🇭🇰⚡️- Firefighting operations on the Hong Kong high-rise fires have now finished 46 hours after they began.

The fire had affected 7 high-rise buildings, with the most recent numbers being 94 people, including 1 firefighter, confirmed dead. 76 people, including 11 injured firefighters, with a few hundred still missing.

Hong Kong authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the fires. Three people have already been arrested as part of that investigation for manslaughter: two directors and a consultant for the company performing renovations on the building at the time of the fire.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF confirms six soldier casualties who were all evacuated. Three IDF soldiers were seriously wounded, another was moderately wounded, and two others were lightly wounded. The IDF claims they were conducting an anti-terrorist operation to arrest suspects linked to Islamic Jama'a.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Initial reports indicate a new advance with Israeli tanks and four military vehicles advancing into the vicinity of the town of Beit Jinn, Syria.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The IDF announced that it will demolish 24 buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestine, which houses thousands of Palestinians.

🇪🇺🇦🇲⚡- Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Robert Abisoghomonyan, arrives in Brussels to discuss prospects for increased cooperation in defense between the EU and Armenia.

🇫🇷🇳🇪🇷🇺⚡- Niger has illegally and secretly sold 1,000 tons of French uranium to Russia.

The yellowcake was left behind in Niger by the French giant Orano at the SOMAIR site, after the company was forced to withdraw from the country. Orano has condemned the "illegal transport" of its product.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 claim to have shot down a Congolese Su-25 jet in the North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - IDF body cam footage of the close quarter shootout with Syrians in Beit Jinn earlier today.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The clashes in Syrian Beit Jinn are the fiercest since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime a year ago," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Protests in multiple Syrian cities condemning the Israeli attacks on Beit Jinn earlier today.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Beit Jinn, southern Syria – a funeral held for the victims of the Israeli attacks from earlier today.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Latakia, Syria, right now.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "No agreement is possible with Syria at this time, the country is unstable," - Yediot Ahronot.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The latest version of the plan to resolve the war, which was developed as a result of negotiations between Washington and Kiev in Geneva, is being kept secret from the European Union," - Politico.

🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡- Hungary's Viktor Orban arrives at the Kremlin for a meeting with Vladimir Putin.

🇬🇼⚡- BREAKING: ECOWAS have suspended Guinea-Bissau from the organization.

🇺🇦⚡️- Andrii Yermak has resigned from his position as Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff after his house was searched yesterday due to an ongoing corruption investigation.

Yermak was Ukraine's lead negotiator during peace talks between Russia and the United States.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli soldier has died from his injuries sustained earlier today from the close quarter combat in Beit Jinn, southern Syria.

The Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir was present at the hospital during his passing.