🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- A time-lapse of Bitcoin’s 1 second chart, illustrating what happened earlier today.

🇸🇾⚡- The SDF and Damascus have reached an agreement in which the SDF will hand over all oil production in the al-Jazeera region of Deir ez-Zur.

🇷🇺⚡- "The nuclear race has begun and Russia is testing new-generation nuclear weapons," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Violent protests in Lahore, eastern Pakistan – security forces have begun to use live fire rounds.

The protests are in support of the far-right Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik, Islamabad's fourth largest political party.

11 civilian casualties reported.

🇵🇰⚡- Scenes from Lahore.

The pro-Tehreek-i-Labbaik protestors accuse the Chief of Staff Asim Munir (arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan) of "surrendering to Israel and the US."

🇵🇰⚡- Ali Amin Gandapur, Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, has submitted his resignation, lasting less than 18 months.

His term saw a massive deterioration of the security situation in the disputed region. In just the past 5 days, over 35+ Pakistani soldiers were killed in attacks by the Tahreek-e-Taliban.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China places bounties on 18 Taiwanese military personnel accused conducting "separatist psychological operations."

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's government responds to the Chinese bounties as "pig-headed thinking."

🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te announces plans to build the 'T-Dome' – a sophisticated, multi-layered air defense system.

🇺🇸⚡️- A mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi has occurred at a high school homecoming football game that has left 4 dead, 4 in critical condition and 12 others injured. No suspect has been arrested and a man hunt is currently ongoing.

🇺🇸🇲🇬⚡️- “U.S. citizens are STRONGLY advised to shelter-in-place. Reports indicate that the gendarmerie and military have exchanged gunfire downtown near Lake Anosy, and some factions of the security forces have joined the protests. The situation remains highly volatile and unpredictable.”
- U.S. Embassy in Madagascar

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Clashes between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani forces have broken out for the third night in a row in the Waziristan region, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan reports the death of a civilian from Afghan Taliban artillery shelling in the Kurram District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, western Pakistan.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Scenes from the Waziristan tribal area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Afghan sources report clashes have now escalated covering the entire Afghanistan-Pakistan border, from Helmand to Kunar.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Heavy reinforcements are arriving from both sides to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Reports of a Pakistani outpost falling to the Afghan Taliban control in Waziristan are false – the reports are spread by Indian media.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Footage shows Afghan Taliban reinforcements arriving at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- 2 Pakistani soldiers and 5 Afghan Taliban have so far died from the clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.