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around the w rLd Here is a round-up of international news to update our readers on everything

important that’s happening in different parts of the world.

War architect enjoys soccer match Israeli officials have said weapons of mass destruction other than blowing up
the military has acted
a test site.
as yemen fights its bloodiest battle legally and justifiably in
the protests to prevent
a breach of the fence by
the protesters, and that VoterS in Slovenia
live ammunition has gave victory to a
been used only as a last populist party led by
A militAry coalition led personal terms. At the resort and under strict a firebrand former
by Saudi Arabia and the G7 summit meeting guidelines. Most of the prime minister in
UAE attacked the Yemeni in Canada, Trump Palestinian protesters parliamentary elections
port city of Al Hudaydah, criticised the tariffs are unarmed, but some that tilted another
aggravating a crisis in imposed on American have lobbed firebombs and attempted to break through European country to
which eight million people goods as “ridiculous the fence. Some have hurled rocks and launched flaming the right. The Slovenian
are at risk of starvation and unacceptable” and kites over the fence into Israel to start fires. No Israelis Democratic Party, led
according to the UN. The vowed to put an end have been killed in the protests. by the two-time former
country, the poorest in to being “like a piggy prime minister Janez
the Arab world, has been bank that everybody is Jansa, received nearly 25 percent of the vote. With the
embroiled in civil war for robbing.” He believes vote, Slovenia, a European Union member since 2004
years, and it is suffering that the US is at a US PreSident Trump and North Korean dictator and a user of the euro since 2007, could line up politically
from a severe cholera epidemic. The latest offensive, disadvantage when it comes to global trade and is on the Kim Jong-un held an unprecedented summit meeting with Hungary, which re-elected the right-wing populist
aimed at tipping the balance against Iranian-backed losing end of tariffs imposed by other nations. But US in Singapore where they talked briefly about the Victor Oban as prime minister in April, and Austria,
Houthi rebels, has disrupted food and aid deliveries to itself places its own tariffs on everything from trucks and denuclearisation of the isolated autocratic regime that where a far-right party has emerged as a strong political
millions of vulnerable people. According to analysts, this peanuts to sugar and shoes. Trump also refused to sign has been a long-time foe of America. After the two force. Jansa has closely allied himself with Orban.
new assault could be the bloodiest of the Yemen war. The a joint statement with his country’s allies. Moreover, in leaders signed a generic joint statement that lacked any
Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels backed acrimony-laced tweets he lashed out at the Canadian concrete developments, Trump portrayed his agreement
by Iran for over three years. At the time of going to press PM by accusing him of making “false statements” and with the leader as a signal achievement that meant that
two days after the assault began, it was not clear what of being “very dishonest and weak”. In a bitter statement the outcast state was no longer the US’ most dangerous At leASt 65 people were killed after a volcano erupted
advances, if any, the ground troops backed by the coalition made to a TV news channel, Trump’s economic advisor problem. He declared near the capital of Guatemala. Volunteer firefighters
had made in Al Hudaydah, or what the scope of casualties Larry Kudlow said that Trudeau’s comments at the that North Korea is waded though layers of ash that reached knee-deep in
were. Meanwhile, the architect of the war, Crown Prince summit were “a betrayal” and that he had “stabbed us “no longer a nuclear places, only to find the charred remains of those who had
Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, was attending in the back.” threat” to the United been unable to flee the torrent of burning rock and ash
the opening match — Saudi Arabia vs Russia — of the States even though that poured down the
World Cup in Moscow. The crown prince cheered on the the two sides had yet slopes of the volcano.
Saudi team from a luxury box with his host, President to forge a concrete The number of missing
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. the killing of a young Palestinian volunteer disarmament after the Fuego
paramedic, Rouzan al-Najjar, by Israeli forces at the plan and offered volcano’s eruption was
conflict-ridden Gaza border was condemned across incomplete accounts still unclear. Survivors
the world. The 20-year-old woman quickly became a of what they agreed who went back to the
US PreSident Donald Trump generated a diplomatic hero after she was killed by bullets fired from across the to during summit village of San Miguel
crisis at the rockiest ever annual meeting of major fence by Israeli soldiers when she was trying to attend meeting. He made los Lotes encountered
Western powers by escalating a bitter clash with to an injured Palestinian protestor. She was the 119th his claims even though Pyongyang has not given up any a village turned to
some of his nation’s closest allies and lashing out at Palestinian killed in the three-month-old Gaza fence of its nuclear warheads or missiles, nor dismantled any rubble by the force of
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in unusually protest campaign, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. of its 141 known sites devoted to the production or use of the eruption.
— Compilation and analysis by Ridhima Malhotra

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