Daily News Brief

May 9, 2025


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International media authenticates Pakistan's claims of downing Indian Jets
"Militaries worldwide will closely scrutinise a dogfight between China-made Pakistani jets and France-made Indian Rafale fighters, seeking insights that could give them an edge in future conflicts.
A Chinese-made Pakistani fighter jet shot down at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two US officials confirmed, marking a potential major milestone for Beijing's advanced jet.
Pakistan has claimed to have downed at least five Indian jets, including three Rafales, in a battle involving a reported thirty Pakistani and seventy Indian fighter aircraft.
Reuters and BBC have authenticated multiple videos that appear to support Pakistan's claim."
Israel dropped 100,000 tons of explosives over Gaza
"Authorities in Gaza have said that Israel has dropped a hundred thousand tonnes of explosives on Gaza since launching its genocide nineteen months ago, killing or leaving missing over sixty-two thousand Palestinians and committing more than twelve thousand massacres.
Israel completely erased over two thousand two hundred families from civil registries.
The campaign also targeted cemeteries, with Israeli forces stealing two thousand three hundred bodies from Gaza graves and establishing seven mass graves inside hospitals, five hundred twenty-nine of whom have been recovered so far.
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JD Vance says India-Pakistan conflict 'fundamentally none of our business'
"US Vice President JD Vance has said that Washington wanted to see a ""de-escalation"" in a worsening conflict between India and Pakistan, but that it was ""fundamentally none of our business.""
Vance, who has been a proponent of US disengagement from international conflicts, said that the US is not going to get involved in the middle of a war and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it."
Trump reportedly cuts ties with Netanyahu over 'manipulation' concerns
"US President Donald Trump has decided to cut off direct contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Israeli media, Trump made the decision after close associates told Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer that the president believes that Netanyahu is manipulating him."
Robert Francis Prevost becomes first American Pope
"Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States.
A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he became the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo fourteen.
Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, sending up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel on their second day of voting in conclave."
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