News Minute - Video of Major World Affairs - July 5

News Minute - Video of Major World Affairs – July 5

Trump seeks to enforce spending promises at NATO summit

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump got what he wanted from NATO at last year’s summit: an alliance whose members had largely acceded to his demands to step up their defense spending.

Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing new large-scale attack on Ukraine

Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing new large-scale attack on Ukraine

Editorials from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and others

Editorials from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and others

Iran begins procession through Tehran for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran began a procession Monday through its capital, Tehran, for the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, and those of his family killed Feb. 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, will be carried on board a truck.

1 killed in attack on Crimea as Putin and Zelenskyy hold separate Trump calls

One person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed officials said in the early hours of Sunday, as Russian and Ukrainian leaders held separate calls with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war, now in its fifth year.

Top Asian Pacific Breaking News: Latest Updates

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of a nuclear-capable cruise missile and other weapons aboard a new 5,000-ton destroyer, the Kang Kon, repaired after being damaged in a failed launch ceremony last year, state media said Sunday, in the latest military display marking Kim’s push to build a nuclear-armed navy.

7 OPEC+ countries agree to expand monthly oil production modestly

NEW YORK (AP) – A handful of countries in the OPEC+ oil-producing alliance plan to increase their outputs modestly next month, which would bring more oil online after fuel prices have fallen to levels not seen since before the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran.

Today in History: July 5, Dolly the sheep born in cloning breakthrough

Today in History Today is Sunday, July 5, the 186th day of 2026. There are 179 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, was born.