The Israeli government has decided to ban the broadcast of the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera in the country for 45 days, The Times of Israel reports. The decision was made in accordance with a law that the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed in April. It allows the suspension of media outlets that, according to the Israeli authorities, are harmful to national security. Israeli publications immediately after the adoption of the law noted that it would be used against Al-Jazeera.

The Biden administration suspended shipments of American-made ammunition to Israel last week, two Israeli officials told Axios. It is unclear from the publication whether this is a one-time delay or a temporary halt in deliveries. The publication's sources did not specify why deliveries were stopped.

The UN is anxious and accuses the world of indifference Ebrahim Hamid / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Children in line for drinking water in the Gedaref province in the east of Sudan, May 4, 2024 In March 2024, representatives of the UN called the situation in Sudan "the worst food crisis in the world." According to the organization, on average, less than one of 20 residents of the East African country can afford to eat normally.

In the city of Degtyarsk in the Sverdlovsk region, a state of emergency has been declared due to the snowfall that has covered the region, Mayor Vadim Pilnikov reported. "A state of emergency has been declared in the city. The educational process in schools and preschool educational institutions of the city has been suspended on May 6," the mayor said.

How do port of Alegri and other flooded cities look like Strong rains in the south of Brazil caused the largest flood over the past 80 years. According to the authorities of the state of Ri-Grandi-Do-Sul, the most affected by a natural disaster, at least 55 people were killed, and at least seven deaths with an emergency are being investigated . At least 74 people are missing. About 25 thousand local residents were forced to leave their homes.

The countries of the North Atlantic Alliance in the “confidential uniform and without official messages” established at least two “red lines”, during which NATO can directly intervene in the war in Ukraine, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica said, citing sources. The first “red line” will be crossed if Russia breaks through the line of defense of Ukraine in the north-west and the third country-Belarus will join the conflict.

Philologist Mark Lipovetsky - about the right turn of the "village" Profimedia Viktor Astafyev at a meeting with readers. 1988 On May 1, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Astafyev, one of the most important representatives of village prose, turned 100. The authors of this direction talked about how destructively affected the peasantry of the politician of Soviet power. There were many Russian nationalists among the "villagers", and some adhered to frankly Xenophobic views.

Update. The Russian military struck three blows by aviation bombs in the center of Kharkov, said the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. More than 15 apartment buildings, private houses, cars, a non -working sports complex, and office buildings were damaged. 15 people were injured, the regional prosecutor's office said . At least four victims, according to Sinegubov, are in the hospital.

During this time, they went through personal tragedies, got into the “List of Terrorists” and became key figures of the modern theater Ilya Pitalev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Svetlana Petriychuk and Zhenya Berkovich at a meeting of the Khamovnikiy District Court of Moscow, June 30, 2023 Exactly a year ago, on May 5, 2023, the Zamoskvoretsky court sent the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk under his arrest.

Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), member of the European Parliament Matthias Ecke, was beaten in Dresden. According to Der Spiegel, the politician was hospitalized with a broken facial bone. He will need surgery. Four men attacked 41-year-old Ecke on the evening of May 3 while he was putting up election posters. The politician is trying to be re-elected to the European Parliament in the elections that will be held in June 2024.

The main thing from the Financial Times investigation Marius Schwarz / Imago / Scanpix / Leta Fire at the Diehl metallurgical enterprise in Berlin May 3, 2024 The intelligence services of the European Union warned their governments that the Russian authorities are planning sabotage in Europe. This was reported with reference to the sources in the intelligence community by the British newspaper Financial Times.

A group of information security experts from the Netzbegrünung Association discovered vulnerabilities in the work of the Cisco Webex video conferences service, which was used in the Armed Forces of Germany. As the study of the ZEIT newspaper showed , data on thousands of online communications in the Bundeswehr conducted through Webex, for many months have been in the public domain. Journalists investigated more than six thousand meetings (but there are much more of them).

Russian military forces have captured the village of Ocheretino in the Donetsk region, according to a report from the Russian Defense Ministry on May 5. “As a result of active operations, units of the Center group of troops have completely liberated the village of Ocheretino,” the department stated. The Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the report of the seizure of the village.

US military aid in the amount of $61 billion provided to Ukraine could allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to launch a new counter-offensive in 2025, said US Presidential National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking on May 4 at an event organized by the Financial Times newspaper.

In New York, at the age of 87, American-abstract artist Frank Stella died. Jens-Ulrich Koch / DDP / Vida Press His wife Dr. Harriet McGurk told The New York Times that the artist died on May 4 in his house in West Villij on Manhattan. She called the cause of the death of her husband lymphoma. Frank Stella was born on May 12, 1936 in the city of Molden in Massachusetts. He worked in the styles of painting of hard circuits and a post -zhi -painting abstraction.