🇬🇧⚡️- The final results of the Council races shows an extremely strong performance for Reform and the LibDems while Labour suffers some losses.

The Conservative party appears headed towards extinction as they have lost control of every single Council they previously held.

🇬🇧🇵🇸⚡️- Similar to last years General Election, independent Muslim candidates running on purely sectarian politics continue to gain ground. One such candidate was Maheen Kamran, an 18 year old student who openly ran on a platform of religious segregation, who won in Burnley Central East.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in central Israel, primarily around Jerusalem and the southern West Bank. Ballistic missile fire by Ansarullah in Yemen detected.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- More red alerts have sprung up towards the Dead Sea.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF reports that they have intercepted the ballistic missile.

This is the third ballistic missile fired by Ansarullah in 24 hours.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India bans its water spaces and ports for Pakistani vessels.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India cuts all trade with Pakistan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Novorussiysk, southwest Russia, declared a state of emergency, after non-stop Ukrainian UAV and USV attacks.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Air raid sirens continue to be tested in regions across Pakistan.

🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine cannot guarantee the safety of world leaders in Moscow on May 9 [Victory Day parade]," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Israeli airstrikes against the Hama region, central Syria, an hour ago.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Large-scale Israeli incursion into southern Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli drone operating over Damascus, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli media, citing the IDF, confirm that an Israeli helicopter landed in As Suwaida region yesterday, to provide Druze separatists with ammunition and weapons.

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel's violation of Syria’s sovereignty does not contribute to advancing the political solution we are working on with the Syrian President.

I urge Arab states and the international community to support Syria and stand by it as it rebuilds its new state," - Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Druze Leader, during talks with the Syrian government in Damascus earlier today.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli military is preparing to target additional sites inside Syria, including military and Syrian regime targets.

A violent Israeli air campaign is expected against Syria, similar to the campaign launched on the first day of the attack on Lebanon in September 2024," - Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is helping, but is afraid of getting involved," - Yediot Ahronot, Israeli pro-Likud outlet.

Israeli right-wing media is now in full swing in pushing the government to intervene in Syria.