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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sybiha has met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas to discuss Ukraine’s progress toward European Union membership.

The largest number of passengers in the first quarter came from India, followed by Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom
No US Navy ships struck by Iran, says US CENCOM US Central Command said on Monday that no US warships have been hit after Iranian media reported earlier that they had struck an American vessel passing through the Strait of Hormuz with two missiles. “US forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports,” US CENCOM wrote in a post to X. 🚫 CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit a U.S. warship with two missiles

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US president gave no details on how operation would work as Iran says it will attack any armed force entering waterway Middle East crisis – live updates The US has launched an operation to “guide” ships trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war through a southern route of the Strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran insisted that any such transits would have to be coordinated with its armed forces. The scheme was announced as “Project Freedom” on Sunday night by Donald Trump on his social media page, where
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“I was 15 when I started blogging with a fake name, Sarah Shams,” she told The Jerusalem Post last week while visiting Israel. “Sarah was my aunt’s name, and Shams was an Arab lady who sang on TV.

According to the report, these positions were located on the southwestern outskirts of Novopavlovka, an essential logistical node for Ukrainian forces near the border of the DPR and Dnepropetrovsk Region
CENTCOM: No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.

Iranian state media says two missiles have struck a US navy destroyer to prevent it entering the Strait of Hormuz.

Ilham Aliyev specified that the European Parliament passed 14 resolutions filled with offensive language against Azerbaijan

A senior Iranian military official warned that any vessel that tries to cross the Strait of Hormuz without permission would be “at risk.”
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French President Macron: We are trusted by the U.S., but we are respected and trusted by the Iranians.
US denies ship hit by Iranian missiles, Axios reporter says A senior US official has denied that a US vessel was struck by Iranian missiles, according to a post on X from an Axios reporter on Monday. This comes after Iran’s Fars news agency reported earlier that two missiles had hit a US warship near Jask after it ignored Iranian warnings. Senior U.S. official denies a U.S. ship was hit by Iranian missiles May 4, 2026
Field tactical exercises organized by the Gelezinis Vilkas Infantry Brigade commenced on Monday in eastern Lithuania, the press service of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense reported.

The European Conservative noted that Europe is divided over whether to allow the Slovak prime minister’s plane to pass through its airspace
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Trump has grown frustrated with the “no deal, no war” stalemate with Iran and is pushing for more decisive action in the Strait of Hormuz. As one official put it, “The president wants action… He wants pressure. He wants a deal.” Source: Axios

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Europe has "gotten the message" that Donald Trump was disappointed over the reluctance to join the Iran war. Rutte was speaking at a meeting of European leaders in Armenia.
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The Russians have twice requested the exchange of two North Korean prisoners of war who were captured by the Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. The Russians are not interested in other foreign prisoners of war who fought on the side of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Chaiko replaces Viktor Afzalov as head of Russia’s Aerospace Forces. Chaiko is implicated in war crimes cases.

"At this stage, our priority is to end the war," he said during a televised briefing. "The other side must commit to a reasonable approach and abandon its excessive demands regarding Iran."

The former presidential envoy for Ukraine noted that the military bloc, which originally consisted of 12 countries, now includes 32 states and is therefore a "very bloated architecture"

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Europe has "gotten the message" that Donald Trump was disappointed over the reluctance to join the Iran war. Rutte was speaking at a meeting of European leaders in Armenia.

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Iranian media: Two missiles hit US warship which ignored Iran’s warnings Two missiles struck a US warship near Jask island in the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings from Iran, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. It reported that the US warship has now turned back from the area, citing local sources.

Air defenses in the Russian capital were breached as Ukraine expands long-range strikes.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that European leaders have "gotten the message" that Donald Trump was disappointed over the Iran conflict. Rutte was speaking at a meeting of European leaders in Armenia.
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In the Chernihiv region, 108 explosions were recorded over the past 24 hours as a result of Russian shelling; the enemy fired on the region’s border areas 56 times.

A transgender student has taken a Hong Kong school to court, alleging “discriminatory” policies requiring short hair in line with her sex assigned at birth. Lawyers for Oscar Fung King-ho on Thursday sought unspecified damages from the incorporated management committee of Lung Kong World Federation School Limited, Lau Wong Fat Secondary School in Tai Kok Tsui. They said she had faced “public humiliation and rebukes” from teachers over her hair length before leaving the school last...

In an abandoned Norwegian mine last year, an unusual experiment produced results that drew scrutiny in boardrooms and government offices across Europe and helped to spark new regulations pouring fuel on already fiery EU-China relations. Ruter, the public transport authority for greater Oslo, drove new and used electric buses made by Chinese manufacturing conglomerate Yutong into a decommissioned mineshaft inside a mountain. There, cybersecurity tests revealed that the buses could be remotely...

The US president has accused some NATO countries of not doing enough to support the US-Israel war on Iran.

[Daily Maverick] Food producers' use of fuel and fertiliser - affected by the US-Iran war - will impact food prices in South Africa (SA), as the fuel price is set to increase again in May. However, it is not obvious whether input prices like oil and fertiliser are the only drivers of retail prices, as opportunistic 'rocket and feather' pricing by processors or retailers in some staples continued, even when producer prices fell, or stabilised.
Rutte also said "more and more" European nations were pre-positioning assets such as minehunters and minesweepers close to the Gulf to be ready for a "next phase".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on Moscow's plans to hold the 9 May Victory Day parade without military equipment, saying this would be the first time in many years. He added that there are also concerns in Russia that drones could appear over Red Square. [Victory Day is a Russian holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, celebrated on 9 May – ed.]
Zelensky: Russia has announced a May 9 parade in Moscow without military equipment; if that happens, it will be the first time in many, many years... They cannot afford military equipment and they fear drones may burst over Red Square. This is telling — it shows they are not strong now.