Oil prices surged today, with Brent crude climbing more than 4% to around $105 a barrel as escalating attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea intensified fears of further Middle Eastern supply disruptions.

U.S. WTI also breached $100 a barrel for the first time since May.

🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺🇮🇷| Russian President Putin reaches Delhi at 1.15 am IST on Friday morning; Iran President Pezeshkian lands in Delhi at 2 pm IST the same day.

🇸🇦🇺🇸🇾🇪 Saudi Crown Prince MBS called Trump twice on Thursday urging him to strike the Houthis.

Trump said NO.

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺| Peskov:

The decision by Lithuania to lift the ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons, if implemented, would be a very serious escalation.

Lithuania will become a target for Russian nuclear weapons if it deploys similar weapons on its territory.

🇩🇪🛡️ Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says NATO may not survive growing tensions between Europe and the Trump administration.

“We do not have a common normative basis with the ‘Trumpists,’ although it is difficult for me to admit that. I don't think NATO will survive. I fear that NATO, as a transatlantic security alliance, will cease to exist,” Fischer told Die Zeit.

He said the alliance could eventually be transformed into a European military alliance, potentially including the UK and Canada.

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The US House Committee on Homeland Security released a report finding Africa is now the world's most active terrorism theatre(2/3 ISIS Activities).

EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius confirmed that the Commission approved the €6.1 billion tranche, completing all €28.3 billion in defence funding earmarked for Ukraine this year

Houthis have seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast: govt military official.

PM Modi called on BRICS to identify its top 10 trade barriers, support 100 startups annually, and forge 1,000 new business partnerships.

The oil pumping station on the Saudi East-West pipeline was completely destroyed during yesterday’s attack, according to satellite imagery released today.

This is incredibly important news, as the East-West pipeline can transport up to approximately 210 million barrels of crude per month at full capacity, providing Saudi Arabia with a major alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.

(Open Source Intel)

BREAKING: Putin says European troop deployment in Ukraine would be 'war against Russia'

Breaking: North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile toward the sea to the east of the Korean Peninsula.

Trump: Iran war ends right after Mid-term Elections.