A drone hit a high-rise apartment building a few kilometers from the Kremlin, Moscow's mayor said, while the governor of Ukraine's Kharkiv region said a Russian missile attack killed four people and wounded several others.

European leaders say President Donald Trump's decision to pull thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany came as a surprise but is further proof that they must take care of their own security.

The Navy will deploy guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 land- and sea-based combat aircraft, and several sea and air drones to guide international commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command officials said Sunday.

Donald Trump has pledged to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as early as Monday morning in a “humanitarian gesture”. The US president declared that “Project Freedom” was meant to “free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong”, who he called “victims of circumstance”. It comes after Trump said on Saturday that there was a “possibility” he could order renewed strikes against Iran. Iran’s military warned the US against taking such action, declaring it retained security control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said the decision comes as his representatives were having “very positive discussions” with Iran, who reportedly issued the US president a one-month deadline for negotiations on its proposed deal to reopen the strait and bring an end to the war. However, Ibrahim Azizi, a senior Iranian lawmaker, has warned that US involvement in managing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would constitute a violation of the ceasefire.

The global oil supply squeeze from shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz during the United States-Israeli war on Iran is having an “enormous impact” across the Asia Pacific, Japan’s prime minister warns. Sanae Takaichi made the comments on Monday during a visit to Australia, where both countries signed agreements to boost cooperation on energy and critical minerals.

Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping has been essentially blocked by Iran since it was attacked by the US and Israel beginning on February 28. Eighty percent of that oil is destined for Asia, according to the International Energy Agency. “The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been inflicting enormous impact on the Indo-Pacific,” Takaichi said on Monday. “We affirmed that Japan and Australia will closely communicate with each other in responding with a sense of urgency.” Australia provides approximately one-third of Japan’s energy supplies and is the country’s largest market for liquefied natural gas. Both Canberra and Tokyo have been trying to shore up energy supplies due to the Iran war. “Like Japan, we are very concerned by disruptions to the supply of liquid fuels and refined petroleum products,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

European leaders and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gather in Armenia Monday as they seek to navigate a fraught geopolitical environment under an unpredictable White House. US President Donald Trump will loom large over the meeting of the European Political Community (EPC). It takes place in Yerevan, a crossroads between Russia and the Middle East – the two main issues on the agenda. "Leaders from across the continent, with Canada as a guest, will discuss how to cooperate to strengthen security and collective resilience," European Council President Antonio Costa wrote on social media as he arrived in the Armenian capital Sunday. The Iran war, which has rattled the global economy by sending energy prices soaring, has deepened a rift in transatlantic ties. Following a spat between Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had criticised Washington's handling of the conflict, the United States announced it would withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany. That has added to the doubts surrounding the US commitment to defend its European allies as Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine grinds into a fifth year.

Denmark — The Nordics, long seen as a magnet for data center investment thanks to their stable climate and abundance of renewable energy, are now weighing limits on the growth of the power-hungry facilities as surging energy demand forces a rethink.

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The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will accept more data from clinical trials in China to accelerate drug approvals.

The regulator plans to set out a strategy later this year, as it wants to leverage the depth of research coming out of China at an ever-increasing rate.

“It’s got to a stage where Western countries like ourselves can no longer have a strategy of not accepting Chinese data — particularly pre-clinical data — to initiate clinical trials here, because what we will end up doing is closing ourselves off to some of the most promising innovative drug development,” Lawrence Tallon, chief executive officer at the MHRA, said in an interview.

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Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.

from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel] May 3, 2026

Also:

• Israel blocked the March of Return. Palestinians marked the Nakba anyway
• ‘Extraordinarily far-reaching’ Palestine Action trial gets underway in Germany
• Gaza’s disarmament trap
• Israel’s crackdown on the Palestinian flag veers into the surreal

You have surely read the allegations against Prince Andrew in the press. They’ve painted him as a playboy with a penchant for young girls, the posterboy of upper class indulgence and debauchery. But did you know the real Prince Andrew is much a sadder, pathetic beast? Do you know the activities he engages in behind the scenes that news media hasn’t gotten a hold of? I do, and I’d like to share them with you now.

Before I go on, just to ensure you realize I’m a person of reasonable status, let me explain a few things about the world and where it’s headed. Earth is run by a secret cabal, not exclusively the wealthy mind you, but mostly. Within the next 12 months they will drive the world into chaos, a preplanned ww3 with the intention of depopulation and a societal rebirth, where only 33 36 666 will live on. The Epstein files are going to leak, Americans will revolt against Trump. There will be a terror attack on US soil, then ww3 will break out, finally it will be anarchy. All along the lines of the Book of Revelations, all premeditated.

