🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡️- Xi Jinping will skip the BRICS summit in Brazil, marking his first absence since taking office. China cites a scheduling conflict, but reports suggest Beijing was unhappy with Brazil hosting a state dinner for India’s Modi, which could have made Xi appear like a “supporting actor” at the summit. Premier Li Qiang will attend instead.

🇺🇸🇦🇸⚡️- The Department of the Interior is fast-tracking offshore critical mineral projects by extending permits, cutting red tape, and speeding up reviews. This includes new seabed mapping and the first lease evaluation near American Samoa in decades, targeting rich polymetallic nodules despite environmental groups’ efforts to delay progress.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- Andrew Cuomo has officially dropped out of the Mayoral race as virtually all of his major donors have shifted support to Mayor Adams. At the same time major GOP donors and party activists are calling on Curtis Sliwa to drop out and endorse Adams in order to stop Mamdani from winning.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "The military-political situation in the world remains difficult and has the tendency to deteriorate," - Andrey Belousov, Russia's Defense Minister at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Global deterioration is a consequence of the destructive course of the collective West to maintain its global dominance," - Andrey Belousov, Russia's Defense Minister at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with his Russian counterpart Belousov on the sidelines of the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

Belousov assured Singh of the timely delivery of the remaining two of the five S-400 air defense batteries.

🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- Russia's Defense Minister Belousov was also gifted by his Indian counterpart Singh at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China

🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign the SCO joint statement in Qingdao, China, due to its omission of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Unlike NATO yesterday, the SCO will not be able to deliver a joint statement.

🇨🇳⚡- Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO, Defense Ministry Summit family photo in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's Lugansk authorities ban the use of all SpaceX equipment on its territory, including Star Link. The ban extends to the Russian military as well.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to address the nation soon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Shevchenko, which holds one of Europe's largest lithium reserves - Pokrovskoe direction.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, on X.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas has finally confirmed the death of Mohammad Sinwar, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike near the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, south Gaza Strip, on May 13.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I feel it necessary to offer a few congratulations to the great nation of Iran; first, congratulations on the victory over the fake Zionist regime," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "With all that noise, with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of Iran," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The second congratulations are related to the victory of our beloved Iran over the American regime," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The American regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it did not enter, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The US gained nothing from this war," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Here too Iran won, and gave America a severe slap in the face," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Trump greatly exaggerated what happened," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader's address to the nation.