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    MOSCOW | Xinhua |  Moscow will send a draft peace memorandum to Kiev soon, which will outline the key principles of a potential settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Tuesday. “Russia continues to work on a draft memorandum regarding a future peace treaty, which will outline …

New York, US |  Xinhua | The video reportedly showing thousands of desperate Gazans rushing for aid is heartbreaking, said a UN spokesman on Tuesday. “We have been watching the video coming out of Gaza around one of the distribution points set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and …

  Pope Leo XIV meets with Naples’ football club, which is celebrating its fourth-ever league victory, and stresses that “it’s the team,” not the individual players, which wins a championship.   Rome, Italy | VATICAN NEWS | Pope Leo XIV met on Tuesday morning with members of SSC Napoli, the …

SAN FRANCISCO, the United States | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he wants the “names and countries” of every international student enrolled at Harvard University. The demand came just days after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students. …

New GLAD Lab data shows fire was the leading driver of tropical deforestation ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Forest loss around the world surged to a record high in 2024, thanks mainly to a calamitous rise in fires, according to the latest data from the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab that …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | The landing of a man on Mars is planned by the end of the 2030s, cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation Anton Shkaplerov told TASS, adding that the project is being implemented. “The first landing of a man on Mars is planned in the 2030s. …

SAN FRANCISCO | Xinhua | The U.S. Donald Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s certification under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), effectively barring the institution from enrolling new international students. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced the decision. “Let this serve as a …

WASHINGTON | TASS | The era of uncontested US dominance is now over, US Vice President JD Vance said, addressing a Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday. “In the wake of the Cold War, America enjoyed a mostly unchallenged command of the commons, airspace, sea, space, and …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | The solar flare of the highest class was registered in the Sun on Sunday, the Institute of Applied Geophysics told TASS. “The X1.1 flare with the duration of seventeen minutes was registered on May 25 at 04:52 a.m. Moscow time (01:52 a.m. GMT) in the …

ROME, ITALY | Xinhua | The fifth round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States concluded Friday in Rome with “some but not conclusive progress,” said Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi. “We hope to clarify the remaining issues in the coming days, to …