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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the launch of a "new multipurpose destroyer," state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

Iran and the United States have agreed to continue nuclear talks next week, both sides said on Saturday, though Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi voiced "extreme cautious" about the success of the negotiations to resolve a decades-long standoff.

Syria has responded in writing to a list of U.S. conditions for possible partial sanctions relief, saying it had acted on most of them but others required "mutual understandings" with Washington, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.

Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed groups, according to an agreement signed in Washington on Friday as part of diplomatic efforts to end violence in eastern Congo.

The Central Bank of Turkey announced on Friday that it will maintain its tight monetary stance until inflation shows a sustained and meaningful decline. 

In an interview published Friday by Time Magazine, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed unwavering confidence that Saudi Arabia will normalize relations with Israel, potentially joining the Abraham Accords.

On April 24, 2025, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously directed the Pre-Trial Chamber to reconsider Israel’s challenge to the court’s jurisdiction over alleged war crimes committed by Israeli officials in Gaza and the West Bank. 

In a pivotal legal development, the U.S. Department of Justice has stripped the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) of its immunity, clearing the way for a high-profile lawsuit filed by the families of victims of the October 7 terror attack. 

An Iraqi delegation met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Friday to discuss restoring an Iraqi oil pipeline through Syria to Mediterranean ports, the Iraqi state news agency reported.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday at what Trump has said is a key moment in diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is open to meeting Iran's supreme leader or president and that he thinks the two countries will strike a new deal on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia from May 13 to 16, marking the first stop on a broader Gulf tour that includes Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.