North Korea’s Kim vows full support for Russia – Five stories you need to know | Reuters

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1. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would "fully support" Russia’s army as a "fraternal duty", and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the two countries’ ties "special", state media KCNA reported on Thursday.

2. Some 30 Western leaders were holding talks on Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal with Russia, hoping to do enough to persuade the United States to back their efforts.

3. Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to swiftly hear a bid to preserve his sweeping tariffs pursued under a 1977 law meant for emergencies after a lower court invalidated most of the levies that have been central to the Republican president’s economic and trade agenda.

4. Flags flew at half-mast in Lisbon on Thursday after at least 17 people were killed and 21 injured in a crash of a hillside funicular railway popular with tourists, while Portuguese authorities began investigating the cause of the accident.

5. Nelson Mandela’s grandson has said Palestinians’ lives under Israeli occupation are worse than anything Black South Africans experienced under apartheid, and urged the global community to come to their aid.

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