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Washington has been pushing to end the conflict, which is now in its fifth year. The conflict lost momentum after the US attention veered to its conflict with Iran in the Middle East, which began late in February.

The post-war strategy is being guided by the political strategists of the Trump administration in coordination with various US agencies. President Donald Trump himself has reportedly attended two meetings with senior aides in the recent weeks on the strategy. Trump has hinted ithat Washington is working on "something much bigger" in the Middle East after the war with Iran.

The Xi trip also assumes significance considering that the US is generally wary of Chinese investment. Beijing's own love-hate relationship with private enterprise would also undergo a transformation, given that Xi had recently championed strict steps against private enterprises.

The sanctions are part of Operation Economic Outcast, a broader campaign targeting the financial networks Tehran uses as its war with the U.S. continues.

A Russian drone hit the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU.

AAA reported that a gallon of diesel is now $5.85, up about 23 cents in the last week.

The billionaire class saw its population grow by 8.2 percent in 2025, fueled in part by the AI investment boom.

Iran has spent decades developing networks to work around Western sanctions, but Washington is now targeting many of the financial channels, intermediaries and trading arrangements that allowed those systems to function.

Tehran also threatened Israel, saying that if the country attacks, "we will target it faster and more heavily than before."

The Air Force told Senator Ron Wyden that it took such measures two months ago, while the U.S. Special Operations Command did so "recently."

The company will now shed 100,000 jobs.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised Brussels for its "strong and early stance."

The Trump administration maintains that the U.S. Navy is assisting dozens of ships through the waterway at night and that many of those movements are not detected by commercial tracking services.

Crop losses are already being reported from Central America to South Asia, while changing rainfall and extreme heat threaten food production, water supplies and energy systems.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked that the drug trafficking indictment against him and his wife be thrown out because he is a head of state and therefore immune from prosecution.

There are now more seniors in the world than young children. The world will only get grayer as more time goes by, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.

Washington has deployed new electromagnetic warfare equipment and is testing spacecraft that can respond quickly to threats in orbit as military competition extends beyond Earth.