🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media says that Egyptian soldiers opened fire first, causing elements of the 401st Brigade to respond.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- Some NATO countries are proposing closing the sky over Ukraine and forming a 'No Fly Zone'. The move was initiated by Poland, backed by the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Great Britain is also ready to send weapons not just to the Polish-Ukrainian border, but closer to the frontline itself.

The US and Germany reject both proposals – Bild.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡️- In the opinion of admin, this clash at Rafah will likely be memory-holed and forgotten, as Egypt - from the beginning - has been insistent on non-confrontation and minimal escalation.

🇰🇵🇯🇵⚡️- North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile towards Japan, activating Japan's emergency alert system for the whole nation.

🇰🇵🇯🇵⚡️- Residents in Okinawa were advised to seek shelter upon the missile launch.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡️- A spokesperson for the Egyptian military confirms the death of one Egyptian soldier during clashes in Rafah.

Egypt says it is investigating the incident.

🇰🇵🇯🇵⚡- Japanese media publish a video of the rocket that exploded in the air.

🇬🇧⚡️- Tories say that the Royal Family would not be exempt from the draft.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Syrski says Ukraine has signed a deal to bring French instructors to Ukraine.

🇬🇧⚡️- Another Tory MP, Lucy Allan, has endorsed her constituency’s Reform UK candidate. She was expelled from the Conservative Party shortly after.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian forces now control the entirety of the Southern border to the 'Kanal' district of Chasov-Yar (Bakhmut direction) – Russia already has control of the entire Eastern border.

The advance in this direction means Kanal's only supply route "Oleha Koshovoho" is under Russian fire control.

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🇪🇸🇵🇸⚡- Spain officially recognizes the Palestinian State, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

🇨🇳🇾🇪⚡- "We call for an end to attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea," – Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, asked the Yemeni Foreign Minister in a meeting in Beijing, China.

🇪🇸🇵🇸⚡- Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, declares East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian State.

🇮🇱⚡️- Opposition leader Yair Lapid to hold a meeting with other opposition members tomorrow.

Some have speculated potential seditious ideas to be floated at this meeting.

🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- The Polish Foreign Ministry says that Polish troops have not yet been instructed to go to Ukraine, but they do not rule out the possibility that in the future they can be sent.

🇺🇦🇧🇪⚡- Belgium joins Germany, Italy and the USA, in not giving Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory with its weapons.