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Russian strikes kill 7 in Ukraine, destroy children’s food plant
Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up drone attacks in recent months as US-led efforts to end the five-year war remain stalled amid the Middle East conflict.
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Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up drone attacks in recent months as US-led efforts to end the five-year war remain stalled amid the Middle East conflict.
Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a ceasefire but said it would require a "complete cessation" of fire by Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after US-led talks in Washington. The two sides, which do not have formal diplomatic relations, also agreed to create "pilot zones" in which the Lebanese armed forces "will take exclusive control of the territory to the exclusion of all non-state actors". FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahi tells us more.
Lebanese official media reported Israeli airstrikes in the country's south on Thursday, hours after an announcement that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to implement a conditional ceasefire following talks in Washington. In Washington on Wednesday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to implement a ceasefire but said it would require a "complete cessation" of fire by the Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after a fourth round of US-led talks.
The US announced an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire framework, but Hezbollah's absence leaves questions over enforcement.
The ceasefire comes as Israel has recently escalated its attacks and is staging its deepest ground offensive into Lebanon in two decades.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to implement a ceasefire following US-led talks on June 2–3, the US State Department said.
Israel and Lebanon agreed on Wednesday to implement a ceasefire but said it would require a “complete cessation” of fire by Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after US-led talks in Washington. The two sides, which do not have formal diplomatic relations, also agreed to create “pilot zones” in which the Lebanese armed forces “will take exclusive control of the territory to the exclusion of all non-state actors”. The development came despite continued cross-border attacks earlier in the day, with Hezbollah saying it targeted Israeli troops and Israeli strikes killing at least ten people in southern Lebanon. Just hours after the agreement was announced, air raid alarms sounded in northern Israel with a “suspicious aerial target” identified without causing any casualties. The joint statement said the ceasefire was “contingent on a complete cessation” of fire by Hezbollah as well as evacuation of the group’s operatives from southern Lebanon. The meetings in Washington were the fourth round of direct talks by Lebanese and Israeli diplomats since fighting erupted on March 2, when Hezbollah renewed attacks against Israel in support of Iran. Both sides will meet for more talks the week of June 22, the statement said, “with a view toward reaching a comprehensive agreement”. Hostilities continue Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump said he wanted to separate talks on the conflict in Lebanon and those on the war with Iran. Tehran, however, insists the conflicts are linked and its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that any attack on Beirut would trigger a “full-scale resumption” of war. The Israeli military said it intercepted a “hostile aircraft” and two projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon on Wednesday. Hezbollah, for its part, said that “in response to the Israeli enemy army’s violation of the ceasefire”, its fighters targeted soldiers in northern Israel with a rocket barrage. Early on Thursday, the group said it aimed a “salvo of rockets” at Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the southern Lebanon town of Al-Qantara, and also targeted an Israeli command position near the Chqif Castle with two drones. A truce to halt the fighting in Lebanon was meant to take hold on April 17, but has never been observed, with both sides justifying their ongoing attacks by the other’s alleged violations. Senior Hezbollah official Mahmud Qomati had told AFP on Tuesday that the group would “not accept a partial ceasefire”. Paramedics Among the Israeli strikes on Wednesday was one targeting a car on the main highway out of the capital, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said. The NNA also reported strikes on more than 20 locations in the south, some after Israel’s military warned residents of several villages to evacuate. The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli attack on Al-Hawsh near the city of Tyre killed four Syrians and two Palestinians. The health ministry also said an Israeli strike elsewhere in the south targeted an ambulance, killing two paramedics from the Risala Scouts Association. The ministry circulated images of a badly damaged ambulance, with medical masks spilling out of the vehicle and scattered on the road. A third paramedic was later reported killed in an attack that the NNA said targeted an ambulance team affiliated with the Islamic Health Committee in the town of Zibdine. At least 130 emergency and health workers have been killed since the fighting began. Lebanon’s army said a soldier was also killed in an Israeli strike, while an officer and a soldier were wounded in a separate attack on a military vehicle. The force denounced what it called Israel’s “deliberate targeting of army personnel, vehicles and positions”.
