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🇷🇺The Kyiv Independent: Putin says military drills will be held in autumn. The military exercises will be held in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russian-led military bloc, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said on May 16

🇺🇦🇷🇺Going by a new video statement by Azov Regiment Commander Denys Prokopenko, it seems Ukrainian forces holed up in Azovstal may be preparing to surrender https://twitter.com/LucasADWebber/status/1526269183251693570?s=20&t=cthQBHvo_8X2l5FoOgeWHg

🇺🇸🇨🇳NBC: Orange County Church Shooting Was ‘Politically Motivated Hate Incident,' Sheriff Says - People inside a Laguna Woods church detained a man who opened fire and used an extension cord to hog-tie him until deputies arrived, authorities say. "This was a politically motivated hate incident, a grievance that this individual had between himself and the Taiwanese community," said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes at a noon news conference. "It is believe the suspect was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan."

🇺🇦🇷🇺Going by a new video statement by Azov Regiment Commander Denys Prokopenko, it seems Ukrainian forces holed up in Azovstal may be preparing to surrender https://twitter.com/LucasADWebber/status/1526269183251693570?s=20&t=cthQBHvo_8X2l5FoOgeWHg

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🇸🇴🇺🇸New York Times: Biden secretly signed an order in early May authorizing the military to redeploy 100s of Special Forces into Somalia & to target about a dozen Al Shabab leaders. Reverses Trump's last-minute decision to withdraw from Somalia.

🇰🇵The Guardian: Kim Jong-un calls in the army to respond to North Korea’s Covid-19 crisis - Leader criticises healthcare officials and orders army to distribute medicine as more than one million are infected by ‘fever’

🇺🇦🇷🇺Reuters: Russia said on Sunday it had pummeled Ukrainian positions in the east with missiles, targeting command centers and arsenals as its forces seek to encircle Ukrainian army units in the battle for Donbas. Nearly three months since the February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russian and Russian-backed forces are still in control of an area of Ukraine about the size of Greece along the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea and in Ukraine’s east bordering Russia.

🇮🇱🇸🇾The Times of Israel: Satellite images show Syria site ‘completely destroyed’ in raid attributed to Israel

🇨🇳The Drive: The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and its escorts have spent the better part of two weeks operating in the East China Sea under the close watch of Japanese Self-Defense Forces

🇺🇦🇷🇺New ISW maps of Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺Fox: A missile hit some military infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine early Sunday morning, the area's governor announced