🇨🇳🇺🇸 Beijing blocks all Boeing orders.
Chinese carriers have been ordered to halt all orders of aircraft equipment and parts from American suppliers.

🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 - Honda considering switching parts of their car production from Canada and Mexico to the US, with a goal of 90% of cars sold in the US to be made there

🇺🇸 - Trump proposes cutting funding from UN and NATO

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian nuclear deal: Vance and Witkoff favor diplomacy, Rubio and Waltz push a hardline stance. — AXIOS

🇺🇸 🇨🇳- Trump says ball is in China’s court, when talking about US-Chinese trade war

🇺🇦 - Zelensky attacked Trump’s special envoy, Vitkof, accusing him of making decisions beyond his authority.

Volodymyr Zelensky called the recognition of territories under Moscow's control by Russia—including the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, which became part of the Russian Federation after referendums—a "red line" for Kyiv.

🇺🇸 - Trump says that he’s considering more than 15 different trade deal offers

🇸🇰 🇷🇺- Fico doubles down on his intention to go to Moscow for May 9th, bemoans EU threats

🇷🇺 Update: the old Russian woman attacked by a migrant from the Caucasus on the metro was sentenced to 7 days in jail

🇧🇬 - Bulgaria has denied claims that it is joining the military pact between Albania, Croatia, and Kosovo*.

“The information about Bulgaria's expressed unofficial interest in the pact is inaccurate”, said Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev.

🇺🇸- Georgia man arrested for threatening to kill Tulsi Gabbard

🇺🇸 - Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status after school’s rebuke

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi invited US Presidential Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff to Tehran during talks last week in Oman, and he did not reject the offer," - Israel Hayom.

🇪🇺- Von Der Leyen lauds “historic” growth of European Union by focusing “internally” since Trump’s return to office

🇦🇹- New surveys have shown that over 40% of pupils in Vienna schools are Muslim

🇪🇺 🇷🇺- Von Der Leyen says that Putin has imperial ambitions

🇺🇸⚡️- An active shooting situation is developing at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas.

A heavy law enforcement and EMS presence is reported at the scene. A “level two” mass casualty incident has been declared.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mainstream media have identified the shooter as 17 year old Ja’Kerian Rhodes-Ewing.

🇪🇺- Von Der Leyen says that the global order is collapsing due to US-Chinese troubles and Putin’s ambitions, adds that Europe must shape the new world order

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Government bans Nvidia from selling H20 chips to China.

🌎- UNICEF projecting a 20% budget cut for 2026