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Explosions are seen in the night sky as Ukrainian servicemen fire towards drones during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 26.
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Ukraine hit by record drone salvo after Trump rebukes Putin
Russia fired its biggest ever drone barrage on Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said May 26, just hours after Mr Donald Trump called Mr Vladimir Putin “CRAZY” and warned Moscow risked new sanctions if it kept up its deadly bombardment.
The US president has sought to broker an end to the three-year war, but has failed to extract major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated negotiations and several phone calls between him and Russia’s president.
For three consecutive nights Russia has pummelled Ukraine with large-scale drone attacks, saturating its air defences and killing at least 13 people on May 25, officials said.
Russia fired “355 Shahed-type drones” including decoys, in the largest drone attack of the invasion between May 25 night and early May 26, as well as nine cruise missiles, Ukraine’s air force said.
British man detained after car hit crowds at Liverpool’s title parade
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Several people were injured on May 26 when a car ploughed into football fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title victory while police said a 53-year-old man had been arrested.
An AFP journalist in Liverpool saw at least four people taken away on stretchers, after witnesses reported seeing people knocked by a dark-coloured vehicle swerving through the huge crowds.
It was not immediately clear how many people had been hurt, or how badly, or why the car collided with pedestrians around 6pm.
Israel-backed Gaza food aid plan dogged by delay and dissent
A contested plan backed by the US and Israel to deliver food to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is off to a rocky start, with the top organiser resigning and the roll-out dogged by delay.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a new Swiss-based nonprofit, opened one distribution station in a southern buffer zone on May 26, a day behind schedule, Israeli officials said. But there was no immediate indication that hand-outs were under way.
The ruined coastal enclave’s more than 2 million civilians have been brought to the brink of famine, relief agencies say, by an Israeli aid blockade imposed in March after the last truce with Hamas expired.
US FBI re-investigates 2023 White House cocaine find, Dobbs Supreme Court leak
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The FBI will launch new probes into the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House during former president Joe Biden's term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a top official announced on May 26.
Mr Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster-turned-FBI deputy director, made the announcement on X, saying that he had requested weekly briefings on the cases' progress.
Both incidents have been popular talking points on America's right.
EU sees ‘new impetus’ in US trade talks, businesses worry over uncertainty
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US President Donald Trump’s decision to drop his threat to impose 50 per cent tariffs on European Union imports from June gave ‘new impetus’ to trade talks, the EU said on May 26, as global stock markets climbed and the euro rallied.
Back-tracking on the new tariffs he announced on May 23, Mr Trump on May 25 restored a July 9 deadline to allow for talks between Washington and the 27-nation bloc to produce a deal after what he said was “a very nice call” with EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.
The pan-European stocks index recovered to where it was trading before May 23’s surprise tariff announcement and the euro rose to its highest since late April. Gold prices fell as Mr Trump’s latest move reduced demand for the safe-haven asset.
