🇨🇳 Kremlin: Putin will pay a visit to China on May 19 and 20.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced that Ukraine has received confirmation that the Special Tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression will be located in The Hague.

Sybiha also recalled that the political launch of the tribunal’s creation took place on May 9 last year in Lviv, when EU foreign ministers gathered in the city.

🇺🇸🧐 CNBC: Trump bought shares of AI company Palantir Technologies weeks before publicly praising the stock on Truth Social.

The records show Trump purchased between roughly $247,000 and $630,000 of Palantir stock in early 2026, including multiple buys in March. He later promoted the company in an April Truth Social post during a sharp selloff in tech stocks.

The filings also show Trump sold up to $5 million worth of Palantir shares in February and made other large tech investments, including in Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 U.S. may ask Israel to redirect billions in withheld Palestinian tax funds to support Trump’s Gaza reconstruction plan, - Reuters

Meanwhile Trump 🇳🇬👀

🇺🇸🇹🇼 Trump on Taiwan:

The Chinese just don’t want to see this place — we’ll call it a place, because nobody knows how to define it — but they don’t want to see it go independent.

I’d like to see everybody making chips in Taiwan come over to America.

I’m not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, we’re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war? I’m not looking for that.

When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That’s a very small island.

Think of it; it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem.

If you look at the history, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump Pessimistic on Jimmy Lai Release After Xi Meeting

Following a two-day summit in Beijing, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he raised the case of Jimmy Lai — sentenced to 20 years under Hong Kong's national security law — directly with Xi Jinping. Xi's response, per Trump, was that Lai is a "tough one" and not positive toward release.

China's foreign ministry reaffirmed its standing position: Lai is characterized as a key instigator of anti-China activity, and Hong Kong's judiciary operates as an internal matter. Beijing's framing closes off any diplomatic pathway by categorizing the case as a legal, not political, question.

The exchange signals that Lai's release carries no traction at the highest bilateral level, despite direct presidential intervention.

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@asianomics

💀 The Russian occupier is filming one of the logistics roads in the Donetsk region. Millionaires are lounging on the side of the road.

علی موسوی، پسر عبدالرحیم موسوی، رئیس پیشن ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی، گفت که جنازه پدرش که در نخستین روز حملات اسرائیل و آمریکا به بیت رهبر کشته شد نزدیک به ۳۰ روز در زیر آوار ماند و یک ماه در جستجوی جنازه اش بودند.

موسوی پس از کشته شدن محمد باقری در جنگ ۱۲ روزه، به‌عنوان رییس ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح منصوب شده بود.

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@mamlekate

🎙️ Did you underestimate the pain tolerance 🇮🇷Iran has?

🇺🇸 Trump: I didn’t underestimate anything. We could take out their bridges and electricity capacity in two days.

📝 نیویورک‌تایمز: آمریکا و اسرائیل برای جنگ جدید آماده می‌شوند

به گزارش نیویورک‌تایمز، دونالد ترامپ پس از بازگشت از چین با تصمیمی تعیین‌کننده درباره ایران روبه‌رو شده است؛ در حالی که مذاکرات برای کاهش تنش متوقف مانده، آمریکا و اسرائیل آماده‌سازی‌های گسترده‌ای را برای احتمال ازسرگیری حملات نظامی علیه جمهوری اسلامی آغاز کرده‌اند.

@mamlekate

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Merz would not advise his children to live in the US and gave reasons

One of the reasons is that it is now very difficult to find a job in the US, even for a highly educated person.

At a meeting with young Germans, he advised them to study and work in their homeland.