🇺🇸⚡- The Senate has approved Marine Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan as the new SOUTHCOM Commander.

🇫🇷⚡️- The French police is currently conducting a police search in X's French headquarters in Paris.

The operation is conducted with Interpol's support and related to the ongoing investigation opened in January 2025.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- BREAKING: "A group of armed boats attempted to intercept a vessel 16 nautical miles (29.6 km) north of Oman," - al-Arabiya, citing the UKMTO.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "A vessel has been hailed on by numerous small armed vessels.

The vessel had ignored the request to stop and had continued on its planned route.

Authorities are investigating," - UK Maritime Trade Operations.

🇸🇩⚡- Following Diling, the Sudanese Armed Forces have broken the 24+ months siege on the capital of South Kordofan, Kadugli.

🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: Two shipyard workers have been arrested of attempting to sabotage multiple German navy warships in Hamburg, Germany.

A 37 year old Romanian and a 54 year old Greek have been detained by the German authorities.

German outlet The Bild reports the "men poured corrosive material into a warship's engine block, punctured freshwater pipes, removed fuel tank caps, and disabled electrical safety switches on the vessels."

🇹🇷🇸🇦⚡- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A historic visit, marking the Arab Kingdom's shift towards the Turkey-led Middle East bloc.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu-Witkoff meeting has begun at Netanyahu's Prime Minister's Office.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel had opposed the smaller-scale strikes Trump was considering three weeks ago out of a sense they would merely be symbolic, and not worth the risk of massive retaliation.

That dynamic has shifted. A succession of Israeli spies and generals - including Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir have visited D.C. in recent days. Zamir briefed the US Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Israel's offensive and defensive plans in the event of war with Iran," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "It's safe to say that nothing came out of that [Israeli Chief of Staff's] meeting to change his [Gen. Dan Caine] or the President's mind on attacking Iran.

It's really the Israelis who want a strike. The President is just not there.

Trump really does not want to do it," - A US official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran is demanding change to the venue and format for negotiations scheduled for Friday with the United States.

The WSJ reports they are threatening to pull out of negotiations completely.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The US Navy has just shot down an Iranian drone that approached the USS Lincoln. - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying towards the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and was shot down by a F-35 US fighter jet," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The ship harassed by the Iranians was a U.S. flagged tanker with an American crew aboard.

CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins stated, “Two IRGC boats and an Iranian Mohajer drone approached M/V Stena Imperative at high speeds and threatened to board and seize the tanker.” - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Netanyahu-Witkoff meeting has ended, lasting three hours.

Chief of Staff Zamir, Chief of Mossad Barnea, Chief of Aman Binder, and Air Force Commander Bar were all present during the meeting.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has asked the United States for freedom of action in Iran," - Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US-Iran talks are still scheduled for Friday despite the downing of an Iranian drone, a White House source tells AFP.