All countries of the Western Balkans should join the EU, the German chancellor said, calling on Kosovo to participate in constructive negotiations with Serbia. He is expected to tour the countries of the region and also visit Pristina.

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Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes that the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk could make the situation concerning misinformation on the social media platform worse.

"He could make it worse. That is not his track record," Gates said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit. "We should have an open mind and never underestimate Elon. What's his goal where he talks about the openness? How does he feel about something that says vaccines killed people or that Bill Gates is tracking people? Is that one of the things you think should be spread? So, it's still not totally clear what he's going to do."

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❗Biden: US "always open" to additional sanctions on Russia

❗Senior US defence official: Over 90% of 90 howitzers that were pledged to Ukraine are actually in Ukrainian forces' hands

❗The US is prepared to respond to “purposeful attempts” of other countries to devalue the dollar, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says, adding that she doesn't see a currency that can begin to rival the US dollar.

🇲🇱From ‘collateral damage’ to an airstrike on a wedding party: a list of possible criminal activity by French forces in Mali over the last 9 years

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❗Biden brands Trump Republicans the most ‘extreme political organisation’ in recent US history

❗The Biden administration's decision to sanction Russia's central bank was not one that was taken lightly, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

"We have only rarely, I believe in the case of Iran and North Korea, imposed sanctions on a country's central bank, and the decision to do that to Russia is not one that was undertaken lightly," Yellen said.

❗The United States has seen no indications that any Western aid intended for Ukraine has been impeded, or even struck, a senior defence official said

Not a day goes by without a gaffe by Joe Biden: While posing for a photo with members of the US Olympic team, among whom were wheelchair basketball players and a visually impaired girl, the US president shouted “don’t jump” and then asked the athletes to look at the photographer. After his remarks, the broadcast’s sound was suddenly interrupted 😬

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❓How many Ukrainian soldiers has the US trained in past several years?

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A resident of Rubezhnoye in the Lugansk region has explained how Azov fighters forced civilians out of a bomb shelter at a bread-baking plant

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