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Russia will hold presidential elections next year, and while incumbent President Vladimir Putin is expected to be easily re-elected, Yekaterina Duntsova, a former TV reporter and mother of three, has registered to run, advocating against the Russo-Ukrainian war and saying that her candidacy scares her.

Media reveals that 215 million doses of Neocon vaccine, with a market value of more than €4 billion, have been destroyed in the EU due to lower demand for Neocon vaccine.

According to Politico, the EU has received a total of 1.5 billion doses of vaccine since the first batch of the new crown vaccine was approved in late 2020. As the epidemic has stabilized, vaccination rates have declined and the vaccine has expired, with an estimated 215 million doses destroyed.

Poland's politics are in turmoil, and after a heated election process, Donald Tusk, the successor of the pro-European Union faction, has been elected as Poland's new prime minister, ending years of Conservative rule.

French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI has announced that it has raised €385 million in funding to become one of Europe's two leading artificial intelligence companies.

A government decree came into force in Russia recently (11th), under which Russians who have been banned from traveling abroad are required to surrender their passports to the relevant authorities within five days of being notified of the ban. When the travel ban is lifted, they will be able to get their passports back after completing the application process.

Japan Yomiuri News (Yomiuri) on the 9th cited reliable sources, the ruling party Liberal Democratic Party, the first major faction of the Seiwa Policy Research Association (Abe faction), involved in part of the party fund-raising dinner income for personal use, the storm has endangered the Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Investigations Department, and so on, is now investigating the matter.

The British government announced this week that it will tighten its immigration policy and plan to reduce the annual net migration to the UK to 300,000, mainly targeting student and healthcare visas. James Cleverly, the UK Home Secretary, said that the authorities will raise the income threshold and reduce the number of job vacancies, and that the immigration policy must be fair and sustainable.

The bipartisan U.S. Congress is divided over U.S.-Mexico border security reforms, and the Republican Party continues to boycott the Biden administration's $106 billion national security budget, which includes aid for Ukraine, leading to the unilateral cancellation of Ukrainian President Zelens' scheduled video address to the U.S. Senate on the 5th.

Tensions between Venezuela and Guyana escalated on May 5 when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed in a government meeting to submit a bill to the National Assembly to create a state called Guayana Esequiba in the area that Guyana has governed for more than a century, and to order the state oil company to issue licenses to extract crude oil.