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Ukraine may receive F-16 fighter jets from Denmark within a month, says Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic expressed support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, but did not commit to sanctions against Russia.

The Volgograd oil refinery of Russian oil giant Lukoil was partially shut down after a drone attack on Sunday, media reports say.

In his first public comment, Russia's new defense minister, Andrei Belousov, said that Russian soldiers need better access to housing, hospitals and social benefits.

Russia is threatening military escalation in Ukraine if the West intervenes on the battlefield, dismissing future peace talks as an "ultimatum.

Gazprom, once Russia's most profitable company, is facing a prolonged period of poor performance due to the loss of gas sales to Europe, trying to compensate for this at the expense of the domestic market and exports to China.

An Australian court has overturned an order by the country's cybersecurity regulator to remove a video of an attack on an Assyrian bishop, rejecting the regulator's proposal in a legal dispute that has sparked heated conversations between Elon Musk and Australian officials.

Thousands of residents of Western Canada are being evacuated due to large wildfires that have covered about 10,000 hectares of land, with authorities warning of poor air quality and potential further spread of the fires.

Ukrainians who have a residence and work permit in Germany will be able to stay and work in the country, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.

Today, Lithuanians will vote in the presidential election, where incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda has a good chance of winning thanks to his support for Ukraine and focus on security issues.

Mexico has experienced record temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, amid intense heat that has caused power outages and overstretched the grid.

Poland begins work to further strengthen its entire eastern border.

Taylor Swift returned as part of her Eras Tour in Paris, presenting a new outfit and an edited setlist with six new tracks from her album "The Tortured Poets Department" during a 3-hour energetic show.

Former US President Donald Trump has promised oil executives to roll back environmental regulations in exchange for a $1 billion contribution to his campaign, offering higher profits and fewer restrictions on the industry.

Pornographic actress Stormy Daniels stood her ground during cross-examination by Trump's lawyers, maintaining her version of an alleged sexual relationship with the former president despite accusations of lying and greed.

Israel shelled the Rafah area of Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Islamic terrorist group al-Mujahideen Brigades and several civilians.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin proposes to reappoint Mikhail Mishustin as Russia's prime minister after the government resigns.

Mahamat Idriss Deby, who seized power in Chad in 2021, won 61% of the vote in the presidential election, according to preliminary results.

The United States plans to introduce new rules to restrict Chinese companies' access to advanced artificial intelligence models developed by American tech giants such as Microsoft, OpenAI, and Alphabet for national security reasons.

The United States imposed new sanctions on 37 Chinese companies that allegedly provide technology to the Chinese defense industry, which poses a threat to US national security, some of which may be related to the incident with a Chinese balloon over US airspace last year.

Oil prices rose on Thursday amid falling US crude stockpiles and increased Chinese imports, supporting expectations of rising demand in the world's two largest oil consuming countries.

The United Kingdom refuses to sign a global pandemic treaty with the WHO, citing concerns about having to give up a fifth of its vaccines.

In the first quarter of 2024, the United States overtook China to become Germany's top trading partner with a trade volume of 63 billion euros, while China's figure was just under 60 billion euros.

Hamas refuses to make further compromises on the terms of the ceasefire with Israel, despite ongoing talks in Cairo aimed at halting Israel's offensive in Gaza.

South Korea plans to create a new ministry to address the country's record low fertility rate of 0. 72 children per woman in 2023, far below the 2.1 needed to maintain the population.

The United States is considering restricting the export of patented artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, to China over concerns that they could be used for cyberattacks or biological weapons development.

Telefonica Germany will transfer one million 5G customers to the Amazon Web Services cloud, marking Amazon's entry into the global telecommunications market.

China's ongoing attempts to interfere in Canadian elections could undermine the country's democratic process and institutions, according to a report by the Canadian spy agency CSIS.

April 2024 was the hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak of record monthly temperatures, indicating that the world is dangerously close to exceeding the 1. 5°C global warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.

The UK expels a russian defense attaché, revokes the diplomatic status of some russian facilities, and restricts russian diplomatic visas in response to moscow's "malicious activities" and illegal war in Ukraine.