Daily news May 24th 2025

International news overview from May 23-24, 2025, highlighting significant global events and their complexities. Key points include the United States' consideration of tariffs on EU goods, alongside an ease in US-China trade tensions and a measles outbreak. Europe is covered with details on attacks in Kyiv and a prisoner swap, a knife attack in Hamburg, and the appointment of a new German chancellor. The reports also discuss China's improving economic outlook and Taiwanese domestic policy and international standing, the Vatican's engagement in the Ukraine conflict, and ongoing World Conflicts focusing on the Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, each raising questions about humanitarian access and prospects for peace.