🇨🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The Globe reports that 10 year Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to resign this week and trigger a snap election.

We will bring you regular updates and coverage of the election cycle when it officially begins.

🇨🇦⚡️- The two most likely replacements for Trudeau as leader of the Liberal party are former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.

Carney reportedly has spent the weekend gathering support from Liberal party leadership and donors while Freeland remains popular with elected Liberal politicians.

However the most recent polling in October on who Liberal voters would like to be leader had "None of the above" ahead of the entire field.

🇪🇬🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Egypt officially denies Israeli media reports that Cairo is preparing for military intervention in Yemen against Ansarullah.

🇸🇾⚡- The "Hagia Sophia" Church in the city of al-Suqailabiyah, in the northwestern Hama countryside in central Syria, has permanently closed after receiving constant threats. The closure was done to protect the church’s property from theft and the locals who attended services.

🇸🇾⚡- "The new Syrian administration has held talks with PKK and YPG representatives, demanding that they lay down their arms," - Hurriyet.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- A Hamas spokesman has given the BBC a list of 34 hostages the group is prepared to release in the first phase of a ceasefire with Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Two gunmen opened fire on vehicles belonging to Israelis in the West Bank. Two women and a man currently reported dead, with six others in serious conditions.

Ynet claims the attackers managed to escape, with Israeli security forces launching an operation to capture them.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenian Armed Forces fired at positions of the Azerbaijani army in the direction of the Lachin region," - Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- 3 Hamas rockets fired at central Israel, one was intercepted and the other two made impacts.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from the impact site, central Israel.

Happy Patriot Day 🇺🇸

🇺🇸⚡️- "Biden to ban offshore oil and gas drilling in vast areas ahead of Trump's term." - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The United States is pressuring Tel Aviv to withdraw from Lebanon as the 60 days expire, and General Jasper Jeffers is visiting Israel next week." - LBCI, pro-Lebanese Forces outlet.

🇾🇪⚡- The Houthis criticize Elon Musk for taking down the group's X account.

🇷🇺🇳🇪⚡- Niger's Armed Forces launched a large scale military operation against the Lakurawa terrorist group, along the Nigerian border.

It's alleged that the Wagner Group is participating as well, however these reports remain unconfirmed. If true, it would be the first time the Russian group has operated on such a scale in Niger.

🇫🇷⚡- French President, Emmanuel Macron, criticizes Elon Musk of interfering in European politics.

🇳🇬 - Current situation in Nigeria.

🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪 - Current situation in the Sahel.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Initial, unconfirmed reports of launches from Yemen against Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF has begun withdrawing from the Naqoura direction of southern Lebanon. Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) personnel are beginning to move in to take their place.