🇹🇷 - Turkey's transport minister couldn't resist the urge to pet a street cat.

🇬🇧 🇮🇷 UK Redeploys Warship for Potential Hormuz Mission

The United Kingdom is redeploying the HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer, to the Middle East. The warship's anticipated mission is to safeguard vital commercial shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz - probably, as part of the US escorting mission announced by Trump recently.

HMS Dragon was previously deployed in Cyprus to defend Royal Air Force bases.

Minas Tirith | 24/7 News channel | Updated

🇺🇸 Florida golf course Trump National Doral opened a new golden statue of President Trump.

🇺🇸 - Mike Pompeo lost so much weight now he looks like Tony Blinken.

🇷🇺 Russians used their precious and scarce battle drones to drop thousands of May 9-themed leaflets all over Ukraine-controlled territories near the frontline.

The action was meant to resemble the World War II era leaflets. However, now when everyone has Internet access and can retrieve any information he wants online, the act was largely pointless and meant to be used as part of Russia's interior propaganda campaign.

🇺🇸 - Americans' credit card debt reached the record high of 1.33 trillion dollars.

🇷🇺 - Russia's school books now say that penicillin was developed by some Soviet woman named Zinaida during the WW2 rather than by Alexander Fleming in 1928 (he was awarded Nobel Prize for that).

🇬🇪 - Georgia demands from the West to withdraw its spies from the country.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US attacked 4 Iran-linked tankers in the Strait.

🇷🇺🇰🇭 - Russian culinary chef found in the middle of the Cambodian jungle, starved and willing to return to his homeland.

Earlier, the very same man moved to Cambodia in hopes to live in harmony with nature.

🇷🇺 - In Kaliningrad's cat cafe, dozens of cats were boiled alive after a pipe with hot water started leaking in the middle of the night.

🇺🇸 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agrees with President Trump and is calling to get rid of the filibuster.

🇷🇺 - New research shows that 80% of murders in Russia are committed by drunk people.

🇪🇺🇲🇩 - Kaja Kallas suggests that the EU should give Moldova more money so it resists Russia better.

🇪🇪🇷🇺 - Hundreds of Russian residents of Estonia are said to have crossed the land border into Russia in order to celebrate the Victory Day there. In Estonia, doing so would be illegal.

🇮🇷🇧🇧 - Iran is said to have captured a Barbadian tanker yesterday.

🇻🇳 - Cameras recorded a tornado that suddenly emerged in the middle of Vietnam.

🇱🇻 - In the Latvian town of Iecava, someone damaged the local monument honoring Soviet WW2 soldiers.

🇮🇹 - Italy develops special medical program aimed to cure people with AI addiction.

🇷🇺 - In his May 9 parade speech, Putin denied that the USSR de facto established control over Eastern and Central European countries that it liberated from the Nazi occupation.