🇷🇺⚡️ — Mikhail Kovalchuk, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Kurchatov Institute, says Russian scientists are researching ways to extend the healthy human lifespan.
Speaking at the Kurchatov Genomic Forum in Moscow, Kovalchuk said researchers are studying more than 7,000 primates, including a “unique group” of elderly monkeys aged between 20 and over 30 years, to examine different stages of aging.
The research includes biological, vascular and brain analyses aimed at better understanding the aging process.
🇮🇹🏴🇮🇪⚡️ — More than 300 schools across Italy were evacuated Wednesday following hoax bomb threats, as similar warnings were reported in several other European countries.
Schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland also received threatening emails believed to have originated abroad, but authorities quickly deemed them not credible, allowing classes to continue without disruption.
🇨🇳🇺🇸⚡️ — China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has close ties to the People's Liberation Army, purchased two Nvidia H200 AI chips for $123,000 through a Chinese supplier in October, despite being on a U.S. export blacklist, according to procurement records reviewed by Reuters.
Other Chinese universities have also obtained restricted Nvidia processors or rented access to them.
🇺🇸🇲🇬🇷🇺⚡️ — The U.S. has warned Madagascar against expanding military cooperation with Russia as Moscow-backed security partnerships in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have failed to contain jihadist violence.
U.S. Africa Command Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. John Brennan emphasized Madagascar's strategic importance in the Indian Ocean, particularly for international trade, and cautioned against adopting what he described as the “Sahel model,” warning that such partnerships could contribute to further instability across Africa.
🇫🇷🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡️ — France is urging Germany to clarify how it would deploy long-range missiles in a potential conflict with Russia, warning that unclear military doctrine could unintentionally escalate a conventional confrontation into nuclear war, according to FT.
Paris is holding discussions with Berlin to align Germany's approach to “deep precision strikes” with France's nuclear strategy.
One French official warned that a conventional strike against Russia could provoke a nuclear response if Moscow misinterpreted the signal, potentially pushing Europe toward the “nuclear threshold without realizing.”
🇮🇷❌🇦🇷 — Iran has designated Argentina's navy and air force as “terrorist organizations” in retaliation for Buenos Aires' decision in April to classify Iran's IRGC as a terrorist organization.
🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social:
The failing New York Times wrote about the “settling of a sexual harassment suit brought years ago by a waitress at President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J.”
What they fail to say is that it did not involve President Trump, a rather important omission. FAKE NEWS!!!
🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social:
The New York Times incorrectly reported that “Mr. Trump called into the premier of a C-Span show, APPARENTLY WITHOUT NOTICE.” This is WRONG.
It was a fully scheduled call, as a favor to C-Span, set up through White House Communications. It was done at C-Span’s request, not mine.
The Times knew this, but lied, in order to demean - But this is the least of their lies!
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
8 years ago a cartoon character like Pompeo said Iranians must follow White House diktat “if they want to eat”. Today, Rubio—whose fellow Cubans are victims of same policy—repeats that drivel.
Forget about the inhumanity. It's the delusions that are producing failed U.S. policy.
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian:
They waged war, claiming to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Then they used the PrSM missile in Lamerd for the first time.
Now they invoke the "Mother of All Bombs" to pursue diplomacy through threats. No contradiction, but a disgrace.
Who threatens global peace and security?
🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — The Houthis (Ansarallah) reportedly launch a large-scale offensive on the Lahij front, according to a source on the ground.
Houthis forces captured the Huwayrah area of the al-Mudharabah district and are now reportedly advancing towards the Khawr Umayrah coastal area.
Capturing the Khawr Umayrah area would allow the Houthis to completely encircle the Saudi-backed forces.
🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — The Sudanese army released the footage showing the downing of the FH-95 UAV.
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🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — The Sudanese army announced the downing of a Chinese-made FH-95 UAV operated by the UAE-backed RSF, south of the Ayal Bakhit area in the West Kordofan region.
🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️ — UKMTO published probably the most vague report ever of an incident involving a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Additional Saudi-backed PLC officers were killed and injured by the Houthis (Ansarallah).
Colonel Saleh Mohammed Murad Al-Abdi, the commander of the 2nd brigade of the 1st emergency division, was killed in the Al-Jawf front. (1st Picture)
Brigadier General Ali Muhammad Osman, the deputy commander of the 139th Brigade, was killed on the Marib front. (2nd Picture)
Brigadier General Mahmoud Al-Agbari, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the Homeland Shield 1st Division, was injured in the Lahij front. (3rd Picture)
Major General Hamdi Hassan Mohammed Shukri al-Subaihi, the commander of the 4th military region, was injured following a Houthis ballistic attack on the Lahij front. (4th Picture)
🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick received a highly classified intelligence memo warning about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, whom American intelligence officials suspect of working for Chinese intelligence, according to Axios.
The memo, prepared under Secretary of State Marco Rubio's supervision, drew on surveillance of Alice Huang and an investigation into alleged chip smuggling involving her company, Megaspeed, which has purchased billions of dollars' worth of NVIDIA chips.
Rubio also warned President Trump directly before his May visit to China.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has relocated from his home to a military base following Iranian threats against his life, according to NYT.
U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that Iranian plots targeting current and former American officials have reached a more advanced stage, with threats against Bessent contributing to those concerns.
🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — The Ust-Luga oil terminal, in the Russian Leningrad oblast, was attacked by Ukrainian drones.
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📶/🇱🇹 — No interesting activity coming from the Baltic states, given the recent events.
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🇺🇦⚡️ — All alerts in the Baltic countries are for Ukrainian UAVs passing through to strike Saint Petersburg, and any more alerts issued should be presumed for Ukrainian UAVs.
