⚡️🎥 A Georgian mercenary in Ukraine taunts two Russian prisoners, forcing one of them to repeat Ukrainian nationalist slogans and insults against President Putin.

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❗️ Four people killed in blast at hotel in Havana

❗️ Death toll in hotel Saratoga blast in Havana reaches eight

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 The United States did not provide Ukraine with specific intelligence to target Russia's flagship Moskva, and reporting to the contrary in US media is inaccurate, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says.

⚡️⚡️A sound of an explosion was heard in a Berlin building where the MIA Rossiya Segodnya office is located and which was attacked on Friday, a Sputnik correspondent reported

Bomb squad working at the office housing RIA Novosti reporters, where a suspicious item was found

A group of 50 civilians, including 11 children, were evacuated today from Azovstal where they had been held hostage by Ukrainian nationalists with limited access to food, water and other basic necessities, the Russian defense ministry says.

All those rescued have been handed over to UN and ICRC representatives for transportation to temporary accommodation sites.

❗️The humanitarian operation at Azovstal will continue on May 7.

❗️🇷🇺The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has suspended the membership of the Russian Tennis Federation, its head Shamil Tarpishchev told Sputnik on Friday.

🔴Cuba’s national health minister, José Ángel Portal, informed The Associated Press that hospitals had received about 40 injured people due to a powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak Friday that killed at least eight people and injured 40 when it blew away the outer walls of a five-star hotel in the heart of Cuba’s capital.

No tourists were staying at the 96-room Hotel Saratoga because it was undergoing renovations, Havana Gov. Reinaldo García Zapata told the Communist Party newspaper Granma.

“It has not been a bomb or an attack. It is a tragic accident,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who visited the site, said in a tweet.

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❗️Citibank has opened an account for the Russian Consulate General in New York, the Acting Consul General told Sputnik

⚡️🇺🇸 Biden has announced additional security assistance for Ukraine that will include artillery munitions, radar, and other equipment

🇨🇳Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng has warned that an attempt by the United States to fix European security issues with NATO expansion could only lead to a greater disaster.

"NATO’s continued eastward expansion has upset security in Europe and created a big mess… Given this, to resolve the crisis by further expansion would be like correcting one mistake with another," Le told an online security dialogue of G20 think-tanks.

💃 The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala brought in a record $17.4 million this year, museum officials said Tuesday. The benefit, held annually and better known as “the Oscars of the fashion world,” also netted a record number of donations from individuals and institutions.

The money pays for operating the institute and putting on annual blockbuster exhibits like the current “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” which was launched at the gala Monday night and opens to the public on May 7. That exhibit is part of a broader two-part exhibit exploring the roots of American fashion.

The gala is traditionally held on the first Monday in May, but because of the pandemic, the 2021 version was held last September. The two galas together brought in $33.7 million, the institute said.

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⚡️‘Friends' star Mike Hagerty has died at 67, his family says

Hagerty is most known for his role as building superintendent Mr. Treeger on "Friends", but he also appeared on a lot of shows including Cheers, The George Carlin Show, and Curb Your Enthusiasm

😂 The latest example of Biden acting weird

"I've been in and out of Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, I mean Iraq, over 50 times, 48 times," the president says in a video.

⚡️🇺🇸 A US federal judge dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against Twitter for suspending his account in the wake of the 2021 Capitol riot, a court filing revealed.

🎥Video: Hundreds of Workers Riot in Shanghai MacBook Factory Over Lockdowns. On February 28, 2022, the first case of the Omicron variant was identified in Shanghai, China. Authorities responded by locking down the city, the largest lockdown in the country since the Hubei lockdown in the early days of the pandemic.

Hundreds of workers rioted in a Shanghai factory in opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns in the city. The factory is owned by Quanta Computer, which gets 50% of its revenue from Apple, primarily making Macbooks for the Cupertino, California-based company. They also do work for Microsoft, Dell, and HP, according to Bloomberg.

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⚡️🇨🇺 The death toll from the Saratoga hotel blast has doubled to 18, the Cuban president just announced

🤫President Joe Biden told US intelligence and defense leaders to stop leaking information on US-Ukraine intelligence sharing because it is counterproductive, NBC News reported citing two administration officials.

Biden in a phone call with CIA Director William Burns, Defense chief Lloyd Austin, and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines, said the disclosures “distract" from US objectives, the report added.