
Donald Trump this week will embark on the first foreign trip of his second administration with a tour of the Middle East, as he looks to secure investment, trade and technology deals from friendly leaders with deep pockets amid turbulent negotiations around numerous regional conflicts, including Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Just over 26 years ago, thousands of Pakistani soldiers quietly made their way on to high, rocky ridges on the Indian side of the de facto border that divides the former princely state of Kashmir. The war that this rash operation triggered lasted much of the summer of 1999.
If India and Pakistan’s ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives comes via ChinaTechNews.com.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II with a massive military parade on Red Square on Friday attended by President Vladimir Putin and a slew of foreign leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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As always with pronouncements by President Trump, once you had peeled away the xenophobia, removed the stew of resentment, ignored the sheer idiocy and asterisked the possible illegality, there was a small kernel of truth to his posting on Truth Social last Sunday.
Ban this foreign filth! Can cinema really threaten national security? comes via ChinaTechNews.com.

Ukraine now the ‘frontline for Western values’
The battle lines in Ukraine are the “frontline for Western values”, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
“This isn’t just a fight for freedom and democracy in Ukraine,” the UK prime minister said on the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender.
Ukraine war latest: Putin welcomes ‘dear friend’ to Kremlin; woman killed in bombing during Russia’s ceasefire comes via ChinaTechNews.com.