The State Department announced Wednesday that US-led negotiations between Israel and Lebanon have yielded a cease-fire agreement.
Tensions soar as US President Trump fiercely criticises Netanyahu over military actions in Lebanon, jeopardising US-led Iran negotiations. A phone call revealed.
Israeli drone strikes in Lebanon killed at least eight people as fighting with Hezbollah intensified despite US-led efforts to reduce tensions. The violence has complicated Iran-US ceasefire talks, while Lebanon and Israel prepare for another round of negotiations in Washington.
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday said Washington and Islamabad were developing a “true friendship” as he lauded Pakistan’s role in the ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations. With Pakistan acting as the official interlocutor between Washington and Tehran in the ongoing peace negotiations that resulted in the April 8 US-Iran ceasefire, Trump and his top officials have hailed Pakistan’s role several times. At the three-day Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Hegseth was reminded of former director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s remarks about Pakistan’s future missile capabilities potentially posing a threat to the US and was asked whether India’s Agni-VI missile programme posed a similar threat. The question was posed after Hegseth, in his speech, had lauded US defence cooperation with Indo-Pacific and Southeast Asian countries, as well as India, which he termed a “critical anchor to hold the line”. “I mentioned India here, but I very easily could have mentioned Pakistan and the role that the field marshal and the prime minister are playing in peace negotiations,” Hegseth replied, praising PM Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir. “I think an unexpected development and a true friendship [is] developing there, which I think is important,” he added. Noting that both India and Pakistan were nuclear-capable countries, Hegseth said, “I think both sides are going to see understandable threats coming from the other, maybe some of which we see differently, and countries are going to want to develop ICBM threats.” However, he added, “But we’re not pointing fingers, at least from our view, right now, at either country and calling them a threat to us.” The defense secretary further said that the US was “grateful for, in each of their lanes, the benefits they’ve given to peace around the world”. Hegseth also reiterated Washington and Islamabad’s stance that President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire between Pakistan and India during the May 2025 conflict — a narrative that India’s PM Narendra Modi has denied, irking Trump. The US president has lauded PM Shehbaz and CDF Munir on multiple occasions, calling the prime minister “great” and the military chief “fantastic” last month. In February, at the inaugural meeting of the US-led Board of Peace, Trump had praised Shehbaz and described the field marshal as a “tough man” and a “serious fighter”. The US president has even referred to the army chief as “my favourite field marshal”. In November 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US saw an opportunity to expand its strategic relationship with Pakistan and that the recent strengthening of ties between the two countries did not come at the expense of Washington’s relationship with New Delhi.
EU foreign ministers debated Europe’s possible role in future peace talks between Ukraine and Russia amid stalled US-led efforts to end the war.
