🇨🇳🇦🇺🇳🇿⚡- China announces the start of military exercises in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- The US Department of State has quietly removed the phrase "We do not support Taiwan independence" from its routine Taiwan update reports.

Swedish Police report that another cable has been cut in the Baltic Sea. The alleged damaged cable is C-LION1, which runs between Finland and Germany, but the cut was recorded in Sweden's exclusive economic zone, off the coast of the island of Gotland.

The preliminary investigation has been classified as sabotage.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇹🇩⚡- Initial reports that Chad has begun sending its military to eastern DR Congo to defend against the M23.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces storm Tal for the second time in a week - Nablus direction, West Bank,

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel to release 602 Palestinian prisoners tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US airstrike against Idlib, Syria.

🇸🇦🇵🇸⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman holds an informal emergency Arab meeting on Gaza today, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Several heads of Arab states were invited, but the Palestinian Authority President was not.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- President Trump says Zelensky is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "If Putin wants, he can easily get the entire nation of Ukraine without any negotiations." - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇩🇪⚡️- German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Germany will sever relations with the United States over its "pro-Russia stance."

🇺🇸⚡️- ICE Director Caleb Vitello has been fired today, presumably due to underwhelming deportation numbers.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- "We are with the change chosen by the Syrian people," - Iraq's Popular Mobolization Forces.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Reports of the US President Trump visiting Moscow for May 9 Victory Day celebrations have been denied by the Kremlin.

🇺🇸⚡️- Pro-Trump surrogates have reported that the Trump administration has deported 37,660 people in the first month of Trump's 2nd Term.

For comparison, the Biden administration deported an average of 57,000 a month in the final months of the Biden Administration.

🇧🇾🇱🇾⚡- Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, LNA, to buy fighter jets from Belarus.

They will likely be the MiG-29s or Su-30s. LNA pilots have been trained in Russia to use the MiG-29s in the past.

🇷🇺🇿🇦⚡- Russia defends South Africa's land reforms at the G20 Summit 2025.

🇷🇺🇿🇦⚡- "The West is conducting a dialogue with the 'Global South' from a position of white supremacy," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, at the G20 Summit 2025.

🇸🇩🇰🇪⚡- Sudan recalls its ambassador from Kenya, and blasts Nairobi for supporting terrorism. This comes after President Ruto held a meeting with Rapid Support Forces representatives.

🇺🇦🇿🇦⚡- South Africa's President invites Ukrainian President Zelenskyi to the G20 Summit 2025.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇿🇦⚡- "Funds allocated to help Zelenskyi's regime could have been used for the development of Africa," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, at the G20 Summit 2025.