🇬🇼⚡️- BREAKING: A coup is underway in Guinea-Bissau. Gunfire has been heard in Bissau, the capital city, and reports that the President, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been placed under arrest.

🇬🇼⚡️- Unconfirmed reports suggest that the leaders of the coup are top military officials and the Interior Minister of the nation.

Guinea-Bissau recently re-elected President Embaló on Sunday, with the president claiming victory. This is likely another counter-ECOMOG coup, possibly supported by the Alliance of Sahel States countries within Africa's 'coup belt.'

🇬🇼⚡- Scenes from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

Geolocated to 11.858601, -15.586512.

🇬🇼⚡- Unidentified gunmen have seized the National Electoral Commission building in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

🇭🇰⚡️- A fire has broken out in Hong Kong across multiple high-rise buildings, killing 13 people and injuring dozens.

🇷🇺⚡- Russian intelligence reports a failed assassination attempt on Putin's top propagandist, the Russian-Jew Vladimir Solovyov, using a poisoned pizza.

Russian outlet TASS claims the perpetrators behind the assassination were alleged neo-Nazis.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian air defenses are being tested over Kermanshah, Iran.

🇬🇼⚡- Guinea-Bissau's international borders have all closed amid the coup.

🇬🇼⚡- BREAKING: Military officers say they have taken over Guinea-Bissau, with the coup being successful, France24 reports.

🇬🇼⚡- BREAKING: Fernando Dias, Guinea-Bissau's opposition candidate, has now also been arrested by military officers, RFI reports.

Fernando Dias ran as an opposition to current Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Embalo. It was initially believed the coup was sympathetic to Dias.

🇬🇼⚡- Former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira, also an opposition figure to Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Embalo, has been arrested by the perpetrators of the coup, RFI claims.

🇬🇼⚡- Radio France International reports both Fernando Dias and Domingos Simoes Pereira are being transported to an airbase in Guinea-Bissau.

🇬🇼⚡️- AFP reports that Guinea-Bissau has sealed all of its borders under the leadership of its new putschist government.

🇬🇼⚡️- BREAKING: Brigadier General Denis N’Canha has announced on state television the formation of an interim administration, led by the military, named the High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order.

All state institutions have been suspended, including the election process, by order of the putsch.

🇺🇸⚡️- Polling in the Tennessee 7th Congressional District special election has the Democrat only 2 points behind the GOP candidate, this is usually a solidly Republican district.

If the Democrat pulls out an upset here alongside MTG and possibly 2 more early resignations the House could change hands long before the midterms.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- For the second night in a row, unidentified fighter jets were observed over Maysan, a province in southern Iraq bordering Iran.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- Unidentified jets were seen operating in the Maysan region of Iraq, which borders Iran's Khuzestan Province.

🇭🇰⚡- The death toll from the fire that broke out across multiple high-rises in Hong Kong rises to 36, AFP reports.

🇳🇬⚡- BREAKING: Nigeria declares a nationwide state of emergency following a wave of mass kidnappings.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran has launched a channel in Hebrew called Pers TV.

🇮🇶⚡️- "The sounds of aircraft heard in some governorates belong to the Iraqi Air Force and are carrying out training missions." - Iraqi Director of Media at the Ministry of Defense, Major General Tahsin Al-Khafaji.