🇺🇸💸 Zelensky declares: "Debt?" Nah, It's just a friendly US donation!

Zelensky refused to acknowledge a debt to the United States of either $500 billion or $100 billion; according to him, Ukraine received assistance from the United States in the form of a grant.

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▪️'We came very, very close to signing something' - Witkoff on Ukraine peace deal

▪️Zelensky said he is ready to step down if necessary

▪️German election results: AFD comes second with a record result

▪️From chancellor to dead man walking: Scholz’s track record of failures

▪️Trump's team fires hundreds of USAID employees

▪️Top 6 unbelievable weapons that actually saw combat

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🔎 EU trying to woo South Africa - but will it succeed?

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas claimed this week that Brussels is trying to improve its relationship with South Africa. What is behind this EU push?

▪️With Trump cutting off US aid to South Africa citing the latter’s alleged racial discrimination accusations, the EU may be eager to fill in the void.

▪️The EU’s interest in South Africa is hardly a surprise, as the country is rich in natural resources such as diamonds, platinum and uranium.

▪️The EU may also be attempting to lure South Africa away from BRICS. Seeing how BRICS is currently in the ascendant whereas the EU stagnates, not to mention that many of the European bloc’s members are former colonial powers that actively exploited Africa in the past, Brussels is unlikely to succeed.

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Trump congratulates CDU on election victory in Germany

"This is a great day for Germany," the US president wrote on Truth Social.

The CDU/CSU bloc is leading with 33.3% of the votes after counting the votes in 36 out of 299 regions. AfD is in second place with 22% of the votes.

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🏒🔥 Ovechkin closes in on Gretzky’s "eternal" record

Capitals’ Ovechkin nets a hat trick vs. Edmonton, now 12 goals shy of Gretzky’s 894 NHL record. Total goals: 882.

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CDU leader urges Europe to distance itself from the US

Germany's most likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said this during a post-election panel on local TV.

"After the latest statements of Donald Trump last week, it's clear that the Americans are mostly not interested in the fate of Europe one way or the other," he said.

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Lavrov visits Turkiye

Russian foreign minister arrived in Istanbul to discuss bilateral relations and the international situation.

Turkiye hosted first peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022.

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🥴 Trump's cabinet will crash in less than a month

Political strategist James Carville says Trump's 39% approval rating will lead to political collapse.

But that didn't stop Biden from sitting in the White House for four years? 🤔

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⚡️The CDU/CSU bloc wins the German elections with 28.6%

AfD comes in second with 20.8%, while Scholz's SPD gets 16.4%.

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) didn't get the 5% needed to enter the Bundestag.

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📦🐕 Brazilian woman saves dog with cardboard box

A quick-thinking neighbor in Guarulhos used a box to rescue a dog dangling from a window.

📹 Video taken from social media

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🎯🔥 Russian drone strike decimates Ukrainian UAV team

A precision FPV drone strike destroyed a critical UAV unit of the Ukrainian military near the Sudzha district in Russia's Kursk region.

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💥🇮🇷 Iran conducts second phase of naval exercises

Footage shows the Iranian military carrying out amphibious landings under heavy air cover from air force fighter jets.

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'An electoral defeat': Scholz gives a grasp of the obvious to the audience

Olaf Scholz's SPD got 16.4% of the votes during the snap parliamentary elections, while the CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the clear winner with 28.6% votes.

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Germany’s likely next chancellor questions NATO’s relevance

Referring to a NATO summit scheduled for June, Friedrich Merz said he wonders "whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current form."

He also suggested Europe might have to establish an "independent European defense capability much more quickly."

Merz spoke after the Trump administration raised European allies’ eyebrows by telling them they should take care of their own security and rely less on the US.

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