🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian President Zelensky has rejected a Franco-British proposal for a one-month ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- "Israel invited to Russia’s May 9 parade, while 'unfriendly' nations excluded," - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇦⚡- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman condems 'Trump's behavior towards Zelensky' at the Oval Office press conference, calling the behavior a 'warning' that 'superiority must not become a norm in international relations'.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russian FSB neutralizes a member of terrorists who were planning to detonate a bomb in a synagogue in the Moscow region and in the Moscow metro," - TASS.

🇮🇱⚡️- Stabbing attack in Haifa, Israel. Four casualties reported.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- European defense companies shares surge after yesterday's Ukraine Summit in London.

UK's and Europe's largest 'BAE Systems' rose by 16%.
Germany's 'Hensoldt' gained 20%.
German-based 'Rheinmetall' soared by 18%.
Italy's 'Leonardo' grew by 18%.
France's 'Thales' and 'Dassault Aviation' were both up around 16%.

🇮🇱⚡- 5 injuries reported, 3 in serious conditions, from the stabbing attack in Haifa, Israel.

🇮🇱⚡- First death reported in Haifa by the Israeli Ambulance Service.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli police forces are deployed at the scene and the perpetrator has also been killed.

🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Haifa, Israel.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦 - Reports of a UK-France led proposal of a 1 month ceasefire in the air, sea and energy infrastructure attacks in Ukraine are false. Britain has denied such reports.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "When the Americans met with the Russians [in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia], something happened, because after the meeting their behavior has changed," - Kaja Kallas, EU Foreign Policy Chief.

🇦🇫🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan border forces attack Afghanistan's Taliban security forces setting up a checkpoint along the Afghan side of the border. Clashes led to the deaths of three Pakistani security forces.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has ordered Southern Command to draw up a new more offensive-minded battle plan for Gaza," - Israel Today.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Incoming Chief of Staff Zamir also intends to fire much of the General Staff and senior IDF brass and replace them with more aggressive generals. He says this is also needed to restore public trust in the army," - Israel Today.

🇨🇳🇻🇳🇮🇱⚡- Vietnam to buy two spy satellites from Israel for $680 million to help monitor Chinese activity in the South China Sea, as tensions escalate between the two countries over the disputed Paracel Islands.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- US aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, and its strike group arrive at the South Korean port of Busan, in response to North Korea's recent military activity in the Yellow Sea.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan seizes yet another Chinese cargo ship in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan has previously accused Chinese cargo ships of breaking Taiwanese undersea cables.