⚡️🇺🇸Country music legend Mickey Gilley has died at 86

🇷🇺LIVE UPDATES: Russian MoD Says Operation to Evacuate Civilians From Azovstal Concluded

☕️👀Over 500 kg (1,102 lb) of cocaine estimated to be worth more than 50 million Swiss francs ($50.65 million) have been found in a container of coffee bean bags for Nestle's (NESN.S) Nespresso factory in Romont in western Switzerland, the cantonal police said on Thursday.

Police were informed on Monday night by Nespresso that staff had found an undefined white substance while unloading bags of coffee beans that had just arrived from Brazil, the police said in a statement. Analyses showed the substance was cocaine. "The substance in question did not come into contact with any of our products or production equipment used to make our products," Nespresso said in an emailed statement.

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🇫🇷French President Emmanuel Macron was sworn into office for a second term on Saturday after his election victory over far-right rival Marine Le Pen. In his short speech to nearly 500 invited guests, the president spoke of the need to innovate at a time of unprecedented challenges for the world.

"We will take action relentlessly with a goal, which is to be a more independent nation, to live better, and to build our own French and European responses to the century's challenges," Macron said.

Macron answered criticism from many voters, who say he came across as out of touch and arrogant during his first term. He promised to act with "respect" and "consideration." He also vowed to "build a planet that is more livable, a France that is more alive and a stronger France."

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‼️🎥A shocking video was captured during a robbery at the MyEyeDr store in Alexandria. Four masked thieves broke display cases, grabbed merchandise, and then ran off in minutes - not with jewelry but brand-name eyeglasses.

"And then I kind of, I don't know, instinctively kind of also was like, 'Okay, the police are on their way...and I think it kind of worked," said an employer of the store.

This is not the first-time thieves have gone after eyeglasses. Since the end of last year, police have been looking into a half dozen similar crimes. Starting with a Bethesda LensCrafters back in December, police say thieves have hit eyeglass stores in Chevy Chase, Georgetown, Arlington, and McClean.

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🔎Last Friday an official with the National Labor Relations Board filed a wide-ranging complaint accusing the coffee chain Starbucks of violating workers’ rights.

“Starbucks has been saying that no union-busting ever occurred in Buffalo. Today, the NLRB sets the record straight,” the campaign said in a statement Friday. “The complaint confirms the extent and depravity of Starbucks" conduct in Western New York for the better part of a year.

The coffee store committed a host of labor law violations by terminating six pro-union workers, disciplining and surveilling others, closing stores, and changing work policies in the course of its battle with an organizing campaign, according to a complaint filed by labor officials.

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💡🔌 As California forges ahead with its pledge to obtain all its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045, energy officials warned the state's electrical grid could prove unable to keep the lights on through the end of the year if heatwaves, wildfires, or other extreme events put too much strain on energy infrastructure.

The update by leaders from three state agencies and the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom comes as California faces a number of challenges to its ambitious transition away from fossil fuels and looks to avoid a repeat of the rolling blackouts which plagued the state during a 2020 heatwave, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.

Mark Rothleder, chief operating officer at the California ISO grid, cautioned that "we need to make sure that we have sufficient new resources in place and operational before we let some of these retirements go," said. "Otherwise, we are putting ourselves potentially at risk of having insufficient capacity."

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🇺🇸🇹🇷 US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has postponed her planned May 9 visit to Turkey (to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Syria), the US mission to the UN informs.

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇬The State Department condemns the terrorist attack in the Sinai Peninsula that resulted in the death of 11 Egyptian military personnel

🥰⚽️In mid-April, football player Cristiano Ronaldo became a father for the fifth time after his partner, model Georgina Rodriguez, gave birth to twins, a boy, and a girl. His son passed away shortly after birth, but fortunately, his daughter survived.

Georgina Rodriguez revealed in an Instagram* post the unusual and fairy-like name of the couple's newborn daughter - Bella Esmeralda.

Cristiano Ronaldo, the 37-year-old Manchester United star, posted a photo of himself and Bella Esmeralda, ennoscriptd "Forever Love" last week, but her name was not made public until today. Last fall, the athlete announced that his wife Georgina Rodriguez was pregnant with twins. In December, the couple posted a video of their other children popping two balloons that rained blue and pink confetti in a gender reveal, symbolizing the birth of a boy and a girl.

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⚡️ Russian Aerospace Forces eliminate Ukrainian corvette near Odessa with high-precision weapons

⚡️ 📹 A journalist says that the Azov Battalion fired mortars of Italian origin at advancing units of the DPR’s People’s Militia in Mariupol from the area controlled by the OSCE mission.

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❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the command post of a mechanized brigade near Pyatikhatka, Kharkov Region, and the communication hub of the Chervonoglinskoe military airfield near Artsyz overnight using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 130 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️ Russian air defence units have destroyed two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and 1 Mi-24 Ukrainian Air Force helicopter over Snake Island, and also shot down 1 Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle near Odessa overnight.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 56 command posts, 32 artillery firing positions, 415 areas where AFU troops and military equipment were concentrated, as well as 2 launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near Korotych in Kharkov Region.

▪️ Some 156 aircraft and 116 helicopters, 765 unmanned aerial vehicles, 297 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,927 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 335 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,393 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,746 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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⚡️ 📹 A refugee from Kherson shares his impressions of being in Crimea.

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❗️ Putin says DPR, LPR military fight for liberation from Nazis as did their ancestors

⚡️ 📹 A resident of Mariupol describes how Russian soldiers helped her during the shelling of the city.

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⚡️ 📹 A refugee from the Kherson region tells how he was convinced from his own experience of the falsity of Ukrainian propaganda.

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⚡️ 📹 Ex-sailor from Mariupol thanks Russian troops for the city's liberation from Ukrainian Azov battalion nationalists.

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