The Palestinian Authority on Saturday gave the bullet the killed Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to U.S. security coordinator Lt. Gen. Mike Fenzel, senior Israeli officials told Axios.
Driving the news: The Palestinian attorney general told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian Authority decided to hand over the bullet to the U.S. in order to do a ballistics test to see if it matches the guns that were used by Israeli soldiers on May 11 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where Abu Akleh was killed.
The Israeli military said Saturday it shot down three Hezbollah drones that were headed towards the Karish gas rig in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Why it matters: U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein is currently mediating between Israel and Lebanon on a deal to settle the maritime border dispute between the countries.
The Biden administration is pressing the Palestinian Authority to give the U.S. the bullet that killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in order to try to determine the source of the fatal shot, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.
Why it matters: The White House and State Department, who are under political pressure from members of Congress over the Abu Akleh case, appear to want to be able to make some kind of breakthrough in the investigation before President Biden's visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank on July 13.
The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $820 million in military aid, including air missile defense systems and counter-artillery radars, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The details: The latest security assistance will include two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), which Ukrainian officials had requested, according to CNN.
WNBA star Brittney Griner went on trial on Friday in Russia facing drug charges that carry up to 10 years in prison, Reuters reports.
Driving the news: Russian prosecutors outlined the charges against Griner, who was detained in Moscow in February. She is accused of intentionally importing drugs into Russia, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.
Russian missile attacks early Friday killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more in a coastal town near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, authorities said.
Driving the news: Ukraine's State Emergency Service posted a video Friday showing the remnants of buildings in the town of Serhiivka, about 31 miles southwest of Odesa, where at least one child was killed in the attack.
China's President Xi Jinping said his government had acted "for the good of Hong Kong" and defended imposing a new "patriots only" elections system on the Asian financial hub during a visit to the city Friday.
Driving the news: Xi was in Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's return to China as a semi-autonomous region and to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the city's new Chinese government-vetted Chief Executive John Lee, who helped lead the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2019.
The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it's notified the Delaware-based Heritage Trust that it's blocking more than $1 billion in assets linked to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
