WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange is set to be freed after he pleads guilty to a single US espionage charge. Israel’s supreme court rules ultra-Orthodox seminary students must be drafted into the military. Donald Trump is handed a plan to stop US military aid to Kyiv unless it engages with peace talks with Moscow. And Democrats take aim at Donald Trump on the two-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v Wade.

*This episode has been corrected to remove an incorrect reference to China as the world's most populous economy.

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Trump and Ukraine peace talks, Assange’s freedom and IDF's ultra-Orthodox conscription