⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇳🇰🇵 The UNSC is expected to hold a vote on the US draft resolution on toughening sanctions against North Korea on Thursday, a source tells Sputnik

😳🐔🐔Washington state officials have identified two more bird flu outbreaks in King County. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) said two King County flocks tested positive for H5N1. Both were backyard flocks.

There have now been 11 confirmed flocks with the virus since May 5, in eight different counties. Officials say each has been backyard flocks with substantial exposure to wild waterfowl.

State veterinarian Dr. Amber Itle is cautioning those with flocks to withdraw from exhibitions or fairs, at least until June.

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❗️🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Israel has told the US that it carried out the assassination of Col. Sayyad Khodai, a former member of the elite Quds force within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the New York Times reports. The Israelis said the killing was meant to serve as a warning to Iran to halt the operations of the Quds force's Unit 840, which is allegedly involved in abductions and assassinations worldwide, an intelligence official told NYT.

🔖📣Wisconsin Democrats are calling for stricter gun laws, and two Republican candidates for governor are proposing to give school officials new funding to hire security guards and police officers.

The proposals underline the deep divisions between elected Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin over how to respond to the most recent wave of mass shootings that have scarred families nationwide.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Josh Kaul called on Republicans, who control the Legislature, to require background checks for all gun purchases and establish a red-flag law that would allow judges to remove guns from those considered dangerous.

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⚡️🇺🇸Oklahoma's governor just signed into law a bill that bans abortion entirely, effective immediately, ACLU says

🎆🌎After spending a little less than a week at the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing’s new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, returned to Earth Wednesday afternoon, landing intact with the help of parachutes and airbags in the New Mexico desert.

The safe return is a significant accomplishment for Boeing after the company spent years working on the program, which has been riddled with failures and delays.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule, shaped like a gumdrop, was built in partnership with NASA to launch the agency’s astronauts to and from the ISS.

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🔎📍The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is well underway, and despite not being as crowded as in previous years there is a lot happening on the ground.

“We’ve never had a Davos like this one,” Rich Lesser, global chair of Boston Consulting Group, said in an interview. “The challenges of the world feel pretty immense."

Beyond the mandatory coronavirus tests, the mood is decidedly somber, weighed heavily by concerns about the covid-19 pandemic, continuing war, widening economic inequality, and fears of a global economic slowdown.

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk Republic 46 times in 24 hours, one civilian killed, 10 people wounded, DPR says

⚡️Ukrainian border troops shoot those who refuse to participate in hostilities, a captive reveals

American Humvee was found at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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⚡️ US tries to use "Russian threat" in Africa to turn NATO into a global gendarme, Russia's Foreign Ministry says

⚡️ DPR head says Ukrainian military hiding at Azovstal plant territory found and detained

📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine special operation from Russia's Defence Ministry:

▪️ Russia's armed forces destroyed two artillery batteries and two ammunition depots near the Nikolaevka and Berestovoye areas in the DPR;

▪️ Russian air defences have shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter in the Kharkov region;

▪️ Russian air defences have shot Ukrainian aircraft delivering ammunition and weapons in the Odessa region;

▪️ Russian aviation hit two weapon ordnance and two Ukrainian mortar crews; eliminated more than 350 nationalists;

▪️ Russian armed forces shot down two Soviet-made Tu-143 "Reys" jet drones near the LPR;

▪️ Russian armed forces destroyed 15 foreign specialists with their technical and operational personnel security near Nikolaev;

▪️ Russian armed forces destroyed an Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system and a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system

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📹🎞 More than 300 people were buried in the trenches back in March in Mariupol, when the city was under Ukrainian neo-Nazis control. The remains of people are being unearthed so that their identities and the cause of their death can be established

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces strike settlement in Donbass with 40 Grad rockets, JCCC in LPR says

⚡️⚡️ Kremlin: West should abolish illegal decisions that prevent grain export from Ukraine

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the launch of the R-500 cruise missile by the Iskander-K complex at a Ukrainian military facility

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