❗Macron promises Zelensky increased French arms supplies for Ukraine

⚡One person injured as village in Russia's Belgorod region shelled from Ukrainian side

❗Bloomberg: US set to block Russian debt payments after Treasury license expires next week

❗️ Russia will not allow WWIII to be unleashed but will give 'super powerful' response in event of attack, ex-president Medvedev says

District attorney: California church shooting suspect charged with murder, attempted murder

🇺🇸The US has kicked off a new program to collect and assess potential evidence of alleged war crimes in Ukraine, the State Department said.

"The US Department of State is announcing the launch of a new Conflict Observatory to capture, analyze, and make widely available evidence of Russia-perpetrated war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine," the release said.

❗Ukraine's Azov Nazis unconditionally surrender at Azovstal in Mariupol - Russia's deputy envoy to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy

"I didn't know English has so many ways to express a single message: the #Azovnazis have unconditionally surrendered," Polyanskiy tweeted, commenting on the article by The New York Times that claimed that Azov fighters completed their "combat mission" in Mariupol and "were being evacuated."

🇺🇸'Gays Against Guns' march in Buffalo to protest recent deadly shooting

💭State Department says Turkey has not made any specific requests in exchange for supporting Sweden, Finland applications to NATO

Russian MoD on the latest provocations by Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalions and troops:

▪In Sumy, Ukrainian troops have mined a railway bridge, they want to accuse Russian forces of blowing it up;

▪Azov Battalion neo-Nazis have set up barracks in a kindergarten building in Mirnograd and deployed armoured vehicles near residential areas;

▪Militants of the Donbass Battalion have placed heavy weapons in a residential building in Slavyansk. Civilians haven't been evacuated from the building;

▪Neo-Nazis in Borovoy, Kharkov region are forcing civilians with children to take cover in the basement of a school, while a barracks for the militants is deployed there;

▪In Zaporozhye, on the lower floor of a hospital, Aidar Battalion militants have equipped firing positions, while staff and patients are being held as "human shields";

▪Aidar Battalion militants have set up firing positions at a church in Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovsk region). Artillery and MLRS have been deployed

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⚡️🇺🇸 🦠 The number of Americans who have died from COVID-19 has reached 1 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University count

The coronavirus death toll in the US is higher than in any other country

🇺🇸🇷🇺The US does not believe talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Antony Blinken "would be constructive in the current environment"

💉Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration modified the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, authorizing the use of a single booster dose to manage the vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, making everyone in the country over the age of 5 eligible for a third shot.

"What is the goal of this vaccine? Are we trying to protect against all symptomatic infections for a limited period of time? Or are we trying to protect against serious illness, in which case all the evidence is that we are preventing serious illness" with the two-dose vaccine regimen, Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still needs to sign off on the shots before they can be administered. Children below the age of five are not yet eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

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👩‍🚀NASA's InSight Mars robotic lander will complete its work in late 2022 due to lack of solar energy, mission chief Bruce Bannerdt says.

The lander now generates only 10% of the original capacity of solar power because of heavy dust on Mars, which has covered the robot's solar panels.

Photo credit: NASA

⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 Washington has allowed US and European oil companies to resume work in Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, the vice president of Venezuela, said on Tuesday

‼️ 🇺🇸 🇸🇾 An internal Pentagon probe concluded that a US airstrike that killed dozens of Syrians in the town of Baghuz in 2019 was "consistent with the Laws of War," Defense Secretary Austin said.

The casualties were first exposed in a months-long 2021 New York Times investigation that pointed to a multilayered coverup aimed at obscuring the deaths of up to 64 civilians.

⚡️🇹🇷⚡️Turkey demands re-entry into the F-35 program and the lifting of S-400 sanctions in exchange for the approval of Sweden & Finland's NATO memberships, Bloomberg reports, citing sources

Last Monday, U.S. authorities announced the discovery of a cross-border tunnel linking Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California. The drug-smuggling tunnel on Mexico's border ran the length of a football field on U.S. soil to a warehouse in an industrial area.

"There is no more light at the end of this narco-tunnel," said Randy Grossman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California. "We will take down every subterranean smuggling route we find to keep illicit drugs from reaching our streets and destroying our families and communities."

Authorities said that the secret passage from Tijuana to San Diego featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity, and reinforced walls. It was discovered near San Diego's Otay Mesa border crossing in an area where more than a dozen other sophisticated tunnels have been found in the last two decades.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇰🇵The US assesses that North Korea is apparently preparing to conduct an intercontinental ballistic missile test within the next 48 to 96 hours, CNN reported citing an official.

The news comes as President Joe Biden is set to visit South Korea and Japan later this week.

🔻✈️A US media report says that the China Eastern crash data suggests the planes were sent into intentional dives. The Boeing 737-800, en route from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed on March 21 in the mountains of Guangxi after a sudden plunge from cruising altitude, killing all 123 passengers and nine crew members aboard.

Data recovered from the black box suggests that someone in the cockpit input controls sent the plane into its deadly descent, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the US officials' preliminary assessment of the incident.

US officials involved in the investigation have focused on a pilot's actions. However, it is possible someone else on the plane could have broken into the cockpit and caused the crash, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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