🇺🇸 🇨🇳 ⚡️ — BREAKING: Italy extradites 34-year-old Xu Zewei, accused Chinese hacker, to the US for alleged cyber-espionage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

🔴 Xu Zewei, working for Shanghai Powerock Network, is charged with targeting universities, immunologists, and virologists in a Chinese state-sponsored campaign, allegedly stealing vaccine research. US prosecutors allege he exploited cybersecurity flaws in email software to access thousands of computers.

🔴 Xu appeared in a Houston, Texas, court to face nine charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy to obtain information via unauthorized access. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison per count.

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🇸🇾 ⚡️ — Video leaks from Sednaya prison have surfaced, showing conditions inside the facility.

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🇱🇧 🇱🇧 ⚡️ — U.S. Secretary of State:

"The Lebanese army will take measures against Hezbollah."

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🇳🇬 🇮🇶 ⚡️ — NEW: ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack in Guyaku village, Adamawa State, Nigeria, which killed at least 29 people and lasted several hours.

🔴 The attack, which destroyed property, was confirmed by Nigerian officials, and Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri condemned the violence as an "affront to our humanity" and pledged continued support for security operations.

🔴 ISIL-backed armed groups in Nigeria are suspected of carrying out the attack, though it is unclear which group was responsible. The same day, armed attackers abducted 23 children from an orphanage in north-central Nigeria, with 15 later rescued and operations ongoing to find the remaining eight.

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🇲🇽 🇨🇩 ⚡️ — NEW: Mexican military captures cartel commander Audias Flores, a high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in an operation that included footage released by the military.

🔴 Audias Flores was considered a potential successor to El Mencho, the former CJNG leader who was killed in February 2026, marking a significant blow to the cartel's leadership structure.

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🇲🇱 ⁉️ — Unconfirmed reports suggest that Malian President Assimi Goïta was arrested in Bamako tonight by "Fulani" elements of the Macina Liberation Front, affiliated with the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (Al-Qaeda).

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⚡️ — Oil prices soar to $108 USD per barrel.

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🇱🇧 ❌ 🇮🇱 ⚠️ — Israeli occupation army radio:

Not much can be done to confront Hezbollah drones

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🇱🇧 ❌ 🇮🇱 ✈️ — Israel announced that two Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were injured and evacuated from southern Lebanon after being struck by a Hezbollah drone.

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🇮🇱 🇱🇧 ⚡️ — The Israeli military claims it destroyed more than 1,000 infrastructure sites utilized by Hezbollah to target its forces, including booby-trapped buildings.

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🇺🇸 🇯🇴 ⚡️ — American Boeing EA-18G Growler with tracking active over Jordan

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🇳🇿 🇰🇵 ⚡️ — NEW: New Zealand’s Defence Force reports a possible North Korean sanctions breach, with a surveillance aircraft observing a suspected ship-to-ship transfer of illicit goods in international waters near North Korea.

🔴 A New Zealand P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft captured footage of what is suspected to be a transfer of illicit goods between vessels in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea, among 35 “vessels of interest” monitored during patrols for North Korean violations of UN sanctions.

🔴 North Korea is known to use ships to smuggle refined petroleum and export coal, iron ore, and sand, which fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Despite UN sanctions since 2006, North Korea continues trading with countries like China, and has sold weapons to Iran and Russia in exchange for oil or hard currency.

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⚡️ — Brent crude reaches $110 per barrel.

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🇮🇷 ⚠️ — Iranian oil tankers have gathered near the Chabahar port outside the Gulf, close to the U.S. embargo line, indicating Iran may be continuing to load oil despite sanctions.

🔴 Iran may be forced to start halting production as storage space runs out

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