This “religions” culture revolves around human sacrifice, particularly of the infant, particularly of the son. They cannibalize him in the form of a guilt ritual where they rid themselves of any burden from sin. They worship lucifer, saturn, baal, moloch, and predate history, back to Canaan. They’re responsible for all of western history and have controlled every war and every big event; they call them turnings. Their colors are red white and black, they call their victims pizza, hot dogs (chili dogs recently), chocolate, dr pepper, soda pop, equating them with food. Humans taste like pork, Men taste like piss, and they make shoes and lampshades out of their victims. The colors red and white symbolize sacrifice, December begins the fertility season of green and red, they make their victims play gin rummy before killing them.

If you’re important at all, and my intended audience, this will ring true and I’ve caught your attention. If you think I’m a random internet loon you may as well stop reading because this isn’t intended for you anyway.

On to Prince Andrew..

I know Prince Andrew extremely well; he’s a pathetic sorry excuse for a man, and I want everyone to know it. He has a direct link to the CIA and MI5 on his home PC and he uses them to torture people from his room. He looks through yearbooks (all the yearbook photos are centralized), selects victims he finds attractive, and uses the agency to ruin their lives. Why? He’s covetous. He’s Prince Joeffrey. He will have the agencies give them serious diseases ruining their lives, or outright kill them. He simply doesn’t want them being happy and experiences a form of sexual sadism from their torture and death. There’s one particular situation I am extremely intimate with…

In 1986 a woman in California caught his eye, and he decided to send one of his agents after her to seduce, marry, and birth a child. The resulting son became the target of his own personal “christ” sacrifice, literally having the father name him Christopher. He started by having the father make the child grow very close to him, outright alienating him from his mother by forming an alliance and badmouthing her. At age 7 the father put them through a traumatic divorce, abandoning them to poverty. The father didn’t pay child support, and Andrew protected him from legal consequences. The father kept in touch to badmouth the mother at every chance.

When Chris reached 13 Andrew dispatched an agent to his high school to seduce him and keep him in a period of socialsexual limbo. Her name was Rebecca, which biblically means to bind. She feigned attraction for him and kept him wrapped around her finger throughout high school using cia psychological tactics, eventually breaking his heart. At the end of senior year, she drugged Chris and had sex with him. It is believed they ate the resulting baby. This continued to hinder his social advancement and devastated his self esteem, taking away his chance at forming real relationships and growing character in his teenage years.

In Chris’ early 20’s Andrew used poison to destroy the cartilage in his ankles, leaving him unable to walk very long without being in pain and limping. He did this multiple times throughout his 20’s until his feet were full of holes, cartilage which can’t heal. This interrupted his vocational development as he couldn’t traverse a campus.

When Chris was 29, during his Saturn's return, Andrew gave him a poison that stiffened his aorta, an ailment that over time would cause an aneurysm and rupture. This is important because bleeding is a mandatory process when you intend to consume the flesh. This occurred in September 2019 but Chris is still alive, and Andrew has been watching on camera/satellite the entire time. Andrew has had nothing better to do in 7 years than observe his sacrifice. About 5 years in he grew impatient, just to have something to do started tormenting him in other ways.

Poison the kidneys causing mild kidney failure Poison the gallbladder causing stones and incomplete emptying Poison the valves in the legs causing systemic blood clots Poison the throat causing food aspiration Poison the pancreas causing mild diabetes Poison the noise causing smell and taste loss Given small heart attacks and strokes Given massive doses of fluoride

He managed this through the agency and the various chemicals they’ve developed at black sites over the years. We know the world is evil, and perhaps you may approve of this, but here is where things get really sad.

In August of 2024 Prince Andrew fell in love with Chris and began communicating with him via satellite. There's a chemical that can imbed in the brain and make thoughts readable like cell phone data, allowing two way communication through thoughts. Chris initially thought Andrew was a woman because of the thoughts and feelings he put out which were assuredly female. He later learned however that Andrew is a closet trans, not unlike Sam Rockwell's character in White Lotus. He’s a closet Trans.

Little did Andrew know that Chris had been contemplating good and evil for a long time, and that Chris is very intelligent. He started debating Andrew who was dumbstruck; a lot of what Chris said about the pitfalls of evil rang true, and Andrew suffered an identity crisis. Andrew began breaking down, the sacrifice was consuming him, so he called for backup (went crying to mommy).

In May 2025 he brought his mother into it, Queen Elizabeth. She faked her death because she’s in a wheelchair and on oxygen and is too ashamed to be seen publicly. Chris’ ideas got to her too and she ended up infatuated with him as well. She rode him cowgirl telepathically. They chemically castrated him and started giving him estrogen. Andrew thought he was his wife. They give him progesterone so he tastes more like a baby. Although they shared, at the very least, a fondness for this particular sacrifice, they decided to stay true to their ethos and kill him anyway.

