Russian warship sinks, France 2022 race heats up, Shanghai lockdown, Musk's move for Twitter

The sinking of the Moskva won't save Mariupol, the besieged eastern port city where according to authorities, tens of thousands of people have lost their lives. The United States cut to the chase, pledging more much hardware for Ukraine and its president. Meanwhile, Joe Biden twice accused Vladimir Putin's side of genocide. 

Emmanuel Macron is in the homestretch of his French presidential runoff race with the far-right's Marine Le Pen. On this Good Friday, which happens to be the third anniversary of the fire that gutted Notre-Dame, the incumbent toured the reconstruction site of the famed Paris cathedral. The hard-left standard-bearer Jean-Luc Mélenchon fell just over 400,000 votes shy of qualifying for the April 24 run-off. How his supporters vote will be crucial. Students – many enraged by the climate emergency and growing inequality – have been occupying Paris's Sorbonne University. Most said they would vote with their feet in the second round.

On the campaign trail earlier in the week, Macron boasted about France's ability to now ease Covid-19 restrictions while on the other side of the planet, China keeps trying to enforce a zero-Covid policy. While Xian becomes the latest city to brace for a mass lockdown, images on social media show Shanghai residents angry at first being locked in their homes and then authorities setting up isolation facilities near residential compounds.

"I made an offer." That four-word tweet by the world's richest man has grabbed everyone's attention. After being rebuffed by the board of Twitter when Elon Musk went public with his 9 percent personal stake in the social media giant, the boss of Tesla and Space X put $43 billion cash on the table to buy it outright.

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