🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Under Article 4 of the Russia - North Korea Treaty, Russia can provide military assistance to the DPRK," - The Kremlin.

🌍⚡- Global military spending in 2024 hits a record $2.7 trillion amid rising conflicts.

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- "Germany will support Ukraine and provide weapons even if the US stops aid," - Boris Pistorius, Minister of Defence of Germany.

🇻🇦⚡- The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican has been closed to visitors in preparation for the conclave that will elect a new Pope.

🇻🇦⚡- The Chapel has been closed to prepare for the cardinals who will elect a new Pontiff.

A chimney will be installed from which smoke will come out to indicate the progress of the vote: Black, if a new Pope has not yet been chosen. White, if a new Pope has been elected.

🇻🇦⚡- The conclave meeting is traditionally held in the Chapel, and will likely begin between May 5 and 10.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Iran's President Pezeshkian arrives in Baku, Azerbaijan, just days before Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Baku.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Initial reports of Pakistan downing an Indian drone over the Line of Control, LoC, Kashmir region.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: India claims 3-4 gunmen have infiltrated into India-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Foreign Ministry has called for the United Nations to be taken to and prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague.

🇮🇳🇵🇰 - Fake news over the past 24 hours over the Indo-Pak conflict, stemming mainly from Pakistan:

- A single Turkish C-130E military aircraft landed in Karachi International Airport - not a military base. The aircraft initially took off from Ankara, landing in al-Kut, Iraq, to refuel. There was one aircraft, not six.

- According to "Pakistani OSINTers" the aircraft provided Pakistan with military supplies - which is false. The aircraft was barely on the ground for 16 hours, and is now heading further east, likely towards Malaysia. The aircraft, which is currently over Indian airspace, have a max. ferry range of 3,500-3,700km. Hence its refueling stops in Iraq and an International Airport in Karachi, instead of a military base. So media claiming they 'know' what cargo was being delivered are just flat-out lying.

- US C-17s to India are not carrying military cargo, nor are they carrying Israeli operatives. There is no giant conspiracy against Pakistan, Pakistan's military and the ISI are puppet systems of the US already. The US C-17s are returning from the Middle East to pick-up the large number of resources the US invested in the recent US-India Tiger Triumph 2025 military exercises. The exercises ended less than 7 days ago, and lasted over 15 days.

🇮🇳🇫🇷 - India finalized a deal with France to acquire 26 Rafales.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "Britain says sending troops to Ukraine is a done deal, but they will train Ukrainian soldiers, not fight" - The Telegraph, British outlet.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets over the al-Qunaitra countryside and the Daraa region, south Syria.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷 - A video circulating in Iranian media dated to 2024 shows the IRIS Shahid Mahdavi undertaking a long-range cruise. The video provides coordinates of the ship's position at one point, the point being near the Diego Garcia, UK Overseas Territory.

IRIS Shahid Mahdavi is capable of carrying strike drones, helicopters and even missile launchers. The timing of recirculating this footage is ironic, considering Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

IRIS Shahid Mahdavi is currently docked at Bandar Abbas. It went 'missing' for 12 days in late March 2025.

IRIS Shahid Mahdavi coordinates in the video: 0.0006111, 80.5435000.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets enter Lebanese airspace.

🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- Sudan's Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has left for Cairo, Egypt.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Death toll from the US airstrike last night against a migrant detention center in Sa'dah, Ansarullah-controlled northern Yemen, has risen to 68, with 47+ injured.

Rerum Novarum have geolocated the airstrike to: 16.9304058, 43.7334425, and it proves al-Masirah's report of it being a civilian detention center for migrants, mainly from Africa.

The site was also targeted by Saudi Arabia in 2022, leading to mass civilian casualties then as well.