CRIMEA
Pro-Russia lawmaker shot
Former Ukrainian lawmaker Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Russian figure who sources said Moscow had enlisted to lead a puppet administration in Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, was shot twice in a late-night attack in the sanatorium where he lives, family and officials said on Friday. A source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) intelligence agency said the shooting was a special operation conducted by the agency. The attack took place in Yalta in Crimea. “He had been for a long time on the list of traitors who have to answer for their crimes. He was not just a fan of the ‘Russian world,’ but rather a person who came along with Russian tanks in order to capture Kyiv,” the SBU source said. Tsaryov was “in critical condition, with doctors fighting to save his life, but there is a good chance he will be kicking the bucket,” they said.
UNITED KINGDOM
Rolling Stones top charts
The Rolling Stones on Friday topped the British music charts, securing their 14th UK No. 1 album with new record Hackney Diamonds. Rockers Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, who released the record last week, outsold the rest of the top five of the Official Albums Chart, the Official Charts Co said in a statement. The band, which formed in 1962, joins The Beatles, Robbie Williams and Bruce Springsteen as acts with the most studio albums — 11 — to reach No. 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart, it added. Hackney Diamonds, the Stones’ first album of original material since 2005 and the first recording since drummer Charlie Watts died in 2021, also topped the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. The album also topped charts in Australia and Germany.
UNITED STATES
Phillips challenges Biden
Representative Dean Phillips said he would challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, seizing on worries about the economy and Biden’s age. Saying he would represent “America’s exhausted majority,” the Minnesota representative laid out a populist Democratic platform focusing on household economic issues on Friday. “I think it’s time for a new generation,” Phillips told CBS News on Friday. “I think the time is now because I think four years from now it might be too late.”
UNITED STATES
Home with meth lab for sale
Do you secretly dream of being Walter White, the chemistry teacher-turned-druglord from Breaking Bad? Now is your chance to own a luxury California home complete with meth lab — for sale at US$1.55 million. The six-bedroom house in tony San Jose offers a “great location” with easy access to the freeway, according to a realtor’s listing. There are three-and-a-half bathrooms, a swimming pool, a luxury spa, garage parking for one car, solar panels and air-conditioning throughout, as well as a place you can cook up deadly and addictive illegal drugs. “Home has inactive Meth lab and meth contamination,” the listing on property Web site Redfin says. “Home has not been cleared of contamination and will be transferred to the new buyer in its current state.” The San Jose home’s previous owner was Peter Karasev, the Los Angeles Times reported, who was arrested in March on suspicion of attacking electricity transformers. As well as the meth lab, police searching his house also found a weapons stockpile including guns and “homemade liquid explosive, multiple energetic homemade destructive devices,” police told a news conference at the time.
‘UNUSUAL EVENT’: The Australian defense minister said that the Chinese navy task group was entitled to be where it was, but Australia would be watching it closely The Australian and New Zealand militaries were monitoring three Chinese warships moving unusually far south along Australia’s east coast on an unknown mission, officials said yesterday. The Australian government a week ago said that the warships had traveled through Southeast Asia and the Coral Sea, and were approaching northeast Australia. Australian Minister for Defence Richard Marles yesterday said that the Chinese ships — the Hengyang naval frigate, the Zunyi cruiser and the Weishanhu replenishment vessel — were “off the east coast of Australia.” Defense officials did not respond to a request for comment on a Financial Times report that the task group from
DEFENSE UPHEAVAL: Trump was also to remove the first woman to lead a military service, as well as the judge advocates general for the army, navy and air force US President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that he would nominate former lieutenant general Dan “Razin” Caine to succeed Brown, breaking with tradition by pulling someone out of retirement for the first time to become the top military officer. The president would also replace the head of the US Navy, a position held by Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead a military service,
Four decades after they were forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother on Saturday fell into each other’s arms at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. “The worst is over,” Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the US. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to
CONFIDENT ON DEAL: ‘Ukraine wants a seat at the table, but wouldn’t the people of Ukraine have a say? It’s been a long time since an election, the US president said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and added that he was more confident of a deal to end the war after US-Russia talks. Trump increased pressure on Zelenskiy to hold elections and chided him for complaining about being frozen out of talks in Saudi Arabia. The US president also suggested that he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before the end of the month as Washington overhauls its stance toward Russia. “I’m very disappointed, I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when asked about the Ukrainian
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