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Armed conflicts and attacks
A source citing Reuters says that a negotiating team from Qatar arrives in Tehran in an effort to secure a peace deal between Iran and the U.S. to end the war. (Reuters) (Shafaq)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
An Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson says that Iran will not agree to give its highly enriched uranium to the U.S. (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker crosses the strait for the first time in nearly two weeks, bound from Ras Laffan to Tianjin, China. (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Six people are killed and six more injured in an Israeli airstrike in Deir Qanoun an-Naher. Two paramedics are among the fatalities, while three more are injured. (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A paramedic is killed and four more are injured in two separate Israeli airstrikes in Tyre District. (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israeli drone strikes kill two people in Rafah and Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Russian president Vladimir Putin says that a drone strike on a dormitory and school in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast has killed at least six people and injured dozens more, attributing the attack to Ukraine, but Ukraine's military describes the comments from Russia as manipulation, saying it hit a drone command unit in Starobilsk. (ABC Australia) (AFP via Asharq Al-Awsat) (Reuters)
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/russia-vows-retaliation-on-deadly-student-dorm-attack/106713694
- https://english.aawsat.com/world/5276174-ukraine-hits-college-russian-occupied-town-killing-6
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/four-killed-35-children-injured-ukrainian-drone-attack-luhansk-russian-officials-2026-05-22/
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Armed conflicts and attacks
U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio says that no peace talks are currently taking place, but the United States is "ready" to play a role if they resume. (AA)
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Disasters and accidents
The death toll from a building collapse in Fez, Morocco, yesterday rises to 15. (AFP via Arab News PK)
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Disasters and accidents
At least one person is killed and nine others are injured in an explosion at the petrochemical plant of MOL in Tiszaújváros, Borsod–Abaúj–Zemplén County, Hungary. (Reuters)
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Politics and elections
Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismisses prime minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolves the government amid growing tensions within the ruling coalition and ongoing economic challenges in Senegal. (AFP via France 24)