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Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, revealed that he once got intimate with a “strategic nuclear warhead”. This while he lamented that Belarus surrendered its Soviet nuclear arsenal in the early 1990s. He claimed he managed to get the personal moment with the nuke before it was removed. Watch the full video to know more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Israel's Big Move To Come To Terms With Hamas Amid Stalled Truce Negotiations. Israel Is Reportedly Ready To Reduce The Number Of Hostages That Hamas Would Release. Israel Is Reportedly Willing To Accept 20 Hostages In The First Phase Of Ceasefire, As Long As Those Released Are Either Women, Men Over 50 Years Of Age & The Seriously Ill. Watch Video To Know More INTERNATIONAL NEWS

The IDF has withdrawn the Nahal Brigade from the Gaza strip to give it rest. The brigade will reportedly join the rest of the 162nd division for future operations, like invading Gaza's southern city of Rafah. The Times Of Israel report added that Nahal is being replaced by two reserve brigades in central gaza, the 679th “Yiftah” Armored brigade and the 2nd “Carmeli” Infantry brigade. Watch for more details. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

After the United States, pro-Palestine protests are being held in France. Students blocked access to Paris’s prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) university over Israel’s war on Gaza, demanding the institution condemn Israel’s actions in a protest that echoed similar demonstrations on university and college campuses across the United States. Watch this to know more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

The announcement by the United States that it has provided Ukraine with ATACMS long-range missiles has put spotlight on Germany’s continued refusal to send similar long-range Taurus missiles to Kyiv. Just hours before Washington’s announcement on ATACMS delivery, German chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his opposition to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Scholz, however, is now facing growing heat at home and within the NATO bloc to reconsider his stand. Watch this video for more information. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

An Israeli Civilian Was Killed In A Hezbollah Anti-tank Missile Attack Near The Lebanon Border, The Israeli Defence Forces Said On Friday. The Latest Hezbollah Strike Targeted The Mount Dov Area On The Border With Lebanon. Following The Attack, The IDF Said It Struck Hezbollah Sites In Southern Lebanon’s Chebaa. Watch Full Video To Know More. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

The US, UK, and Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, targeting its drone program. The US Treasury Department in a statement said over a dozen entities, individuals, and vessels played a key role in facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of drones to Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL). Watch INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Controversial Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir was involved in a car accident on April 26. His car allegedly jumped a red light, as per witnesses quoted by Israeli news outlets. Police said that they were investigating the cause of the accident. Ben Gvir has been accused in the past of telling his drivers to flout traffic rules. Watch the full video for more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Ukrainian villages have been continuously bombarded and residents have fled to other areas to find cover. Amid the two years of the war in Ukraine, the village of Velyka Pysarivka was hit with nearly 200 Russian guided bombs last month. How are the villagers surviving in the war? Watch the full video to know more.

Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman says inflation is “heading in the right direction”. The annual rate of inflation in the March quarter has dropped to 3.6 per cent. The latest figures, released on Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, revealed annual CPI inflation in the March 2024 quarter was at 3.6 per cent, lower than the 4.1 per cent annual rise in the December quarter. “Inflation is running at about half of what it was when we came to office – that’s inflation heading in the right direction,” Mr Gorman told Sky News Australia. “We’ll continue to make sure that, where we can, take pressure off inflation.”

Dozens of conflicts are now raging across the world, including Israel's brutal war on Gaza. With atrocities and human rights violations happening daily, Ghida Fakhry sits down with Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to find out whether the human rights framework which emerged from the Second World War, is fit for purpose and able to hold Israel to account?

In recent months, pressure has been growing on the Biden administration from outside – but also increasingly from within. Younger voices are refusing to toe the line and forms of dissent - from resignations to self-immolation - are growing. Could dissent in Washington, DC be the key to an end to the bloodshed in Gaza? Do these forms of dissent make a difference? And why is it important to a new generation of civil servants to refuse to toe the line?

From wild birds to domestic fowls and cows, then to humans. The bird flu is a growing threat to our safety. Scientists are keeping a close eye on its spread.

