🇨🇳🇻🇳🇮🇱⚡- Vietnam to buy two spy satellites from Israel for $680 million to help monitor Chinese activity in the South China Sea, as tensions escalate between the two countries over the disputed Paracel Islands.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- US aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, and its strike group arrive at the South Korean port of Busan, in response to North Korea's recent military activity in the Yellow Sea.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan seizes yet another Chinese cargo ship in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan has previously accused Chinese cargo ships of breaking Taiwanese undersea cables.

🇷🇺🇲🇲⚡- Russian President Putin invites Myanmar's junta leader to Moscow. They will meet tomorrow.

🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- Chinese naval exercises underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, on the border of Vietnam.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to renegotiate with Russia the 49-year lease for the Tartus naval base and Khmeimim airbase. Al-Sharaa is open to keeping the bases but wants better terms from Russia, including diplomatic backing and financial compensation from Russia.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: US considering eliminating AFRICOM, US Africa Command.

AFRICOM to be moved to a subcommand under EUCOM.

🇺🇸⚡- Trump also planning on merging NORTHCOM and SOUTHCOM into a single AMERICOM.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Three Chinese vessels operating in the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇦🇹⚡- Christian Stocker sworn in as Austria's new Chancellor.

#BREAKING | #UK ready to close the sky over #Ukraine to ensure a peace deal, - PM Starmer says

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🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: A car-ramming attack in Mannheim, Germany. Police are investigating the incident.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The risk of war on the European continent has never been this high," - Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The threat keeps getting closer to us, the front line keeps getting closer to us," - Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister.

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- "Events at the White House were intentional escalation," - Friedrich Merz, Germany's Chancellor-elect, blames Trump for the Trump-Zelensky clash.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "Europeans can no longer rely on NATO as they used to, as Trump's position has weakened it."

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "We will need 10 years to free ourselves from American influence through massive local and European investment."

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "I thought that an independent Europe could be built by re-engaging with Russia, but we couldn't do that."

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "British military deployment to Ukraine is possible even without Washington's intervention," - Luke Pollard, British Under-Secretary of Defense.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- Starmer: "Increasing defense spending will bolster our national security and help to put more money in people's pockets."

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "UK ready to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine to ensure a peace deal," - Sky News, British media.