🇨🇳⚡- "China is limiting the flow of critical minerals to Western defense manufacturers, delaying production and forcing companies to scour the world for stockpiles of the minerals needed to make everything from bullets to jet fighters," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇱🇧⚡- "The decision to postpone the discussion on disarming Hezbollah to the end of the Lebanese cabinet session reportedly came at the request of President Aoun, after a verbal altercation erupted at the start of the meeting. The postponement was intended to prevent things from spiraling out of control," - al-Hadath, Saudi outlet.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanese outlet Nidaa al-Watan denies any altercation took place, and that decision to postpone the disarming topic to the end of the session was due to its sensitivity.

"Postponing the arms clause to the end of the government session. It appears that the objective is to approve it quickly without providing an opportunity for any of the ministers to create tension in the atmosphere," - Nidaa al-Watan.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanon's Minister of Finance Yassine Jaber, a member of the Amal Movement led bloc, has not shown up to the cabinet meeting, citing "travel issues".

🇱🇧⚡- The discussions on the disarming of Hezbollah has begun at the Lebanese cabinet meeting.

🇱🇧⚡- Discussions on the disarmament of non-state actors continue, with reports that it could be postponed until next Thursday.

🇨🇳⚡- Chikungunya outbreak doubles in less than 24 hours. Over 7,000 cases of the virus have now been reported.

The virus has also spread to 12 other cities in the Guangdong Province, despite claims from Foshan's Disease Center that the epidemic was under control.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah fully adhered to the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Israel has turned against the agreement and violated it thousands of times," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- "The third memorandum by [US Envoy] Tom Barrack is worse than the first and second, and among what it includes is dismantling 50% of the [Hezbollah military] infrastructure within 30 days," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The American memorandum stipulates Israel's withdrawal from 3 [of the 5] points in southern Lebanon after dismantling 50% of Hezbollah's infrastructure," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "America wanted in its paper to strip Lebanon of its military capability represented by the resistance and to prevent the army from obtaining weapons that affect Israel," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "We do not agree to any new agreement; they must implement the old agreement, and we do not agree to any timeline presented to be implemented under the ceiling of Israeli aggression," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah, rejects US Envoy Tom Barrack's proposal.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "If we hand over our weapons, the aggression will not stop, and this is what Israeli officials declare," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Lebanese ministerial statement talks about deterring the [Israeli] aggressors, but where is the state that relieves Lebanon from calamity? And where is the defense of the [Lebanese] borders and frontiers? And if you say you cannot, then let us preserve the capability and build it," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "We are a fundamental pillar of Lebanon, so the approach must be reconsidered," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "This is a country where sacrifices and blood have been shed, and we will not allow anyone to impose dictates on us," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "Let everyone know that there will be no solution without consensus, and this is a strategic and fundamental issue," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Those who made sacrifices and liberated the land are more patriotic than those who tampered with the homeland and killed citizens," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "Know that the resistance and all honorable resistance fighters, along with the Lebanese army and people, will remain on the ground and prevail," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "In today's battle, either all of Lebanon will win or everyone will lose. We are convinced that we can win together," - Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Exchange of fire between Pakistan and India in the Poonch direction along the Line of Control, Kashmir region.

Clashes lasted twenty minutes before dying out.