🇹🇷 Reuters (Turkey): Istanbul Stock Exchange temporarily halts trading after the main index drops 6.87% in early trading.

🇹🇷 Reuters (Turkey): Turkish lira hits a record low following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇸🇸⚡- Vice-President led SPLM-IO (White Army) has ordered the Sudanese armed forced, SSPDF, to surrender or withdraw from the Maiwut region, northeast South Sudan.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇦⚡- "China, Hong Kong threaten to thwart sale of Panama Canal ports to America's BlackRock," - Fox News.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan begins its 5-days long 'Rapid Response' military drills to combat China's "gray-zone warfare".

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇶🇦 - Reports of Tshisekedi and Kagame agreeing to a ceasefire in eastern DR Congo are false. There has been no agreement on a ceasefire.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Kosovo, Albania, and Croatia have signed a trilateral defense agreement in Tirana, Albania, essentially forming a defense military alliance.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Albania’s Defense Minister, Pirro Vengu, has said other countries are also interested in joining the alliance.

🇷🇸⚡- Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the alliance between Kosovo, Albania and Croatia an "open provocation".

🇷🇸⚡- "The [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia] alliance is a targeted strategy aimed at isolating Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "We are demanding an explanation from Albania and Croatia regarding why the agreement [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia alliance] was made without consulting Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸🇧🇬⚡- "Bulgaria has also been invited to join the [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia] alliance," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "These two states [Croatia and Albania], along with the illegitimate representative of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Pristina, Kosovo, have taken steps that undermine regional stability," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "Serbia will not accept this [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia alliance] silently," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇹🇷⚡- Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu and the other detainees will be held in police custody for 4 days.

🇹🇷⚡- Large pro-CHP and anti-Erdogan protests in Istanbul, Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡- "Very soon, Ekrem Imamoglu will also be the President of Turkey," - Gokhan Gunaydın, CHP's Deputy Chairman.

🇹🇷⚡- Resul Sahan, Mayor of Sisli in the Istanbul region, has been arrested by Turkish authorities.

🇹🇷 - A total of 106 arrests have been made so far across Turkey, mainly in the northwest.

🇹🇷⚡- Emin Ferhat Ertek, Head of Turkey's Good Party, has been detained.

Threat of "terrorist infiltration" in Kiryat Netafim, West Bank.

Israeli alert apps are ordering civilians to get into their homes, lock their doors and shut all windows.

🇹🇷⚡- Protests outside Sisli's Municipality building in support of Sisli's Mayor, Resul Sahan, after his detention.