Netanyahu defends war plan; European leaders back Zelensky, and more
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, defended his plan to occupy Gaza City, saying at a press conference that the expansion was “the best way to end the war”.
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Trump to meet Putin; Zelensky rules out surrendering territory, and more
Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, urged Muslim countries to condemn Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City, during a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart
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Armenia and Azerbaijan sign peace deal; Germany bans arms sales to Israel, and more
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, spoke to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to discuss his talks with America over the war in Ukraine
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Israel’s security cabinet mulls Gaza occupation; OpenAI launches GPT-5, and more
Israel’s security cabinet met to vote on whether to launch a full-scale military occupation of Gaza.
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More tariffs on India; gunman injures five on US Army base, and more
Donald Trump announced an additional 25% tariff on goods from India in response to the country’s continued imports of Russian oil.
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