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Donald Trump told European leaders after a phone call with the Russian president that Vladimir Putin was not ready to end the war, reports have claimed.

The alleged comments mark the first time that Trump has suggested that Putin is not interested in ending the war, despite having repeatedly claimed that the Russian leader wants the war to be over.

The White House has since denied this account. Karline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said Trump “did say he believes Putin is winning the war, but he never said ‘Putin isn’t ready to end the war’.”

It comes as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has suffered more than 63,000 casualties in Kursk and that Ukrainian operations there continue, hours after Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the region.

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A district judge ruled Thursday the federal government could not revoke the legal status of international students after a nationwide crackdown on foreign individuals at U.S. universities.

The case involves two dozen students who were admitted to the U.S. on F-1 nonimmigrant visas who saw their status changed when the federal government took them off the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).

Along with blocking terminations, District Judge Jeffrey White, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, is enjoining the federal government from arresting the plaintiffs or those similarly situated or transferring those arrested outside of their resident jurisdiction.

The Hill has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.

This is the first time a judge has issued a nationwide injunction after dozens of lawsuits appeared in response to the federal government’s crackdown on international students.

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Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 93 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday.

International condemnation is mounting after Israeli forces fired warning shots towards foreign diplomats visiting the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

The United Nations’s chief spokesperson said the limited humanitarian aid “finally” entering Gaza is “nowhere near enough to meet the needs” of the war-torn enclave’s famished population.

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A former Ukrainian politician who worked as a senior aide to the former pro-Russian president has been shot and killed outside his children’s school in an upmarket suburb of Madrid.

In the latest violence to rattle Spain since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Andriy Portnov was killed on Wednesday morning outside the American School of Madrid in Pozuelo de Alarcón.

Authorities said Portnov, who worked closely with Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, had been targeted when he was getting into his car, a black Mercedes-Benz. “Several people shot him in the back and the head and then fled towards a forested area,” said a source at Spain’s interior ministry.

Local media said Portnov had been dropping off his children at the school, where classes had begun 30 minutes before the shooting. Police sources told El País he had two daughters at the school.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa brought two championship golfers from his country and a 14-kilogram book showcasing South Africa's greatest golf courses.

But even his best attempts to appeal to President Donald Trump's golf fandom couldn't shield him from becoming the latest target of an Oval Office ambush.

In a wild one-hour May 21 meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa ‒ rivaled only by Trump's memorable clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February ‒ Trump accused the South African leader of overseeing "genocide" against White people, played a video to try to prove the false claim and lashed out at a reporter who asked about his administration accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar.

"I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you," Ramaphosa quipped after things got heated, about 20 minutes into the meeting.

"I wish you did. I'd take it," Trump said. "If your country offered the U.S. Air Force a plane, I would take it."

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