🇿🇦⚡- African National Congress wins the South African elections, which is currently led by current President Cyril Ramaphosa. However, they lose majority Government, for the first time in 30 years, and the country will require a coalition Government.

🇬🇧🌹⚡️- Labour announces they plan to lower the voting age to 16 when they take Parliament.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Israel Broadcasting Corporation reports that Israel has accepted a proposal that includes stopping the war within the second phase.

— 🇮🇱 BREAKING: Smotrich and Ben Gvir announce they will resign from the government if Israel accepts the U.S. brokered ceasefire deal

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🇮🇳⚡- Exit polls show Narendra Modi to win elections and remain President of India. Current polls show his Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance to dominate, winning 350+ of the 543 seats.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have crossed the Seversky-Donetsk-Donbass canal and have established a successful bridgehead on the Western side - South of 'Noviy' district of Chasov-Yar (Bakhmut direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian drones drop leaflets on Ukrainian positions telling them to surrender, with instructions on how to. Video above is from the Southern outskirts of Klishchiivka, (Bakhmut direction).

🇨🇳⚡- A Chinese vessel has allegedly sunk in the East China Sea.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli airstrikes in Eastern Rafah.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- "He [Putin] assumed that he could, very quickly, roll over his neighbor and annex the country. That was two-plus years ago. He has not achieved any of his strategic objectives to this point... but this was brought on because of a decision made by Mr. Putin." – Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, at SLD 2024.

🇨🇳⚡- "China will never be soft on foreign interference," – Chinese Army Lieutenant General, Jing Jianfeng, at SLD 2024.

🇨🇳⚡- Jing Jianfeng, Chinese Lieutenant General, promises more drills in a harsh response to US Secretary of Defense's, Lloyd Austin, speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue.

🇦🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Russia wants to take us back to a world where spheres of interest reign, where only great powers are truly sovereign, and their actions are above any law." – Richard Marles, Australian Minister for Defence, at SLD 2024.

🇺🇦⚡- Zelenskyi will be given a platform to speak tomorrow 11:30am, Singapore time.

🇦🇺🇨🇳⚡- The Chinese delegation at the Shangri-La Dialogue took issue with the speech by Australian Defense Minister, Richard Marles, approaching and confronting him.

🇦🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Actions by Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea, such as the use of water cannons and the ramming of Philippine vessels, are a serious escalation of tensions." – The part of the speech, by Australian Defense Minister, the Chinese delegation took issue with.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The prospects of a peaceful reunification with Taiwan are eroding," – Chinese Minister of National Defense, Dong Jun, at SLD 2024.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian forces have crossed the Seversky-Donetsk-Donbass canal again, this time in the North. Establishing a second successful bridgehead West of the canal.

Russian forces advanced an incredible 2,000 meters North of Chasov-Yar (Bakhmut direction), capturing 90% of Kalinovka.

This comes immediately after Russia successfully crossed the canal in the South, yesterday.

🇺🇦⚡- "Because of China's support for Russia, the war will last longer. This is bad for the whole world." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, at SLD 2024.

🇺🇦⚡- "China is telling others to avoid coming to our 'Peace Conference' in Switzerland," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, at SLD 2024.

🇺🇦🇨🇳⚡- Chinese Minister of National Defense, Dong Jun, was asked if he will meet Ukrainian President, Zelenskyi, at the Shangri-La Dialogue. Jun's response was a smile and ignored the question.