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Illustration image: St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in central Moscow.  Fredrik Sandberg/TT  

 

Russia: Drone crashed near Moscow  

 

A drone has reportedly crashed near Moscow. This is what the regional governor says according to AFP.  

According to the governor, the target was probably civilian infrastructure, but nothing is said to have been damaged.  

The circumstances are currently unclear.  

 

Earlier, the country's Ministry of Defense reported that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones in southern Russia. 

  

Putin and Seagal. Alexei Druzhinin / AP  

 

Russian invasionRussian reactions  

Steven Seagal received Russian friendship award from Putin American action actor Steven Seagal was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship by President Vladimir Putin on Monday, AP reports.  

 

The award is given to people whom the Russian state considers to have contributed to improving international relations.  

 

70-year-old Seagal has close ties to Russia and Putin. When he received Russian citizenship in 2016, it was the president himself who handed over the passport. 

 

Seagal has expressed support for both the invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. He has previously held the role of the Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy to the United States andJapan.  

 

Beriev A-50.Frank Viacorka/Twitter.

 

Political situation in Belarus  

Belarus minister dismisses claims about plane: "False"  

 

Belarus Deputy Foreign Minister Yuriy Ambrazevych dismisses the opposition movement Bypol's claim that it sabotaged a Russian radar reconnaissance plane at an airport outside Minsk, Reuters reports. 

 

- Given the lack of an official reaction, I am deeply convinced that this is yet another false claim aimed at highlighting flaws in our national security. 

 

Russia has not commented on the information, but the attack has been reported on the Kremlin-loyal channel Tsargrad TV. According to the channel, which blames the Ukrainian military, the plane has been damaged to an unknown extent. 

 

File photo from Memorial Day 2007. Wally Santana / AP  

 

Protesters storm memorial ceremony in Taipei  

About a dozen protesters stormed the stage where Taipei's new mayor spoke today, writes AFP. The protesters called Chiang Wan-an a murderer and demanded that he apologize for the blood shed during the 1947 massacre in Taiwan.  

 

Activists were outraged that the mayor held a commemoration ceremony for the massacre when his alleged great-grandfather, President Chiang Kai-shek, was the one who oversaw the violent repression.  

 

The so-called 228 incident led to the death of around 28,000 people. It started when an inspector beat up a woman selling untaxed cigarettes, leading to an island-wide riot.   

 

 

Image from the Nigerian city of Lagos. Mosa'ab Elshamy / AP  

 

The election in Nigeria 

Slow vote reporting behind opposition concerns  

 

The Nigerian opposition's criticism of this weekend's election is based, among other things, on the fact that the electoral commission was slow to report numbers from the polling stations, writes Al Jazeera.  

 

According to AP, the election was mostly peaceful, but observers have reported at least 135 incidents. This applies, among other things, to the electoral commission's handling. The opposition is talking about violence in several places and according to Al Jazeera, there are video clips on social media that show how "political supporters" disrupted the order at polling stations. 

 

Anietie Ewang, Nigeria expert at the human rights group Human Rights Watch, has expressed concern on Twitter after an incident in the country's largest city, Lagos, where a woman was allegedly attacked by a person with a sharp object. An election should not involve risks for people who want to change the country's future, she writes. 

 

Ovidio Guzmán/violence that followed his arrest. TT. 

 

Latin American drug trade  

The US wants the drug lord "El Chapo's" son extradited  

 

The United States wants Ovidio Guzmán, son of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, extradited from Mexico. The BBC reports. The son is suspected of leading, together with his brother, the so-called Sinaloa Cartel, which was founded by their father.  

 

Ovidio Guzmán was arrested just over three years ago, but was released on the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador citing the safety of the residents. This since the arrest led to severe violence. He was later re-arrested in January this year. 

 

"El Chapo" is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Color