Ukrainian PM resigns

Ukraine’s prime minister, Oleksiy Honcharuk, has tendered his resignation after less than five months in the job. The resignation follows the emergence of a recording in which Mr Honcharuk appears to claim that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has a “primitive” understanding of economics.

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Albania expels Iranian diplomats amid worsening relations

Albania has ordered the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats and declared them “persona non grata.” Acting Foreign Minister Gent Cakaj announced the decision in a Facebook post, writing that diplomats Mohammad Ali Arz Peimanemati and Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Alast have conducted “activities in breach of their [diplomatic] status and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”

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