The Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Spreading Faster Than Authorities Can Trace Contacts—The WHO Has Declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The Virus Has Reached Three Provinces, There Is Neither a Vaccine Nor Treatment for the Rare Strain, and Local Residents Are Blocking Medical Workers
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Resigns Because of Her Husband’s Serious Illness
He Was Diagnosed With an “Extremely Rare Form of Bone Cancer,” and Gabbard’s Last Working Day Will Be June 30
The U.S. Paused $14 Billion in Arms Supplies to Taiwan to Preserve Ammunition Stockpiles for the War With Iran
The Pause Came a Week After Trump and Xi Met—Taiwan Arms Supplies Were One of the Talks’ Key Issues
Merz Invites Ukraine Into the EU as an Observer
Full Membership Is Too Expensive for Brussels, but Keeping Kyiv as an Eastern Buffer Is a Matter of Principle
“Russia Is Looking for Ukraine’s Leadership.”
Zelensky Is Amplifying Fears of Strikes on Bankova and an Offensive From Belarus as His Own Political Vulnerability Grows
SpaceX Successfully Completed Starship’s Twelfth Test Launch—The First for the New V3 Generation
The Spacecraft Placed 20 Dummy Satellites Into Orbit and Splashed Down in the Indian Ocean, While the Super Heavy Booster Landed in the Gulf of Mexico
Iran Is Considering Charging Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon for Undersea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran Considers the Strait Its Waters and Wants to Control Maintenance of the Lines—but Experts Doubt the Legal Basis
The U.S. Swore In 82 New Immigration Judges—The Largest Intake in Justice Department History
Trump’s Administration Had Earlier Fired Dozens of Judges It Considered Insufficiently Tough on Deportations
Slovak Prime Minister Fico Opposed Giving Ukraine “Associate Member” Status in the EU
In His View, Other Candidates—Montenegro, Albania and Serbia—Should Take Priority
Birmingham Has Its First Muslim Mayor—Pakistan-Born Zakir Chaudhry
London Is Already Led by a Politician of Muslim Background, Sadiq Khan, Whose Family Also Has Pakistani Roots
Xi Hosted Putin in Beijing a Week After Talks With Trump—and Publicly Called for an End to the War With Iran
Beijing Depends on the Strait of Hormuz for 40% of Its Oil Imports and Fears Becoming Too Tightly Tied to a Single Energy Supplier
Xi Issued Veiled Criticism of the U.S. and Japan After Meeting Putin in Beijing—Bloomberg
The Power of Siberia 2 Agreement Was Signed Without the Leaders Present, Deepening Doubts Over the Project’s Prospects
Putin Arrived in Beijing for Talks With Xi—Moscow Hopes to Move Power of Siberia 2 Off Dead Center
The Kremlin Hopes Turmoil in Energy Markets Caused by the War in Iran Will Make Beijing More Flexible on Gas Prices
Trump’s War With Iran Has Cost Americans an Additional $40 Billion in Fuel Costs—About $316 per Household
The President Himself Said He Does Not Think About Americans’ Financial Situation—“We Cannot Allow Iran to Get Nuclear Weapons, and That’s All”
SpaceX Prepares for the Twelfth Starship Launch—the Company's IPO at a $2 Trillion Valuation Depends on This Rocket
Earlier Prototypes Carried Only a Third of the Advertised Payload Capacity, and the Series of Explosions Has Continued Since 2023
European Leaders Demand That Zelensky Complete Corruption Investigations Into the Top of Ukraine’s Government—Die Zeit
According to the Newspaper, Ukraine’s Further Progress Toward the EU Is Directly Tied to How Deeply Kyiv Investigates the “Mindich Case”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Banned the Export of Enriched Uranium From the Country—Complicating Talks With the U.S. and Israel
Trump Had Earlier Assured Israel That Uranium Removal Would Be a Mandatory Condition of Any Deal With Tehran
The Taliban Lowered the Minimum Marriage Age for Girls in Afghanistan—It Is Now Defined by the Onset of Puberty
Under Islamic Law, That Can Be as Young as Nine, and a Husband’s Abuse Is Not Considered Grounds for Divorce
The remains of Andriy Melnyk, chairman of the OUN leadership, exhumed from a cemetery in Luxembourg. Reburial is scheduled for May 24 at the National Military Memorial Cemetery
May 20, 2026, kmoun.info
The U.S. and Britain Are Introducing Exceptions to Restrictions on Russian Oil
Washington Will Allow Vulnerable Countries to Access Supplies Already at Sea, While London Opens Imports of Fuel Made From Russian Crude Refined in Third Countries
Mercedes-Benz Opens the Door to Defense Production, While Volkswagen Is Already Preparing a Plant for Iron Dome
Germany’s Auto Industry Is Seeking Military Orders Amid an Industry Crisis and Rising European Defense Spending
