🇺🇸⚡️- ICE Director Caleb Vitello has been fired today, presumably due to underwhelming deportation numbers.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- "We are with the change chosen by the Syrian people," - Iraq's Popular Mobolization Forces.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Reports of the US President Trump visiting Moscow for May 9 Victory Day celebrations have been denied by the Kremlin.

🇺🇸⚡️- Pro-Trump surrogates have reported that the Trump administration has deported 37,660 people in the first month of Trump's 2nd Term.

For comparison, the Biden administration deported an average of 57,000 a month in the final months of the Biden Administration.

🇧🇾🇱🇾⚡- Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, LNA, to buy fighter jets from Belarus.

They will likely be the MiG-29s or Su-30s. LNA pilots have been trained in Russia to use the MiG-29s in the past.

🇷🇺🇿🇦⚡- Russia defends South Africa's land reforms at the G20 Summit 2025.

🇷🇺🇿🇦⚡- "The West is conducting a dialogue with the 'Global South' from a position of white supremacy," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, at the G20 Summit 2025.

🇸🇩🇰🇪⚡- Sudan recalls its ambassador from Kenya, and blasts Nairobi for supporting terrorism. This comes after President Ruto held a meeting with Rapid Support Forces representatives.

🇺🇦🇿🇦⚡- South Africa's President invites Ukrainian President Zelenskyi to the G20 Summit 2025.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇿🇦⚡- "Funds allocated to help Zelenskyi's regime could have been used for the development of Africa," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, at the G20 Summit 2025.

🇪🇺🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- EU summons Rwandan ambassador over ongoing fighting in eastern DR Congo involving the M23.

🇺🇸⚡️- NBC settles $30 million defamation case relating to MSNBC's reporting on migrant centers during the end of the first Trump Admin when they claimed that ICE agents were sterilizing migrant women and lying about medical procedures.

Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicole Wallace may have to correct the record on air 4 years after the fact.

The Tulkarm Brigade has denied responsibility for yesterday’s Tel Aviv bus bombings, contradicting claims made by several sources.

The Tulkarm brigade used to be subordinated under the Al-Quds brigades (the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad), but became its own armed group in 2022. It is based in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

They are currently engaged in clashes with Israeli special forces who are attempting to clear the Tulkarm Refugee camp and the Nour Shams refugee camp.

🇺🇸🇰🇵⚡- North Korea has condemned an increase in US 'adventurous military provocations under the Trump administration'. North Korea said it will 'counter all threats', and the increased US military presence means the chances of an 'actual war are getting brisk'.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Washington’s embrace of Putin aims to drive wedge between Moscow and Beijing," - The Wall Street Journal.

China and Iran have both been 'accused' of attempting to sabotage the US-Russia talks. China, who 'welcomed' the Riyadh talks, demanded Ukraine (and Europe) to be at the negotiating table. Whereas Iran's right-wing media warns Tehran of a Moscow betrayal.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "As part of a peace deal, Russia may grant US companies rights to mineral deposits in Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A new Israeli incursion into northern al-Qunaitra area, Daraa direction, south Syria.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas releases three Israeli hostages at the al-Nuseirat camp. A fourth prisoner, Hisham al-Sayed, will be released in Gaza city.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The three Israeli hostages are with the Red Cross.

🇩🇪⚡️- The German snap elections begin tomorrow, the fourth such snap elections in German history.

The CDU/CSU, colloquially referred to as "Union," is polling the highest, with Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) distantly following in second, outpacing the SPD, the party of Olaf Scholz.

🇩🇪⚡️- Current federal polling data ahead of the German election.