Trump:

We are going to get along good with China. I hear stories about not allowing the students, we are going to allow the students. It's very important. 600,000 students.

Trump:

I think we are going to change the name of Department of Defense to Department of War.

Trump:

There was one Korea. It was a very large and powerful country. It was a country that went to war with China 51 times over the last 2000 years.

Trump on Gaza:

I think we are going to have a conclusive ending within the next 2-3 weeks.

Trump:

We are sending a lot of food to Gaza. It is a lot of people to feed.

Sudan: Footage emerged showing an RSF member known as "Abu Lulu" executing a civilian in Al Fashir.

South Sudan: The Justice Minister submitted agreements with the UAE to parliament covering visa exemptions, air services, taxation, and investment.

Somalia: After airstrikes and clashes in western Cal Miskaad, IS-Somalia leaders in Balaade Valley were given a 72-hour ultimatum to surrender.

Burkina Faso and Mali boycotted the Nigeria-hosted military summit, with only Niger represented among the AES states through its defense attaché in Abuja.

Somalia: Reports said Al Shabaab advanced in Hiran and captured the village of Qowl west of Maxaas.

Trump:

China has some cards, we have incredible cards. If I played those cards, that would destroy China. I am not going to play those cards.

US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack to Axios:

Israel and Syria are both discussing in good faith a potential security agreement, but are not close to finalizing it.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

You are the chosen people, given a chosen place, for a chosen purpose.

If someone is angry at God, he'll be angry at the people who represent him.

Israeli Druze leader in Israel Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told Syria’s Hikmat al-Hijri that opening a humanitarian corridor from Israel to Sweida is not possible.

Source: Sky News

Trump on the war in Ukraine:

This is the biggest thing that has happened in terms of warfare.

It is a drone war, a drone war never existed before. We are studying it.

Reporter: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department.

Trump: We’re just going to do it. I’m sure Congress will go along.

Germany just locked in €9 billion a year for Ukraine.

German Finance Minister & Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil told Zelensky in Kyiv:

“We will provide Ukraine with €9 billion in annual support over the coming years.

Germany charged a U.S. defense contractor with spying for China.

Prosecutors say Martin D. offered Beijing U.S. military secrets while working at a base in Germany.

Facing trial now for “particularly serious” espionage.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to Trump:

If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me. Not time or political circumstance from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to Trump:

Do not come. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

Elon Musk:

Any government driving destruction of its own people is not legitimate