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Starbucks in South Korea has banned customers from using the names of the country's presidential candidates -- or the disgraced ex-president -- for their orders

Ahead of snap elections

S. Korea Starbucks in a froth over presidential candidates names

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg accelerates defence spending, Israel accused of starving Gazans, and Swift Hesperange hit with transfer ban

US President Donald Trump is pressuring NATO allies to ramp up their defence spending target to five percent of GDP

Two-day gathering in Antalya

NATO hatches deal on higher spending to keep Trump happy

A portrait of late Uruguayan president Jose Mujica at the headquarters of the Broad Front left-wing coalition in Montevideo, after his death from cancer aged 89

Latin America mourns world's 'poorest president' Mujica, dead at 89

Israel's war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people and left many of the enclave's schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble

Amid ongoing offensive

UN relief chief urges action 'to prevent genocide' in Gaza

Palestinians bury relatives killed in overnight Israeli strikes in northern Gaza

Despite ceasefire efforts

Gaza rescuers says Israeli strikes kill 28 near hospital

Uruguayan former president Jose Mujica eschewed the trappings of success while in office, continuing to live on his small farm, with his wife and three-legged dog at his side

World's 'poorest president'

Jose Mujica: Uruguay's tractor-driving leftist icon

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa after his cabinet was sworn in

Cabinet sworn-in

Carney says new govt will 'relentlessly' protect Canada sovereignty

US President Donald Trump was kicking off a multi-day visit to the Gulf

Providing a 'chance at greatness'

Trump, casting himself as peacemaker, to lift Syria sanctions

Zelensky has called on Putin to personally attend talks in Istanbul on Thursday

First direct negotiations

Zelensky urges Trump to make Putin meeting happen

Mali junta chief General Assimi Goita approved the suspension of the charter

Clamping down on opposition

Mali dissolves political parties in blow to junta critics

A displaced woman hangs clothes to dry at a Sikh temple in Jammu, a key city in Indian-administered Kashmir

Witness account

'We can't go back': India's border residents fear returning home

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a swearing-in ceremony for his new government

Cabinet retains several key figures

Carney forms new Canada govt to reshape US ties

A handout photograph released by the Pakistan military's media wing shows Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir greeting an injured civilian at a hospital in Rawalpindi

After escalating strikes

India kills 3 suspected militants in Kashmir as Pakistan ceasefire holds

Beijing has urged Latin American nations to have a united front against US President Donald Trump's recent maelstrom of tariffs

Burgeoning ties

China swipes at 'bullying' US as it woos Latin American leaders

The decision by the Kurdish mililtant group PKK to disarm and disband was made at a leadership congress in northern Iraq last week

Ending four-decade insurgency

Kurds see ball in Ankara's court after PKK says disbanding

Rescuers stand on July 18, 2014 on the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held eastern Ukraine

298 people killed

UN agency finds Russia responsible for 2014 downing of airliner over Ukraine

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman look on during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 13, 2025.

Promised billions of dollars

US, Saudi Arabia ink massive $142 billion arms deal: statement

US President Donald Trump is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman upon his arrival in Riyadh

First major visit

Trump boasts Saudi business deals as he basks in royal welcome

Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party failed to secure a majority in Kosovo's parliament to form a government

After 14 unsuccessful attempts

Stand-off leaves Kosovo unable again to elect speaker

Rights groups accuse the UK government of breaching international law by supplying fighter jet parts to Israel

Accused of breaching international law

Rights groups take UK govt to court over Israel arms sales

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt addresses a press conference in Berlin

Nationwide crackdown

Police raid conspiracy theorist group 'Kingdom of Germany'

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in late April said it had depleted all its food stocks in Gaza

'Moral bankruptcy'

Medical charity condemns Israel's use of hunger as 'weapon of war' in Gaza

Illustrative image

Belgian border region

Accident in Saint-Hubert claims life of 10-year-old boy

A Vietnamese tycoon trying to avoid a death sentence promises to turn her property empire into a 'golden goose' to pay back the assets she embezzled

Fraud amounting to $27 billion

Vietnam death row tycoon promises to turn properties into 'golden goose'

Morning Roundup

Kirchberg murder trial begins, PM to give State of the Nation address, and Cannes Film Festival starts

US President Donald Trump has long been unhappy with the current Air Force One jets

'Ethics concerns'

Trump says would be 'stupid' to reject Qatari Air Force One gift

Over a dozen abandoned book bags were piled before a pole flying the Myanmar flag outside the school building

Despite humanitarian ceasefire

Myanmar junta airstrike kills 22 at school: witnesses

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