Russian MoD statement on solution to humanitarian crisis in Ukraine:

▪As of 25 April, at 20:00 (Moscow time, 5:00 PM GMT), no one has used the proposed humanitarian corridor for evacuation from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The Kiev authorities have again cynically disrupted the humanitarian operation. Such illogical and inconsistent behaviour confirms Kiev's indifference to the citizens of its own country;

▪Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue to hold hostage 90 foreign citizens from 5 countries as a "human shield";

▪76 foreign vessels from 18 states remain blocked in Ukrainian ports;

▪Despite the obstacles created by Kiev and without their help, 9,285 people have been evacuated to the territory of Russia from Ukraine during the past day, including 733 children;

▪In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 975,234 people have been evacuated, including 178,091 children

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⚡⚡Elon Musk reaches deal to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share - company statement

Today, Biden managed to get on the phone with Macron: the US president congratulated him on his re-election and hailed the strong relationship between the US and France, the White House said.

❗Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion

📲The board of directors of Twitter said Monday afternoon that it had accepted a $44 billion offer by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the company.

Musk, who has said he wants to buy Twitter in order to restore the platform’s adherence to free speech principles, will pay $54.20 per share for the company, which he has vowed to take private.

“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”

Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has unnerved many of the site’s more liberal users while it has energized pro-Republican voices who want the platform to reinstate former President Donald Trump. Trump was banned by Twitter and other large social media companies for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the US Capitol.

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⚡️⚡️Russia wants Ukrainian people to be able to decide their own fate - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

❗️❗️NATO expansion is unrelated to its statutory goals, it is incorporating more territories under the US command - Lavrov

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸A trustworthy Russia-US communication channel does not exist at the moment - Lavrov

⚡️🇷🇺Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that negotiations on security guarantees clearly proved that NATO and the United States showed no desire to take into account Russia's legitimate interests

⚡️🇺🇦The conflict in Ukraine will end with a treaty, but its parameters will be determined by the stage of hostilities during which it is concluded - Lavrov

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸Contacts with Washington on the situation around Ukraine would be useful, but Moscow does not see any interest in them from the US side - Lavrov

⚡️Lavrov: the US and NATO are clearly planning to move the alliance's "line of defense" to the South China Sea

"They openly declare that 'we [Western countries] will be in charge,' that NATO has every right to do what it wants. In one statement they can say that NATO is a defensive alliance, so do not be afraid, nobody's security is threatened by NATO. And right there [NATO Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg can say that NATO has a global responsibility for security around the world, including the Indo-Pacific region," Lavrov said.

🔻Authorities said that a North Carolina mom and her boyfriend were arrested Saturday after the woman’s two young children were found unresponsive.

The Rocky Mount Police Department responded to a service call about two unconscious children at 9:20 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Drew Street, police said in a press release. Zharia Noel and Ahmene Butler, both 21, have each been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter with two counts of felony child abuse, police said.

After the two babies were found, paramedics immediately transferred them to UNC Nash Healthcare, where they were both pronounced deceased. Police are withholding details about the circumstances of the children's death, and a spokesman said he was not available for comment Sunday evening.

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🔎The twisted killer of married Queens mom Orsolya Gaal ran a YouTube channel obsessed with Big Apple crime and showing how to seduce women, sources told The Post on Thursday.

The channel under “David Bonola,” the name of the handyman who allegedly confessed Thursday to Gaal’s brutal stabbing, has shared thousands of videos on curated playlists, including 754 to local news reports of violent crimes.

They included shootings, rapes, and murders — as well as high-profile stabbings similar to the one that Bonola, 44, allegedly committed in the early hours of April 16 after confronting Gaal, 51, at her stately Forest Hills home about the end of their affair.

Bonola was charged Thursday with murder, criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly stabbing Gaal, 51, nearly 60 times while one of her sons was upstairs in their Forest Hills home.

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😳😬Hunter Biden urgently pushed his brother’s widow to get an HIV test in July 2018 over fears that he could have infected her with the virus, according to emails reviewed by Fox News.

Hunter Biden sent Hallie Biden, widow of his late brother Beau, whom he had been dating, an email urging her to get tested for HIV, a fresh trove of correspondence dug up from his infamous computer, dubbed the ‘laptop from hell’, suggests.

The 27 July 2018 email, noscriptd “YOU NEED TO GET TESTED FOR HIV HALLIE,” demanded that Hallie inform Hunter of the result “TODAY.”

Hunter Biden, meanwhile, conceded in April 2021 while promoting his memoir that the infamous laptop dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop was his. The laptop also contains explicit photos and videos of several women, including Hallie Biden.

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Despite Trump's statement, Biden administration officials are worried that Musk might allow the former president - and other Republican operatives - back on Twitter, CNBC reported citing officials.

Many within President Joe Biden’s inner circle fear that anti-Biden "misinformation" might flood Twitter under Musk’s leadership ahead of the 2024 vote, the report said.

😰According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, American adolescence is undergoing a drastic change. Three decades ago, the gravest public health threats to teenagers in the United States came from binge drinking, drunken driving, teenage pregnancy, and smoking.

In 2019, 13 percent of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, a 60 percent increase from 2007. Emergency room visits by children and adolescents in that period also rose sharply for anxiety, mood disorders, and self-harm. And for people ages, 10 to 24, suicide rates, stable from 2000 to 2007, leaped nearly 60 percent by 2018.

The decline in mental health among teenagers was exacerbated by the Covid pandemic but predated it, spanning racial and ethnic groups, urban and rural areas, and the socioeconomic divide.

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😷🦠Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor in Texas, said Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The former congressman and presidential candidate said he was experiencing mild symptoms and is fully vaccinated and boosted.

On Sunday, O’Rourke was campaigning in East Texas, where he spoke to a crowded room of supporters while maskless. O’Rourke is running against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who also tested positive for the virus last year.

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⛩A renewed coronavirus outbreak in China’s capital has raised concerns that Beijing could become, after Shanghai, the next Chinese megacity to put life on hold to contain the spread of the Omicron variant.

The Beijing municipal government ordered late Monday night that almost everyone in the city must take three P.C.R. tests for the coronavirus over five days. The order came after 70 coronavirus cases were found in the city on Friday.

The national government has leaned heavily on lockdowns despite their high social and economic costs, in pursuit of President Xi Jinping’s “zero Covid” strategy of eliminating infections.

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⚡️ Ukraine keeps 76 ships from 18 countries blocked in seven ports, Russian Defense Ministry says