🇫🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Today's bombing of Beirut is unacceptable," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇶🇦⚡- Deputy Commander of the M23, Bertrand Bisimwa, arrives in Doha, Qatar, to meet a Democratic Republic of Congo delegation.

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "I will speak with the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister regarding today’s events in Lebanon—what happened is unacceptable," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Aftermath from the Israeli airstrike against southern Beirut, Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- President Trump and PM Carney have finished a phone call where Trump said the talks were "extremely productive" and that "we agree on many things."

This comes right after Carney stated that the Canada-US relationship of cooperation and mutual reliance was "over." This mirrors the actions of European leaders who say similar things in public while, behind closed doors, carrying on business as usual with the US

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu tasked Mossad with finding countries that would agree to receive large numbers of Palestinians displaced from the Gaza Strip," - Axios.

🇸🇩⚡- BREAKING: Sudan's Armed Forces have begun storming the Sewage Treatment Plant, the last position of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, in Khartoum, Sudan.

A majority of the RSF that failed to flee over the White Nile went to hide at the treatment plant.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 5 people killed and 20+ injured from Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon and Beirut today.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- The IDF is considering reducing the warning range of missiles from Yemen, as most Ansarullah missiles are either intercepted over the Red Sea and Saudi Arabia or fail to launch.

🇸🇸⚡- South Sudan's government accuses Vice President Riek Machar of 'being in contact' with his forces and 'agitating them to rebel' against President Kiir.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- Somalia’s government has offered the US 'exclusive operational control' over strategic ports on the Gulf of Aden in a bid to derail any recognition by Washington of the breakaway region of Somaliland.

🇦🇪🇨🇫⚡- In a last ditch effort to save the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, the UAE has begun talks with the Central African Republic to use Bangui Airport and Birao Airport as logistical bases.

The talks likely came through Wagner-operated channels, as Wagner's presence in the CAR is massive. UAE's contact with the RSF initially also came through Wagner.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran makes a lot of good drones and they're on my watch list," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Bad things will happen to Iran if we don't reach an agreement with them," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Sirens sound at UNIFIL bases in southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli flares fired over several towns across southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: US official told Axios that the recent massive movement of air assets into the Pacific-Indian theaters, including the B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, is 'NOT disconnected' from Trump's 2 months deadline for Iran.

The large-scale build-up is a clear signal of military preparation should diplomatic efforts fail.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Facts are coming in now about the use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war," - Donald Trump, US President.

Note, Russia has been using Iranian drones for well over two years.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "My big preference is we work it out with Iran. But if we don't work it out, bad bad things are gonna happen with Iran," - Donald Trump, US President.