🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- President Trump will speak to Trudeau tomorrow to discuss the trade war.

🇷🇺⚡- Explosion at Alye Parusa hotel in Moscow, Russia. 1 has been killed, with 5 injured.

🇷🇺⚡- TASS reports an unidentified device was used to set the explosion, indicating a likely assassination attempt.

🇷🇺⚡- "An attempted murder was the purpose of the explosion in the Alye Parusa residential complex in northwest Moscow," - TASS quoting law enforcement agencies.

🇷🇺⚡- Scenes from Moscow, Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- The target of the assassination attempt was Armen Sarkisian, head of Donetsk region's Boxing Federation.

Sarkisian was also a co-founder of the 'Arbat Battalion,' a pro-Russian Armenian military group fighting in the Donbass region.

🇷🇺⚡- Armen Sarkisian is alive, but in critical condition - his right leg was torn off in the assassination attack.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 advanced westwards in the North Kivu region, capturing the towns of Loashi, Ngungu and Bogabo - Lake Kivu direction, eastern DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have stormed the South Kivu region, taking the large towns of Kalunga and Numbi - Bukavu direction. The advances were confirmed by DR Congo sources.

Fighting was reported at Kisungwe, which leaves just 38km till the strategic city Nyabibwe.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Syria is facing threats from drug trafficking, Hezbollah and Israel. The Ahmad al-Sharaa administration requested UAVs and electronic warfare systems from Turkey to ensure border security," - Turkiye Gazetesi, Turkish outlet.

🇷🇺🇦🇲🇮🇷⚡- "Russian flags have been removed from the Armenian-Iranian border where Russian troops were serving before they removed by the Pashinyan administration," - Manouk Akopyan, Armenian journalist.

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- "Claims of money transfers from Iran to Hezbollah are malicious news fabrications to prevent Lebanon's reconstruction," - Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, denies reports that Tehran is supplying cash to finance Hezbollah via Beirut airport.

🇹🇿🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Tanzania confirms 2 of its soldiers have been killed in action in eastern DR Congo while fighting M23.

🇸🇾⚡- 21 killed, 14 others injured in a car bomb in the city of Manbij, northern Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to visit Turkey tomorrow.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Zelenskyi has no right to participate in negotiations to end the conflict," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The UN reports that 3,000 to 4,000 Rwandan troops are fighting alongside M23 in the eastern DR Congo.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- Daniel Khalife, former British soldier, sentenced to 14 years in prison after spying for Iran and breaking out of HM Wandsworth's Prison.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The US urges its citizens to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo immediately.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- Somalia's President, Sheikh Mohamud, has expressed his strong opposition to any US attempts to recognize Somaliland. Mohamud has said people close to US President Donald Trump are trying to push him to officially recognize Somaliland.