Armenia’s Civil Contract party has secured around 54% of Sunday’s parliamentary vote, giving Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a fresh mandate for Western alignment after the country’s 2023 military defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Kim exposes North Korea’s third uranium enrichment site in nuclear buildup
North Korea disclosed its third known uranium enrichment facility on June 2, with Kim Jong Un calling for exponential nuclear expansion as South Korea counts four active centrifuge sites.
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Hezbollah rejects Lebanon ceasefire as UNIFIL peacekeeper dies near Marjayoun
Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem called the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire proposal “absurd and humiliating,” collapsing a deal hours after Lebanese President Aoun described it as the last chance for peace.
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Ukrainian drones strike St. Petersburg oil terminal as Putin’s forum opens
Fifty drones struck a 12.5-million-tonne St. Petersburg oil terminal on June 3, blanketing the city in smoke as delegates arrived for Putin’s flagship annual economic forum.
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Iran suspends mediator contacts and strikes Kuwait as one-page Hormuz deal stalls
Iran has halted communications with Washington through intermediaries and struck Kuwait’s airport following fresh US strikes on Qeshm Island, as a preliminary 60-day ceasefire framework collapses over the Hormuz sequencing dispute.
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Iran ceasefire on massive life support as Hormuz-first demand stalls the one-page deal
Six weeks after a Pakistan-brokered truce halted US-Iran hostilities, both sides remain deadlocked over sequencing in a 14-point memorandum that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and defer nuclear talks.
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Putin arrives in Beijing for his 25th China summit, days after Trump
Putin arrived in Beijing on May 19 for his 25th state visit with Xi Jinping, following Donald Trump’s own summit with the Chinese president by just five days.
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Trump delays Iran strike after Gulf leaders intervene, citing imminent deal
Trump called off a scheduled Iran strike on May 18 after three Gulf leaders asked him to hold off, saying the parties are very close to a deal.
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Trump’s troop pullout threatens the town that lives beside America’s army
The planned withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. soldiers from Vilseck, Bavaria would remove roughly double the town’s own population and strip it of more than $800 million in annual revenue.
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Trump leaves Beijing with Boeing deal, vague Iran pledge, and Xi state visit
Two days of talks in Beijing ended Friday with China’s pledge to pressure Iran, a 200-jet Boeing order, and an autumn invitation for Xi to visit Washington.