🇧🇪🇷🇼⚡- Rwanda demands all diplomats from Belgium to leave the country within 48 hours, effectively ending relations between the two countries.

🇱🇧🇸🇾 - The moment journalists from al-Arabiya, Saudi state-owned outlet, came under fire from Lebanese Bekaa clans artillery.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli assassination strike against a vehicle in Yahmar al-Shaqif, south of Lebanon, killing one.

🇵🇪⚡- BREAKING: State of emergency declared in Lima and Callao, Peru.

🇵🇪⚡- Peru's Prime Minister, Gustavo Adrianzen, to deploy the army to Lima and Callao after Paul Flores (of the musical band Armonia 10) was shot to death.

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- Azerbaijani gas giant, SOCAR, receive exploration rights from Israel to explore an offshore block off the coast of Haifa, just south of Lebanon. The gas field is said to be the largest and most important field in the eastern Mediterranean basin.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense once again accuses Armenia of firing upon Azerbaijani positions in the Goris region.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "US and Israel consider Syria as a possible place for resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza," - CBS.

🇺🇸🇸🇴🇦🇪⚡- Somaliland has begun discussing with the US regarding a deal to recognize Somaliland as an independent nation in exchange for an air base near the port city of Berbera.

Somaliland, as well as Puntland, offered UAE similar deals. UAE currently operates bases at Berbera in Somaliland, and Bosaso in Puntland.

🇸🇸⚡- South Sudan's People's Defense Forces, SSPDF, violently airstrike Nasir air base, in Nasir City, northeast South Sudan.

The air base, as well as the regional administration under Gatluak Liew Tiep, are loyal to Riek Machar, the Vice-President-led opposition. Several casualties reported.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- "Do whatever you want, we fear no one but God," - Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, Senior Trump Official, responding to US President Trump's threats.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Satellite images show Eritrea has begun deploying air defense systems at key locations, amidst growing tensions with Ethiopia.

Rerum Novarum have geolocated the different systems:
- Russian made Sopka-2 radar system at 15.2397, 38.93771, south of Asmara's International Airport.
- Russian made S-125 Neva/Pechora surface to air missile system to 12.97415, 42.71307, near the Ethiopia-claimed port city of Assab.
- Russian made P-37 Bar Lock early warning radar system to 12.9717, 42.71348, near the Ethiopia-claimed port city of Assab.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡- "US Secretary of State Rubio persuaded Hungary via a phone call not to veto the next extension of EU sanctions against Russia," - Reuters.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese army forces dropped leaflets on areas where Rapid Support Forces are entrenched in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, calling on them to surrender or flee.

🇱🇧🇸🇾⚡- Renewed violent clashes between the Lebanese Bekaa clans and the Syrian government forces along the Hermel-Homs border. Lebanon's armed forces are striking Syrian sources of fire.

🇱🇧🇸🇾⚡- "What is happening on the eastern and northeastern borders cannot continue, and we will not accept its continuation. I have instructed the army to respond to the sources of fire," - Joseph Aoun, President of Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Hermes-900 UAV enters Lebanese airspace.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Recent statement by US President Donald Trump on Yemen.

Most notably, Trump says that - from now on - any shot fired from Yemen will now constitute a shot fired by Iran, and Iran will "suffer the consequences."

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- Mass demonstrations against US attacks and in support of the Gaza Strip are taking place in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and several other major cities of Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.