🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- The meeting between Witkoff and Putin has ended.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- US Envoy Witkoff seen leaving the Kremlin.

🇺🇳🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani attends his first United Nations Security Council, UNSC, briefing and raises the new flag of Syria at the UN Headquarters in New York.

🇵🇰 In response to the question of whether he admits that Pakistan has a long history of supporting terrorism, the Pakistani Minister of Defense replied:

“We’ve been doing this dirty work for the United States and the West — including Britain — for about three decades.”

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump has walked back its cancelations of thousands of foreign student visa's.

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇻🇦⚡- US President Trump arrives in Rome, Italy.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "Washington has privately offered security guarantees to the 'Coalition of the Willing' that London is calling for regarding Ukraine.

The Americans have opened the door to providing intelligence and logistical support to British and European soldiers on land, in the air, and at sea," - The Telegraph.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump told Hegseth that he did not approve of his texting information about airstrikes in Yemen to a Signal group that included Hegseth’s wife, his brother and his attorney, Trump described Hegseth's actions as childish," - NBC.

🇺🇸⚡- "Hegseth is getting increasingly insecure about losing his job," - NBC.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2. Both sides in the meantime to refrain from arming groups in eastern DR Congo, as part of an agreement signed in Washington, brokered by the US.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to sign individual mineral deals with the US, and as part of the agreement the US will significantly invest in eastern DR Congo.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Big news coming out of Africa, where I am also involved in settling violent wars and conflicts. I don’t know why so many of these events have fallen to me and my Administration, but they have, and we have done an unprecedented job in getting them SETTLED or, putting them in position for PEACE. STAY TUNED!!!" - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "I am close to India and Pakistan. They have had that fight for a 1,000 years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for a 1,000 years, probably longer than that. Tensions on that border [Kashmir] has been for 1,500 years. They'll get it figured out one way or the other. There's great tension between Pakistan and India, but there always has been," - Donald Trump, US President, commenting on the 76 year old conflict in Kashmir.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "Pahalgam is nearly 200km [via accessable roads] from Line of Control. It is not a border village that someone could sneak in, do their thing and go back. How did four terrorists carrying big guns come in 200 km inside, shoot nearly 50 people and go back unscathed?

Four to six gunmen came in military uniforms and fired and killed 32 tourists. Kashmir is the world's most militarized zone with nearly 350,000 security personnel including the Indian Army, Paramilitary Forces and J&K Police," - India's Karela region Congress.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- GPS interference across central India and parts of northwest India, near the Kashmir region.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's security cabinet has set-up an Operation Room due to the rising tensions.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Beersheba, southern Israel. Ballistic missile fire by Ansarullah in Yemen detected.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ansarullah likely targeting either Hatserim or Nevatim Air Base.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli air defenses intercepted the ballistic missile.

🇾🇪🇸🇾⚡- Aden-based Yemeni Presidential Council is reopening its embassy in Damascus, Syria.

The last Yemeni embassy in Damascus was Ansarullah's, which was quietly shut down by the Bashar al-Assad government in 2023.

🇷🇺🇰🇬⚡- Viktor "Vasiliev" Lukovenko, a former top official of PMC Wagner and close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been arrested in Kyrgyzstan on suspicion of 'working as a mercenary'.