🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Despite initially insisting on direct negotiations, the US has now stated it is open for indirect negotiations with Iran. If these negotiations are conducted in a setting of mutual respect, not with threats or blackmail, then we will consider it," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - The U.S. Treasury has imposed new sanctions on 4 Russian born individuals, 3 Russian entities, 1 Chinese entity, and 1 Russian bulk carrier in the latest round of sanctions.

🇯🇵⚡️- 6.2 magnitude earthquake southeast of Kyushu island, Japan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured around 90% of Bogdanovka, Pokrovsk direction. Small pockets of Ukrainian troops remain in the north of the town.

Russian troops have just two towns left before the Dnepr region border.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu has banned all media from attending or even covering Israeli cabinet meetings from now on.

🇮🇱⚡- Haaretz confirms the report, saying "[Israeli] journalists are no longer allowed to cover government events and cabinet meetings, and the Prime Minister's Office has become unresponsive."

🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡- "We received reports from ships that their GPS systems were jammed for hours in the middle of the Red Sea," - British Maritime Agency.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The United States and Israel are preparing for an unprecedented and joint attack on Iran, with the aim of damaging its nuclear program." - Daily Mail, citing Israeli sources.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Senate is poised to strip President Trump of the power to implement tariffs without Congressional approval. This will be the first major limiting of executive power in decades.

🇧🇦 🇷🇸- Interpol rejects Bosnian request for an international arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Kuwait refuse to let US use air bases for Iran attack," - i24, citing a Saudi source.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against east of Damascus, Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against the T4 Air Base, Homs region, central Syria.

🇬🇷⚡- 'Iniochos 2025' Air Force exercises have begun at Andravida Air Base, in Greece.

11 countries are participating this year, with them being: Greece, France, India, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, UAE and the US. The UK withdrew participation this year within the last week.

Qatar, Slovakia and Bahrain will all send observers, but will not be participating.

There are false reports that Qatar and Israel are holding joint exercises in Greece - which are untrue.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- 7 Syrian government forces killed and dozens injured from the Israeli airstrikes against the Hama and T4 Air Bases, central Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkish military influence in Syria is no different from the previous Iranian presence," - Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.