🇬🇧⚡️- 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.

🇪🇺⚡️- Ursula von Der Leyen announced she will provisionally apply the Mercosur deal despite the EU Parliament's vote to seize the justice to examinate the deal.

🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸⚡️- Friedrich Merz will travel to the U.S. on Tuesday to bring Europe's proposition for a U.S.-EU trade agreement.

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡- Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad is scheduled to meet Vice President JD Vance and other senior officials today in Washington regarding the US-Iran talks.

🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew Live reports that Beersheba, Tel Aviv and Raanana have begun opening public shelters.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Channel 14, which normally shuts for Shabbat, will remain 'quiet' services this weekend.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Reports of evacuations of non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: American personnel in Baghdad, Iraq, are being evacuated through Baghdad International Airport, al-Hadath reports.