“We have been pressuring them to make a decision, one way or another, because we’re getting closer to the Olympics and we need to know,” Tardif said.

“Recently, they asked us to send them a schedule without Russia, so that’s where we are. The official statement is pending but the IOC has told us that they are informing the Russian Olympic Committee that they are not participating in the Olympics.”

‘Horsing around’: Macron brushes off video showing wife shoving him in the face– www.france24.com

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A clip showing Brigitte Macron appearing to shove the French president in the face went viral, with local media reporting that the Élysée Palace initially decried the video as “fake”. It was later corrected, though Macron downplayed the moment as ‘horsing around’ with his wife. Online reactions though have been negative, either proclaiming the moment shows domestic violence or mocking the incident. Vedika Bahl goes through what we know in Truth or Fake.

Russia seizes Ukraine border towns, slows bombing after Trump says Putin has gone ‘crazy’– thehill.com

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Russia seized four Ukrainian border towns in the northeast late Monday while tempering down its bombing campaign after three days of intense aerial attacks.

The move comes just days after President Trump claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone “crazy.”

Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the Sumy regional military administration said Monday that Russian forces captured four villages: Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka. He added that the local population was evacuated early so that they would not be in danger.

The land seizure comes less than a week after Putin ordered the military to formulate a buffer zone along the Russian border with Ukraine. Sumy Oblast borders Russia’s Kursk region, an area the Ukrainian military occupied parts of during last year’s offensive.

Russia launched 60 drones into Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian military. The nation’s Air Force said early Tuesday that 43 Shahed drones were downed in the east, north and south of the country.

 

‘A Man Who Wants Results’: Trump And Kremlin Agreed To Prisoner Exchange, Russian Foreign Minister Says– dailycaller.com

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia and the White House have agreed to a prisoner swap, according to NBC News.

Lavrov did not provide any additional details as to the nature or persons involved in the swap in his remarks during multilateral negotiations involving Russia, Turkey, the U.S. and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkey, according to NBC News. The deal would be the second such swap in as many months, as Russian-American woman Ksenia Karelina was released in April after being imprisoned on treason charges in exchange for Russian national Arthur Petrov.

The exchange comes in the backdrop of stalled negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine and Russia to end the three-year war. In light of the slow-moving talks, President Donald Trump has reportedly become frustrated with Putin, and has considered implementing new sanctions against Moscow, a number of unnamed sources told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday.

Russia Ukraine war latest: Germany says Western allies are lifting range limits on weapons sent to Kyiv– www.independent.co.uk

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Donald Trump grows angrier as Vladimir Putin exposes his impotence

As Washington settled in for a typically sleepy Memorial Day following the passage of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the House, the president fired off one of his trademark furious rants on Truth Social, but the target was a surprise.

It was aimed squarely at Russian president Vladimir Putin. Despite what he called a “very good relationship” with Putin, Trump in his latest statement on the Ukraine-Russia war blasted the Russian leader as “absolutely crazy.”

Mr Trump sudden harsh turn was illuminative, if not for the reason he may have intended, writes John Bowden:

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Macron’s wife shoves him on plane in moment caught on video – National– globalnews.ca

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French President Emmanuel Macron brushed off an incident involving his wife, where she appeared to aggressively shove him while disembarking a flight.

Macron’s office on Monday downplayed the altercation in which his wife, Brigitte Macron, appeared to shove him in the face as the couple arrived in Vietnam at the start of a Southeast Asia tour.

In the video, Brigitte’s hands can be seen pushing into his face while the president prepares to disembark from the presidential aircraft. Only her arms and hands are visible, which, clad in red sleeves, matched the attire she wore moments later when walking down the plane’s steps alongside her husband.

Trump could exit Ukraine talks – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com

pgnewser May 27, 2025 0

EU Parliamentarian Petr Bystron Delivers Powerful Speech in Brussels in Defense of President Donald Trump and His Pro-American Agenda (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

pgnewser May 23, 2025 0

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EU Parliamentarian Petr Bystron delivers powerful speech in Brussels in defense of President Trump’s positions.

Petr Bystron is a member of the European Parliament from Germany.

Peter comes from the conservative AfD Party and represents Germany in Brussels.

Petr has been violently stalked and threatened by far-left Antifa goons in Germany. He does not let it slow him down. He is courageous and confident in his positions.

This week Petr Bystron spoke to the EU Parliament about the greatness of President Donald Trump’s popular agenda to “Make America Great Again.”

EU Parliamentarian Petr Bystron from Germany: Dear colleagues, “Make America Great Again,” is clearly a challenge to the world, to the EU, to Europe. Why? The American president looks after Americans. Surprisem Surprise! He wants jobs in the United States. He wants prosperity to return to the United States. He aims to bring industry back to the United States.

And what do I hear here? Trump, Trump, Trump! One man is enough to throw the European Union and Parliament into chaos!

Colleagues instead of complaining about Trump, you old parties should ask, “What have you done? When did you last fight for your voters like Trump does for his Americans?

German police detain identitarian activists at airport, they face up to a year in prison for traveling to Remigration Summit in Italy– rmx.news

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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The Federal Police had actually issued several Identitarians with a travel ban, but they still flew to the “Remigration Summit 2025” in Italy. Upon their return, officers were waiting to place them in handcuffs. Are those affected facing prison sentences?

German police armed with machine guns stopped German Identitarian Movement (IB) activists after they landed back in Germany at Munich Airport, and they now face a year in prison simply for leaving the country to attend a conference.

The activists also shot video of the heavily armed police officers stopping them.

The conference in question, the “Remigration Summit 2025,” was hosted in Milan, Italy, and attended by a wide range of Europeans, including Austria’s Martin Sellner, Eva Vlaardingerbroek and French MEP Jean-Yves Le Gallou. They delivered speeches and shared ideas on why they believe Europe needs remigration.

In a video, three of the activists stated that they were met by “15 heavily armed federal police officers who had printouts of our faces in front of them so they could immediately identify us as serious criminals.”