🇾🇪❌🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱 — Senior Houthi terrorist official Muhammad al-Buhaythi:

Escalation will be met with escalation. There are many targets in Israel that we have not yet attacked.

Our struggle with United States, Britain and Israel will continue until the aggression on Gaza stops.

🇾🇪⚡️📉❗️ — Massive power outages in most areas of Sana'a after Israeli attacks on the Haziz and Dhaban power stations

🇬🇧🤝🇮🇳❗️ — Sky News reports that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and India have signed an "ambitious and mutually beneficial free trade agreement", according to Indian Prime-Minister Narendra Modi.

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇩🇪🗳❗️ — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz Elected Germany’s New Chancellor in Second Vote

➡️ CDU leader Friedrich Merz has been elected Chancellor of Germany after securing 325 votes in the Bundestag’s second round surpassing the 316 needed for a majority.

➡️ He had fallen short in the first round with 310 votes.

https://x.com/InsiderGeo/status/1919760832713445864

🇷🇺📞🇮🇱 — Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the State of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, the Kremlin & Russian State Media reports.

📞 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged warm congratulations on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

➡️ The Russian President conveyed wishes of health and well-being to veterans living in Israel.

➡️ The two countries' determination to defend the truth about the events of World War II, to resist attempts to revise its results and falsify history was noted between the leaders.

➡️ Russian media says that the decisive contribution of the Red Army and the entire Soviet people to the defeat of National-Socialism was emphasized during the talk.

📆 The memory of the war heroes, those who gave their lives for the sake of Victory, is sacredly honored both in Russia and in Israel, where May 9 is also a national holiday.

➡️ During the conversation, various aspects of the situation in the Middle East region and current issues of bilateral relations between Russian Federation and Israel were also discussed.

🇵🇱🇵🇱❌🇪🇺 — In a protest against European Union, Far-Right Polish Member of European Parliament, Grzegorz Braun (from the Monarchist, Traditionalist Catholic Confederation of the Polish Crown party) burned a EU flag

On Twitter/X, Braun said:

" Down with Eurocommunism! This is Poland "

Braun is a Presidential Candidate, polling now at 4%

🔗 Grzegorz Braun (@GrzegorzBraun_)

#BREAKING

🇺🇸🕊🇾🇪❗️ — US President Donald Trump says Houthis capitulated and told the U.S. they will not attack ships anymore and stresses the U.S. will now stop its attacks in Yemen

🇺🇸❌🇾🇪 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Houthis:

"This was always a freedom of navigation issue.

These are a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping, and the job was to get that to stop — and, if it's going to stop, then we can stop."


🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸📞🇸🇦🇦🇪 — POTUS Donald Trump says he will have a "very, very big announcement to make" before he departs for the Middle East:

It'll be one of the most important announcements that has been made in many years about a certain subject.

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱🕊🇾🇪 — REPORTER asks Trump about the news of the capitulation in Yemen:

Can you tell us a bit more about the deal that you've reached with the Houthis?

POTUS Donald Trump:

"They've said 'please don't bomb us anymore and we're not going to attack your ships.'"

Reporter:

And where did you hear about that?

POTUS Donald Trump:

"A very good source... would you say, Marco? I would say pretty good, right, JD?"

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇾🇪✈️❗️ — Sana’a International Airport has been officially shut down, with all incoming and outgoing flights suspended until further notice.

🇮🇱📞🇺🇸❗️ — Israeli Channel 12 says Tel Aviv was not informed in advance of Trump's announcement on stopping US strikes on Houthis

#BREAKING:

🇾🇪❌🇺🇸❗️ — Houthi terrorists spokesman denies terror group will stop attacking Red Sea ships.

Houthi spokesman Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says Trump’s statement is not accurate.

#BREAKING

🇺🇸❌🇾🇪❗️ — Renewed USAF airstrikes reported targeting Hodeidah Governate, Yemen

🇴🇲🕊🇺🇸🇾🇪 — Omani Foreign Minister, Badr Albusaidi, confirms Ceasefire talks between US and Houthis took place with Omani mediation, saying that Freedom of Navigation and cessation of Yemeni missile fires against commercial ships will take place.

Following recent discussions and contacts conducted by the Sultanate of Oman with the United States and the relevant authorities in Sana'a, in the Republic of Yemen, with the aim of de-escalation, efforts have resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two sides.

In the future, neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping.

The Sultanate of Oman expresses its gratitude to both parties for their constructive approach that led to this welcome outcome, and hopes that it will lead to further progress on many regional issues towards achieving justice, peace, and prosperity for all.

https://fxtwitter.com/badralbusaidi/status/1919813712791363857