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• June 02, 2025

  Tehran Skeptical Of Reported US Sanctions Pause, Signals Pushback On Nuclear Proposal

  Iran has cast doubt on a reported pause in new US sanctions, demanding guarantees and verifiable relief. Meanwhile, Tehran is reportedly preparing to reject a US nuclear proposal involving a regional fuel consortium.

• June 02, 2025

  Karol Nawrocki: Conservative Historian Wins Poland’s Presidential Election With Trump Playbook

  Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki, a historian who has played up a tough-guy image while brandishing his support from US President Donald Trump, delivered a major upset by beating Warsaw's liberal mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, in Poland's Presidential election on June 1.

• June 02, 2025

  Ukraine, Russia Talks Make Ground On New Prisoner Exchange, Little Else

  Ukraine and Russia agreed to another large-scale prisoner swap but little else during a second round of direct peace talks that lasted just over an hour as air attacks by both sides continue in Europe's largest and deadliest conflict since World War II.

• June 01, 2025

  Officials Investigating 2 Separate Train Crashes In Western Russia; 8 Killed

  A road bridge collapsed onto a railway in western Russia, derailing a passenger train and killing at least eight people, investigative and railway officials said. Initial reports blamed an explosion.

• May 31, 2025

  UN Watchdog Flags 'Serious Concern' Over Iran's Uranium Enrichment Surge

  Iran has substantially increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in recent months, multiple media outlets cited a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as saying.

• May 31, 2025

  Ukraine Says Drones Smuggled Into Russia Wiped Out Dozens Of Long-Range Bombers

  Ukraine says it hit dozens of long-range bomber aircraft across Russia with drones that were smuggled in wooden shipping crates carried on truck beds into the country and then launched from nearby locations.

• May 31, 2025

  US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding

  A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

• May 30, 2025

  Zelenskyy Says Moscow Wants No Breakthrough In Peace Talks As Russian Drone Strikes Pound Kharkiv

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is "doing everything" to ensure that proposed peace talks in Istanbul on June 2 yield no results after a Russian large-scale drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city left almost a dozen people injured.

• May 30, 2025

  US Tells UN Security Council Russia Should Take Current Deal To End War In Ukraine

  The US representative to the United Nations told the UN Security Council on May 29 that the deal now on offer to end the war in Ukraine is the best possible outcome for Russia and President Vladimir Putin should take it.

• May 29, 2025

  Russian Drone Attacks In Ukraine's Kherson Amount To War Crimes, Says UN

  Russia's military has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its drone attacks on civilian targets in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, a new United Nations report has found.

• May 29, 2025

  Zelenskyy Says Global Powers Must Up Pressure On Russia

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for increased international pressure on Russia after a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin and announcing that Ukraine and Germany will jointly produce long-range weapons to boost Ukraine's ability to fight.

• May 29, 2025

  Ukraine Urges Russia To Present Peace Plan Ahead Of Istanbul Talks

  Ukrainian officials on May 28 said Russia should put forth its peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine immediately instead of waiting for a new round of talks next week in Istanbul.

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