🇮🇳 - India urgently takes step to bring its gold reserves home back from foreign depositories.

🇬🇧 - Starmer says that his critics are wrong and that the country will become better under his leadership...

...however, he added that maybe he is wrong and then very dark times are ahead.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 - European Commission wants to start talks about admitting Ukraine as early as in this year's June, its official representative admitted.

However, both German chancellor Merz and Croat prime-minister Plenkovic made it clear that they oppose allowing Ukraine to join anytime soon.

🇺🇸🇷🇴 - US businessman purchased the company which manages the Dracula's castle in Transylvania.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 - Euroclear admitted that it already transferred Ukraine 6.6 billion euro of income from the frozen Russian assets.

🇦🇹 - Soviet military cemetery in Vienna vandalized ahead of the May 9 celebrations.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 - Trump said that cartels are Mexico's real government.

🇩🇪 After robbers attacked a bank branch in the German town of Sinzig earlier this week and took several people (including driver of a cash transport) hostage, the country's law enforcement failed to apprehend the criminals.

The robbery should be regarded as a success, considering that its perpetrators managed to get the money, avoid wounding or killing anyone, and then succeeded to escape without being intercepted by the country's police and SWAT units.

🇷🇺🇰🇵 - Russia launches tourist trains to North Korea.

🇦🇷🇧🇴 - Argentina intercepted a small aircraft with 400kg of cocaine and a bunch of Bolivians onboard.

🇱🇹🇪🇺 - Lithuania borrowed 6.4 billion euro from the EU in order to pay for presence of German panzertroops in its territory.

🇨🇳 Of the world's 50 biggest banks, 13 are in China and only 6 - in the United States.

Four biggest banks in the world are all Chinese, while only the 5th largest, JPMorgan Chase, is American.

If anyone wonders, this is divine punishment for electing Democrat as their mayor few months ago.

🇫🇷🇰🇪 - French President Macron scolded Kenyan youth for being uncultured.

Macron, a professional Karen, is famous for insulting and scolding locals each time he visits Africa.

This led to him being incredibly unpopular with Africans despite his pro-migrants policies - unlike right-wing President Chirac, who was popular in the third world because of his traditionally respectful attitude. Previously, Macron appointed Francois Bayrou - famous for slapping a young boy that he suspected of pickpocketing because of the boy's skin color - as one of his short-serving prime-ministers.