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Donald Trump one by a huge margin in the US Presidential elections against Kamala Harris and ever since then salacious pictures of Melania Trump, the upcoming First Lady of US began circulating on social media, which is being insinuated as letting Donald Trump know who 'is in charge of the world'. Bits of these images are blurred but it is reportedly becoming clear that it is none other than former First Lady Melania Trump, a claim that is being spread on social media platforms including YouTube, Reddit, Threads, TikTok as well as Facebook.

Olaf Scholz discussed the war in UkrPutinaine by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in the first such conversation in two years, the German government said. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Scholz condemned «Russia's war of aggression» against Ukraine during the call, and called on Putin to end it by withdrawing troops that invaded the country in February 2022. Scholz also urged Russia to be willing to negotiate with Ukraine toward achieving a just and lasting peace, and expressed Germany's unwavering determination to support Ukraine in its fight, Hebestreit said in a statement.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL : Kim Jong Un oversaw a fiery exhibition of North Korea’s latest suicide drones, highlighting the military capabilities that could be honed by his country’s recent troop deployment to the Russian front lines with Ukraine where such aerial attacks are commonplace. Kim, clad in a black leather jacket, rose from a beige-colored suede chair to watch the drones soar into the skies, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday.

Trump, who campaigned on an «America First» foreign policy, has said previously that he wanted to strike a deal between Kyiv and Moscow, without giving details, and end bloodshed in the Middle East. «We have to get back to a great country with low taxes and a strong military. We're going to fix our military, we did once and now we're going to have to do it again,» he said Thursday at a gala organized by the America First Policy Institute at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

It said, «the return of the Donald to the White House offers an opportunity for Beijing to negotiate a new deal with Washington, which would probably include China indicating a willingness to move some production to America». On the continued war between Russia and Ukraine, the report noted that a deal could have been signed in the past on an agreement that Ukraine would not join NATO.

Elon Musk met with Iran's UN ambassador and discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday. The meeting between Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravheld in a secret location in New York and lasted over an hour was described by two Iranian officials as «positive» and focused on reducing tensions between the two countries, the publication noted. Trump who appointed Musk, the owner of Tesla and X as the co-director of a new government efficiency agency during a call last week with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, handed the phone to the tech billionaire, said New York Times. Musk has played a key role in providing communications capability to Ukraine in the war with Russia.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead powerful U.S. spy agencies has often seemed to embrace Washington’s adversaries and questioned key American intelligence judgments, raising alarm among veteran intelligence officials and the wider national security establishment.

Donald Trump has said his administration will focus on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, as he lamented the killing of people in the conflict. He also said his administration will also work on bringing peace to West Asia. «We're going to work on the Middle East, and we're going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It's got to stop,» Trump said during a gala for the America First Policy Institute held at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday. This was his first major speech and public appearance after his stunning electoral victory in the November 5 presidential elections.

United Nations and other international organizations are bracing for four more years of Donald Trump, who famously tweeted before becoming president the first time that the 193-member UN was «just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.» In his first term, Trump suspended funding for the U.N. health and family planning agencies, withdrew from its cultural organisation and top human rights body, and jacked up tariffs on China and even longtime U.S. allies by flaunting the World Trade Organization's rulebook. The United States is the biggest single donor to the United Nations, paying 22% of its regular budget. Trump's take this time on the world body began taking shape this week with his choice of Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York for US ambassador to the UN. Stefanik, the fourth-ranking House member, called last month for a «complete reassessment» of US funding for the United Nations and urged a halt to support for its agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA. President Joe Biden paused the funding after UNRWA fired several staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump has styled himself a master dealmaker who can leverage his warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, cool tensions between the world’s biggest nuclear powers and realign global politics. But that can-do image is at odds with the two leaders’ records and the new geopolitical reality.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration intends to bolster its military support to Ukraine

Donald Trump’s second administration is filling up with some of his most loyal supporters and many of the people landing top jobs have been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and security at Canada’s border.

Flujo Brand GFRP-Rebars aiming to boost Indian market by Innovative Construction Solutions. The DS Jindal Group, a prominent name in the steel and plastic pipe industry, has entered the Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) rebar market under its brand, “Flujo". This initiative, spearheaded by Managing Director Sahil Jindal, is poised totransform the Indian construction landscape by offering an advanced, non-corrosive alternative to TMT rebars.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Going to war is now a rational economic choice in Russia’s impoverished hinterlands. Facing heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia is offering high salaries and bonuses to entice new recruits.

African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Jack Teixeira, a former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison over an extraordinary leak of highly classified intelligence documents that sent the U.S. government rushing to protect its secrets.

Russian clients that UBS took on when it bought Credit Suisse, three people familiar with the matter said, heightening scrutiny of one of the world's biggest wealth managers. The U.S. sanctions enforcement agency, OFAC, has written to the bank as part of this inquiry, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. A U.S. official, asking not to be named, said the Swiss bank and the enforcer have held discussions. OFAC, or the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the globe's most powerful sanctions agency, wrote to UBS in recent weeks, said one of the people.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The US won the Cold War when the Soviet Union fell in 1991. The history of ideological conflict also ended, according to the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama.

He said damage was still being assessed. In the past, such combined attacks aimed to overwhelm air defences and cause maximum damage. A 48-year-old man suffered head injuries in the Brovary district of Kyiv, according to emergency services. Debris from the attack caused a fire at a warehouse, said Kyiv Gov. Ruslan Kravchenko.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to the X social media platform to make the announcement, in which he gave very few concrete details about how the platform would work.