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1. Countdown to TikTok crackdown: Popular app could see U.S. ban in 9 months

   

   One of the world’s most popular social platforms — wildly popular with young people — risks becoming a high-profile casualty of the cold-war sequel developing between China and the United States. Now a new bill offers the app's Chinese-based parent company two choices.

2. Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say

   

   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it has found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk.

3. Ukraine drone attacks spark fires at western Russia oil depot

   

   Drones sent by Ukraine struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, as the two-year war has featured a wave of attack on energy facilities this spring.

4. U.S. prepares to rush $1B US in military aid to Ukraine, as Congress approves bills

   

   A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late on Tuesday after months of delay, clearing the way for fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia's invasion force and Kyiv's shortages of military supplies.

5. Why rights groups say so many Palestinians in the West Bank are being attacked with impunity

   

   When word came over the weekend that Israel's closest ally, the United States, reportedly plans to hold members of an Israeli military battalion accountable for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, rights groups saw it as progress.