Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians and damaged medical supplies in Gaza after Hamas accepted a US-backed disarmament roadmap. The plan remains caught between Hamas’s demand for an Israeli withdrawal and Israel’s insistence on disarmament first.
NATO's 32 leaders opened a two-day summit in Ankara on Tuesday, chaired by Mark Rutte and hosted by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, under pressure from Donald Trump to lift defence spending toward a new five-percent target. The gathering convened hours after Russian missiles and drones killed at least 16 people in Kyiv.
Denmark's Rebild Festival, the largest Fourth of July celebration outside the United States, will go ahead on America's 250th anniversary without representatives of the US state. Aalborg Municipality threatened to withdraw its funding unless embassy and military officials were dropped, and for the second year running organisers have not invited Donald Trump's traditional presidential greeting — fallout from Washington's campaign to take control of Greenland.
Securities filings show the president's two eldest sons hold a stake in the Kazakh tungsten project Washington is bankrolling with up to $1.6 billion — a rare, documented overlap between presidential power and family profit, set against the global scramble for a metal China controls.
Donald Trump has threatened a 100 percent tariff on goods from any country that imposes a digital services tax on American technology firms, declaring it would supersede signed trade deals and reopening a dispute that pits Washington against France and much of Europe.
Abelardo de la Espriella, a criminal-defence lawyer endorsed by Donald Trump, has narrowly won Colombia's presidential runoff, ending the brief left-wing experiment of Gustavo Petro. With the margin under one point, his opponent is contesting tens of thousands of ballot boxes.
A Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect on 9 May 2026 for May 9 to 11, paired with a 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner swap. Within hours of the start, Ukraine's General Staff reported 51 Russian violations while Moscow accused Kyiv of drone attacks.
A 72-hour ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect on 9 May 2026, paired with a 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange. US President Donald Trump said the pause should run through Russia's Victory Day commemorations and serve as the springboard for talks on ending the war that began in February 2022.