Turkish police stormed the headquarters of the country's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), with tear gas to evict its ousted leadership. Clashes occurred in Ankara after the authorities demanded to implement a court decision to cancel the results of the 2023 party congress, at which Özgür Özel was elected leader of the CHP. According to Reuters, police broke through barricades at the entrance to the party building.

Emmanuel Macron had his first publicly known telephone conversation with Alexander Lukashenko since February 2022. The Belarusian side reported that the conversation took place at the initiative of Paris, and Macron’s entourage confirmed his TF1/LCI.

About 40% of museum objects from the exhibition of the National Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv were irretrievably lost after the Russian combined strike on the night of May 24. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported this. According to the department, rescuers spent more than 15 hours extinguishing the fires and continue to dismantle dangerous structures after the attack.

Photo: RusNews On May 24, more than a hundred residents of Kuntsevo and other districts of Moscow gathered at the Medic stadium in the west of the capital, demanding to stop deforestation in the Moskvoretsky Park. This was reported by RusNews and activist Alexander Kupriyanov . According to RusNews, residents, workers, government and police associate the work with the Russian Ministry of Defense, but the documents were not shown to local residents.

The detentions began after the prefect of the Western Administrative District of Moscow, Alexei Alexandrov, arrived at the site. In the video, he tells residents: “A military facility is being built, what else do you need?” According to him, the work should be completed in the next 7-10 days. At the same time, the residents, as they claim, were never shown the documents and permits for logging.

Now, as Pashinyan notes, Yerevan has railway connections with the European Union. Previously, the country had a railway connection through the territory of Georgia and Azerbaijan with Russia and through the territory of Russia and Kazakhstan with China. He announced direct railway connections also with Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. He did not give specific deadlines for the implementation of these projects.

1631 The Insider Podcasts May 24, 2026 New episode of the “Honestly Speaking” program with Ksenia Larina. The guest is psychologist and publicist Larisa Voloshina. Listen: Apple Podcasts Spotify Castbox Larisa Voloshina: Hello, Ksenia. Ksenia Larina: It’s very nice to meet you. I hope that the viewers of our channel know you, listen and watch you.

An armed man opened fire at a security checkpoint near the White House in Washington and was killed by the US Secret Service. Reuters reports this with reference to a statement from the department. The incident occurred on the evening of May 23 at the intersection of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. According to the Secret Service, the man approached the checkpoint, took a weapon from his bag and began shooting at security officers.

Cultural institutions in Kiev received the most damage as a result of Russian shelling on the night of May 24. Ukrainian Minister of Culture Tatyana Berezhnaya wrote about this on Facebook. In her post, Berezhnaya called the consequences of the attack by the Russian Armed Forces “the largest series of damage to cultural institutions in Kyiv” since the beginning of the war.

In the Pakistani city of Quetta in the province of Balochistan, an explosion occurred next to a train carrying security forces and members of their families. According to the latest data, at least 24 people were killed and about 70 were injured. The separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Russia lost 4,390 tanks, 6,429 infantry fighting vehicles and 184 aircraft in Ukraine - these are only visually confirmed losses collected by the Oryx project. The list of Russian equipment has become so large that it has reached the maximum length of an article on the Blogger platform, where it is published.

The Iranian national football team's training base will be moved from the United States to Mexico. This was stated by the President of the Iranian Football Federation Mehdi Taj. According to him, the team received approval from FIFA for this. The organization has not yet commented on this statement. The team's training camp was originally supposed to be in Tucson, Arizona.

The Investigative Committee has completed an investigation into the case of the supply of more than 350 thousand low-quality shirts to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which, according to investigators, literally came apart at the seams after they were worn. The damage in the case of theft during the purchase of police uniforms was estimated at 564.5 million rubles. Kommersant reports this.

The European Gymnastics Union has lifted restrictions on the performance of Russian and Belarusian athletes at its competitions. This decision follows a similar decision by the International Gymnastics Federation. The European Federation lifted all restrictions on athletes after a meeting on Thursday, May 21. This decision comes into force immediately: it lifts, in particular, the ban on gymnasts from Russia and Belarus performing under their national flags.

1691 The Insider Podcasts May 24, 2026 In the new episode of the “Guns or Butter” program, The Insider economic commentator Ekaterina Mereminskaya and economist Sergei Aleksashenko discuss the sudden strengthening of the ruble, the growth of imports from Europe despite sanctions, and also talked about what will happen to the availability of drugs after the reduction of support from pharmaceutical companies. Listen: Apple Podcasts Spotify Castbox Ekaterina Mereminskaya: Hello everyone!