GOOD NEWS – The closure of mosques during the month of Ramadan in the framework of limiting gatherings and the spread of coronavirus was announced in France.

🇺🇸U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Iran:

They launched a military satellite today. They had promised their entire satellite & missile program was civilian.

The person who oversaw this launch was Gen. Hadjizadeh, whose forces shot down a civilian aircraft killing 176 people. https://t.co/hbVrHtvLS6

🇺🇸 USA: The U.S. Department of State has announced a $ 5 million reward for information leading to Amir Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, nicknamed Hajji Abdullah.

ℹ He succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the head of the ISIS terrorist group.

🇬🇷🇹🇷 A pair of Turkish fighter jets on Thursday entered Athens’ Flight Information Region (FIR) without submitting a flight plan and flew over two islets of the eastern Aegean, the Greek National Defence General Staff (GEETHA) said.

🇷🇺 RUSSIA – Footage of the main test of tactical exercises with the Russian Baltic Fleet marines on breaking through the airborne defenses of a conditional enemy.

🇸🇾 SYRIA – The International Coalition and United States Military is conducting Military Exercise at Al-Conico Base.

🇨🇳 CHINA: More than 1,000 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) paratroopers recently participated in fully armed parachute drills.

🇷🇺 RUSSIA – Traffic control in Krasnodar on April 21, 2020

🚨Nicotine could protect people from contracting the SARSCoV2 coronavirus, according to new research in France, where further trials are planned to test whether the substance could be used to prevent or treat the deadly illness.

Communist China continues to crack down on churches with raids and harassment.

https://www.persecution.org/2020/04/23/two-house-churches-china-raided-local-authorities/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=persecutionnews

🇮🇷 Iran will be launching more military satellites, a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says a day after the country launched its first unit into space.

https://t.co/w97w9XAnEw

🇨🇵 FRANCE – 💥 Tensions currently reported in Alma’s district of Roubaix.

Mortar fire by criminal immigrant youth gangs on the police.

🇨🇳🇵🇭 Chinese warship targeted Philippine Navy vessel in South China Sea

The hostile act is a clear violation of international law and Philippine sovereignty, says AFP Western Command in Palawan.

https://amp.rappler.com/nation/258783-afp-says-chinese-warship-targeted-navy-vessel-west-philippine-sea-april-2020

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Mike Pompeo says China will 'PAY for enormous amount of pain and loss of life' they have caused with coronavirus cover-up https://t.co/YUxPKtJtiB

Today's @ISCResearch Covid19 update:

💶 EU leaders agree a recovery fund to rebuild ailing economies

🇩🇰 Denmark: Primary school children back to class

🇳🇱 Netherlands: Opening shops

🇫🇷 France: Masks to be distributed in two weeks

🇬🇧 UK: Volunteers making PPE to try to help shortage

🇩🇪 Germany starts preparing for SECOND wave of coronavirus by increasing intensive care capacity https://t.co/mSPpOzgVdL

How interesting: Simpsons predicted Zero oil Price!

🇱🇾 LIBYA (MILITARY MAP April 23)

This map provides a general look at the military situation in the countryside of Tripoli in northern Libya following the recent advances of the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord against the Libyan National Army.