🇷🇺⚡- A fourth Russian tanker Midvolga-2 was struck in the Black Sea.

The tanker, allegedly carrying sunflower oil, departed from the Rostov region and was supposed to head to Georgia, but was struck by drones while travelling along the coast of Turkey in a westward direction, away from Georgia. After it was hit, it rerouted towards Turkey's port city Sinop.

The tanker suffered minimal damage, unlike the previous three.

🇻🇦🇱🇧⚡️- More than 120,000 Lebanese citizens are currently attending Pope Leo XIV’s mass gathering, which will mark the end of his first trip to the Middle East.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi's approval rating has increased since the diplomatic row with China, now reaching a record level of 75%.

Furthermore, 55% of respondents in Japan find her comments on Taiwan appropriate, while only 30% think they are inappropriate," - Nikkei Asia, Japanese outlet.

🇺🇬🇰🇪⚡- Ugandan President Museveni met with Kenya's Prime Cabinet Secretary Mudavadi earlier today. Museveni made comments in the meeting that has not sat well with Nairobi, Africa Intelligence reports.

The Ugandan President reiterated the country's long-standing ambition to have a naval base, comments that have been interpreted as Kampala's desire for sea access. Kenyan government officials have also pointed out to the natural shifting of the Sio and Yala river beds several kilometers towards inland Kenya. The river marks the Uganda-Kenya border, with Nairobi repeatedly requesting talks with Uganda to redraw fixed borders, which Kampala have ignored.

🇮🇩🇹🇭🇱🇰⚡️- Authorities across Oceania and South-East Asia keep updating casualty reports after devastating floods.

Based on official statements by local organizations to the press, the reported casualties are as follows:

Indonesia: over 750 deaths and over 1 million evacuated civilians. - The Guardian.
Thailand: 162 deaths per latest report. - AFP.
Sri Lanka: 410 deaths and 1.5 million affected civilians. - AFP.
Vietnam: 91 deaths. - AFP.

As of now, authorities from cited countries have struggled to give estimates of missing people.

🇫🇷⚡️- A member of the DGSI, France's internal intelligence agency, was found suicided on a site belonging to the French Interior Ministry.

He is the 3rd suicide within the DGSI in 6 months.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We want to establish a demilitarized zone in southern Syria that stretches from Damascus to Mount Hermon," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We are holding areas [in southern Syria] to ensure the security of Israeli citizens which is important for us," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- Sudan has offered Russia a 25-year-old deal that would allow Russia to have its first naval base in Africa, giving Russia a critical position overlooking the Red Sea channel and greatly extending the operational range of its fleet.

This port would allow up to 300 troops and up to 4 warships, including nuclear-powered ships.

In exchange for a naval base, the Sudanese military would receive advanced Russian anti-aircraft systems and other weapons at preferential prices.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: A Chinese Coast Guard vessel collided with a Japanese fishing boat in the Japanese waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands, located just northeast of Taiwan.

Note, Beijing claims the islands, known in Chinese as the Diaoyu Islands, as its own territory.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Chinese internal media claims the Japanese fishing boat, Ruibao, used a Japanese Coast Guard vessel as escort to the Senkaku Islands to drop off military supplies in the middle of the night.

Chinese media claims two Chinese Coast Guard vessels were on sight to prevent the alleged military resupply mission.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "Japan's Coast Guard said it intercepted and expelled two Chinese Coast Guard ships as they approached the fishing vessel in the early hours of Tuesday morning," - Reuters.

Japanese outlet Live Door News says the two armed Coast Guard ships weren't alone, and that two additional Chinese ships "with machine guns" were loitering in international waters just outside Senkaku Islands water-spaces.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡- "Russia does not intend to go to war with Europe, but if Europeans want to fight, then Moscow is ready for it now," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia may move to cut off Ukraine from the sea if Kiev continues acts of piracy against Russian ships," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

BREAKING:

Putin began meeting with Witkoff and Kushner in the Kremlin, Russian state media reports.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Deportation flights from the US to Venezuela have resumed, despite President Trump declaring Venezuelan airspace closed.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's approval continues to slip from within the GOP particularly in Southern states. His approval in South Carolina among Republicans is now the lowest its been since 2015.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Defense Minister Katz has postponed his visit to the US next week due to US's rising tensions with Venezuela," - al-Jazeera.

🇻🇦🇱🇧⚡- The Pope, during his visit to Lebanon, has called on Hezbollah to "lay down their weapons and pursue diplomacy."