❗The US is prepared to respond to “purposeful attempts” of other countries to devalue the dollar, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says, adding that she doesn't see a currency that can begin to rival the US dollar.

🇲🇱From ‘collateral damage’ to an airstrike on a wedding party: a list of possible criminal activity by French forces in Mali over the last 9 years

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❗Biden brands Trump Republicans the most ‘extreme political organisation’ in recent US history

❗The Biden administration's decision to sanction Russia's central bank was not one that was taken lightly, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

"We have only rarely, I believe in the case of Iran and North Korea, imposed sanctions on a country's central bank, and the decision to do that to Russia is not one that was undertaken lightly," Yellen said.

❗The United States has seen no indications that any Western aid intended for Ukraine has been impeded, or even struck, a senior defence official said

Not a day goes by without a gaffe by Joe Biden: While posing for a photo with members of the US Olympic team, among whom were wheelchair basketball players and a visually impaired girl, the US president shouted “don’t jump” and then asked the athletes to look at the photographer. After his remarks, the broadcast’s sound was suddenly interrupted 😬

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❓How many Ukrainian soldiers has the US trained in past several years?

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A resident of Rubezhnoye in the Lugansk region has explained how Azov fighters forced civilians out of a bomb shelter at a bread-baking plant

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❗Slovak energy minister: Russian oil imports ban will 'destroy' European economy, affect Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, Ukraine

⚡US Federal Reserve increases interest rates by 0.5% in biggest hike of 21st century

❗Coca-Cola may completely exit Russia if Ukraine crisis becomes protracted, CEO says

Black smoke is seen over Stary Saltov in the Kharkov region for the third day: units of the Ukrainian Army, Security Service of Ukraine, and the Kraken battalion – assembled from amnestied Ukrainian criminals, have entered the village.

According to a Sputnik correspondent, as well as eyewitnesses who managed to leave the village, Ukrainian forces launched an attack on the peaceful settlement that was not occupied by anyone.

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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry:

▪Russian high-precision missiles have destroyed four artillery batteries and a US-made counter-battery radar;

▪The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 77 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, destroying up to 310 nationalists;

▪Russian air defence systems shot down six Ukrainian drones and two projectiles fired by Smerch multiple rocket launchers;

▪Russian artillery hit a Ukrainian Grad battery and 83 enemy manpower concentration areas

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Russian MoD: Humanitarian corridor for evacuation of civilians from Azovstal and adjacent areas will be open on 5-7 May from 8 am to 6 pm Moscow time

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📈 How higher Fed rates stand to affect Americans’ finances

Record-low mortgages below 3%, reached last year, are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally receive a yield high enough to top inflation.

The substantial half-point hike in its benchmark short-term rate that the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday won’t, by itself, have much immediate effect on most Americans’ finances. But additional large hikes are expected to be announced at the Fed’s next two meetings, in June and July, and economists and investors foresee the fastest pace of rate increases since 1989.

As a consequence, mortgage rates have jumped 2 full percentage points just since the year began, to 5.1% on average for a 30-year fixed mortgage

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