Google Is Rebuilding Search Around AI Chatbots—The Biggest Change to the Search Bar in the Service’s History
The Company Is Introducing AI Agents That Will Track Concerts, Prices and News for Users—and Is Also Returning to the Smart-Glasses Market
Trump-Backed Candidates Won 24 of 28 Republican Primaries as the President’s Critics Inside the Party Lose Ground
Congressman Massie and Senator Cassidy, Both of Whom Criticized Trump, Lost Their Party Nominations
The EU Agreed to Meet the Terms of Its Trade Deal With the U.S.—Brussels Will Scrap Tariffs on American Goods
The Decision Came After Trump Threatened to Raise Tariffs on European Cars to 25% From July 4
Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar Said the Entire EU Will Return to Buying Russian Gas After the War Ends
In His View, Economics and Geography Will Ultimately Override Political Considerations
Iran Is Rebuilding Its Military Capacity Faster Than U.S. Intelligence Expected—Tehran Has Already Partly Resumed Drone Production
That Diverges From Earlier Public U.S. Claims That Iran Had Lost Much of Its Defense Industry
The U.S. Threatened to Revoke Visas for the Palestinian Delegation at the UN if Its Representative Does Not Withdraw From the Vice-Presidential Election
Washington Believes Riyad Mansour’s Election Could Complicate Trump’s Plan to Settle the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
SpaceX Files for an IPO—It Could Become the Largest in Wall Street History
Musk’s Controlling Stake Is Valued at $600 Billion and Could Bring Him Closer to Becoming the First Dollar Trillionaire
The U.S. Charged Former Cuban Leader Raúl Castro With Killing Four People, Including Three Americans
The Case Concerns a 1996 Incident in Which Cuban Fighter Jets Shot Down Two Civilian Aircraft Over International Waters
Ukrainian Drones Triggered a Government Crisis in Latvia
The Prime Minister Resigned After a Dispute Over Who Was Responsible for Airspace Security
Iran Retained Most of Its Missile Arsenal After U.S. and Israeli Strikes
U.S. Intelligence Believes Tehran Quickly Restored Access to Sites Near the Strait of Hormuz
U.S. Senate Backs Advancing a Resolution Requiring Trump to End the War With Iran or Seek Congressional Authorization
The President Officially Declared the “End of the War” on May 1, but the U.S. Continues to Block Iranian Ports and Attack Ships
Trump Says Xi Promised Not to Send Weapons to Iran
The U.S. Is Giving Tehran Several Days for Talks but Warns of New Strikes if There Is No Deal
More Than 145,000 American Children Have Been Separated From Their Parents in Just Over a Year Because of Trump’s Immigration Policies
About 22,000 Lost Both Parents at the Same Time, and More Than a Third of Those Affected Are Under Six
Global Oil Inventories Are Shrinking at a Record Pace Because of the Crisis Around Iran
The IEA Warns of the Risk of Further Price Spikes and Fuel Shortages
Zelensky’s Former Press Secretary Told Carlson the President Demanded “Propaganda Like Goebbels’s,” Personally Agreed to Give Up Donbas in Istanbul and Allegedly Uses Cocaine
Yulia Mendel Called Zelensky “One of the Main Obstacles to Peace”
The U.S. Justice Department Barred the IRS From Auditing Trump’s and His Family’s Past Tax Returns
The Decision Was Made as Part of a Settlement in the President’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS—a Democratic Congressman Called It “Corruption”
U.S. Central Command Chief Said American Forces Believed the School in Minab Was an IRGC Cruise-Missile Depot
The Strike on the School Killed 168 People—Cooper Refused to Accept U.S. Responsibility
Lithuania Declared an Alert Over a Drone From Belarus—Vilnius Airport Suspended Operations, While the President and Prime Minister Took Shelter
NATO Air Force Units Were Drawn Into the Response, and the Alert Was Lifted an Hour Later
In Luxembourg, the Remains of Andriy Melnyk, the Second Head of the OUN, Were Exhumed—He Will Be Reburied in Ukraine
Representatives of the President’s Office, Foreign Ministry and Institute of National Memory Attended the Ceremony
British Bank Standard Chartered Will Cut More Than 7,000 Jobs Because of AI Adoption
The Bank Will Become One of the First Major International Lenders to Publicly Link Mass Layoffs to Automation
Google Unveils Autonomous AI Agents, New Search Assistant Spark and a Return to Smart Glasses
The Company Is Trying to Catch Up With OpenAI and Anthropic—Gemini’s Audience Has More Than Doubled in a Year to 900 Million Monthly Users
Ukraine Talks Have Stalled Over Territorial Disputes and Security Guarantees—Report to U.S. Congress
Zelensky Refuses to Cede Territory, While Russia Refuses to Give Ukraine Security Guarantees
