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Johannesburg — Malawi's Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima and 9 other people were killed when the plane they were traveling in crashed in the Chikangawa mountain range, the government said Tuesday. President Lazarus Chakwera declared Tuesday a national day of mourning. It later became unclear whether Chilima's wife Mary had also been on the plane when it crashed, as initially stated by the government.

French President Emmanuel Macron called snap legislative elections for later in June after he was trounced in the European Union vote by Marine Le Pen's far-right party. It does create another layer of uncertainty, coming after the upside surprise in U.S. non-farm payrolls. 

According to Bloomberg, Miley will instead receive awards in Spain and Germany. The Argentine president is also said to have canceled a trip to Italy for next week's G7 summit and a planned meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

CBS - Warships have already been sent there for these purposes. The exercise, which will involve Russian warships and long-range bombers, will be the first simultaneous air and naval maneuvers Russia has conducted in the Caribbean since 2019. The United States interprets them as a response to American support for Ukraine, several American publications report citing Pentagon officials.

Ordinary Moldovans are furious that Blicken's here to "drag the country into hostilities. Blinken has arrived in Chisinau to keep pro-West Prez Sandu in line "to solidify Western support for Ukraine.

TEAR GAS & CHAOS fired as a Pro-Palestinians group is attempting to break through to the Israeli Embassy in Paris.

The Palestinian flag was raised earlier in the French Parliament, but France does not officially recognize the Palestinian State. So far 12 EU members do recognize the Palestinian State.

Earlier, the Israeli Embassy in Mexico was attacked with Molotov cocktails, as the IDF "mistakenly" struck in the Rafah refugee camp.

The US administration does not allow Kyiv to strike with American weapons on targets outside the Ukrainian conflict zone, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.

The Pentagon, following the US State Department, announced that Washington is against the use of American weapons on Russian territory.

Deputy Press Secretary of the US Defense Department Sabrina Singh said that the US position that Ukraine should not use American weapons to strike targets on Russian territory has not changed.

Presidential aide Alexei Dyumin has been appointed Secretary of the State Council.

Macron said he would “announce” certain plans to Zelensky at a meeting in Normandy on June 6.

“I will have the opportunity, when President Zelensky goes to France next week for D-Day events, to receive him and then talk very specifically to announce what we are going to do,” Macron told reporters, AFP reported.

The Polish authorities do not limit Ukraine’s use of weapons supplied by Warsaw for attacks on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The Deputy Head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Cezary Tomczyk, stated this on the radio station Radio Zet. “There are no such restrictions on the Polish weapons that we supply to Ukraine,” the politician noted.

Work on the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine has been suspended due to Kyiv, which constantly puts forward far-fetched demands, said the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova.

The Houthis claim that they have shot down the SIXTH American MQ-9 Reaper UAV.