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Japan plans to purchase 105 F-35 American fifth-generation fighters, US President Donald Trump said. This will make the Land of the Rising Sun a state ally of the US with the largest air fleet with such machines.

Russia appears to hold all the trump cards in looming negotiations on gas supplies to Moldova, for now at least.

U.S. President Donald Trump on May 26 downplayed recent North Korean missile launches as he teed off a state visit to Japan with a round of golf with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a trip to the sumo.

President Donald Trump is defending his unprecedented decision to give his Justice Department chief unfettered access to the country's deepest foreign intelligence secrets amid an outcry from the spy community and a veiled warning from the U.S. intelligence czar.

SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on May 23 for Musk's new Starlink internet service.

Evangelos Marinakis - in his capacity as a candidate for the Piraeus City Council on the Piraeus Victorious ticket and chief of the city's  Olympiacos FC - today lambasted the government and PM Alexis Tsipras in particular  in a no-holds-barred interview with journalist  Yorgos Tragas on Parapolitika 90.1 radio.

Turkey's presidential spokesman responded on May 23 to remarks by conservative American Steve Bannon who made remarks about the Turkish leader.       

U.S. officials who briefed Congress about Iran on May 21 sought to convince lawmakers that President Donald Trump's administration wants to deter Tehran's aggression, not attack the Islamic republic, members of Congress said.

The decision to take them down was a rare reversal by a nationalist-populist leader whose party is on track to win more than half of the vote on May 26, giving Fidesz 14 or 15 of the country's 21 seats in the European parliament, versus 12 now, according to the latest polls.

Movie stars including Salma Hayek and Eva Longoria celebrated the role of women in cinema at a glitzy gala in Cannes on May 20, amid a drive to promote gender equality in the industry that is still falling short of what many campaigners hoped for.