🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- The Philippines Coast Guard released photos of the Scarborough Shoal showing the Chinese have installed two new yellow buoys, one in the northwestern tip and the other in the center of the shoal. Structural debris has been found in the southeast of the shoal.

China uses yellow buoys to mark its alleged territorial waters in the South China and Yellow Seas. This is the first time Chinese buoys have been used in Scarborough, and comes as the US prepares live rocket firing exercises in the area.

🇪🇹⚡- Fighting between forces from the Tigray region and Ethiopian troops in the neighboring Afar province continue for a second day.

Afar's regional government has accused the Tigray forces of seizing 6 towns in the Afar province, violating the 2022 Pretoria ceasefire. The Tigray Interim Administration deny their TPLF forces are involved in the attacks, and claim to be working together with Addis Ababa to deescalate the situation.

🇸🇴🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- Said Abdullahi Deni, Puntland's President, a separatist region of Somalia, has arrived in Abu Dhabi, UAE, after a brief stop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Coincidentally he is joined by the leaders of South Sudan and Chad.

🇺🇸🇳🇬🇷🇺⚡- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calls on the US to "strictly comply with international law," amid President Trump's threats to carry out a military operation in Nigeria.

Zakharova rejects calls for airstrikes against Islamist terrorist groups over their attacks against Christians.

🇷🇺🇹🇿⚡- Russian President Putin congratulates Samia Suluhu Hassan in her victory in the Tanzanian Presidential elections, which she allegedly won with 98% of the votes, and has left over 1,000 civilians dead. Anti-Hassan protests are ongoing across the country amid a nationwide internet blackout.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's approval rating among Republicans is starting to slip, decreasing from 91% approval to 79%.

His overall approval is in freefall.

🇺🇸🇭🇺⚡- President Trump welcomes Hungary's Viktor Orban to the White House.

🏳️🇵🇰🇹🇷⚡- "Istanbul peace talks with Afghanistan have collapsed.

Ceasefire with Afghanistan will hold as long as there are no attacks from Afghan soil," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistani Defense Minister, tells Reuters.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Turkey has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 Israeli officials on charges of genocide.

🇺🇸⚡️- James Watson, the man who helped discover the structure of DNA, has passed away at the age of 97.

You may recall Watson was cancelled and had his noscripts stripped from him during peak woke in 2019 over passing comments he made on race.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel demolishes several buildings in Rafah and Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Red Cross has picked up an Israeli deceased hostage from Gaza, there are just five bodies left in the Strip.

🇸🇩🇹🇷⚡- Rapid Support Forces launch multiple one-way drone strikes on Sudan's Atbara Air Base.

The base is home to Sudan's Turkish-made Bayraktar drones.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China may attack Taiwan as early as next year.

Western intelligence agencies warn that the Beijing military invasion of Taiwan could begin as early as November 2026 if internal unrest occurs in the US after the midterm elections. It is claimed that the Chinese leadership views the crisis in the US, as an opportunity for aggressive actions," - Bild, German outlet.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones enter southern Syrian airspace.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli political donor Miriam Adelson will lead a twenty-million-dollar campaign to unseat Republican Congressman Thomas Massie. Massie is one of the few members of Congress who has been outspoken about Israeli influence in American politics and is known for criticizing AIPAC and other foreign lobbies.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- North Korea's Ministry of Defense threatens an "increase in offensive actions," after the USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived in Busan, South Korea, for the first time in over a decade.

🇺🇸⚡️- US consumer confidence hits 2nd lowest score ever, now worse than 2020.

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡- "It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa. Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated.

No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.

I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, Florida!" - President Donald Trump.