🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- 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.

🇫🇷⚡️- France's Premier Bayrou lost the confidence vote as anticipated. Government has officially collapsed.

🇪🇹⚡- Landlocked Ethiopia launches its first navy training center in Bishoftu, and has relocated its navy headquarters from neighbouring Djibouti to Addis Ababa.

Note, currently Ethiopia only has a small brown water naval force based in Bahir Dar, just south of Lake Tana.

🇪🇹⚡- Celebrations tonight near the GERD dam in Guba, Ethiopia, on the eve of its official inauguration. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is also in attendance.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: Epstein's lawyers handed a copy of Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book to Congress, which includes a letter signed by President Trump.

Trump to Epstein: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey ... A pal is a wonderful thing, Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret."

The birthday letter has been published by the Wall Street Journal. Trump had previously claimed the letter does not exist.

🇪🇪⚡- BREAKING: Malta-flagged CMA CGM MERMAID carrier has crashed into Port Muuga, Estonia. Its AIS went dark for almost three hours, coming back online less than 5 minutes ago.