World in brief: May 28, 2024
TAIWAN: Taipei’s opposition-controlled legislature passed changes today that are seen as diminishing the power of the island’s president.
The changes pushed by the opposition Nationalist Party and its allies give the body greater power to control budgets, including military spending that the party has blocked in what some observers see as a concession to China.
BELGIUM: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today picked up a second $1 billion (£783 million) promise of military aid in as many days for his war with Russia during a whirlwind tour through the European Union.
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