🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani airstrikes against Nangarhar, Afghanistan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The American position in the recent Geneva negotiations has become closer to the realities on the ground.

The chances of success in negotiations with Washington are high, unless they are hindered by parties pushing for escalation and war," - An Iranian source tells al-Jazeera.

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV will begin a ten-day visit to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea on April 10. This will be the first ever visit by a Pope to Algeria.

🇺🇸⚡- “I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon.

I’m looking forward to building more housing in New York City.” - NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Taliban government claims to have destroyed Islamic State, IS-K, facilities in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region of western Pakistan, during the military attacks earlier.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Kan News reports that Israel is preparing for the possibility of the collapse of negotiations between Iran and the United States.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ - Channel 14 reports that officials in Israel have assessed the possibility of a war with Iran and raised the following points:

- If a war breaks out, it will take place on multiple fronts, and the Houthis will likely be the first to join.

- If Hamas joins, it would immediately mean a complete occupation of the Gaza Strip and the elimination of the remaining leadership.

- The assessment also addressed Hezbollah and the militias in Iraq. It is estimated that they are unlikely to join, although internal factions within these organizations are pushing for involvement.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Pakistani airstrikes on Kabul, Afghanistan.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- BREAKING: Netflix will not match Paramount’s “superior” offer to Warner Bros.

The Ellison media empire appears to be expanding once more, as they now control Paramount, its subsidiary CBS, TikTok, and are near-finalizing their purchase of Warner Bros.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Four Pakistani airstrikes were carried out on Afghanistan. Two on Kabul, one on Kandahar, and one on Gardez.

No casualties have been reported.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Further progress has been made in our diplomatic engagement with the United States.

This round of talks was the most intense so far. It concluded with the mutual understanding that we will continue to engage in a more detailed manner on matters that are essential to any deal—including sanctions termination and nuclear-related steps.

In parallel with the political track, technical teams will convene in Vienna in the coming days. Their mission is as critical as ours." - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇺🇸✡️- Paramount will control the following brands and assets after the acquisition.

TNT, CBS, CNN, MTV, TCM, Showtime, Adult Swim, DC Studios, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, HBO/HBO Max, Comedy Central, and Cartoon Network.

Paramount will also hold film rights to notable film franchises:

Star Trek, DC Comics, Tom & Jerry, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, Game of Thrones, Mission: Impossible, The Lord of the Rings, SpongeBob SquarePants, and distribution rights to films such as Dune 3 and Minecraft.

🇺🇸⚡- The Federal Aviation Administration has published a NOTAM over Fort Hancock, Texas restricting the airspace below 18,000 feet (below passenger airline traffic) for "national defense airspace" after a U.S. Military high powered laser system was used to accidentally shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, mistaken to be a drone used by drug cartels which had crossed the border.

Strangely, the NOTAM and its flight restrictions are active for another three and a half months until June 24th.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- US State Dept announces $10M bounty ($5M each) on Sinaloa Cartel Tijuana bosses René "La Rana" Arzate-García and Alfonso "Aquiles" Arzate-García for fentanyl trafficking and narco-terrorism.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton special election defeating a Labour incumbent.

A seat heavily contested due to Labours collapse in support and sectarian voting being heavily present, the Greens have planted themselves as a real threat to Labour, Reform UK came in 2nd with Labour and the Tories crashing and burning.

This is the first special election win for the Green Party in its history.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Three sources familiar with U.S. intelligence reports say President Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile capable of striking the United States is not supported by intelligence and appears exaggerated." - Reuters.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- A Thai soldier has been hospitalized after stepping on a land mine along the Thai-Cambodian border. The soldier is in a critical state.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah is preparing to join a potential U.S.–Iran conflict. Over recent weeks, the group has mobilized forces and repositioned missile launchers along the coast.

They have also dug a 30 km-long, 9 m-deep, 23 m-wide trench system surrounding Hodeidah on three sides, as the port is their main entry point for fuel, commercial imports, and other shipments that support military operations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Channel 14 reports the USS Gerald Ford has arrived in Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - 14 aerial refuelers currently at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.