🇾🇪⚡️- Two sailors killed, two seriously injured and four with undisclosed injuries after Houthi attack on the commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden.

🇫🇷🇲🇩 - France is set to sign a Defence Pact with Moldova, amid what France calls "fears of Russian destabilisation".

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 - TikTok sent out a notification to users warning that the app could soon be banned in the US, unless divested to a US company from Chinese owner ByteDance. This comes after a bill is expected to clear the Energy and Commerce Committee and go to the House for a vote, which allows the President to designate social media under control of US adversaries as a national security threat. The bill has bipartisan support, including from President Biden.

This is a part of the United State’s ongoing ‘cold war’ against the rising great-powers of Russia and China. As a Chinese company, TikTok isn’t subject to the same pressures of censorship that US tech companies are, such as by the ADL, making the dissenting narratives found on it an active threat to the US regime’s dominance over information.

🇷🇺🇲🇩⚡ - Russian President Putin met with Eugenia Gutul, the head of one of the autonomous regions of Moldova and breakaway states – Gagauzia, in Moscow. She recently stated that Moldova is oppressing their 'Turkic' rights.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israel has notified Western nations that it has established a deadline on March 15 for reaching a political agreement with Lebanon, after which the Israeli government will be prepared to escalate military operations into a large-scale war.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Hezbollah missile strikes against an Israeli military base near the border

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli air raids against Ayta ash-Shab in southern Lebanon

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Aid being airdropped into Gaza

🇺🇸⚡️- House Democrats have opened an investigation of SpaceX, assessing if the company has put in place enough safeguards to prevent Russia from using its Starlink satellite internet service in the conflict with Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- The White House says that it will respond to the Houthi attack against a Liberian-owned merchant vessel "True Confidence," which was targeted while traveling through the Red Sea

🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈⚡️- Sweden has officially joined NATO.

🇺🇦🇬🇷⚡ - "Ukraine and Greece are preparing a bilateral security agreement." - Zelensky

Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the defense capabilities of Ukraine during a visit to Odessa on March 2nd, 2024.
PM Mitsotakis visited a recently destroyed section of the city (likely a casualty of a faulty Ukrainian anti-missile rocket missing its target) and affirmed Greece's historical ties to Odessa, citing the Filiki Etairia organization which fought for Greek independence from Ottoman rule in the 19th century.

The details of Greece's future contributions to the Ukrainian war effort remain largely unknown.

🇲🇩⚡ - President of Moldova Maia Sandu says Russia is attempting a 'coup' in the Republic.

🇺🇦⚡ - Dismissed ex-Commander of Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has now been appointed as ambassador to the United Kingdom, by President Zelenskyi.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Ukraine has begun to evacuate civilians from 55 settlements near Kupyansk in the Kharkov oblast. This is in preparation for a possible Russian offensive in the area.

🇷🇺⚡ - The US Embassy & Consulates in Russia has issued a security alert to last for 48 hours.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Pro-Palestine demonstrators blocked Biden's motorcade headed towards the Capitol

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🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Biden says at the State of Union address that he will approve a US military mission to establish a "temporary pier" in Gaza to allow aid to arrive.