🇨🇦🇦🇺🇹🇼⚡- Australian HMAS Brisbane destroyer and the Canadian HMCS Ville de Quebec frigate are transiting through the Taiwan Strait.

🇺🇦🇸🇰⚡- Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico says his country will assist in providing security guarantees to Ukraine post-war.

Fico asserts no Slovakian troops will be deployed onto Ukrainian territory, however, Slovakian land can be used for logistical purposes.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- A disturbing conversation between China's Xi, Russia's Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un during the Victory Day parade in Beijing, China.

The conversation was about immortality, organ harvesting and life expectancy.

Note, the footage has been banned in China, with Chinese authorities also threatening international publications with legal actions - the video has been taken down by Reuters already. The video was initially published by CCTV, Chinese state media.

- Xi Jinping: "Earlier, people rarely lived to 70 years, but these days at 70 you're still a child."

- Vladimir Putin: "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger, and younger, and even achieve immortality."

- Xi Jinping: "Predictions are, this century there's a chance of living up to 150 years."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Netivot and surrounding settlements, Gaza Envelope of southern Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- False alarm.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Correction: The IDF reports that two projectiles were fired- one was intercepted, one fell into an open area.

Rerum Novarum originally reported the siren as a 'false alarm' due to how quickly the red alert was cleared from Tzofar.

🇯🇵⚡- BREAKING: Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba has decided to resign to avoid a split within his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Two US Coast Guard vessels shadowed two Chinese icebreakers Ji Di and Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di, that were operating in disputed waters within the Arctic Ocean, just off the coast of Utqiagvik, Alaska.

🇺🇸⚡️- The New York Times editorial board led by Ezra Klein has endorsed the Democrats shutting down the Government in the coming budget battle later this month.

🇹🇷⚡- Widespread anti-Erdogan protests across Turkey. The Turkish authorities have begun restricting access to the internet.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Two armed men opened fire on Israelis in Ramot, Jerusalem.

15 casualties reported, with at least 4 deaths. Both of the shooters have been neutralized. Israeli security forces have closed all crossings in the city.

🇹🇷⚡- A 16-year old opened fire on a police station in Balcova, Izmir, western Turkey.

Two police officers killed, several others injured. The shooter has been neutralized.

🇺🇸⚡️- The process of jury selection in the pending trial of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump in October 2024, has begun in Fort Pierce, Florida.

🇳🇵- At least 10 dead and hundreds wounded in anti-government protests in Nepal following the blocking of social medias

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: Iraqi Kurdistan region's President Barzani told French journalist Adel Bakhawan on Kurdistan24 that if the Syrian "Arab tribes attack Rojava [SDF-controlled Syria]," the Barzani-led Pashmerga forces will intervene, and "head to Qamishli."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against the Hermel region of northeast Lebanon, killing five Hezbollah members and injuring multiple others.

🇪🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Spain recalls its ambassador from Israel.