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Israel gets a mixed message as U.S. pauses arms shipments [Video]

The U.S. has paused some arms shipments to Israel over a disagreement about military action in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Opponents of Prime Minister Netanyahu blame him for damaging the Israel/U.S. relationship, while allies of Netanyahu go so far as to claim Biden is helping Hamas. A look at graduation ceremonies at colleges that were the scenes of violent anti-Israel protests, Ukrainians and Russians living side-by-side in a Norwegian mining village, and a look at politics in South Korea and the push there to increase the birth rate. Plus, in Pakistan, its the anniversary of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan stormed military properties to protest his arrest.

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UPDATED: Putin warns of global clash as Russia marks Victory Day – CDE News [Video]

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten the world’s biggest nuclear power as Russia marked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. As Russian troops advance against Ukraine’s Western-backed forces,

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Putin lays flowers at Tomb of Unknown Soldier on Victory Day | News [Video]

Vladimir Putin left flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on Thursday 9 May, as Russia marked Victory Day. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in the Second World War, but eventually pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet Victory Banner was raised over the Reichstag in 1945. Nazi Germanys unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 pm on 8 May 1945, marked as Victory in Europe Day by France, Britain and the United States. In Moscow, it was already 9 May, which became the Soviet Unions Victory Day in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.