🇨🇾⚡- Cypriot media claims a sharp increase in hotel cancellations.

🇷🇺🇻🇳⚡️- After visiting North Korea, Russian President Putin has now arrived in Vietnam.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China deploys CCG5901 'The Monster', the world's largest coast guard ship, to the Sabina shoal.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China is preparing to blockade Scarborough shoal – Philippines state-media. Philippines believes China is preparing a third front in Scarborough, after China took control of Sabina and Second Thomas shoals.

🇬🇧⚡️- UK Conservative Party leadership is preparing to tell many candidates that their seats will be deemed "unwinnable" and divert resources to a much smaller collection of safe seats as the party fights for survival.

🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage is set to win Clacton with the biggest swing in modern electoral history, winning 42% of the vote, according to a Survation poll.

🇺🇲🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to influence the US elections and move against Biden – Haaretz.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- IDF burning an apartment block in Rafah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reporting large explosions in Haifa

🇬🇧⚡️- The Gambling Commission is investigating even more Tory candidates today for placing bets with insider knowledge about the date of the election, the party has yet to suspend any candidates from running who are under scrutiny.

The Tories have also adopted new campaign language signaling that they have no delusions about winning a majority promising to hold the Labour majority "accountable".

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️ - China has restarted processing payments from Russian banks.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- The US reiterates it will defend the Philippines, who is a "treaty ally".

🇷🇺🇰🇷🇺🇦⚡- In response to Russia signing a significant military agreement with North Korea, South Korea is now considering lifting the ban on sending arms to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇰🇷🇺🇦⚡- "If South Korea supplies weapons to Ukraine, it will not like the answer. I hope they won’t do it. It would be a big mistake." – Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- US State Department on the current tensions between Hezbollah and Israel: "We are trying to avoid a regional war."

🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡- A hot air balloon is flying above Polish airspace, flying in from Kaliningrad region, Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "The situation in the world is developing, what we're seeing is a bloc-system being developed and put together in Asia. NATO is already moving there as a permanent residence. This poses a threat to all the countries in the region, especially the Russian Federation." – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on the escalations in the South China Sea and the subsequent creation of the US-led Indo-Pacific bloc.

🇦🇲🇵🇸⚡️- Armenia has recognized the independence of Palestine.

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Niger has cancelled all permits with the French nuclear fuel company Orano to exploit the major uranium mine of Imouraren in northern Niger.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Deputy commander of the 117th Ukrainian Brigade, Major Aleksandr Egorov, has been killed in action - Zaporozhye.

The 117th were the leaders of the Ukrainian 2023 counteroffensive.