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Greta Thunberg deported from Israel, denounces Gaza 'war crimes'
Russia accuses ally Serbia of betrayal for supplying arms to Ukraine
Russia on Thursday accused Serbia of exporting arms to Ukraine, saying it’s a stab in the back by its longtime Slavic Balkan ally.
“Serbian defense enterprises, contrary to the ‘neutrality’ declared by official Belgrade, continue to supply ammunition to Kyiv,” the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, said in a statement.
The statement alleged that the export of the Serbian arms to Ukraine are going through NATO intermediaries, “primarily the Czech Republic, Poland and Bulgaria. Recently, exotic options involving African states have also been used for this purpose.”
Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic told the state RTS television that he has recently discussed the issue of the arm exports to Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that it was agreed that the two countries form a “working group” to establish how Serbian-made weapons reach the Ukrainian frontlines.
Trump appears to set Putin 'two-week' deadline on Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has appeared to set a two-week deadline for Vladimir Putin, threatening a different response if the Russian counterpart was still stringing him along.
As the Kremlin escalated its attacks on Ukraine, Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Wednesday if he thought Putin wanted to end the war.
"I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about two weeks," Trump told reporters, the latest amid a string of critical public remarks made by Trump about Putin.
Since Sunday, Trump has written multiple posts on social media saying that Putin has gone "absolutely crazy" and is "playing with fire" after Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine.
Pregnant Palestinian women endangered by Israeli military restrictions in West Bank: UN
The UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) said international law must be upheld to protect people who need medical treatment as the Israeli military’s restrictions on travel in the occupied West Bank have endangering pregnant women.
“These restrictions could threaten the lives of more than 50 women who give birth every day” in the West Bank, the UN agency said.
In a post on social media, the agency quoted a Palestinian mother who was forced to wait three weeks to have stitches removed after a caesarean section birth.
“Snipers were targeting anything that moved on the road,” the mother from West Bank’s Tulkarem City was quoted as saying.
Five skiers found dead in mountains near Swiss luxury resort

The bodies of five skiers have been found in the mountains near Switzerland’s luxury resort of Zermatt, police said.
A helicopter was sent to survey the area around the Rimpfischhorn after climbers alerted authorities to abandoned skis near the summit on Saturday.
“The bodies of five people were quickly found,” Swiss police said, adding that authorities had opened an investigation and were working on identifying the victims.
The Rimpfischhorn is a 4,199-metre (13,776-foot) mountain that lies east of Zermatt, near the Italian border, and is popular with backcountry skiers.
The aviation firm Air Zermatt said it flew a rescue mission to the site on Saturday afternoon where it found the bodies of the victims.
Israel kills 78 in pre-dawn attacks on Gaza, resumes talks with Hamas

'Riviera of the Middle East' no more? Trump has new plan for war-torn Gaza
Call it the art of rebranding.
President Donald Trump has a new proposal for the redevelopment of Gaza — and it is decidedly less flashy sounding.
Just months after saying the U.S. should take over the war-torn seaside Palestinian territory and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East," Trump now wants to make it "a freedom zone," giving fresh life to a controversial foreign policy proposal.
"Gaza has been a territory of death and destruction for many years," Trump told reporters after a roundtable with business leaders in Qatar on May 14. "Let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone."
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