🇮🇱⚡- Attorney Hadad: "You [in your messages to Walla] said Arabs shouldn't vote, word for word."

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu: "I absolutely did not."

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu: "Anyone who says I'm lying is a liar themselves."

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu: "Hamas was calling on Israeli Arabs to go out and vote against me."

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷⚡- "Mineral deal is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country [UK + France] that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years," - JD Vance, US Vice President, on UK's and France's proposal to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "It's very cruel [for the US to stop military aid] for Ukrainian soldiers engaged in a patriotic defense of their country," - Marine Le Pen, French National Assembly Deputy.

🇺🇸⚡- "US Secretary of Health RFK Jr. has urged people to get vaccinated in response to the growing measles outbreak in Texas," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- ""Russian missile experts have flown to Iran amid clashes with Israel," - Reuters.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Reuters reports several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year, visiting Iranian military bases, including two underground facilities. It is likely the Russians have provided Iran with advanced missile technology.

🇧🇾⚡- "We need to dig. We need to see what we have in the ground," - Aleksandr Lukashenko, calls on his country to search for rare earth metals in Belarus.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- China deploys multiple buoys to the waters within Japan's exclusive economic zone, EEZ.

China has in the past deployed buoys in Japanese waters, which were then removed.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Amid a near-complete reversal in U.S. foreign policy, more nations may look to China to fill the role that the United States once played," - The Diplomat, Australian outlet.

🇵🇭⚡- BREAKING: A Philippines fighter jet, FA-50, has gone missing while on a combat mission.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have captured Mwenga, Bukavu direction, South Kivu region of eastern DR Congo.

The DR Congo military, FARDC, have also withdrawn from the Bideka heights.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Canada's Prime Minister, Trudeau: "We will apply 25% customs duties on US goods worth $155 billion."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "Our tariffs on American goods will remain until the withdrawal of American tariffs, not a moment before that."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "If US tariffs persist, Canada will also look at non-tariff measures."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "Canada will challenge US tariffs through WTO and USMCA."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "The US has launched a trade war against Canada."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Lin Jian: "China will fight to the bitter end of any trade war."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Lin Jian: "We advise the US to put away it's bullying face and return to the right track of dialogue and co-operation before it is too late."