🇺🇸✡️⚡️- BREAKING: Netflix will not match Paramount’s “superior” offer to Warner Bros.

The Ellison media empire appears to be expanding once more, as they now control Paramount, its subsidiary CBS, TikTok, and are near-finalizing their purchase of Warner Bros.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Four Pakistani airstrikes were carried out on Afghanistan. Two on Kabul, one on Kandahar, and one on Gardez.

No casualties have been reported.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Further progress has been made in our diplomatic engagement with the United States.

This round of talks was the most intense so far. It concluded with the mutual understanding that we will continue to engage in a more detailed manner on matters that are essential to any deal—including sanctions termination and nuclear-related steps.

In parallel with the political track, technical teams will convene in Vienna in the coming days. Their mission is as critical as ours." - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇺🇸✡️- Paramount will control the following brands and assets after the acquisition.

TNT, CBS, CNN, MTV, TCM, Showtime, Adult Swim, DC Studios, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, HBO/HBO Max, Comedy Central, and Cartoon Network.

Paramount will also hold film rights to notable film franchises:

Star Trek, DC Comics, Tom & Jerry, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, Game of Thrones, Mission: Impossible, The Lord of the Rings, SpongeBob SquarePants, and distribution rights to films such as Dune 3 and Minecraft.

🇺🇸⚡- The Federal Aviation Administration has published a NOTAM over Fort Hancock, Texas restricting the airspace below 18,000 feet (below passenger airline traffic) for "national defense airspace" after a U.S. Military high powered laser system was used to accidentally shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, mistaken to be a drone used by drug cartels which had crossed the border.

Strangely, the NOTAM and its flight restrictions are active for another three and a half months until June 24th.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- US State Dept announces $10M bounty ($5M each) on Sinaloa Cartel Tijuana bosses René "La Rana" Arzate-García and Alfonso "Aquiles" Arzate-García for fentanyl trafficking and narco-terrorism.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton special election defeating a Labour incumbent.

A seat heavily contested due to Labours collapse in support and sectarian voting being heavily present, the Greens have planted themselves as a real threat to Labour, Reform UK came in 2nd with Labour and the Tories crashing and burning.

This is the first special election win for the Green Party in its history.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Three sources familiar with U.S. intelligence reports say President Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile capable of striking the United States is not supported by intelligence and appears exaggerated." - Reuters.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- A Thai soldier has been hospitalized after stepping on a land mine along the Thai-Cambodian border. The soldier is in a critical state.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah is preparing to join a potential U.S.–Iran conflict. Over recent weeks, the group has mobilized forces and repositioned missile launchers along the coast.

They have also dug a 30 km-long, 9 m-deep, 23 m-wide trench system surrounding Hodeidah on three sides, as the port is their main entry point for fuel, commercial imports, and other shipments that support military operations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Channel 14 reports the USS Gerald Ford has arrived in Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - 14 aerial refuelers currently at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “The idea that we're going to be at war in the Middle East for years with no end in sight, there's no way that's going to happen.” - Channel 12 citing U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Sporadic clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border continued this morning, but with far lesser intensity.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING : The U.S. Department of State has issued the following security alert:

"On February 27, 2026, the Department of State authorized the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members of U.S. government personnel from Mission Israel due to safety risks.

In response to security incidents and without advance notice, the U.S. Embassy may further restrict or prohibit U.S. government employees and their family members from traveling to certain areas of Israel, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available." - U.S. Embassy of Jerusalem on X.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel to embassy staff: "Anyone who wants to leave should do so today."

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Mike Huckabee's mail to embassy staff includes the following statement: "Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to [Washington] DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.”

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Three Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan today, against Laghman, Khost, and Paktia.

🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- China has called on its citizens to leave Iran immediately.