🇺🇸A New York Federal Reserve Bank model puts the odds of a US economic recession at 80%, bank analysts said in a blog post just days after Fed Chair Jerome Powell denied such a downturn was imminent, despite the biggest interest rate hike in 28 years.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Biden administration plans to deliver four drones to Ukraine were suspended amid fears that the equipment’s advanced surveillance technology might fall into the hands of Russian forces, Reuters reported citing two people familiar with the matter.

🎥 The Russian military has delivered more than 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of liberated areas in the Kharkov region

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🎥 Some 12 new five-storeyed apartment blocks and a medical centre will be built on the spot of the market in Mariupol

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CEO of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, Igor Sechin, delivered his keynote speech at the SPIEF:

🔺 The global economic crisis is gaining momentum not because of sanctions, but exacerbated by them;

🔺 Europe 'commits energy suicide' by sanctioning Russia;

🔺 After exhausting sanctions against Iran, Venezuela and Russia, the US can go after their own companies;

🔺 Russia with its energy potential 'is Noah's Ark of the world economy';

🔺 BP announced its withdrawal from Rosneft, but it is still a shareholder and shows its willingness to stay and survive the crisis without any real losses;

🔺 US accusations of Rosneft's participation in supplies of Iranian oil to Europe is absolutely unfounded and groundless;

🔺 Sanctions against Russia have done away with the green transition, as it is no longer needed to manipulate the market

🎥 "We're Russians": In the midst of heavy Ukrainian artillery fire in downtown Donetsk a woman says Ukraine is shooting at civilians to force them to think like Ukrainians rather than Russians

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❗️ The St Petersburg International Economic Forum came under a 140 gigabyte per second DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack emanating from computers in the US and Ukraine

❗️ Russian MoD's latest update on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ 180 areas containing Ukrainian troops have been hit by rocket forces and artillery in 24 hours, more than 310 nationalists have been eliminated;

▪️ Russian air defence has destroyed attack aircraft, a helicopter and eight Ukrainian UAVs;

▪️ Oil refining facilities and fuel storage for the supply of Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed in the Kremenchug and Lisichansk regions;

▪️ Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian platoons with American howitzers M777;

▪️ Russian air defence has destroyed four Tochka-U missiles, and 24 Uragan projectiles;

▪️ Since the beginning of the operation more than 340 Ukrainian air defence systems were destroyed.

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🎥 "They've lost sight of the fact that we're human": A Mariupol resident reveals how Ukrainian Nazis tortured civilians, including women

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👽 “There are lots of mysteries out there": Former US President Bill Clinton says he sent agents to Area 51 to look for aliens during his presidency

In a new TV interview the former president admitted that he and Chief of Staff John Podesta, “made every attempt to find out everything about Roswell,” and even “sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens.”

“But there’s no aliens that I know [of],” he added.

Clinton's comments come as NASA recently said it would be launching an investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena even as the US Congress held an open discussion on UFOs.

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🎥 "It's heartbreaking to be here": American journalist Patrick Lancaster filmed the aftermath of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops.

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🚗 A man with an anti-Trump sticker on his car crashed into a store selling pro-Trump merchandise in Massachusetts.

The Easton Police Department said Thursday the driver of a 2015 Volkswagen Jetta suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he drove into the New England for Trump store in Washington Street.

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🇮🇳🇷🇺 Indian buyers are devouring huge quantities of Russian coal despite global sanctions on Moscow, as traders offer discounts of up to 30 percent

Its purchases of coal and related products jumped more than six-fold in the 20 days through Wednesday from the same period a year earlier to $331.17Mln, Reuters reported unpublished Indian government data as revealing.

India will continue to buy Russian coal in bulk, with June imports expected to be the biggest in at least seven and a half years, Refinitiv Eikon ship-tracking data showed.

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❗️ Biden confirms that he will hold phone talks with Xi Jinping - White House

⚡️A man with an 'edged weapon' attacks passengers at San Francisco International Airport

Three people were left with cuts and scrapes as a man with an 'edged weapon' attacked passengers inside a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Friday.

Police said the man drove to the airport, went into the International Terminal, "walked around the departure terminal and pulled out an edged weapon" before attacking three people.

The man, whose name wasn't immediately released, has been arrested. It wasn't clear if the suspect was a traveler. His motive remains unknown.

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🎥 Russia’s MoD shared footage of a civilian showing a piece of a cluster bomb from Ukraine’s Armed Forces that fell on his house

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