🇸🇾⚡- Explosions in As Suwaida, southern Syria.

🇺🇸⚡- Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has been officially sworn in as Trump’s Secretary of the Interior by U.S. Senate.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump warns BRICS nations of 100% tariffs if they abandon the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu holds security consultations today to discuss the possibility of stopping the Gaza ceasefire deal and to return to fighting immediately," - Israel's Channel 12.

🇾🇪⚡- Fighting reported between Ansarullah and Coalition Forces northwest of Taizz, Yemen.

🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- The Rafah border crossing with Egypt to open today.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "As of today, members of Hamas's military wing who were injured during the war will be allowed to leave for medical treatment abroad, according to the agreement, and will be allowed to return to the Gaza Strip after completing their treatment and recovery," - Israel's Channel 11.

🇨🇳🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "China is not a reliable partner for Israel, noting Beijing's clear shift towards Iran since October 7, 2023," - Israel Today.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- "Russia has occupied Georgian territories [Abkhazia and South Ossetia]. We believe that the occupation is temporary. We hope that in the future Georgia will become a united and developed state," - Mikheil Kavelashvili, President of Georgia.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Julien Kahongya, former DR Congo governor of North Kivu, said at least 10,000 Rwandan soldiers are involved in the attacks on Goma, eastern DR Congo.

🇷🇺🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Rwanda does a Putin in DR Congo. In 2014 Vladimir Putin grabbed the Donbass, eastern Ukraine, using local separatist forces, which Russia armed, supplied and directed. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has copied these tactics in eastern Congo. The M23 rebels are armed, supplied and directed by his country," - The Economist.

🇦🇿⚡- BREAKING: A grenade explosion in Agjabedi, Azerbaijan, kills 5.

🇸🇾⚡- The SDF imposes a curfew in al-Hasaqah, SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The Foreign Ministers of South Africa and Rwanda held a phone conversation to ease tensions between the two countries.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Armenia says it's ready to open the 'Zangezur corridor'. Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan proposed to Baku to establish a railway connection from mainland Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, through the Armenian city of Meghri.

🇮🇶🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Baghdad and Beirut have announced the start of talks on the exchange of Israeli and Russian citizen Elizaveta Tsurkova, who was kidnapped in Iraq, for Hezbollah fighters previously captured by Israeli forces," - Israel's Channel 11.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered Zamostye, the last town before the city of Sudzha - Kursk region of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the large trench network west of Toretsk city.

🇺🇸⚡️- Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is blitzing social media with paid endorsements from influencers as he launches his 2nd attempt to win the Senate seat.

🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces a 25% import tariff against Mexico and Canada.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- President Trump has also implemented a 10% tariff against China.