🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Matt Van Epps has been elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 7th Congressional District.

🇺🇸⚡️- Despite the GOP doing better than expected compared to other special elections this year, some House members are raising alarm bells to leadership and signaling more possible retirements.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- Germany deploys the Arrow-3 air defense system, the first time the system has been used outside of Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli delegation will visit Beirut to hold direct economic negotiations with Lebanon, Netanyahu's Press Office reports.

🇻🇪🇮🇷⚡- Iran evacuates the families of its diplomats from Venezuela amid rising tensions, IRIB reports.

🇫🇷🇨🇳⚡- French President Macron arrives in China for a 3-day state visit.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Historical talks between Lebanon and Israel have begun, focused mainly on economic cooperation. The talks mark one of the first times Beirut and Tel Aviv have communicated directly in recent history.

The negotiations are ironically held in Naqoura, southern Lebanon - a major stronghold of Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli drone activity across much of southern Lebanon.

🇹🇷🇻🇪🇱🇾⚡- Turkish outlet Sozcu claims most of the drugs that came into Turkey arrived from Venezuela. The Venezuelan shipments would first travel Haftar of eastern Libya, who would then distribute the narcotics around the Middle East and Turkey.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Russia has abandoned the construction of a new railway from Siberia to China due to a lack of funds," - The Moscow Times.

🇬🇪🇪🇺⚡- President of Georgia Kavelashvili stated that his country will be ready to join the EU by 2030, despite Brussels not recognizing the October 26th 2024 Parliamentary elections, nor the appointment of President Kavelashvili.

🇹🇷🇦🇲⚡- "Turkey is considering opening the Armenian-Turkish border in the run-up to Armenian elections, which would end the last closed border of the Cold War era in Europe. The opening of the border with Turkey will give Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan an important boost ahead of the parliamentary elections in June 2026," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸⚡️- Billionaire owner of X and President Trump’s largest donor, Elon Musk, declared Jewish people ‘peak white’ during an argument on his platform.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇶🇦⚡️- The Washington Post reports that the Trump Administration is looking into "relocating" Venezuelan President Maduro to Qatar.

🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces have captured the city of Seiyun in the Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen, from the Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance.

🇾🇪⚡- Violent clashes ongoing between the UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces and Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance east of Seiyun, on the outskirts of al-Hawi, Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- "We call on civilians and military personnel to remain in their homes until the situation stabilizes," - Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, UAE-backed.

🇾🇪⚡- "The forces [Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance] removed were the lungs from which the Muslim Brotherhood breathes," - Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, UAE-backed.