🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The US Golden Dome project directly undermines strategic stability; Washington should abandon the deployment of weapons in space," - The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Russia joins China and North Korea in opposing the US Golden Dome project.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- "Russia and Turkey want to strengthen cooperation in finding solutions to problems in the Middle East and Africa," - Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that ended just moments ago.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- "The West is artificially trying to complicate relations between Russia and Turkey, but at a meeting with the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Putin confirmed Russia's determination to advance joint projects despite outside attempts to hinder cooperation," - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.

🇮🇱⚡- "Warnings that dozens of Arab citizens in Israel are forming ISIS cells in the country," - Ma'ariv, Israeli outlet.

🇷🇺🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We are in full cooperation with the new authorities in Syria," - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Moscow.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A US P-8A recon aircraft operating directly over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

Under the new US administration, the US has taken a much more direct approach in the South China Sea, than it ever has in the past. A month ago, in a first, the US deployed vessels to the border of Scarborough, while also moving the NMESIS to the Luzon Strait.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its strike group enter the South China Sea from the Singapore Strait.

🇪🇺 - Tesla's sales in Europe have been divided by 2 in April

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️- BREAKING: US has finally confirmed it has 500 military personnel on Taiwan!

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China has reacted furiously, with the South China Morning Post claiming the US is now 'openly testing' China's 'red-lines'.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- BREAKING: A US congressional delegation has arrived in Taipei, Taiwan, to discuss regional security.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇹🇼 - With just three days until the Shangri-La Dialogue, the US is massively ramping up the pressure.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China has strengthened its ability to rapidly attack Taiwan, according to US and Taiwanese officials and military analysts," - Taiwan News, Taiwanese outlet.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan is expecting large-scale Chinese military exercises around the island, in response to the recent moves by the US in Taiwan and off the coast of the Philippines.

🇨🇳⚡- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says they will be hosting a China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers Summit in Xiamen, China, starting tomorrow.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has opened all four aid distribution centers south of Netzarim, Gaza Strip. Large numbers of Palestinians visited the aid points.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from one of the aid distribution points, south Gaza Strip - massive numbers of Palestinians can be seen desperate for the much needed aid.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Channel 11 says the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, has lost control over at least one of the aid distribution points.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- IDF helicopters opened fire on Palestinians near the lost aid distribution center, in an attempt to retake control over the point - Channel 12.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The moment the distribution point was lost in Tal as Sultan, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The US aid distributors, belonging to GHF, have been evacuated by the Israeli forces.