2. Reuters reports that Major-General Sergei Goryachev, the Chief of Staff of Russia's 35th Army, has been killed on the Zaporizhzhia front.
3. US Treasury Secretary Yellen says to expect a slow decline in the position of the US dollar as reserve currency.
6. Manchester United share price is up over 20% in pre-market after Qatar’s Al-Watan newspaper reported that Sheikh Jassim is set to succeed in buying the club.
8. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Biden administration intends to provide Ukraine's military with depleted-uranium tank rounds
9. President of Belarus Lukashenko says his country will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if there is an 'aggression' it
20. BioNTech to testify in court tomorrow in case brought by German woman over coronavirus vaccine side effects
21. Billionaire investor and liberal donor George Soros has handed over control of his foundation to his son Alexander.
23. The Wall Street Journal reports that North Korea has stolen a total of $3 billion in cryptocurrency assets.
27. The White House says China has had a base in Cuba to spy on the United States since at least 2019
30. Ted Kaczynski, who was known as the "Unabomber," was found dead at the age of 81 in his jail cell this morning.
31. Four children missing in the Amazon jungle since a plane crash on the 1st of May have been found alive
33. The Financial Times reports that Microsoft is moving some of top artificial intelligence experts from China to Canada
34. Photos of boxes allegedly containing classified documents, at Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
35. US Republican Congressman Andy Biggs says, after Trump's indictment, that 'we have now reached a war phase'
38. Ukraine claims its intelligence agencies intercepted a call that proves Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam
43. Five people killed in a shooting in a town in northern Israel, with the motive related to organized crime.
46. Flights to New York's LaGuardia airport have been grounded again due to impact of Canada's wildfires
47. Wall Street Journal reports that China will pay Cuba to host a secret base to spy on the United States
51. Axios reports that Fox News has accused Tucker Carlson of breaching his contract by launching a show on Twitter
52. Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan says the country is 'back to the Dark Ages' and the 'rule of law is completely absent'
53. New York City once again has, by far, the worst air quality of any major city around the world, according to IQAir data.
54. Inter Miami gains over a million followers on social media within 10 minutes after Messi announces decision to play with them
55. Footage of the George Washington Bridge that connects New Jersey and New York City amid smoke from Canada wildfires.
59. Delhi overtakes New York City as major city with worst air quality in the world, after NYC had been exposed to effects of Canada fires.
62. New York City currently has the worst air quality of any major city across the world due to Canada fires
68. The Washington Post reports that US intelligence had knowledge of detailed Ukrainian plans to attack the Nord Stream pipeline three months before it happened
69. Iran announces and presents its own, domestically-made hypersonic missile with a range of 1400 kilometers
75. Bloomberg reports Germany and India are nearing a $5.2 billion deal to build submarines for the Indian navy
76. Ukraine's foreign minister says Russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam and is 'inflicting probably Europe’s largest technological disaster in decades'
82. The Australian Financial Review reports that Australia, the US and Ukraine are in talks over sending 41 Australian F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets to Ukraine
83. Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan says there is 'no doubt' he will be tried by a military court and imprisoned
84. The White House says the United States is seeing increasing levels of aggressiveness from China's military and it will not be long before 'someone gets hurt'
85. Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied on behalf of Russia for over 20 years, found dead in his prison cell.
99. The plane that crashed in Virginia was a Cessna Citation, flew through no-fly zone and close to the White House and the Capitol, prompting fighter jets to be scrambled.
100. Sonic boom heard in Washington DC due to fighter jets being scrambled after a small plane became unresponsive, before it later crashed in Virginia.
102. Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan accuses military and intelligence agencies of attempting to destroy his political party.
109. Ukraine's President Zelensky says the country's military is ready to launch its counteroffensive
118. BHP, the world's largest mining company, admits it underpaid around 30,000 workers over a 13 year period.
124. Sky News reports that UK Royal Air Force recruiters were advised against selecting 'useless white male pilots', to enable reaching diversity targets.
137. Russia says it has the right to take the 'harshest measures' in response to today's drone attack on Moscow
140. Russia's defense minister says Western countries are demanding a 'large-scale offensive' by Ukraine amid increased military aid
142. Footage of Russia air defense system in Moscow firing at drones, which local media say are part of a Ukrainian attack.
146. Biden and Erdogan discussed F-16s and Sweden's NATO bid in first call after Turkish presidential election
149. Brazil's president Lula da Silva says he 'dreams' of trading in a currency other than the US Dollar
152. Uganda's president signs anti-homosexuality bill, with punishments including the death penalty, into law.
153. Malaysia detains Chinese ship amid suspicions it was involved in illegally salvaging British shipwrecks from World War II
157. Japan's Ministry of Defense issues order for destruction of any North Korean missile that is confirmed to land in Japanese territory
159. Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia's new airline, Riyadh Air, is looking to buy between 300 to 400 aircraft.
167. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is in talks to join the China-based New Development Bank, also known as the 'BRICS bank'.
168. Turkey's Erdogan calls for big turnout to protect democracy, while opposition candidate calls on voters to get rid of 'authoritarian government'.
169. Russia says Western backers of Ukraine are 'playing with fire' over plans to give it F-16 fighter jets
170. Ukraine says it down 52 out of 54 Iran-made drones that were launched by the Russian military overnight
172. The Taliban has moved more heavy military equipment towards the border with Iran, amid border clashes and warnings of escalation from officials.
173. Biden-McCarthy debt deal set to increase military spending from $800 billion in current budget to $885 billion
177. 🇺🇸 Biden-McCarthy deal will raise the debt ceiling and cap spending, is awaiting final review of agreement's text.
180. The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabia has expressed its 'anger' to Moscow after Russia did not follow through on a pledge to reduce oil production and is instead 'pumping huge volumes of cheaper crude into the market'.
186. Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan and his wife placed on a no-fly list and banned from leaving the country
188. Germany to send a Patriot missile system to Lithuania as a security measure for July's NATO summit
204. China is dealing with new wave of XBB coronavirus variant that could cause up to 65 million cases weekly
205. Japan's military scrambled fighter jets after Russian military aircraft conducted intelligence-gathering missions over the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan.
210. Microsoft analysts believe China-linked hackers are developing the ability to disrupt critical US communications infrastructure.
219. Pakistan's defence minister says the government is considering banning Imran Khan's PTI political party
220. Russia's foreign minister Lavrov says the West sees Russia and China as foes who pose an existential threat.
222. Russia says it scrambled a Su-27 jet to intercept two US Air Force B-1B strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea.
225. Russia's Medvedev says that the more destructive the weapons that Ukraine receives, the 'closer the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse'
227. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban says Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia and that EU sanctions policy does not work
229. Footage emerges of troops from the Free Russia Legion, a Ukraine-based paramilitary group that opposes Putin, having controlled territory in the border regions of Belgorod, Russia.
230. US Treasury Secretary Yellen says it's 'highly likely' the US government will run out of cash by early June.
231. Ukraine's backers are considering an 'Israeli-style security agreement' for the country that would include weapons and technology transfers, according to Poland's president Andrzej Duda in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
233. Russia's ambassador in the US says Ukrainian attacks on Crimea are an attack on Russia itself, and that Washington should be aware of the Russian response.
236. Biden says he will not agree to a debt deal that 'protects wealthy tax cheats and crypto traders'
241. Ukraine says the situation in Bakhmut is 'critical', as Russia's Wagner Group claims victory after nine months of fighting.
243. Russia's Wagner Group says it has taken control of Bakhmut and will hand over control to the Russian military on the 25th of May
244. Spanish F/A-18 fighter jet has crashed in Zaragoza, the pilot has ejected and survived. https://t.co/DKXo3mojs0
246. Reuters reports that Western backers of Ukraine have already decided to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
251. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince greets Syria's Assad as the latter attends Arab League summit for first time since 2011
255. CNN reports that the United States has signalled to European allies that it will allow the export of F-16 jets to Ukraine
261. Deutsche Bank to pay $75 million to settle class-action lawsuit related to facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking.
262. Four children, including a baby, found alive in the Amazon jungle after they survived a plane crash on the 1st of May.
266. Turkey's opposition says irregularities during the election did not affect the results, as country prepares for second round of presidential contest.
267. Poland's president says the country has handed over almost all of its MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine
271. 🇧🇷 Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras will stop pegging prices to the international market, says it ends 'subordination' to the import parity price in US dollars.
272. Elon Musk says Twitter will create a more efficient financial system compared to traditional banking
277. Russia's oil exports at highest level since invasion of Ukraine, with around 80% going to China and India.
278. Ukrainian media reports that the Chief Justice of the country's Supreme Court has been detained for receiving a bribe of around $3 million
282. Wells Fargo agrees to pay $1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit related to its fake-accounts scandal
289. Russia says its air defenses shot down a UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missile fired by Ukraine's military
290. Nikkei reports that North Korea has stolen $721 million in crypto from Japan over the past five years
296. State-run agency results show Erdogan leads with 50.8%, as three-quarters of ballots have been counted, but opposition candidate continues to close the gap, with a run-off likely.