🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China's dangerous and reckless behavior in the West Philippine Sea [Second Thomas shoal] will be resisted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines," – Gilberto Teodoro, Philippines Defense Secretary.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports suggest that Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, has already issued a response to the Israeli ultimatum. Hochstein and Israeli PM Netanyahu have received the response.

Nasrallah, in all likelihood, refused the ultimatum.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israel should apologize for killing children in Gaza," – Yair Lapid, Leader of Opposition of the Israeli Knesset.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡️- President Putin arrives in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un.

North Korea has been a major supplier of artillery shells to the Russian war effort in Ukraine, improving relations dramatically between the two countries.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel Channel 24: "The IDF confirms that battle plans against Lebanon have been approved by top Israeli generals."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports suggest that a senior Hezbollah commander, Younes Aziz al-Din, was assassinated in an Israeli raid in Tyre some moments ago.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Lebanese media reporting no casualties, empty car struck by Israeli airstrike.

🇸🇴🏴⚡- "Islamic State in Somalia poses a growing threat," – US official.

This follows rumors of ISIS leader, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, has moved to Puntland, a breakaway region in northern Somalia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the southern outskirts of New York (Toretsk direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm.

Residents of Manhattan, fear not. Different New York!

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An unnamed Israeli official said to Hebrew media regarding the Hochstein mediation talks: "We are in a dramatic day."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- We are back

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in southern Lebanon due to Israeli raids.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- According to Hebrew Channel 12, Hezbollah responded to US envoy Hochstein's visit to Israel and Lebanon with this threat: "If we discover preparations for an attack by Israel, we will consider launching a pre-emptive strike."

🇹🇼🇵🇭⚡- Commander of the Taiwanese Coast Guard has arrived in the Philippines to meet Commander of the Philippines Coast Guard.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A Chinese military vessel has moved within 20 nautical miles of Pangasinan region, Philippines. The location of the vessel is well within Philippines water-spaces, just north of contested Scarborough shoal.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia and North Korea have signed an agreement of 'mutual assistantance' - in the event of aggression against one, the other will provide military assistance.

🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Rada is discussing on whether to lower the mobilization age to 21. The current mobilization age is 25.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "The 'Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement' between Russia and the DPRK is of a peace-loving and defensive nature," – Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of North Korea.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces broke through major Ukrainian fortifications in the Toretsk direction, reaching the outskirts of Kirovo (Pivnechnoe).

12 hours earlier, Russian troops reached the first houses of New York, just slightly south.

Ukrainian sources confirm Russian forces have escalated combat operations in the Toretsk sector. This sector has been relatively quiet since the start of Russia's military operation.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli PM Netanyahu alleges that the US is withholding military aid to Israel.