🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡- "If Trump decides to impose taxes on Brazil, he is mistaken, and we will respond in kind," - Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, on President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Brazil.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is currently meeting Choe Son Hui, North Korea's Foreign Minister, in Wonsan, North Korea.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia's Foreign Minister, who also has a strategic partnership agreement with Iran, warns against the use of force against North Korea, saying Moscow would "not tolerate the abuse of their strategic alliances".

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Moscow does not take seriously the attempts to create a multinational force corps to defend Ukraine, they are fantasies," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, on the UK-France led plans to introduce a peacekeeping force to Ukraine once a ceasefire is introduced.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Moscow understands the reasons why the DPRK is developing its nuclear program and respects Pyongyang's position," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "No one is even considering using force against the DPRK, although the US, South Korea, and Japan are conducting military build-ups around it.

Moscow warns Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo against abusing the Russian and DPRK strategic alliance ties," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Moscow and Pyongyang consider attempts to create NATO infrastructure in Northeast Asia dangerous, and agree on the need to establish reliable mechanisms to ensure equal and indivisible security in the Asia-Pacific region," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Cooperation between Russia and the DPRK contributes to stabilizing the situation on the Korean Peninsula," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Russia and the DPRK plan to resume maritime communication," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇴⚡- Somalia is preparing for a large-scale counteroffensive against al-Shabaab.

🇫🇷🇵🇸⚡- The French-led 'Conference on the Recognition of a Palestinian State' has once again been postponed.

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡- "Iran uses state terrorism and is taking destabilizing actions in the Middle East," - Thierry Burkhard, French Chief of Staff.

🇫🇷🇨🇳⚡- "We have been the target of espionage and a disinformation campaign by China," - Thierry Burkhard, French Chief of Staff.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- "Russia views France as a primary enemy, mainly due to its strong support for Ukraine following the full-scale invasion," - Thierry Burkhard, French Chief of Staff.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish President Erdogan's 'historic' speech has begun.

🇹🇷⚡- "I greet my friends who see the Turkish Century as a blessed dawn," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡- "As you know, six days ago, we lost 12 sons of our nation, 12 heroes. Our hearts are broken as a nation," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, confirms the incident in which 12 Turkish soldiers died in northern Iraq.

🇹🇷🇧🇦⚡- "Yesterday, as you know, marked the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, one of the most shameful events in recent human history. As a nation, we share the indescribable pain our Bosnian brothers and sisters experienced 30 years ago," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇧🇦⚡- "As Turkey, we continue to stand by Bosnia-Herzegovina and our Bosnian brothers and sisters under all circumstances, in every moment of need, to prevent similar suffering from ever occurring again," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇵🇸⚡- "We also send our prayers to the oppressed people of Gaza, who, like our Bosnian brothers and sisters, have been subjected to genocide before the eyes of the civilized world for the past 22 months," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡- "Forty-seven years ago, on August 14, 1984, the separatist terrorist organization [referring to PKK] carried out its first attack in the Eruh district of Siirt," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.