🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A third round of indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran will take place Thursday, February 26, in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 have confirmed the death of their spokesman Willy Ngoma, who was killed in a drone strike carried out by the DR Congo.

The killing of the group's popular spokesman puts the US-mediated ceasefire in jeopardy.

🇰🇷🇹🇷🇰🇿 - Over the past 12 hours:

- A Kazakhstan Su-30SM fighter jet crashed. Both pilots ejected safely.

- A South Korean F-16C crashed, with the pilot safely ejecting.

- A Turkish F-16 crashed, killing the pilot.

🇩🇪🇨🇳⚡- German Chancellor Merz has travelled to Beijing to meet China's Xi.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING : Hezbollah will not intervene militarily if the United States directs "limited" strikes at Iran, Hezbollah source told the AFP.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡️- The Hezbollah source told the AFP that any attempt to kill Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would be akin to crossing a 'red line'. The source did not detail what Hezbollah would do if that line were to be crossed.

🇸🇱🇬🇳⚡- BREAKING: Guinea arrests 16 Sierra Leone troops, claiming they had crossed into its territory.

Freetown however has accused Conakry of crossing into territory and raiding a border outpost, and has demanded the release of its soldiers.

Guinea and Sierra Leone have a long history of border disputes. Although 'officially resolved in 2019', the dispute lies over mineral rich towns found on the Sierra Leone side.

🇺🇦🇭🇺⚡- Hungarian Prime Minister has ordered the deployment of the Hungarian military to protect the country's critical energy infrastructure from what he calls an alleged Ukrainian threat.

Orban has also banned drone flights along the Hungary-Ukraine border.

Note, it's unlikely Ukraine will open a second front with NATO anytime soon.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived at the Knesset to speak in front of the Israeli Parliament.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "I have to be diplomatic, but I have never been more moved than by your [India's PM Modi] visit here. With us today is a great friend of Israel, a great leader on the world stage," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "I was born on the same day that India formally recognized Israel, on September 17, 1950," - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "India and Israel are linked by ties that go back 2,000 years," - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana awards India's Modi with the parliament's highest award – Speaker of the Knesset Medal.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Various sources involved in the negotiations have reported that there is a small chance of reaching an agreement – an agreement is not an impossible scenario," - i24 (Israeli Channel 15).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine is ready to freeze the war on the current front line, but we are not stupid and will not just withdraw troops from Donbass," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- BREAKING: Cuba announces it shot and killed four "aggressors" on a speedboat that was registered in Florida, US, after it "violated" Cuban territory.

Six others on the boat were injured.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "A violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States.

When the Cuban Border Guard Troops approached the vessel for identification, the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel.

As a consequence of the confrontation, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured.

Cuba reaffirms its determination to protect its territorial waters, based on the principle that national defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban State," - Cuba's Ministry of Interior.

🇳🇱🇮🇱⚡️- Dutch Airline KLM will suspend all commercial flights between Amsterdam and Tel Aviv starting March 1st.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Instead, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the negotiations, the document showed almost no change from the proposal Iran presented at the previous round.

While Tehran expressed willingness to allow increased international oversight of its nuclear facilities, it offered no flexibility on the central US demand for a complete halt to uranium enrichment on Iranian soil." - Israel Hayom.

🇺🇸🇨🇺 - The New York Times reports the US speedboat was a civilian ship attempting to break relatives out of Cuba. The vessel was not part of the US Navy or Coast Guard.