🇪🇸🇮🇨⚡️📉 — Spain hit by more blackouts as 'tens of thousands' left without power in Canary Islands a week after nationwide outages

🇩🇪 AfD no longer “certainly right-wing extremist” for the time being

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has withdrawn its classification of the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor." For the time being, the office will continue to treat the AfD only as a suspected case and monitor it, the office stated in a document obtained by the Höcker law firm, which is representing the AfD in its dispute with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

On Friday, the AfD sought legal recourse against the federal agency's announced upgrade and filed an urgent application. As part of this legal dispute, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has now declared that it will "not publicly describe the AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor until the deciding chamber in these urgent proceedings has issued its decision" and issued a corresponding pledge of non-disclosure. The agency also assured that the corresponding press release will be removed from its website.

https://apollo-news.net/verfassungsschutz-nimmt-einstufung-zurueck-afd-vorerst-nicht-mehr-gesichert-rechtsextremistisch/

🇵🇰❌🇮🇳 — Video from earlier today shows Pakistani Air Defense units engaging Indian drones over Lahore, Eastern Pakistan

The unit is using a Swiss-made Oerlikon GDF-002 35 mm twin cannon

🇻🇦So, after the first black smoke yesterday for the first vote and the second black smoke this morning for the second and third votes, if during the fourth (intermediate) vote there will be no white smoke, we should wait for the fifth vote to certainly see a smoke coming out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, around 7:00/8:00 PM local time.

@FelipeChannel

🇷🇺🤝🇨🇬 — On May 7, 2025, Russian Federation leader Vladimir Putin and Congo-Brazzaville President Sassou Nguesso held talks and negotiations at the Kremlin

🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 — Video shared by the Kremlin media shows the official meeting ceremony of Xi Jinping and Putin at the Kremlin today, May 8, 2025

Russia's Putin thanked China's Xi Jinping for decision to share 80th anniversary of Victory celebration with and in Russian Federation

🇷🇺📞🇨🇳 — Russian President Putin noted, at a meeting with Chinese Supreme Leader Xi Jinping, that the Chinese People's Liberation Army military contingent at the Moscow parade would be the largest in number of foreign troops

The Russian and Chinese governments are working to implement the entire array of bilateral agreements, Putin said at the meeting with Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping said at a meeting with Putin that he was very happy to take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Victory

🇷🇺🇨🇳🕊🌍 — Russian President Putin said at a meeting with Xi Jinping that Russia and China are developing ties for the benefit of the peoples of both countries and "not against anyone"

It happens as both Communist China and Russian Federation face tensions with Western countries and their neighboring nations, with China recently occupying Vietnamese islands in South China Sea