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Morning Roundup

Luxembourg MEP expelled from ECR group, inflation hits 2%, and Trump announces travel ban for 12 countries

US President Donald Trump (R) has repeatedly attacked his predecessor Joe Biden's cognitive health

Discrediting predecessor

Trump orders inquiry into 'conspiracy' to hide Biden's health decline

Scrutiny has increased over flailing aid distribution in Gaza, which Israel blocked for more than two months

Anger as US blocks Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council

North Korea has become one of Moscow's main allies during its more than three-year Ukraine offensive, sending thousands of troops to help the Kremlin oust Ukrainian forces from Russia's Kursk border region

Expanding cooperation

North Korea's Kim vows 'unconditional support' for Russia's war in Ukraine

Aid centres in hunger-wracked Gaza were temporarily closed on Wednesday

On the edge of famine

US-backed group extends closure of Gaza aid sites

Salvadoran lawyer and human rights activist Ruth Lopez is escorted by police to a court hearing

Accused of corruption

'I am a political prisoner' says detained Salvadoran activist

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Elon Musk

Inevitable fallout

A lingering Musk: Will ex-aide Elon get up Trump's nose?

Trump said his call with Putin was a 'good conversation'

Peace negotiations

Trump says Putin plans to retaliate for Ukraine attack on bombers

For months, retirees and supporters have mounted a weekly march on Wednesdays to demand better pensions and other benefits

Protesting austerity measures

Scientists, doctors, disabled join Argentine pensioners' march

An ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel-making facility in Hamilton, Canada

Canada steelworkers urge Ottawa to counter Trump

An Israeli army vehicle patrols near the fence leading into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights

Bilateral accusations

Syria says Israeli strikes 'aimed at undermining' progress, stability

The University of Havana is the locus of student anger over steep hikes in mobile internet tariffs, which have prompted calls for a boycott of classes

Cuban students call boycott over mobile tariff hikes

Crowds of cricket fans had come out to celebrate and welcome home their heroes, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, after they beat Punjab Kings in a roller-coaster IPL cricket final on Tuesday night

Deadly stampede at India cricket celebrations leaves 11 dead

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say in all major policy issues, including nuclear.

Uranium enrichment

Trump says Iran 'slowwalking' as Khamenei opposes nuclear proposal

A mourner places a candle at Taipei's Liberty Square to mark the 36th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989

Beijing slams Rubio 'attack' on China after Tiananmen Square remarks

No 'immediate peace'

Trump talks with Putin on Ukraine, Iran

Following Moscow trip

ECR Group expels Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser

Afghan refugees unload their belongings from a truck upon their arrival from Pakistan in May

Strict campaign

200,000 Afghans left Pakistan since deportations renewed

France is home to the largest Muslim community in the European Union

'Why this hatred': French town reels over killing of Tunisian man

South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung scored a thumping victory over conservative Kim Moon-soo, of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's former party

South Korea's new leader vows to 'heal wounds' with nuclear-armed North

An Australian woman accused of murdering three people by lacing their lunch with toxic mushrooms told a court she may have unwittingly used 'foraged' fungi in the dish

Australian murder suspect says lethal lunch may have contained 'foraged' mushrooms

Morning Roundup

Cologne evacuated after bomb discovery, Luxembourg football coach defends Rodrigues selection, and US tariffs come into effect

Major disruptions expected

Three WWII bombs to be defused in Cologne, 20,000 people evacuated

The trial of Osama Krayem is considered unique as the other jihadists involved in the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot are presumed dead

Sweden tries sole surviving jihadist over Jordan pilot burnt to death

Russia and Ukraine agreed on a large-scale swap of captured soldiers and exchanged their roadmaps to peace

Roadmaps to peace exchanged

Russia says no quick breakthrough in 'complex' Ukraine talks

Yulia Navalnaya says the team is doing 'our best' to keep reaching Russians on YouTube but the Kremlin is trying to block the Western platform

Preserving his legacy

Navalny widow launches TV channel to fight Russia 'censorship'

Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Hans ter Laag and Joop Willemsen were killed in 1982 while filming a documentary during El Salvador's civil war

Three Salvadoran ex-military convicted of wartime killings of Dutch reporters

Lee Jae-myung, the newly elected president of South Korea, faces a bulging in-tray

From trade to birth rates

The challenges facing South Korea's new leader Lee

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