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❗️The Russian army liberated the village of Lysovka in the Donetsk People's Republic
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World Understands Need to De-Escalate Pakistan-India Tensions, Pakistani Envoy to UN Says
At the same time, the already tense relations between the two countries are at risk of a serious escalation, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told Sputnik.
The diplomat stated that the situation is a result of "unilateral actions" from India, which are "escalatory in nature."
"We want peace, but we remain prepared, and we have the capability to deter any aggression," he added.
🌍 Major World Events by Morning of May 6
🟠DRC and Rwanda have submitted a preliminary draft peace agreement to the US;
🟠Sudan respects the ICJ's dismissal of its genocide case against the UAE but stresses this doesn't deny the alleged violations or absolve the UAE of complicity, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry said;
🟠RSF rebels carried out an attack that hit a hotel in Port Sudan, following earlier strikes on the city's airbase and an oil depot at an airport;
🟠Tariffs imposed by Trump have caused markets to fall harder than in 2008, according to a report by the Roscongress Foundation seen by Sputnik;
🟠The fourth round of US-Iranian talks on Tehran's nuclear program could reportedly take place as early as this weekend;
🟠The UK is drawing up an updated version of its war contingency plan, fearing an attack by a hostile country, reports said;
🟠Overnight, 105 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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Pakistan Prioritizes Its Economic Development, Not Escalation of Tensions With India, Pakistani Envoy to UN Says
"No one in the international community wants to see the situation escalate to a level where hostilities break out between our two countries," Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told Sputnik.
Ukraine's EU Gamble to Trigger Crime Waves, Migrants Influx, Labor Wars, Hungarian FM Says
Brussels "paved a high-speed route for Ukraine to join the EU", which would entail two serious consequences, Peter Szijjarto told reporters.
"On the one hand, tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers would flood the Hungarian labor market, depriving tens or hundreds of thousands of Hungarians of employment. And the Ukrainian mafia, the infamous Ukrainian mafia, could use Hungary as a gateway," he noted.
'Tariffs Kill Trade': COMESA Calls for Freer African Markets
Dev Haman, Assistant Secretary General of COMESA, says Africa’s decades-long dream of prosperity hinges on building a truly integrated market—not just for goods, but also for services, capital, and people.
However, high tariffs and poor infrastructure are major roadblocks.
“Tariff kills trade. It makes the goods more expensive… and when trade doesn’t flow freely, production drops, and that means fewer jobs,” he told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of the COMESA Week.
“We are working with countries that have similar aspirations, similar dreams, similar visions for the people.”
Africa Must Turn the Aid Cut Into a Wake-Up Call, Says Zambia's President
The decline in US aid to Africa should be a catalyst—not a crisis—for the continent to redefine its development path, argued Hakainde Hichilema in Politico.
“For years, the US generously contributed a quarter of all global aid spending in African countries,” Hichilema noted, with 16 countries relying on it for at least 1% of their GDP. “The cuts to the [USAID] are a devastating blow for Africa,” he wrote, “but [these figures] are also a timely reminder to reflect on our continent’s continued dependence on foreign aid.”
Skills, Sovereignty, and BRICS: Ethiopia’s Path to Shared Prosperity
Ethiopia's State Minister for Labor Employment and Market Sector Solomon Soka has underscored the critical link between homegrown skills development and Ethiopia’s economic transformation, especially in key sectors like agriculture, industry, tourism, mining, and digital tech.
“If we create the ecosystem or the value chain along those technologies… it creates job opportunities along the different value chain and reduces unemployment,” he told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of Ethiopia’s National Skills Competition.
“Such kind of collaboration at the national level can give us an opportunity to benefit from the experiences of the BRICS states.”
From BRICS to Borders: COMESA’s Push for Stronger Intra-African Trade
As Ethiopia hosts COMESA Week, the bloc's Secretary General Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe emphasized the growing importance of economic alliances like BRICS in reshaping trade dynamics.
“Ethiopia has recently also joined BRICS, which for us is a very good move because at least we have COMESA member states actively participating,” she told Sputnik Africa.
“When we come together and harmonize our rules and regulations, then it becomes easier for us to trade… from Cairo to Cape.”
#viral | Wheels of Resilience: Gaza Resident Found Unusual Way to Bypass Israel's Restrictions on Car Movement
After the Israeli military banned cars from traveling from north to south Gaza, a striking scene was filmed: a young man transporting his car on a cart pulled by a donkey.
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Major World Events by Evening of May 5
▪️The Kremlin warns that signs of neo-Nazism are growing in Europe, adding that many Europeans are aware of this trend;
▪️Russian intelligence accuses Kiev and European countries of attempting to overshadow the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany;
▪️Indian PM Narendra Modi congratulated President Putin on Victory Day and extended an invitation for him to visit India;
▪️Israel has approved a plan to expand military operations in the Gaza Strip;
▪️Russia’s FSB says it thwarted a sabotage attempt targeting a railway in Siberia;
▪️In Slovakia, a petition has been submitted to the president's office calling for a referendum on lifting sanctions against Russia;
▪️Romanian nationalist party leader George Simion has won the first round of the presidential election.
▪️Moscow and Washington are exploring broader normalization of relations, which Russian officials say could benefit the entire world, according to Russia's Deputy UN Envoy Polyanskiy;
▪️Ethiopia is celebrating the 84th Patriots’ Victory Day, honoring the resistance fighters who opposed the Italian occupation from 1935 to 1941;
▪️The Sudanese Foreign Ministry has condemned what it called a "blatant" attack by RSF forces on Port Sudan Air Base.
