🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️ Ukrainian President Zelensky criticized U.S. Vice President JD Vance, accusing him of “somehow justifying” Russia’s invasion and being influenced by Russian disinformation.

➡️ Zelensky expressed concern that Russian narratives are gaining traction in U.S. politics.

➡️ He referenced their tense February Oval Office exchange, where Vance criticized Zelensky for doubting Moscow’s commitment to any ceasefire and dismissed an invitation to visit Ukraine as a “propaganda tour.”

➡️ Zelensky emphasized, “There is an aggressor and there is a victim. The Russians are the aggressor, and we are the victim.”

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🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 A Russian FPV drone flying toward its target over Pokrovsk as MLRS strikes hit the area.

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🇺🇸🇺🇸❌📸🧑‍⚖️ The Trump White House defied a court order by blocking an Associated Press reporter and photographer from entering the Oval Office during the visit of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦💥 An Iskander ballistic missile was launched from the Kursk region just impacted the suburbs of Sumy, Ukraine!

➡️ A Russian reconnaissance drone was reported flying over the area up to one hour before the attack by Ukrainian monitoring channels.

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🇺🇸❌🇾🇪💥 U.S. warplanes targeted command and control centers in the Marib Governorate, Houthi-controlled Yemen.

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🇺🇸❌🇾🇪💥 A series of U.S. airstrikes targeted the Kamaran Island off Hodeidah, Houthi-controlled Yemen.

➡️ U.S. warplanes have been intensively targeting Kamaran Island for a week straight.

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🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲🤝🇪🇺🇨🇾 NEW: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan have officially recognized Turkey as an “occupying power” in Cyprus by endorsing UN Security Council Resolutions 541 and 550, a move that follows the EU's announcement of a €12 billion investment package for Central Asia.

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🇩🇪⚡️ German lawmakers will convene in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor, following a coalition agreement between his conservative bloc and the main center-left party, the Bundestag announced earlier today.

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🇺🇸✍️ Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new law mandating that all Florida state documents refer to the “Gulf of Mexico” as the “Gulf of America.”

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🇻🇪❌🇪🇨🗳 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who himself won with the help of election fraud, is now alleging—without providing any evidence—that Daniel Noboa's win in Ecuador was the result of electoral fraud.

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🇺🇸❌🇾🇪💥 Two U.S. airstrikes targeted a radar station and a communications center in Al Abdiyah, south of Ma'rib, Houthi-controlled Yemen.

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🇺🇸🇵🇸🧑‍⚖️❌🇺🇸 Vermont judge blocks Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi from being deported or transferred outside of the state.

📝 Mohsen Mahdawi, a U.S. permanent resident born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained in Vermont over his involvement in protests against the Israel-Gaza war.

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🇸🇳⚡️ Senegal is seeking to join BRICS and is currently in talks with member countries.

➡️ Senegal can play a constructive role within BRICS, Foreign Minister Yassine Fall said, highlighting the country’s stability, natural resources, and ambition to develop its industrial sector as key contributions.

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🇪🇺🇺🇸⚡️ NEW: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage.

➡️ Commissioners and senior officials traveling to the IMF and World Bank spring meetings next week have been given the new guidance, according to four people familiar with the situation.

➡️ They said the measures replicate those used on trips to Ukraine and China, where standard IT kit cannot be brought into the countries for fear of Russian or Chinese surveillance.

➡️ “They are worried about the U.S. getting into the commission systems,” said one official.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇴🇲⚡️ Iran now announces that the next round of talks with the United States will be held in Oman.

— AFP, citing Iranian state media

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