🇺🇸🇭🇹⚡- The US Ambassador to Haiti says Washington may soon "strike gangs" across Haiti.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense confirmed that Pakistan carried out airstrikes against several regions of the country last night, calling the attack a "violation of Afghan sovereignty." The Ministry warned that Pakistan will be "held responsible for the consequences."

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "We have warned Pakistan. They should learn from the Russians, Americans and NATO of the consequences of harming Afghans," - Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces have completed their withdrawal to the 'Yellow Line' in the Gaza Strip as part of phase one of the Hamas-Israel peace deal.

Israeli control of the Gaza Strip has dropped to 203 sqkm, or 55% of the territory.

🇺🇸🇳🇴🇮🇱⚡- "The Nobel Committee talks about peace. President Trump makes it happen. The facts speak for themselves. President Trump deserves it," - Netanyahu's Press Office.

🇺🇸🇳🇴🇷🇺⚡- "President Trump is trying, working on issues of achieving peace, such as the situation in the Middle East, this is a historic event.

There have been cases when the Nobel Committee awarded the prize to people who did nothing for peace. The prestige of the prize has largely been lost," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The army's withdrawal in several areas is much deeper than what appeared on the withdrawal maps in the Gaza Strip.

The army dismantled at least two military sites located within the Gaza Strip, which were expected to remain," - Galei Tzahal.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado urged US support to end Nicolás Maduro’s rule, calling the award “an impetus to achieve freedom.” She said Venezuela counts on “President Trump, the US people, and democratic nations” to help free her country.

🇺🇸🇳🇴🇷🇺⚡- "Thank you President Putin," - President Trump responding to Putin's words on the Nobel Peace Prize award.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Some very strange things are happening in China!

They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere.

Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least.

But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW!

The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all.

I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World.

I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so.

The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A.

One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Donald Trump.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russian outlets report former President of Syria Bashar al-Assad spends most of his time playing video games, owns multiple luxury apartments and a villa.

🇵🇰⚡- Death toll of Pakistani soldiers rises to 13 in two attacks from Tahreek-e-Taliban in western Pakistan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- In just the first day of the ceasefire 152 bodies were recovered by emergency teams from across the Gaza Strip.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Heavy clashes have broken out between Afghanistan's Taliban and Pakistani forces in the Waziristan area, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🇯🇵⚡️- Japan's coalition collapse as centrist party Komeito leaves.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Venezuela says they are expecting a US armed attack in a very short time." - CBS.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has begun gathering the 2,000 prisoners scheduled for release by Monday / Tuesday in exchange for the 20 living Israeli hostages.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has rescheduled its planned summit with Arab leaders in a last-minute move after only a very handful of leaders agreed to attend," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇵🇷⚡- The fifth generation gunship AC-130J Ghostrider arrives in Puerto Rico.

The aircraft was pictured already armed with laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.

🇷🇺🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "Venezuela has been subjected to unprecedented pressure and US military invasion threats," - Russia's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇷🇺🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "Venezuela does not appear in the US State Department's report as a country associated with drug smuggling threats and cartel gangs," - Russia's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.