More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition urging a ban on Israel from Eurovision over alleged "war crimes" in Gaza.

If Israel is not excluded from the competition, they want public broadcaster Yle to withdraw Finland's entry from the competition.

China sent a sea-launched Gravity-1 (YL-1) carrier rocket into space from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China's Shandong Province, sending 3 satellites into the planned orbit.

The launch marked the first flight mission of the YL-1 commercial carrier rocket.

Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania sign a deal to tackle Black Sea mines

Signatures were signed as part of the "Trilateral Initiative" led by Türkiye, alongside Romania and Bulgaria, aimed at addressing the threat of mines in the Black Sea.

Türkiye says it has carefully, responsibly and impartially implemented the Montreux Straits Convention, which ensures the balance in the Black Sea in line with the principle of regional ownership and is of great importance for the security of the region.

Trilateral Initiative (Black Sea Mine Countermeasures Task Group/MCM Black Sea) will be open only to ships of the three littoral allies.

Following the end of the ongoing war, the participation of the riparian partner countries will be possible with the approval of this tripartite committee.

Iran seized an oil tanker off the coast of Oman.

Marshall Islands-flagged tanker St Nikolas was boarded by armed Iranian intruders as it sailed close to the Omani city of Sohar and its AIS tracking system was turned off as it headed in the direction of the Iranian port of Bandar-e-Jask.

In 2023 the St Nikolas was seized by the United States in a sanctions enforcement operation when it sailed under a different name, Suez Rajan.

The United States said at the time that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been trying to send contraband Iranian oil to China, in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The ship loaded 145,000 metric tonnes of oil in the Iraqi port of Basra and was heading to Aliaga in western Turkey via the Suez Canal, its operator Empire Navigation told Reuters, adding that it had lost contact with the vessel.

Germany's Bundeswehr is faced with an acute shortage of military personnel due to the lack of “points of contact” with the army among the younger generation, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.

Bundeswehr's personnel has "drastically decreased" in recent years.

It has only 180,000 troops at its disposal and is thus “very far” from achieving its target of 203,000 troops by 2030.

Russian missile strike targeted the Park Hotel in Ukraine’s Kharkiv last night.

Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency war correspondents were staying at the hotel during the strike. Anadolu team escaped unhurt.

10 civilians were injured.

San Francisco voted 8-3 in support of a Gaza ceasefire resolution, becoming the largest city in the US to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

French-supplied Ukrainian VAB APC crossing river.

Nearly 30 rockets were launched on Israel's Kiryat Shmona in the last few minutes.

Most of the rockets hit the town.

Israel has previously ordered the evacuation of residents of Kiryat Shmona, a northern town close to the Lebanese border.

Russian Army contracted Somalian man captured by Ukrainian forces.

Yemen’s Houthis declared mobilization in most provinces of the country that are under the control of the Houthis.

#BREAKING UK PM Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet this evening.

UK cabinet ministers believe it’s about UK and US military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, The Times reports.

Ecuador will transfer Soviet-made military equipment to the United States in exchange for new equipment worth a total of $200 million, President Daniel Noboa says.

Noboa said that amid the mafia rebellion, he decided to get rid of the existing old Ukrainian and Russian equipment, which he called “scrap metal,” within a month, in exchange for which the American ambassador promised to provide an aid package to Ecuador worth $200 million.

Ecuadorian army is armed with several Mi-17 helicopters, Grad MLRS and Czechoslovak RM-70, Osa air defense systems, Igla and Strela-2 MANPADS, ZU-23-2 and ZPU-2 anti-aircraft guns.

Guess where they’ll be sent.

CENTCOM says Iranian-backed Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen into international shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden.

This is the 27th attack.

Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank in winter camouflage.

Imminent strikes on Yemen’s Houthis

Middle East Braces for U.S. Strikes on Houthis, WSJ reports.

Maritime executives have been told by Western diplomats that targets would likely include missile and drone launch sites, radars and weapons depots around the Yemeni cities of Hodeida and Hajjah.

An IDF battalion leaves Gaza.

Photos of artillery shells of the Russian army.

The first is Iranian-made, the second is Korean, and the third is Russian.

#BREAKING U.S. and UK to carry out airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen as early as tonight, The Times says.

Joe Biden, the US President, is expected to make a statement tonight in the wake of military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, The Times reports.

The strikes are expected shortly, with a series of carefully choreographed statements from the US, the UK and other international allies to follow.

USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint (SIGINT Platform) heading towards Yemen from Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar.