🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Moments ago, a loitering drone launched by Ansarullah in Yemen impacted near the port of Eilat in southern Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- Erika Kirk will officially take over TPUSA as its new CEO.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Two ballistic missiles launched by Ansarullah from Yemen at Israel. Both have been intercepted.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🏳️⚡- CNN reports talks between the US and the Afghan Taliban government began in March to retake Bagram Air Base.

Washington views the base strategically vital to monitor the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, which is where China has deployed most of its military research and development, as well as its nuclear program.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Venezuelan reinforcement arrivals at the Venezuelan President Maduro's underground bunker Casa de los Pinos, south of Caracas.

Rerum Novarum have located all the sensitive sites in the area, which are as follows:

Maduro's bunker: 10.4534948, -66.8945305.
Aerial transport: 10.4554200, -66.8933671.
Radar site: 10.4508976, -66.8954931.
Unidentified structures associated with the bunker: 10.4522663, -66.9004331.
Maduro's family residential complex: 10.4590223, -66.8929581.
Three similar looking warehouses associated with the bunker: 10.4501106, -66.9030683.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Nimitz has left the Persian Gulf, entering the Gulf of Oman.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Fox reports the US Coast Guard boarded a narco-terrorist vessel belonging to the Venezuelan Cartel of the Suns in the Carribbean waters, seizing 5,000 lbs of cocaine and arresting 60 narco-terrorists.

🇺🇸⚡️ - NBC News reports that Pentagon officials are considering a new recruiting campaign centered on honoring Charlie Kirk by enlisting.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China announces the creation of a "national-level nature reserve" at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

The majority of the reef has already been devastated by land-harvesting.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China's Shandong aircraft carrier has left the Yulin Naval Base and is heading southwards, likely towards the disputed Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇧🇫🇳🇪🇲🇱⚡- BREAKING: The three AES states Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, ICC.

The AES states "bias and criticism that disproportionately targeted African leaders while overlooking abuses tied to powerful states" as the reason for withdrawal. The AES have proposed establishing their own local Sahelian court.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇹🇲⚡- "Iraq's attempt to ease its chronic power shortage with gas from Turkmenistan routed through neighbouring Iran has failed under U.S. pressure.

Under the proposed Iraq-Turkmenistan 2023 deal, Iran would receive the gas and supply it to Iraq, but this risked violating U.S. sanctions on Tehran, thus requiring Washington's approval, which never came," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡️- The United States vetoed a motion from the UN Security Council calling for a Gaza ceasefire, release of hostages, and easement on humanitarian aid.

The entire UN Security Council - except for the United States - voted in favor of the motion, 14-1.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Venezuela has responded to the US military build-up in the Caribbean waters with military exercises dubbed "La Orchila" on the strategic island of La Orchila.

The island's strategic point has in the past attracted Russian interest, where the two countries explored possibilities of deploying Russian bombers on the island.

Rerum Novarum have located all the sensitive sites on the island, which overall is not at all well prepared for defense:

Airstrip: 11.80762, -66.18279.
Military Command Center: 11.81798, -66.13747.
Energy / Solar site: 11.80344, -66.19323 (there are unconfirmed reports of the deployment of TELARs / TELs, in particular the Russian-made Buk system to this location).
Radar: 11.81268, -66.19052.
Anti-ship gun sites (currently empty): 11.81086, -66.20222.
Onshore oil rig: 11.80611, -66.16851.

🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has said the doors are open for other Arab nations to join the Saudi-Pakistan defense agreement.

🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- "What we have, our [nuclear] capabilities, will absolutely be available under this pact," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🏳🇵🇰⚡- "Afghan soil is being used to stage acts of terrorism in Pakistan," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇺🇸🏳🇵🇰⚡- "We were swept into two wars in Afghanistan. The US, on both occasions, left the region and we are still dealing with the consequences, be it the Taliban, the TTP, the BLA or anyone else," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.