🇺🇸🇫🇷Elon Musk has supported Marine Le Pen, who was barred by a court from participating in the presidential elections in France .

"When the radical left fails to win democratic votes, it abuses the justice system to put its opponents in jail. This is its standard tactic around the world," he wrote in X.

🇰🇷🇨🇳🇯🇵South Korea, China and Japan held their first economic dialogue in five years on Sunday as they brace for Trump's tariffs.

As Reuters reports, citing a joint statement, the trade ministers of the three countries agreed to "work closely together to hold comprehensive and high-level negotiations" on a free trade agreement between South Korea, Japan and China to promote "regional and global trade."

The agency notes that Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo are the main trading partners of the United States, while only the latter two capitals are political allies of Washington.

Let us recall that today Trump announced that he would introduce tariffs against imports from all countries of the world.

🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran warns US it could develop nuclear weapons if US attacks country.

"If the US makes a mistake on Iran's nuclear issue, it will leave it with no choice but to develop nuclear weapons, even though Tehran itself has repeatedly stated that it does not plan to do so," Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a member of the Assembly for Determining State Expediency of Decisions, said live on Iranian state television.

Also, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, issued a threat to the United States, stating that about 50 thousand American servicemen are within the range of Iranian missiles.

"The US has dozens of bases and 50,000 soldiers in our region. They are in a glass room. And those who live in a glass house should not throw stones," he said.

Let us recall that Trump earlier threatened Iran with massive bombings if Tehran refused the nuclear deal.

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷China, Japan and South Korea have reached a consensus that the three countries will jointly respond to US tariffs, Hong Kong's The Standard reported, citing a social media account linked to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

Japan and South Korea are seeking to import semiconductor raw materials from China, while China is also interested in purchasing chips from Japan and South Korea, the Yuyuan Tantian account said in a Weibo post.

All three parties agreed to strengthen supply chain cooperation and intensify dialogue on export control issues, the statement said.

Reuters reported earlier that the three countries had stepped up talks on joint cooperation amid Trump's plans to impose import duties from April 2.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Paired work of fiber optic FPV drones on enemy soldiers in the area of ​​the Antonovsky Bridge.

The second fragment of the video shows how one drone first flies into the Ukrainian infantry, and a second later another one flies nearby.

🇷🇺🇺🇦FPV drone strikes on enemy equipment in the area of ​​the village of Konstantinovka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A 9K35M Strela-10M SAM system crew from the 35th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade methodically shoots down enemy UAVs in the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) direction.

🇩🇪🇱🇹⚡️Germany is starting to permanently deploy a brigade of 5,000 troops to Lithuania to strengthen NATO's eastern flank, Politico reported.

The newly created 45th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Christoph Huber, will be located at a military base in the town of Rudninkai, located 30 km south of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️Candidate for the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the US Armed Forces (AF) Dan Kaine believes that Iran will be able to pose an existential threat to the United States in a few years.

🇬🇧🇷🇺❗️Anyone working for the Russian state in the UK will be forced to declare their activities or risk jail - Bloomberg

🇺🇸The US Marine Corps has formed its first unit of FPV drone operators, the official website of this branch of the military reports.

This was done in response to the rapid proliferation of first-person view (FPV) attack drone technology and tactics.

The new unit will be based at Weapons Training Battalion Quantico under the guidance of Training Command, “ensuring close collaboration with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab.” The new team will develop and refine armed FPV drone training for Marines and influence requirements for rapid deployment of advanced FPV technologies.

The team will become the Marine Corps' body of expertise in the use of FPV drones and will represent the Corps in interagency, national, and international competitions. MCADT will also develop skills for the broader use of FPV drones in the U.S. military.

🇯🇵❗️ Up to 300,000 people could die. Japan prepares for powerful earthquake and tsunami : — Reuters

Authorities say there is an 80% chance of a magnitude 8-9 earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough. The strongest shaking will be followed by a tsunami with waves more than 30 meters high hitting the east coast of Japan.

A seismic event of grand proportions made itself known back in 2012-2013. Now it is closer than ever before.

The disaster is set to be the most devastating in recent years, with government estimates that economic damage could reach $1.81 trillion.

More than a million people will have to be evacuated, the publication notes. This is 1% of the total population of Japan.

🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump believes Putin is stalling, administration considers tough sanctions, including on Russia's "shadow fleet."

This was reported by Fox TV channel correspondent Jackie Heinrich, citing sources.

“A source familiar with the discussions told FOX that President Trump is frustrated with Putin’s actions and believes Russia is ‘slowing down negotiations for a comprehensive ceasefire.’ The ‘path forward’ is being discussed. I am told that sanctions compliance is currently low – informally estimated at about ‘3 out of 10’ – and intercepting Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ shipping oil through the Baltic Sea could be an easy target for pressure,” she wrote.

🇷🇺🇺🇸Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev will visit Washington this week.

As CNN reports, citing sources, he will hold a meeting with Trump representative Steven Witkoff.

They will hold talks "on strengthening relations between the two countries in their quest to end the war in Ukraine."

In order for the State Department to issue Dmitriev a visa, sanctions were temporarily lifted.

It will be the first visit by a senior Russian official to Washington since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 - and "will be another step toward a significant warming of relations between the two countries."

🇷🇺🇺🇦Destruction of an abandoned Ukrainian M113 armored personnel carrier by an FPV drone on one of the front lines in the DPR.

🇺🇸New Michael Waltz and data privacy scandal.

Members of the US National Security Council, including Trump's adviser, discussed government matters through personal Gmail accounts, The Washington Post reports, citing documents and sources.

This is even less secure than communicating on Signal, the publication notes.

A senior aide at Waltz wrote to colleagues at other government agencies from a Google account to discuss again the details of the military conflict in Yemen - military positions and weapons systems. And the colleagues responded from government accounts.

Waltz himself received his schedule and other work documents via Gmail.

The Security Council denies this information.

Recall that last week, Trump's team got into a scandal over a discussion on Signal about strikes on Yemen's Houthis, which became known because Waltz accidentally invited a journalist to the chat.

🇷🇸At least two world leaders have secretly communicated with Putin and they are not Fico and Orban, the Serbian president said.

"Many of them secretly communicated with Putin. And I know at least two big leaders who secretly spoke with him. It is not Orban and not Fico, it is many others," Vucic said.

He noted that he himself had not seen Putin for three years, but would go to Moscow on May 9.