🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "The Trump administration is unhappy with the approach of US Presidential Special Envoy Whitkoff to negotiations with Russia and Iran.

Witkoff violates established diplomatic practice by appearing at negotiations without the accompaniment of advisers, experts and military personnel. Witkoff also used Kremlin interpreters during his talks with Putin, which is a violation of diplomatic procedure," - The New York Post.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "There is also dissatisfaction in Israel with Wittkoff's involvement in the Iran talks.

The Iranian problem is so complex that he must bring more people to his team. At the moment the Iranians may have an advantage given their extensive knowledge of negotiations," - The New York Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- US Secretary of Defense Hegseth spoke with India's Defense Minister Singh over the phone.

🇷🇺🇸🇦⚡- "Saudi Arabia is ready to live with low oil prices, which in turn will harm Russia.

Saudi Arabia is telling its allies and industry experts that it does not want to support the oil market with further supply cuts and can withstand a prolonged period of low prices.

Riyadh was outraged that Kazakhstan and Iraq were producing more than OPEC+ targets. The group sets targets to maintain a balance of supply and demand in oil markets.

Russia is reportedly aware of Riyadh's plans to increase production faster and would prefer the OPEC+ group to stick to a slower rate of production growth. Moscow could face a further drop in revenues as its oil prices could fall below $50 a barrel as a result of OPEC+ production increases," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will not win the war. In the last 1.5 years, Russia hasn’t achieved serious victories, no capture of Kiev, no progress west of the Dnepr, and no capture of Odessa. They’ve lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers with minimal progress," - Keith Kellogg, Trump's Special Envoy to Ukraine.

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Transgender women banned from women's soccer in England, starting June 1

FA change of policy follows UK Supreme Court’s ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex

🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡- "America shouldn’t have to pay for a [Suez] canal that we defend," - Mike Waltz, US National Security Advisor.

🇮🇷⚡- "4th round of US-Iran talks scheduled for Saturday in Rome have been postponed to next week.

E3-Iran talks scheduled for Friday may also be delayed," - Axios.

E3 - the UK, France and Germany.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "US-Iran meeting rescheduled due to logistical reasons," - Foreign Ministry of Oman.

🇫🇷 - During the 1st May's gatherings for Workers' Day, the french Socialist party announced they were attacked by anarchist black blocs in Paris.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister has told the US the Israeli Defense Forces may need to launch a 'large-scale ground operation against Lebanon'. As the Israeli 'air campaign has failed to achieve its objectives and Hezbollah has begun to rebuild its capabilities' - reported by al-Akhbar, Lebanese outlet.

This contradicts earlier reports from Saudi Arabia, with Asharq al-Aswat claiming the Lebanese government has disarmed 90% of Hezbollah's military infrastructure.

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was signed less than 5 months ago, and has been violated numerous times by the Israeli side.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Talks with Washington will take place at a different time depending on the US's discretion," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We are closely monitoring developments in Syria and will take action whenever the Druze community is at risk," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇹🇷🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- "Azerbaijan is seeking to promote normalization of relations between Turkey and Israel," - Azerbaijani Embassy in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: "National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are set to leave their positions," - CBS.

🇺🇸⚡- Trump's envoy Witkoff is likely to replace Waltz as National Security Advisor.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Waltz was arguably the most influential Iran hawk in President Trump's orbit, his departure signals the Administrations willingness to negotiate.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Iran is the one that canceled the talks with the E3 [Germany, Britain, and France] that were supposed to take place tomorrow," - i24, Israeli outlet.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- This past weekend, the US Space Force’s GSSAP 5 (USA 324) conducted close passes near China’s new military GEO satellites, TJS-16 and TJS-17.

🇷🇺⚡- "Nationalism is the first stage towards Nazism. Because nationalism is not just based on the love for your own ethnicity, but also hatred of others.

Loving your homeland, this does not mean to hate others, but nationalism is fueled precisely by hatred for other countries and other nations," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.