🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- 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.

🇾🇪⚡- "The south of Yemen [including the Hadhramaut Governorate] will not be a haven for terrorism," - Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, UAE-backed.

🇾🇪⚡- "The Wadi regions [oil-rich areas around Seiyun of Hadhramaut Governorate in eastern Yemen] were used for years for smuggling in favor of the terrorist Houthis, leading to the bleeding of the sons of the South," - Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, UAE-backed.

🇾🇪 - The moment Seiyun, Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen, fell to UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces.

🇾🇪⚡- Celebrations in al-Mukalla, UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces controlled capital of the Hadhramaut Governorate, after their forces captured most of the cities and towns in the Seiyun area.

🇾🇪⚡- The Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, UAE-backed, announces the start of Operation "Promising Future."

🇾🇪 - UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces fire at and replaces the Yemeni flag over Seiyun, Hadhramaut Governorate, with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council flag.