Donald Trump’s first overseas visit since returning to the presidency offered a vivid snapshot of his foreign policy priorities: business deals and spectacles of success come first; everything else is secondary. On his tour, Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, but pointedly skipped Israel. During his first term, one of Trump’s key foreign policy goals was to build an anti-Iranian coalition and forge an alliance between Riyadh and Jerusalem.

In recent years, Russian intelligence services have intensified their pursuit of Russian émigrés, orchestrating kidnappings and poisonings of journalists and opposition figures living outside the Kremlin’s jurisdiction. The story is not new.

On May 23, the US Department of Finance announced immediately softening the sanctions regime against Syria. The Office for Monitoring Foreign Assets (OFAC) released the General License No. 25 (GL 25), which actually canceled the sanctions imposed in the framework of the Syrian sanction regulation. GL 25 resolves transactions that were previously banned, including new investments, the provision of financial services and operations related to Syrian oil and oil products.

In the French department of the Primorsky Alps, a large -scale disconnection of electricity occurred, which also affected Cannes, where the Cannes Festival ends today, May 24.

POLITICS The CEO of peace: Trump's profit-driven Middle East diplomacy rattles Israel Marianna Belenkaya 24 May 2025 Donald Trump’s first overseas visit since returning to the presidency offered a vivid snapshot of his foreign policy priorities: business deals and spectacles of success come first; everything else is secondary. On his tour, Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, but pointedly skipped Israel.

US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset ordered to significantly reduce the presence of journalists in the Pentagon: from now on, media representatives will not be able to be in most premises of the department without special support. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the document itself.

European countries consider the possibility of purchasing American weapons for further transfer to Ukraine, since the EU’s own arsenals have been exhausted. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources in Brussels. This option is discussed due to fears that the current US President Donald Trump may refuse to continue the military support of Kyiv. According to the agency, already approved assistance packages allocated by his predecessor Joe Bayden may end by summer.

Donald Trump radically reduced the number of National Security Council (SNB) at the White House, having dismissed a number of employees, sending others on an administrative vacation and disposing of the return of temporarily corrupted specialists to their departments. This is written by Financial Times and Axios .

On the morning of May 24, on the closing day of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the south of France was left without electricity. The incident occurred against the backdrop of enhanced security measures and a large cluster of guests - the organizers were preparing for the Golden Palm Branch ceremony. As a result, about 160 thousand houses remained without light, including part of the Cannes.

The news The Insider May 24, 2025 Photo: President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky 307 military personnel and employees of law enforcement agencies returned to Ukraine. Russia received the same amount of its military. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. In addition to the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, employees of the State Border Service and the National Guard returned to Ukraine, said Vladimir Zelensky.

Another tanker went into the Baltic Sea without registration and any flag. OSINT analysts believe that it belongs to the “shadow fleet” of Russia, this is indicated by several signs. AIS Falcon tanker transfers data that it is registered in Cameroon, however, as The Insider found out, the vessel has no actual registration of the flag on August 1, 2024.

The drones attacked the Azot Chemical Bill in Novomoskovsk, Tula region. This is the largest chemical enterprise that produces products, including dual purposes. Also, according to ASTRA, the attack “Energia” in Yelets, which produces batteries and batteries used by the military, was subjected to the second time.

According to the air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of May 24, Russia attacked Ukraine 250 drones and 14 Iskander-M ballistic missiles. The blows were directed primarily to Kyiv, also under the attack were the Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Zaporizhzhya regions. 15 people were injured in Kyiv. The vast majority of the UAV was neutralized: 245 out of 250. Out of 14 Iskander-M missiles, the Air Force Air Force managed to bring down 6.

In the work of the social network Twitter, a large -scale failure is observed. This is evidenced by the data of the Downdetector service and user complaints. Twitter's complaints began to arrive on May 24 after 14 hours of Moscow time. Currently, when trying to download the Twitter tape, reports: “Something went wrong. Try to reboot the page. " Problems in the work of Twitter are recorded around the world: from the USA to Russia.

In the Toret direction, the Russian military advanced in Romanovka to the west of Toretsk (until 2016 - Dzerzhinsk) and began to eliminate the “pocket” between Romanovka, Old Nikolaevka and Alexanderpol ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). They also advanced in the area of ​​the summer cottage north of Toretsk and exert pressure on the logistics of the SOU in the Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka area using FPV thrones ( 1 , 2 ).