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Description: US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held an hour and a half long phone conversation on 05 Jun as they aimed to ease recently inflamed trade tensions. Positive remarks were gathered from both sides, as Trump stated that he and President Xi discussed China’s disruption of rare earth minerals exports which impacted critical industrial branches and military tensions in the Indo – Pacific, mostly regarding Taiwan. The leaders reportedly also discussed visiting each other’s countries in the upcoming months expecting a positive outcome from the restarted trade negotiations. Low – level delegations from both sides are expected to meet on Monday in
Description: Leader of the far- right Freedom Party (PVV) Geert Wilders announced the party’s exit from the Netherlands ruling coalition triggering early snap elections and a potential prolonged political crisis. Wilders stated that initiatives drawn up by his own political establishment concerning migration regulations and imposing stricter migration laws were repeatedly refused by the trilateral ruling coalition in the Dutch Parliament. Wilders publicly commented that his goal was to become the next Dutch Prime Minister and formulate the Netherlands foreign policy in the politically correct direction. Incumbent Prime Minister Dick Schoof disbanded the government and announ
Description: Democratic party and liberal presidential candidate Lee Jae – Myung was elected as South Korea’s new president, inheriting a country plagued by political turmoil and economic destabilization. Lee would immediately be inaugurated and would face mounting challenges such as the economic inequality in the country, Trump’s tariffs and the ever-persistent threats from North Korea. His pre – election political pledges stated that the new President would moderately approach growing threats to his country and would enforce diplomatic resolution with North Korea instead of a constant military buildup and bilateral posturing. Lee’s personal file is also filled with checker
Description: Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, which recently conducted the strategic operation of crippling Russia’s long – range bombing capabilities published another attack on the Russian parts of the bridge connecting Russia with the Crimean Peninsula. The operation was published on SBU’s official Telegram channel where they have stated the Kerch bridge was the main target of the attack where an underwater explosion knocked down some of its strongest supporting pillars. Russia hasn’t so far directly retaliated for the attacks on the long – range bombers and the Crimean bridge, however, a significant buildup was recorded in the Sumy region where ground forces were adv
Description: The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has joined his government representatives, President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, as they jointly and firmly refused the latest proposal by the US regarding the country’s nuclear program. Araghchi and Pezeshkian labeled the proposal as incoherent, disjointed and filled with excessive demands that cripple Iran’s sovereign right to develop a civilian nuclear program. According to several media sources the US proposal consisted of offering Iran to develop a nuclear program which would be located in one of the Gulf States and a joint inspectorate comprised of Middle Eastern and IAEA inspect
Description: Chinese and US foreign officials shifted blame and traded accusations around potential violations in the predetermined conditions discussed in the Geneva trade talks. Trade representatives from both sides recently divulged that the negotiations reached a standstill and needed direct involvement from the presidents of both countries in order to continue. US President Donald Trump recently issued an order invoking visas for Chinese students which substantially deterriorated the already fragile diplomatic relations, while China has enforced a continuous blockade on its rare earth mineral exports inflicting losses upon critical US industries. Presidents Trump and Xi
Description: Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek reportedly accepted a bitcoin donation amounting to $45 million from a man convicted of being involved in an illegal online drug market. This information caused the Minister to submit his resignation and prompted the opposition to call a no confidence vote in an attempt to trigger early elections, originally scheduled for Oct. The Minister’s resignation comes at a critical time for Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s ruling government which is experiencing a decline in approval and voting ratings as the opposition’s leader from the populist ANO party, Karel Havlicek, declared that a no confidence vote would be most certainly ins
Description: South Sudan’s military and militants from the White Army militia have escalated armed fighting, raising concerns of a possible reignition of a civil war. Tensions erupted in Mar when White Army militants attacked a military barracks in Nasir as the government pinned the responsibility for the attack on the First Vice – President Riek Machar who was later imprisoned alongside other members of his SPLM – IO party. Mediators from several African countries were involved in dousing the political tensions unsuccessfully as the fighting so far has internally displaced around 65 thousand people and caused a migration crisis with 100 thousand people fleeing towards neigh
Description: Ukrainian and Russian state delegations met in Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace for the second round of peace negotiations where humanitarian goals were agreed upon, but the parties didn’t come any closer to formulating a peace plan. The Russian delegation disclosed the so – called peace memorandum where demands such as the complete recognition of Russian occupied territories by Ukraine, guarantees over the country’s consistent military neutrality, limits on Ukraine’s military and equipment and the lifting of Ukraine’s martial law and holding elections were outlined. Ukrainian officials have stated they would need a week to analyze the proposals from the Russian side b
Description: Forty-five-year-old Mohammed Sabry Soliman was identified as the perpetrator of a deadly molotov attack in Boulder, Colorado. The man attacked a peaceful vigil held to honor the Israeli hostages still in Hamas’ captivity when Sabry rushed and threw makeshift molotov cocktails in their direction and yelled Free Palestine, leaving 8 people with serious burn injuries. The FBI office in Denver shortly after the attack, cordoned the area and arrested the perpetrator charging him with first degree murder, usage of improvised explosive devices and causing injuries to the elderly. Sabry was later discovered to be an illegal alien in the US and had plans to attack the ev