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North Korea on Thursday condemned the Quad grouping as a tool for US-led “unipolar domination,” rejecting calls for its denuclearization and insisting it would “never” abandon its nuclear weapons program. The remarks came after the foreign ministers of the Quad — comprising the United States, Japan, Australia and India — reiterated their commitment to the “complete denuclearization of North Korea” during talks held Tuesday in New Delhi. Pyongyang responded sharply, accusing the Quad of pursuing
Israel has expanded its military campaign in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, ordering residents to evacuate areas south of the Zahrani River as strikes intensify despite an April ceasefire. The escalation comes as Israeli officials seek to pressure Hezbollah while avoiding actions in Beirut that could complicate US-led diplomacy with Iran.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the United States to provide more ammunition for its Patriot air defence systems to counter Russian ballistic missiles, according to a document reviewed by AFP on Wednesday. The appeal underscores Ukraine’s almost total reliance on its Western allies to down Russian missile barrages, despite having pioneered a system for intercepting long-range drones that is the envy of some of the world’s most advanced militaries. The request comes just days after one of the worst combined missile and drone attacks launched against Kyiv since the Russia-Ukraine war more than four years ago, which wrought devastation across the capital. In a letter dated May 26 and addressed to US President Donald Trump, Zelensky asked Washington to “help us secure this vital tool of protection against Russian terror — Patriot missiles PAC-3 and additional systems — to stop Russian ballistic missiles and other Russian missile attacks.” Zelensky conceded in the five-page document, which was also addressed to Congress, that: “When it comes to defending against ballistic missiles, we rely almost exclusively on the United States.” “And it is in Ukrainian hands that Patriot systems have proven something extremely important: The majority of Russian missiles can be stopped,” the Ukrainian leader added. Zelensky’s appeal comes at a turbulent moment in ties between Ukraine and the United States. Trump re-entered the White House last year vowing to bring about a speedy end to Russia’s invasion — now grinding through its fifth year. ‘Hard to find missiles’ But US-led efforts to bring Kyiv and Moscow back to the negotiating table have been derailed by the US and Israeli war with Iran, as well as a failure to make progress on key sticking points towards any peace deal, in particular who would control swathes of eastern Ukraine. Both sides have stepped up their long-range drone and missile attacks since a series of bilateral talks mediated by the US earlier this year appeared to stall. In separate comments to AFP, a senior official within the Ukrainian presidency conceded that finding ammunition for advanced air defence systems supplied by Kyiv’s Western allies was “complicated.” “It’s just hard to find missiles right now when there are so many other orders in the Gulf and other places like that,” the source said. “And the supplies through PURL have slowed down as well,” the source added, referring to a procurement system whereby Ukraine’s European allies can purchase weapons from the United States on behalf of Kyiv. The war in the Middle East, which saw US allies expend huge quantities of air defence ammunition protecting sites in the Gulf, has exacerbated a shortage Ukraine has faced since the start of the war. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s success in drone warfare has attracted the attention of rich Gulf states that have been targeted with the same types of Iranian-designed drones that Ukraine is now well versed in countering.
Researchers at Peking University have claimed a breakthrough in microchip design software, purportedly offering critical support to Huawei Technologies as the tech giant attempts to build cutting-edge semiconductors despite US-led trade restrictions. The innovation, unveiled on Tuesday, comes in the form of a prototype tool for electronic design automation (EDA), according to an announcement by the university’s School of Integrated Circuits. EDA is the highly specialised software that engineers...
Camp David has been the scene of major US-led diplomatic developments in the past.
AS Pakistan and China celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations, an important question emerges that goes beyond symbolism: what direction will the relationship take in a rapidly changing world and regional order? No longer merely a rising power, China is now in the ranks of global superpowers alongside America. This transformation has profound implications for Pakistan. Sharing borders with an emerging superpower presents opportunities, dependencies, pressures and strategic dilemmas that Pakistan has never experienced before. Pakistan’s long association with the US has seen fluctuating phases of cooperation, mistrust and transactional alignments. Geographic distance was a critical factor that allowed Pakistan to have divergent strategic priorities. Washington not only tolerated it but also took advantage whenever needed. But with China, it is a different story. The relationship is rooted in strategic convergence, regional connectivity, defence cooperation and political trust developed over decades. Yet China’s rise has transformed the nature of this partnership as the China with which Pakistan built its early ties during the Cold War era is not the same today. Beijing’s global ambitions, economic priorities and security concerns have expanded, compelling Pakistan to revisit ways of sustaining strategic closeness while preserving diplomatic flexibility in an increasingly polarised world. