🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Additional strikes against Kiryat Shmona

🇮🇷⚡️- Mohammed Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, has endorsed Saeed Jalili for president in the second round of voting.

🇮🇷⚡️- Fars Media reports that the second round of voting for the 2024 presidential election will occur on July 5th, 2024.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces captured a significant portion of the south of Pivnichny (Toretsk direction). Advancing 3,000 meters along Lisna Street.

Ukrainian source, associated with the Azov unit, confirms Ukrainian defenses had been breached.

Russian troops also captured a major Ukrainian fortification and reached the center of Pivdennoe.

🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- The Belarusian military is moving air-defense systems to the border with Ukraine.

🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- "The situation on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border is difficult," – Chief of Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces.

🇮🇳⚡- "Christian communities reported that local police aided mobs that disrupted worship services over accusations of conversion activities or stood by while mobs attacked them and then arrested the victims on conversion charges," – Rashad Hussain, US Representative at International Religious Freedom, IRF.

🇸🇦🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Saudi embassy in Lebanon has called on Saudi citizens to leave the country immediately.

🇮🇱⚡- "There are talks with various parties, including members of the Likud Party, to overthrow the Netanyahu government." – Yair Lapid, Leader of Opposition of the Israeli Knesset.

🇸🇩⚡- Scenes from the towns of Singa and Sinjah. Rapid Support Forces, RSF, bypassed the Sudanese Army, SAF, stronghold of Sennar. The situation for the SAF has become critical in the south of the country, as less than 100km separates the RSF from the border with South Sudan.

🇸🇩⚡- Civilians have begun fleeing Singa, as RSF forces enter the town. A SAF loss here will leave the SAF-held cities of Rabak and Manaqil exposed and weak.

🇷🇺⚡- Tatyana Shevtsova has defected to France – Russian media.

Tatyana was Deputy Defense Minister under Sergei Shoygu. After Andrei Belousov's appointment, she lost her job.

🇷🇺🇾🇪⚡- Russian President, Vladimir Putin, asked Saudi Arabia permission to arm Yemen's Houthis with cruise missiles – US Intelligence.

🇷🇸🇮🇱⚡️- A Serbian convert to Islam attacked a security guard outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade. He was shot dead by the security guard after hitting him with a crossbow bolt.

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces, RSF, claim control over Singa, Sudan.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇺🇲 The United States has asked the Iraqi government to close its airspace to Iranian cargo planes heading to Syria and Lebanon.

Washington believes that Tehran has stepped up the transfer of weapons in the interests of Hezbollah through Beirut and the border with Syria.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We are close to making decisions to find out whether it is possible to reach a settlement that will return the residents of the north to their homes, or whether we will do so by force." – Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Biden will discuss his re-election campaign with the rest of his family at Camp David on Sunday, this comes after the NYT, Washington Post, New Yorker, and other major Democrat publications have called on him to step aside. President Obama and President Clinton (who despite being president 30 years ago is younger than Biden) have voiced support for Biden's continues candidacy in public.

🇱🇧⚡️- The Arab League has ended its designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

🇰🇵⚡- Drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’ – North Korean Foreign Ministry.

⚡- Employees of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos accused its founder Klaus Schwab and management of discrimination and harassment against women and blacks – Wall Street Journal.