German election winner to welcome Netanyahu despite ICC arrest warrant

Israeli prime minister’s office describes Friedrich Merz’s gesture as ‘overt defiance’ of international court

Source: Financial Times

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,096

Here are the key developments on the 1,096th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Source: Al Jazeera

Federal watchdog agency intervenes in Trump's purge of probationary employees

U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for …

Source: NPR

A break from your smartphone can reboot your mood. Here's how long you need

What would happen if you blocked the internet from your cellphone for two weeks? A bunch of millennial researchers wanted to answer that question. Here's what they found.

Source: NPR

German election: CDU/CSU bloc wins — preliminary results

CDU's Friedrich Merz has claimed victory while SPD's Olaf Scholz has regretted the "bitter" election result. The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the …

Source: Deutsche Welle

AT&T and Verizon connect first cellphone-to-satellite video calls

Verizon and AT&T have each announced milestones in making cellphone-to-satellite video calls in partnership with satellite company AST SpaceMobile. Verizon has completed its first cellphone-to-satellite video call, while AT&T has …

Source: The Verge

No longer ‘forever’? Wu-Tang Clan hint at breakup with final world tour

The hip-hop legends will kick off US tour in June, and hint at further dates to ‘spread the Wu swag, music, and culture’

After more than 30 years of music, …

Source: The Guardian

Trump wants Ukraine’s rare metals. Putin just offered Russia’s.

Putin also endorsed President Donald Trump’s proposal for three-way nuclear arms control talks with China.

Source: Washington Post

Spain calls for EU to forge China policy without US

‘Europe must take its own decisions’, says foreign minister José Manuel Albares

Source: Financial Times

Fighting in eastern DRC kills about 7,000 people since January, PM says

Judith Suminwa says more than 2,500 bodies buried without identification, 'significant' number of civilians among dead.

Source: Al Jazeera

Paedophile French surgeon goes on trial for abusing nearly 300 patients

A former French surgeon went on trial Monday charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, most of them children and some of them unconscious at the time, in …

Source: France 24

Ukraine marks 3 years since Russian invasion amid concern about Trump's stand

A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada visited Ukraine's capital to mark the date in a show of continued support from some of Kyiv's most important backers.

Source: CBS News