China’s National People’s Congress ends with a show of unity despite economic uncertainty. Meanwhile, Kyiv slams the Pope’s call for negotiations to end the war with Russia and have ‘the courage to raise the white flag’. Plus: the far-right’s gains at Portugal’s election, the Tasmanian premier’s vow to build the world’s largest chocolate fountain and Peter Pomerantsev on his new book ‘How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler’.
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Macron urges the strengthening of European sovereignty
Monday 27th May
The ICJ orders Israel to stop its Rafah invasion
UN votes on Srebrenica genocide memorial day
UK announces snap election and the US fights London’s congestion charge
Nato’s Ukraine predicament, unrest in New Caledonia and hiding tourist attractions
The death of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi
Lviv Media Forum, Brazil’s floods and NYCxDesign
Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law: the tools of autocracies?
Slovakia’s prime minister attacked and Putin in Beijing
Biden ramps up tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars
Ukraine on the back foot as Russia claims more villages
Taiwan’s new tourism campaign and the Eurovision Song Contest
The EU approves a €3bn plan to arm Ukraine
The UK allows Ukraine to use British weapons in Russia
Israeli forces take control of Gaza side of Rafah crossing
Monday 6th May
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