🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: Clashes erupt in several towns under M23 control north of Goma city, eastern DR Congo.

Wazalendo sleeper cells are ambushing M23 positions.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- BREAKING: Thailand cuts all diplomatic relations with Cambodia.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thailand has recalled its Ambassador to Cambodia, and has expelled the Cambodian Ambassador to Bangkok.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah have informed the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, that the organization will not agree to surrender its weapons, even if Israel withdraws its troops from southern Lebanon, reported by Saudi outlet al-Arabiya.

According to the outlet, despite Berri representing Hezbollah's ally the Amal Movement, Hezbollah has expressed readiness to confront the Lebanese state. Berri has told US Envoy Barrack that while Hezbollah have disarmed south of the Litani River, he cannot cannot promise that the organization will disarm north of the river.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "It's time for the West Bank and the Jordan Valley to return to Israel. We will establish our control over the West Bank," - Shlomo Karhi, Israeli Minister of Communications.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin plays chess, and Trump plays monopoly.

50 days of Trump's ultimatum is child's play for a person who thinks in terms of decades, if not centuries, the Kremlin does not take such rhetoric seriously. Moscow is calmly watching another round of American politics," - Sky News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran says it intercepted US destroyer USS Fitzgerald in the Gulf of Oman as it approached Iranian waters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the first few houses of Plavni, north of Kamenakoe - Zaporozhye direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced towards the southern entrance of Mirnograd, Pokrovsk direction.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Knesset votes in favor of "applying Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank."

71 voted in favor.
13 voted against.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that an IAEA 'technical team' will visit Iran in the coming weeks to discuss cooperation between the organization and Tehran.

🇮🇷⚡- Explosion at the Abad Industrial Town, along Route 7, Qom region, Iran.

The highway and the industrial sector were also struck by Israel previously, during the 12-Day War.

🇺🇸🇪🇹 - Ethiopian official denies the country received American funding for the GERD project on the Blue Nile.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Biden Era congressional investigation shows that the Russian SVR had intel suggesting Hillary Clinton was in a "mental and physical health crisis" in 2016 but did not leak this info to the public during the election. The Russian intel agency gathered this from hacked DNC documents and other sources in the Democratic Party showing that President Obama and Democrat leadership found Clintons health to be "extremely alarming".

Putin saw these reports and made the decision to not leak the info.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- The third round of Russia-Ukraine talks have ended in Istanbul, Turkey, lasting less than 60 minutes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- During the third round of Russia-Ukraine talks, both sides agreed to exchange 1,200 for 1,200 prisoners of war.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- The Ukrainian delegation proposed holding a Putin-Zelensky meeting by the end of August.