⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Senate invoked cloture on a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill, moving forward the legislation for a final vote

The legislation’s momentum was slowed by Senator Rand Paul on Thursday when he delayed an attempt to fast track the bill, citing concerns about US government spending, debt and inflation

A group of Russian reporters has been under fire in the Novozvanovka village in Donbas, LPR people's militia spokesman Ivan Filiponenko has told Sputnik, adding that the incident did not result in any casualties.

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🔈⚽️ English soccer player Jake Daniels opened up about his sexuality on Monday in a trailblazing moment for the European men’s game. The 17-year-old forward made the announcement that he is gay at the end of his first season as a professional player with second-division club Blackpool.

“This season has been a fantastic one for me on the pitch,” he said in a statement. “But off the pitch I’ve been hiding the real me and who I really am. I’ve known my whole life that I’m gay, and I now feel that I’m ready to come out and be myself.

“It’s a step into the unknown being one of the first footballers in this country to reveal my sexuality.”

Footballers Harry Kane and David de Gea, former Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand, prime minister Boris Johnson, TV host Matt Lucas, and comedian Eddie Izzard are among those expressing their support for Daniels.

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🇺🇸The US Air Force said it conducted a successful test of a hypersonic weapon off the California coast.

"[A] B-52H Stratofortress successfully released an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, off the Southern California coast, May 14. Following separation from the aircraft, the ARRW’s booster ignited and burned for expected duration, achieving hypersonic speeds five times greater than the speed of sound," the Air Force said in a statement.

🗽New York City Mayor Eric Adams will launch new pilot programs for students with dyslexia at two public schools and increased literacy screenings at scores of others the latest elements of his plan to help the city’s struggling readers.

“We are going to have the largest, most comprehensive approach to supporting students with dyslexia in the country,” said Mayor Eric Adams last week.

Officials also plan to train all teachers and will create a new dyslexia task force. School leaders are requiring school principals to pivot to a phonics-based literacy curriculum, which literacy experts say is the most effective way to teach reading to most children.

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🇸🇴🗳Somali electors have chosen a new president for the East African country: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. He served a previous five-year term before the outgoing president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known as Farmaajo.

"I welcome my brother here, the new president Hassan Sheik Mohamud and wish him luck with the huge task... we will be in solidarity with him," Farmaajo said following Sunday’s election.

The election was nearly a year-and-a-half late, after a power crisis that threatened civil war. After forces loyal to Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble rejected an attempt by Farmaajo to extend his term by two years to overcome long-standing election process disagreements, the president yielded control over the planning process and the term extension.

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⚡️ Three houses, school damaged after Ukraine shells Russian border village

⚡️⚡️US unties Russia's hands by forcing Finland and Sweden to join NATO, says Russian Foreign Ministry

⚡️ US has become a hostile state to Russia, Peskov says

🇮🇳 The Indian government has issued a decree banning the export of wheat to ensure food security and to help neighbouring and needy states. At the same time, Indian authorities allowed the supply of cereal crops, for which irrevocable letters of credit were issued until 13 May.

The US criticised the move, calling for "transparency" in trade:

🗣 "What we need is a market that is helping to get goods to those who are in need," US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said;

🗣 “We are encouraging countries not to restrict exports because we think that any restriction on exports will exacerbate the food shortages,” US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, stated.

Demand for Indian wheat and wheat-based products has increased by more than 40 percent since February. According to India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the sudden spike in prices and the need to preserve India's food security have forced New Delhi to impose the export restrictions.

Moreover, a heatwave that hit India cut wheat output in March

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📹🎞 A Donetsk resident has told about how three Ukrainian shells hit the school

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Speaking about the West's confrontation with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has all the resources it needs to weather the conflict. He stressed it is impossible to isolate Russia politically, economically or informationally.

🗣 "I am convinced that any war will end in peace, and this will be a kind of peace that will make our voices heard, comfort us and ensure we can stand securely on our feet"

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⚡️ Moscow sees Finland, Sweden bid to join NATO only as geopolitical move to contain Russia

❗️Ukrainian negotiators guided by London, Washington - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

West not ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

WATCH: Footage of the combat work of Orlan-10 drones

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📹🎞 Nina Ivanovna, a Mandrykino resident, is trying to rebuild her house after Ukrainian shelling. She said that five windows of her house were blown out and a fence fell down

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⚡️ Russia expels two employees of the Finnish Embassy in Russia as a retaliatory measure, Foreign Ministry says

Russia's Ministry of Defence has published a video of Kalibr missiles striking arms shipments from the US and Europe and Ukrainian reserve formations in the Lvov region

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A Russian MoD video shows the surrender of 265 Azov neo-Nazis and Ukrainian servicemen from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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