🇺🇸🇸🇴🏴⚡️- The US Chamber of Commerce reports an increase in piracy incidents originating from Somalia against ships rerouted towards the Cape of Good Hope.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Benny Gantz told US Secretary of State Blinken in a meeting "Israel will not hesitate to expand the war in the north if Hezbollah does not back down."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Large fires broke out in Katzin and the Golan Heights earlier due to Hezbollah rocket fire. Roughly 50 rockets impacted, a response to an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in the early morning hours breaking out in the Golan as a consequence of Hezbollah rocket fire.

🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️- The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution endorsing the American-proposed ceasefire in Gaza

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The Saudi regime, which uses its media to serve the Israeli regime and provides financial support to it, has adopted hostile measures against the Yemeni nation." – Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi, Leader of the Ansar-Allah (Houthi) movement.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrike against a refugee camp on the Gaza coast.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities, so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month. Which buys me the time for the rest of everything. I can't tell you what's in it, but it's real and it's deliverable," – Samuel Paparo, Commander of the US. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- The "hellscape" plan is allegedly flooding the strait with thousands of sea-mines, unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and aerial drones.

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡- The US has lifted its weapons ban on the Ukrainian 12th Brigade (Azov).

🇷🇺⚡- Krasnoyarsk in Russia has raised its alertness to its highest level after several bears were spotted roaming around inside the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian nationalist and leader of the 'OUN Movement' (Right-Sector), Nikolai Kokhanovskyi, has been killed in action near Volchans'k (northern Kharkov direction).

Kokhanovskyi was one of the original organizers of the 2014 Maidan revolts.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Miasozharovka (Artemovka), in the Lugansk direction – Confirmed by both sides.

Russian sources claim control over Andriivka (Rozovka) too. Ukraine has not yet confirmed the loss.

Russia has now captured 5 settlements since the start of this week.

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Government is considering expelling all United Nations missions to the country.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Russian warships en route to Cuba in a standoff with American navy vessels near Key Largo, Florida.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A massive barrage has been documented by Hezbollah towards northern Israel. Explosions were heard in Kiryat Shmona, Achziv Milovat, Schlomi, Bezet, and in the skies of Haifa.

🇺🇲🇾🇪🏴⚡- The Houthis are considering arming the al-Shabaab group in Somalia – US Intelligence Officials.

🇺🇲🇾🇪🏴⚡- "It would be the clearest sign that two organizations that are ideologically, diametrically opposed to one another - that they prioritized something they have in common, which is the hostility towards the United States." – Christopher Anzalone, from the US. Marine Corps at Middle East Studies (MES).

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- "Beijing is on the brink of increasingly resembling Russia's behavior in the Black Sea," – Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "We will not allow China to take that from us," – Philippines President, Bongbong Marcos, responding to a question on the Chinese blockade of the Sabina and Second Thomas shoals.