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in Beijing on a four-day state visit, accompanied by senior government and military officials, with expectations that Sino-Pak ties will remain on the same trajectory despite the occasional friction. Most concerns revolve around security issues and threats faced by Chinese nationals working on various projects, particularly CPEC-related, in Pakistan. Although both countries share the goal of a terrorism-free neighbourhood and their views broadly converge on Afghanistan, there are differences over how to address the problem. Pakistan has drastically altered its Afghanistan policy in recent years, while China has maintained a relatively consistent and pragmatic approach, preferring engagement, mediation and gradual stabilisation. China’s rise has transformed the nature of the Sino-Pak partnership. Pakistan’s geopolitical thinking has historically followed a realist framework, largely shaped by its long partnership with Washington. Alliances such as Seato and Cento, followed by cooperation during the Afghan wars, created the foundation of that relationship. Military training programmes and security cooperation further institutionalised this approach under which Pakistan pragmatically calculated its interests and maintained working relations with Washington despite recurring mistrust and divergent priorities. Pakistan moved closer to China after the downturn in US-Pakistan relations following the Osama bin Laden operation in May 2011 and the Salala border incident, when Nato forces attacked Pakistani military border posts in the Salala area of Mohmand Agency in November 2011. The launch of CPEC further cemented ties. However, neither Islamabad nor Rawalpindi ultimately abandoned the balancing approach between Washington and Beijing. Pakistan still depends on China for strategic cover, defence cooperation and financial support, while simultaneously relying on the US-led economic order for exports, international financial institutions and macroeconomic stability. This balancing act has not weakened Pakistan’s ties with Beijing but has altered their character. Unlike the US, China has rarely pressured Pakistan publicly to choose sides or adopt bloc politics; it has, instead, quietly adjusted its own expectations and vocabulary, gradually shifting from describing Pakistan as an ‘all-weather friend’ to a ‘trusted strategic partner’. At the same time, the relationship has undergone a subtle but important change, with the earlier optimism regarding CPEC and expectations of an economic breakthrough increasingly giving way to a more realistic understanding of mutual interests and limitations. CPEC itself symbolises both the achievements and limitations of the partnership. It helped address Pakistan’s energy shortages and infrastructure gaps, but the promise of structural economic transformation is only partially fulfilled. Today, the Sino-Pak partnership is more security-driven, more unequal economically, and more strategically consequential. The future trajectory of the relationship appears less centred on grand economic promises and more on concrete strategic cooperation, including defence integration, counterterrorism coordination, industrial cooperation, mining, agriculture, technology and regional connectivity. Defence ties have deepened to an unprecedented level, with China accounting for the overwhelming majority of Pakistan’s arms imports, while cooperation now extends to co-production, intelligence sharing, naval modernisation, and long-term defence-industrial integration. Pakistan’s internal security has also emerged as the most sensitive dimension of bilateral ties. Beijing is increasingly concerned about attacks on Chinese nationals and CPEC-linked projects, and its tolerance is now shaped less by Pakistan’s relations with Washington and more by Islamabad’s ability to protect Chinese interests and maintain policy consistency. Although China repeatedly reaffirms support for Pakistan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and stability, there is still no evidence of a formal Nato-style mutual defence guarantee between the two countries. Nevertheless, Pakistan’s strategic dependence on China continues to deepen, making it increasingly difficult for Islamabad to maintain a genuinely equidistant posture between Beijing and Washington. However, Pakistan has sought alternative avenues to preserve this balance. Its expanding role in Gulf security affairs, evolving defence partnerships with Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Qatar and Egypt, participation in President Donald Trump’s peace initiatives, though currently dormant, and its mediation role in the US-Iran war have opened up diplomatic space for Islamabad to sustain strategic flexibility. The idea of emerging middle-power alignments is also gaining greater significance in the state’s strategic thinking. However, one question is likely to re-emerge: how will China view Pakistan, a close neighbour that continues to maintain ties with its principal rival, the US? China possesses several strategic cards, and the one that concerns Pakistan most is the ‘India card’. Yet Islamabad appears confident that India faces broader strategic constraints in evolving an exclusive partnership with China similar to its historical relationship with Russia. India’s strategic and geo-economic DNA also aligns more naturally with the West, a reality — and an advantage for Pakistan — that Islamabad will continue attempting to challenge within the broader regional competition. The writer is a security analyst. Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2026