🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Donald Trump announces that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Protestant and Christian Zionist, will be the next US Ambassador to Israel.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Air raid alert declared across most of Ukraine. Russian ballistic missiles are striking Ukraine, with explosions reported in Kiev.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Continued launch of Russian ballistic missiles against Ukraine. More missiles are reported inbound against Kiev.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Scenes from Kiev, as Russian ballistic missiles arrive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Sirens across Ukraine. Russia has possibly launched new ballistics.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Multiple Russian drones have entered Ukrainian airspace. They're heading straight to Kiev.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Scenes from Beirut, Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, questions the legitimacy of the US elections, saying the "ban on international observation of the US elections in 17 states of the country is a direct violation."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine is ready to retreat from Kurakhovo, but the soldiers have not yet received an order from above," - Financial Times.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkey has received an offer to become a BRICS partner country.

🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- Hamdan Daglo, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, claims they have captured 16 Egyptians and are holding them as hostages.

🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- The families of the hostages have repeatedly appealed to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry for help, but have received no response.

🇸🇴⚡- Jubaland region in southwest Somalia cuts all ties with Mogadishu and bans the Prime Minister from entering the region. The dispute arose over how to conduct regional elections.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- Iranian Vice President invites Saudi Crown Prince to Tehran, Iran.

🇰🇬⚡- Kyrgyz Special Forces foil a coup attempt. Multiple arrests have been made so far.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia's illegal actions on the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan [Karabakh] will be examined in detail by the International Court of Justice," - Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The Russian Defense Ministry has told Israel that actions similar to the airstrike it carried out near the Russian base in Syria in October are unacceptable.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia fears that Trump's tough policy toward Iran could backfire on their country and strengthen Azerbaijan," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- After years of waiting, the US has finally agreed to provide Turkey with 40 F-16 fighters. Turkish Defense Minister Guler confirms that the "contracts have been signed" and called the relationship between the two countries "very positive".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The IRGC says they have arrested 12 mercenaries "collaborating with Israel" in the Sistan-Baluchestan region.

🇫🇷🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani President Aliyev accused France of "committing serious crimes on its overseas territories. New Caledonia and French Polynesia were declared self-governing territories by the UN, but colonial rules still remain there." Aliyev also said "France is guilty of polluting the soil and causing damage to French Polynesia as a result of nuclear tests there."