An explosive-laden drone launched from Lebanon exploded in a Northern Israeli town. The drone, fired by Lebanon's Hezbollah group, detonated in Kibbutz in the Galilee. IDF said that a member of Hanita local security team was injured in the incident. Shortly afterwards, the Israeli Army claimed to have bombarded Hezbollah sites in Southern Lebanon. Watch for more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Additional U.S. troops have been deployed in the Middle East amid looming threat of an Iranian attack on Israel. Washington is also moving additional assets to the region, U.S. defense officials said. The U.S. has already sent tens of thousands of troops to Mideast amid the war in the Gaza Strip. Watch for more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Anthony Cooke, New South Wales police assistant commissioner, told a news conference on Saturday that the man was killed by a female police officer responding to the scene at the Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex. “There are more than several people who have been conveyed to hospital, a number of those are in serious or critical condition at this stage,” he said. “Preliminary investigations show this person has acted alone. I am content that there is no continuing threat,” Cooke said, adding that police have seen no evidence pointing to the possible motivations of the attacker, but they are ruling nothing out. Eight people, including a nine-month-old baby and her mother, were rushed to hospital following the attack.

Iran is threatening retaliation for the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria. The US talks up the possibility of an imminent strike by Tehran and vows to defend Israel. How dangerous is the situation? What's the risk of a wider conflict?

The algorithms that Big Tech designed - and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design, and deepens the global digital divide.

The US is sending its United Nations envoy to South Korea and Japan. Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s trip follows Russia's veto of the renewal of the UN panel that monitored sanction violations by North Korea. Our UN Correspondent Frank Ucciardo has more.

A US police oversight agency has released footage showing five police officers firing almost 100 gunshots over 41 seconds at a 26-year-old Black man who was allegedly arrested for failing to wear a seatbelt. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said preliminary evidence showed Dexter Reed fired first, wounding a Black policeman. Bodycam videos, taken from multiple angles, show Reed briefly lowering a window and then raising it as more officers arrive, yelling commands and drawing weapons. The gunshots continued even after “Reed exited his vehicle and fell to the ground,” the police oversight agency said in a statement shared with the video. An attorney for the family said the traffic stop was unconstitutional because the officers, who belong to a tactical unit, did not announce they were police and were in an unmarked police vehicle. A man calling 911 to report the shooting described it as “shooting like they’re having a Vietnam War.” In September 2023, the OHCHR, a UN agency, said that “Black people in America are three times more likely to be killed by police than whites” and that only 1 percent of police killings “result in officers being charged”. “Racism in the US — a legacy of slavery, the slave trade, and one hundred years of legalized apartheid that followed slavery’s abolition — continues to exist today in the form of racial profiling, police killings, and many other human rights violations,” the report said.

Multiple people have been injured with reports indicating several may have been killed after a man used a knife to attack people at a Sydney shopping centre in Australia. New South Wales Police said emergency services were called to the Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex just before 4pm (06:00 GMT) on Saturday. Eight people, including a nine-month-old baby and her mother, were rushed to hospital following the attack, according to local reports

Warnings of a catastrophic shortage of air defence systems to protect from Russian drone attacks. As Charles Stratford reports from the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian troops and civilians are paying the price of the decline in Western military support.

Mohamad Elmasry from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies says Iran is in a difficult position as it will have to respond to the suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria without triggering an all-out war. “Iran has to respond, but it has to be a balancing act,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera. “If their response is deemed too weak, the Iranian government will look bad in front of its own public. On the other hand, if their response is too strong they risk an all-out war – a major response from Israel,” Elmasry said, adding that the country would not be ready for such a confrontation. There have been some backchannel communications between Iran and the US, the analyst said, where the Americans suggested to Iran that their response “should be minor”.

Just one simple word: “Don’t.” Biden has used that word before. It’s not the first time he’s actually warned Iran in that kind of language. But he’s also a realist. He also understands that Iran is going to have to mount a serious response. This was Iranian sovereign territory that was attacked in Damascus. It was a consulate. And therefore, Iran has to respond in some sort of way. The Americans are actually bringing in a lot more assets, perhaps more than we’ve seen since October 7, into the region.

A Russian UAV destroyed a U.S.-provided Bradley fighting vehicle near Avdiivka. A video shows the drone impact the side of the armoured vehicle while it stands along a treeline. Ukrainian forces lost many Bradley vehicles during their counteroffensive last year. Watch the full video to know more. INTERNATIONAL NEWS