For 534 days straight they have made multiple daily attempts at landing a killing blow on Chris. They keep targeting his ascending aorta, with satellite and poisons, in an attempt to bleed him out. For 534 days they have failed, but like the villain two-face, and similar to how Christ was left to die on the cross, they won’t kill him outright. Chris is a bit of an alchemist and uses his own legally available chemicals to protect his aorta, and it’s driving them batty. It’s taken so much out of Andrew it even gave him a heart attack. Chris eventually quit with the pleasantries, angering them, who have now been taking it out on his mother, giving her heart attacks and strokes. Sadly Andrew still considers Chris his one true love, ironic considering how badly he tortures the poor boy.

That is the truth about Prince Andrew. A sacrifice gone horribly wrong, and a man with nothing meaningful to do other than torture people. Chris brought up the flaws in his philosophy, and perhaps Andrew loved him for it, but it wasn’t enough to change the outcome.

If you’ve gotten this far you may be thinking what kind of person would commit suicide like this by insulting the royal family so badly and revealing the cults secrets?

Every word of this is true. I have nothing to lose. I am Chris.

Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC.

One case has been confirmed, with five suspected cases under investigation, it said. One British national aged 69 is in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Hantavirus is usually passed to humans from rodents via their urine or faeces. It can cause severe respiratory illness. Rarely, it can be transmitted between people.

Israel has given final approval for a multibillion-dollar deal to buy two new combat squadrons of advanced F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from United States manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the Ministry of Defence says. Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Procurement signed off on the deal as the initial phase of a 350-billion-shekel ($119bn) programme to boost the country’s armed forces and “strengthen readiness ahead of a demanding decade for Israeli security”, it said on Sunday.

“Alongside immediate wartime procurement needs, ‌‌we have a responsibility to act now to secure the [military’s] edge 10 years from now and beyond,” Defence Ministry Director General Amir Baram said. The continuing US-Israel war on Iran “reinforced just how critical the US-Israel strategic relationship is and how essential advanced air power remains”, he added. Under the deal, Israel would buy a fourth F-35 squadron from Lockheed Martin and a second squadron of F-15IA fighter jets from Boeing. In December, Boeing was given an $8.6bn ⁠⁠contract for Israel, including 25 new F-15IAs and an option for 25 more.

At least 18 people have died in flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in multiple parts of Kenya. The police stated on Sunday that landslides were reported in Tharaka Nithi, Elgeyo-Marakwet, and Kiambu counties in the country’s central and eastern regions. They confirmed that 18 lives had been lost to these incidents and urged caution amid the challenging weather conditions.

Mudslides are impacting “multiple families, displacing households, and causing significant damage to property and infrastructure”, the police said, warning residents living in landslide-prone or flood-affected areas to be careful. It’s unclear how many people have been displaced. Reports from local media show streets in the capital city, Nairobi, overflowing with water as cars and pedestrians wade through the deluge.

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May 2, 2026

The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.

“The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC think tank focused on US foreign policy. “The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.”

Nigeria has summoned South Africa's acting high commissioner to a meeting at the foreign ministry on Monday, citing growing anti-African migrant protests. The move comes just over a week after Ghana's foreign ministry held talks with South Africa's acting high commissioner in Accra to protest several alleged "xenophobic incidents" involving Ghanaians. Meanwhile, news outlet City Press reports that South African trucks and citizens could be prevented from entering neighboring Mozambique on Monday, as protests were expected at Ressano Garcia in retaliation for xenophobic marches, statements and attacks against immigrants in South Africa. The developments come only days after South Africa's police ministry vowed to crack down on anyone carrying out xenophobic attacks against Ghanaians and other foreign nationals, or found participating in or inciting xenophobic acts.

Israel gave final approval for ​a plan to purchase two new combat squadrons of F-35 and F-15IA advanced fighter aircraft from ‌Lockheed Martin and Boeing in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, the defence ministry said on Sunday.

The deal, approved by Israel's Ministerial Committee on Procurement, is a first step in a 350 billion shekel ($119 billion) plan to bolster Israel's military and "strengthen readiness ahead ​of a demanding decade for Israeli security," it said.

In the shattered neighbourhoods of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, the roar of Israeli drones and the concussive thud of controlled demolitions are daily reminders that the war has never really ended.

Despite a “ceasefire” in place since October, families continue to pull bodies from the rubble. According to local medical sources, 828 Palestinians have been killed since the “truce” began. Now, families in Gaza are bracing for a renewed offensive as Israeli officials threaten to tear up the fragile agreement to force a surrender.

Studio estimates on Sunday say "The Devil Wears Prada 2" has topped the box office with $77 million in the U.S. and Canada and $156.6 million internationally.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by multiple small craft, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center on Sunday, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began.

Meanwhile, Tehran said it was reviewing the U.S. response to its latest proposal on ending the war but made clear these were not nuclear negotiations.

All crew on the unidentified northbound cargo ship were safe after the attack off Sirik, Iran, east of the strait, the British monitor said. Iranian officials have asserted that they control the strait and that ships not affiliated with the United States or Israel can pass if they pay a toll.

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