🇺🇸🦁⚡️- An Illinois judge has ordered the removal of President Trump from the primary ballot.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Biden administration now believes an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon is a ‘distinct possibility’ according to CNN

🇺🇸⚡️- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has approved the release of grand jury documents pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡️- Russia announced the suspension of gasoline exports for six months, starting today.

🇺🇸⚡️- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: “If Ukraine falls, I really believe that NATO will be in a fight with Russia.”

🇺🇸⚡️- The House has voted to avert a partial government shutdown

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- US veterans burning their military uniforms at an Aaron Bushnell vigil.

🇨🇴🇮🇱⚡️- Colombian President Petro suspends all arms purchases from Israel, accuses Netanyahu of ‘genocide’

🇻🇦⚡️- Pope Francis has called for studies into gender ideology, describing it as an “ugly ideology of our time, which cancels out the differences and makes everything the same.” To erase this difference “is to erase humanity.”

“Man and woman, instead, exist in a fruitful ‘tension’”, he said.

— 🇳🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Yesterday, a group of fully armed 'foreign militants' was detained by Hezbollah in a sensitive security area in southern Beirut; they were handed over to the Lebanese Army Intelligence soon after, and confessed to to being part of the Dutch military, upon which the Netherlands requested them to be handed over

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israel told Qatari and Egyptian mediators that it will not engage in any more negotiations with Hamas unless a list of hostages who are alive is presented

🇬🇧⚡️- British PM Sunak: “Islamist extremists and the far right are two sides of the same extremist coin.”

🇾🇪🇴🇲⚡️- A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Arabian Sea and near the coasts of Oman and Yemen.

🇳🇮🇩🇪⚡️- Nicaragua has formally submitted an application to the International Court of Justice against Germany, accusing them of failing to prevent a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and to have "contributed to the commission of genocide.”

🇺🇸/🇵🇸 — BREAKING: The Pentagon is set to begin a humanitarian air-drop campaign in Gaza in the coming days which the Biden administration is expected to announce Friday. – WSJ

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Sirens in Ashkelon

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Biden announces US aid drop into Gaza in the coming days. – NBC News

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Hamas announces death of 6 new hostages in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- White House: We will redouble efforts to open a sea corridor for aid to Gaza

— 🇳🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Dutch media confirms that a team of three Dutch military personnel, working for and assisting the mission of the Dutch embassy in Beirut, were detained by Hezbollah while carrying out a reconaissance mission in the city's Southern suburbs, Dahye, in an effort to probe possible evacuation routes in case of possible escalation with Israel – De Telegraaf

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