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Two Ukrainians arrested as authorities claim operation had one eye on a possible future military incursion Europe live – latest updatesUkrainian authorities claim to have busted a Hungarian spy ring operating on its territory, alleging that Budapest was collecting sensitive military data with one eye on a possible future incursion into the west of the country.Hungary’s foreign minister dismissed the accusations as “propaganda”, but the allegations will further test already fraught relations between the two neighbouring countries. While Hungary is a member of Nato and the EU, its prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has been an outlier among European leaders, strongly

Pope is holding mass for cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, with a live feed broadcast to the worldProfile: the moderate, good humoured first US popePope Leo’s in-tray: the many urgent issues to addressShare your views on Pope Leo XIVChina has sent congratulations to newly elected Pope Leo XIV and hopes the Vatican under the new pontiff will continue dialogue with China “in a constructive spirit”, Reuters reports a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday at a regular press conference.Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, strained relations between the Vatican and China in 2020 when he described China’s Muslim Uyghurs as a

Russia staging a lavish, ‘biggest ever’ parade in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world warRussian president Vladimir Putin has just delivered a fairly brief (for his standards) speech at the Victory Day parade in Moscow.He spoke of “joy and sadness, of pride and gratitude … to the generation that crushed the nazism at the cost of millions of lives.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/09/russia-victory-day-parade-putin-zelenskyy-ukraine-france-poland-latest-news-updates Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-05-09 07:36:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

April trade data comes the day before representatives from Washington and Beijing were set to meet to discuss Trump’s tariffsChinese trade with the United States slumped in April even as its total exports beat forecasts, official figures show, as trade representatives from both nations prepared to meet this weekend in the midst of a gruelling trade war between the superpower rivals.Exports to the United States – one of China’s top trading partners – fell 17.6% in April, data showed. Against that backdrop, analysts polled by Bloomberg had expected exports to rise just 2% year-on-year last month. However they beat expectations,