US President Donald Trump has promised that Iran will be “wiped off the face of the earth” if the Iranians attack American ships participating in Project Freedom, a US initiative to escort merchant ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said this in an interview with Fox News correspondent Trey Ingst, Ingst himself said . “I spoke with President Trump for 20 minutes about the Iran situation. He spoke about Project Freedom and US efforts to escort merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Pulitzer Prize organizers presented The New York Times columnist M. Gessen with the award for "an insightful collection of essays based on historical fact and personal experience that explores timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile." In the stories for which Gessen won a Pulitzer Prize, they discuss politics and social issues based on their experiences in the USSR, Russia and the United States.

In the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, a small single-engine Embraer plane crashed into a residential building and crashed into a parking lot near it, G1 and CNN Brasil reported. There were five people on board the plane. The pilot and one of the passengers (according to other sources, the co-pilot) were killed. Three more passengers were injured and were taken to hospital. The residents of the house were not injured.

Before May 9, a poster “Happy Popeda Day!” was placed on the building of the children’s art school in the center of the city of Pyt-Yakh (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug). This was reported by 86.ru, which received a photo of the poster from a resident of Pyt-Yakh.

Russia, by decision of President Vladimir Putin, declares a truce in the war with Ukraine. It will last two days - May 8 and 9, 2026, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced . “We hope that the Ukrainian side will follow this example,” the Russian military department emphasized.

The companies Megafon and Yota warned residents of St. Petersburg that they may experience “difficulties” with the operation of the mobile Internet “in connection with the preparation and holding of mass events.” Telecom operators advised subscribers to use Wi-Fi. Screenshots of the notifications were published by Ksenia Sobchak in her Telegram channel “Bloody Lady”.

In the center of Leipzig, a car drove into a pedestrian area and hit several people, Der Spiegel reports, citing police. The incident occurred on Grimmaische Strasse. Police said the car fled the scene, but the driver was later apprehended and “no longer poses a danger.” It is still unknown why the driver hit the pedestrians. As a result of the incident, two people died. The Berliner Zeitung newspaper, citing police, reports that eight more people were injured.

The air defense forces of the United Arab Emirates intercepted three missiles fired from Iran, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. The missiles were intercepted over UAE territorial waters and a fourth fell into the sea, the report said. Authorities in the emirate of Fujairah in the UAE reported that a fire broke out at one of the oil facilities in the region after an Iranian drone strike.

Anton Novoderezhkin / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Leader of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, December 9, 2023 In Russia, before the Duma elections, the campaign against the Yabloko party intensified. After the arrest of Yabloko deputy head Maxim Kruglov and the fine of party leader Nikolai Rybakov, government officials took on politicians in the regions - they are searched, detained and fined.

The Kuibyshevsky court of the Omsk region arrested two local residents on charges of attacking animal rights activist Valeria Belova, the press service of the Omsk region courts reported. 38-year-old Dyakov and 23-year-old Filippov were accused of hooliganism with the use of violence (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, they, while intoxicated, beat a woman on March 25 at one of the city’s playgrounds.

Austrian authorities have declared three Russian diplomats persona non grata, accusing them of espionage, Reuters reports. The diplomats have already left the country. According to the agency, the decision to expel Russian diplomats is related to the “forest of antennas.” The fact that Russia could use numerous satellite dishes installed on the roofs of Russian diplomatic facilities in Vienna for espionage was reported in mid-March by several Western publications, including the Financial Times.

She was one of the brightest stars of the team, but did not build a career in show business and continued to live in Sochi Channel of the project "Transfiguration" Sochi on YouTube Elena Rybalko, a member of the KVN team “Burnt by the Sun,” died in Sochi on May 1. Information about her death was confirmed by the artist’s husband and the International KVN Union. She was 53 years old.

1531st day. The “window of opportunity” for the Kremlin to attack Europe is open right now, the EU believes. But they still consider this scenario unlikely Sergey Bobylev / Sputnik / Profimedia Russian serviceman tests an unmanned self-propelled gun Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war.

Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to ban advertising of meat and products made from fossil fuels, writes BBC News. From May 1, advertising of such goods and services, including burgers, cars and air travel, is prohibited in public places. Now, the publication writes, museums and concerts are advertised on billboards, in public transport and at bus stops. The ban, as noted, applies only to advertising platforms that belong to local authorities.

Please share your feelings with Meduza Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Profimedia On the eve of May 9, we want to understand how the attitude towards this holiday is changing among those who live in Russia and those who find themselves abroad. Is there any significant difference between them - and what is it? Most likely, your feelings about Victory Day were significantly influenced by the Russian-Ukrainian war.