🇺🇸🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡️- "The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the U.S. government. Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January." - Trump-appointed US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned Jussie Smollett's 2019 conviction of filing a false police report.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin begins an announced speech to Russians.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Western long-range weapons were used on Russian territory."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "The enemy's targets were not achieved after the strikes."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "The target of the Russian strike [ICBM] was a military-industrial facility in Dnepropetrovsk, the target was successfully hit."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Russia strikes Yuzhmash [in Dnepr] with non-nuclear hypersonic ballistic missile."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "The use of long-range weapons by the enemy cannot affect the course of the Special Military Operation."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Russia considers itself ennoscriptd to use weapons against facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against Russian facilities."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Russia will respond decisively and in kind to escalation."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "The use of the ICBM was a response to US plans to produce and deploy medium and short-range missiles."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Existing missile defense systems, including American elements in Europe, will not be able to intercept missiles like yesterday's ICBM."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "The latest Russian missiles attack targets at a speed of 2-3 km per second, existing enemy missile defense systems can not intercept them."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Putin: "Russia will warn Ukrainian civilians in advance to leave the danger zone if such missiles are used in the future."

End of speech.

🇺🇸⚡️- Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from his nomination as Attorney General under Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump's statement on Matt Gaetz's withdrawal.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches reported from Yemen.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Hypersonic missile fired by the Houthis towards Israel has caused red alerts across central Israel.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts are only sounding in the Dead Sea area, south of Jerusalem.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- An explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel.

#BREAKING 🇲🇱🇷🇺☠️ — JNIM (Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel) claims to have conducted a complex ambush against a Wagner convoy between Sefari and Bandiagara, Mopti region in central Mali, heavy losses are reported.

Malian armed forces have been conducting intense drone strikes in this region for the past few days, it is also notable that this convoy is exclusively Wagner with no FAMa elements present.