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Ethiopia’s Innovation Drive: From Import Substitution to Global Ambition
At the heart of Ethiopia’s National Skills Competition, State Minister of Labor and Skills Teshale Berecha laid out a clear vision: innovation and entrepreneurship are not just local goals—they’re national strategies.
“These competitors came from across the nation... The technologies and the innovation you can observe here in the contest are manufactured in Ethiopia, and they are instrumental in substituting import,” Berecha told Sputnik Africa, highlighting the homegrown potential on display.
🇷🇴 George Simion: Romania's MAGA moment?
The politician HAS MADE IT to the Romanian presidential runoff by obtaining 40% of the vote. What are his political leanings?
🔸Not by elections alone
The leader of the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians party seeks “TO RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER” in Romania.
“I have a single objective: to give back to the Romanian people what was taken from them,” Simion noted after casting his ballot.
“Believe me, there will be a Simionization as well,” the politician claims.
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Silent Airplane for Secret Missions: Lesser-Known Chapter of Normandie-Niemen Regiment's Glorious History
🎗🎗Sputnik presents a video series about the heroic Normandie-Niemen fighter regiment, which played a key role in World War II.
In the first episode, historian Rene Barchi, son of the French Resistance fighters, recalls in conversation with Sputnik the only pilot in the regiment who flew an engineless aircraft — a glider — used for covert operations.
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'Immortal Regiment' Marches Through Hanoi to Mark 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
More than 500 people took part in the march in the Vietnamese capital.
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#viral | Holy Hiss-teria! Kenyan Pastor Busted With Snake in Bag After 'Casting Out Demons'
A 26-year-old man was arrested near the Kenya-Uganda border after police found a live two-meter snake in his bag, local media reported.
The self-proclaimed pastor claimed the serpent mysteriously appeared during a spiritual cleansing session in Uganda.
He said he captured it to take back to his church in Matayos for “further prayers.” Authorities, unconvinced, handed the reptile over to Kenya Wildlife Service.
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Trump’s Tariffs Rock Global Markets Harder Than 2008 Crisis
A report from Russia’s Roscongress Foundation claims that Donald Trump’s second-term tariffs triggered a more violent global market crash than the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 market plunge, or even the 9/11 economic shock.
“Market participants had expected...compromise agreements,” the report notes; Trump’s unprecedented trade war instead caused one of history’s fastest and deepest market collapses.
DRC, Rwanda Submit Draft on Peace Proposal to Trump's Adviser for Africa
"This is an important step toward fulfilling the commitments made in the declaration of principles," US Senior Adviser for Africa Massad Boulos said on X.
NATO, EU Preparing West for Direct War Against Moscow, Russian Security Council Secretary Says
"Incited and patronized by London and Paris, the European elites continue to make loud statements about the need to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia," Sergey Shoigu said.
"It reflects the dream of the forces that fought on the side of Nazi Germany of another revenge in the near future," he emphasized.
#viral | China Unveils Brain-on-a-Chip That Learns Faster Than AI
Chinese scientists have grown a tiny human brain from stem cells and wired it to a robot that can move, learn, and adapt.
🤯 The breakthrough “brain-on-a-chip” outpaces modern AI in learning speed and uses far less energy—blurring the line between biology and machines.
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SA's Gold Fields Moves to Fully Acquire Australia’s Gold Road in Strategic $2.4 Bln Deal
The South African miner will buy 100% of Gold Road for A$2.52 ($1.63) per share, 12% higher than a previously rejected offer made by Gold Fields in March, according to its press release.
"The acquisition of Gold Road represents a strategically logical and low-risk opportunity to enhance Gold Fields' portfolio through consolidation of the Gruyere Joint Venture [Gruyere gold mine in Western Australia] in which Gold Fields is the operator," read the press release.
#viral | Meanwhile, Bull Hijacks Scooter in India…
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Israeli Air Force Strikes Yemeni Port
💥 The Israeli Air Force launched an attack on the port of Hodeida, involving 30 aircraft. The strikes reportedly targeted a concrete plant and the docks used for unloading goods.
This military action was reportedly coordinated with the US government.
🇾🇪 The attack occurred following an escalation of tensions after Houthi forces attacked Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv just the day before.
Footage circulating online purportedly shows the airstrike
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Will US Tariffs Trigger Africa’s Economic Reinvention?
📻📈🤍 #AfricanCurrents | "African economies could leverage BRICS as a platform to enhance the African trade and inter-African trading between African countries, capitalizing on new opportunities created by the bloc's distribution, and trade networks," Gift Essinalo, a researcher at the Center for Public Integrity in Maputo, Mozambique, said.
🌍 By imposing tariffs on exports from multiple African nations, the Trump administration has set off a chain reaction that could reshape the continent’s economic strategy. The response? A renewed push for regional integration, industrial investment, and reduced reliance on global powers.
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Beyond Ukraine: Moscow-Washington Talks Aim at Broader Normalization, Russia's Deputy UN Envoy Says
Such broad-based normalization of bilateral relations is not only possible, but it would also benefit not just Russia and the United States, but the entire world, Dmitry Polyanskiy told Sputnik.
"I think we are at the beginning of this process, and this process is very important," the diplomat noted.
#viral | Chubby Brown Bear Caught on Camera Roaming Northern Iran's Mountains
A video showing a surprisingly agile yet well-fed brown bear sprinting through the rugged terrain is going viral on social media.
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❗️Myanmar's Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing to visit Russia at Putin's invitation, take part in Victory Parade, Myanmar state TV channel MRTV reports
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