🇪🇹⚡- 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.

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡- Russian Mi-8 helicopter entered the Estonian Vaindloo Island's airspace for four minutes.

The incident occurred yesterday, with the Russian military helicopter turning off its transponders too.

🇳🇴⚡- Norway's parliamentary vote counting has begun. Labour Party are projected to win, but with Sylvi Listhaug's right-wing Progress Party largely over-performing.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Three Israeli airstrikes against Latakia, coastal Syria.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Abbas Araghchi will hold direct talks with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to finalize a cooperation agreement.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli airstrike against a military camp near Palmyra, eastern Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets are still flying over Homs-Palmyra, central Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Explosion in Damascus. Cause unknown.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Correction: Israeli jets breaking the sound barrier over Damascus.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets are withdrawing from Syrian airspace, the attacks seem to be over.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A new squadron of Israeli jets enter Syrian airspace from the Golan region.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "The Americans are trying to provoke us and push us to reckless reactions that lead to escalation," - Venezuela's Interior Ministry.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Turkish jets flying along the Turkish-Syrian border, northwest Syria, on the Turkish side.

Reports of Turkish jets entering Syrian airspace are false.

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- 5.0 earthquake hits the Aegean Sea, just 17km off Marathon, Greece.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF has issued evacuation orders for the entirety of Gaza City, as an impending ground offensive is increasingly inevitable.