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Apr 25, 2025 - World

President Trump said Crimea will remain part of Russia, a stipulation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made clear he's not on board with.

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Gabon’s constitutional court has confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema — he's Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup — has won the Central African nation’s April 12 presidential election

Apr 25, 2025 - World

A former State Department official had little good to say about Donald Trump's chief envoy to the world's hot spots and ripped into him on MSNBC for "dropping the ball" multiple times.Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Matthew Miller, who served as the spokesperson for the State Department after heading the Office of Public Affairs at the DOJ, was asked about Steve Witkoff's performance with MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle pointedly noting the Trump appointee is a real estate lawyer with no international negotiation experience to speak of.Barnicle pointed out, "He [Witkoff] gets very high marks here in New York City from people who know him in the real estate business but this isn't the real estate business," and then asked, "Have you ever heard of a single presidential envoy being involved in so many hotspots around the world, and so many flashpoints around the world?"ALSO READ: 'Promoted our tormenter': MAGA fans vent disgust at Trump official's latest move"Steve Witkoff does seem like a very capable individual to me, a very smart individual," Miller responded. "The problem, I think, is that he has no idea what he doesn't know. He doesn't have the experience in these fields, he doesn't have the background, he doesn't have the diplomatic knowledge and, from all reports, he doesn't have anyone around him who can tell him what he doesn't know.""And so you see him go to Russia and meet with Vladimir Putin and then come back and do an interview where he says, 'So the five regions that Russia is either wholly or partially occupying. I can't remember the names of all five of them. Nevertheless, I know that the people there want to be part of Russia," he recalled with a smirk before exclaiming, "No they don't! There's no evidence that they do.""But he's heard that from Putin, and he doesn't know enough about the backstory, he doesn't know enough about the history, he doesn't know enough to push back on that when he hears it from Putin," he explained. "And the problem with him being stretched so thin as, as you note, is, you can't do all of those things.""You can't negotiate peace in Ukraine and Iran deal and into the war in Gaza which you might recall was his initial portfolio, the thing that he was initially designed to do," he added. "And he has completely dropped the ball on –– you look at just what's happened in Gaza. This administration was handed a cease fire that we spent a lot of effort trying to get over the finish line, and we got over the finish line in the last days of the [Biden] administration, the entire conceit of that cease-fire, the way it was designed, was that the incoming administration would spend the six weeks of phase one to try to get it to phase two, and they have completely dropped the ball, haven't spent any diplomatic time, haven't spent any, spent any diplomatic muscle trying to get that to an end, get that to an end to the war.""It's a complete catastrophe and they have completely lost focus on it, I suspect, because Witkoff is busy working on other matters," he suggested.You can watch below or at the link. - YouTube youtu.be

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelistA book featuring Han Kang’s Nobel prize lecture sold 10,000 copies in its first day on sale online.Light and Thread, which takes its title from Han’s December lecture, is her first book to be published in South Korea since she was announced as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature last October. Continue reading...

Apr 25, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump has been venting to advisers that resolving the Ukraine-Russia war has been more difficult than he expected, after passing 93 days past his own deadline for ending the conflict on his first day in office.The president's agitation boiled over Thursday after Russia launched its deadliest attack on Kyiv since last summer, killing at least 12 people, and he's been telling aides he wants a deal in place by his 100th day in office comes next week, reported CNN."Behind the scenes, he frequently brings up how much Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hate one another, one of the sources said – an unsurprising fact, but one the president argues further complicates negotiations," the network reported.ALSO READ: 'Dictatorship, not a town hall': Families 'distraught' as MTG disruptors tased and jailedTrump offered a rare flash of anger Thursday toward Putin in a 30-word social media post, saying "Vladimir stop," but he directed much lengthier, 259-word attack against Zelensky a day before."We are quickly approaching that 100th day of president Donald Trump's second term," said CNN's Alayna Treene, "and that's really the deadline that he's told his team that he wants a deal between Russia and Ukraine to be struck by, and as we move closer, it's clear that that is still far from being completed, and what we're learning is that he is increasingly growing frustrated with the pace of these negotiations and also privately telling advisers essentially that this is more difficult than he had initially anticipated."Trump has been frustrated by what he sees as personal antipathy between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders, although she said that should not necessarily be surprising."We kind of saw some of this frustration and agitation kind of boil over yesterday, particularly after we saw Russia launch its deadliest attack on Kyiv since last summer," Treene said. "The president said that essentially that was getting in the way of what he believes is him closing in on a potential deal between these two countries, and we kind of heard him for the first time, really show that exasperation with Russia publicly. However, he still argued that Russia would be giving up a lot if they were to come to the table and sign this potential deal. listen to how he put it in the Oval Office."Watch below or click the link. - YouTube youtu.be