NPR
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
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BBC correspondents visit export hubs across India to assess how steep US tariffs are impacting business owners.
Asia Times
A newly exposed North Korean missile base near the Chinese border underscores the former's expanding nuclear reach and the uneasy fault lines in its ties
the Guardian
North Karelia force says fence dividing Finland and Russia is no Berlin Wall - but it is now a key geopolitical faultline
Nasser Hospital attack also killed Reuters’ Hussam al-Masri, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa & Moaz Abu Taha.
www.abc.net.au
Fire crews were unable to save the building despite an hours-long effort to stop the blaze.
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Houthi media outlets say two people are dead. Israel says the strikes were retaliation for a missile launch by the Houthis on Friday.
Israel is heavily bombing the northern Strip, killing civilians, including children, as Europeans protest for Palestine.
NBC News
The White House said President Donald Trump is still working toward a bilateral meeting. "Nobody is ready to throw in the towel," one national security official said.
AP News
Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him.
RNZ
Save the Children New Zealand says its medical teams in Gaza are facing famine alongside the people they're trying to help.
asianews.network
Beijing firmly opposes US tariffs, stands with India: envoy Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
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Israel has systematically obstructed food entering Gaza, aid agencies say, as a UN-backed body confirms a famine.
The UN-backed IPC says more than half a million Palestinians facing catastrophic famine conditions amid Israel’s war.
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A UN-backed body confirms famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas, and says half a million are facing "catastrophic" conditions.
NBC News
The FBI searched former national security adviser John Bolton's home in Maryland on Friday as part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News
Top leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam will reportedly attend the parade, part of a guest list that analysts say underscores China’s push to fuse military spectacle with strategic statecraft.
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Tonga's king has taken control of a government department in what critics say is a 'slap' to democracy in the Pacific nation.
Israel is intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it plans to seize, as world leaders condemn E1 settlement project.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says European leaders who met with Donald Trump earlier this week are attempting to escalate the situation in Ukraine.
A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land that the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday, according to a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Israel forces intensify assault on Gaza City amid plan to seize city and forcibly displace nearly one million people.
MSNBC.com
The Trump administration is planning to roll out a new screening process to bar people from working in the U.S. if they express "anti-American" thinking.
NBC News
For Europe’s leaders, the White House meeting was about optics as much as substance: a chance to undo any ground Russia's Vladimir Putin may have gained with Trump in Alaska.
NPR
President Trump said he thought there was a "reasonable chance" of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine if Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to trilateral talks with the U.S.
RNZ
A round-up of news from around the region, including a bomb threat made against schools in the Nothern Mariana Islands.
www.abc.net.au
As Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine rages into its fourth year, Poland is preparing to be the Russian president's next target, beefing up defences on its borders and making every man a "fully fledged" soldier.
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