🇲🇱 - Le Figaro and Abidjan Post have both confirmed the death of Mali's Defense Minister Sadio Camara yesterday.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: The Democratic Republic of Congo has shot down a Rwandan drone operating well within its territory, in the South Kivu region.

The drone was intercepted over the Minembwe highlands, Fizi direction.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Israel sent Iron Dome system and troops to UAE during Iran war.

The military, security and intelligence cooperation between Israel and the UAE has reached new heights during the war," - Axios.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Massive population displacement from southern Lebanon towards the center and the north of the country as Israel escalates its war on Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah's violations are essentially disintegrating the ceasefire. Therefore, as far as we are concerned, what obligates us is the security of Israel, the security of our soldiers, and the security of our communities.

We are acting vigorously according to the rules we agreed upon with the United States, and incidentally, with Lebanon as well. This means freedom of action, not only to respond to attacks, which is obvious, but to thwart immediate threats and also to neutralize emerging threats," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- Former Israeli rightwing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will form a joint political bloc with leftwing Yair Lapid ahead of the Israeli elections.

🇮🇱⚡- "Even together it is clear - the driver is Mansour [Mansour Abbas, head of the ultraconservative United Arab List].

No matter how the left divides its votes.

In any case, Bennett and Lapid will go again with the Muslim Brotherhood alliance [in reference to the United Arab List Party], which supports terrorism," - Likud.

🇮🇱⚡- "I welcome the unification and wish it success.

It should be remembered that the goal is to replace the Shia government of October 7," - Avigdor Lieberman, Head of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist party 'Yisrael Beiteinu', which was formally part of Likud-bloc.

🇮🇱⚡- Bennett and Lapid have invited Gadi Eisenkot to join the new bloc ahead of the elections.

Ma'ariv polls Eisenkot to win a possible 7 Knesset seats in the upcoming elections. A former ally and member of Benny Gantz 'State Camp'.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli President Isaac Herzog phoned Naftali Bennett congratulating the former prime minister and said he welcomes the Bennett-Lapid bloc.

Herzog calls for a "much needed change" in Israel.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich refers to the Bennett-Lapid bloc as an "alliance of servants for [the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas."

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇵🇰⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Islamabad following his visit to Muscat.

🇭🇺🇦🇪⚡- "Orban-linked oligarchs are transferring tens of billions of forints to the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Uruguay, and other distant countries.

I call on responsible domestic and international investors to refrain from acquiring assets linked to the mafia; otherwise, they may find themselves facing the National Office for Asset Recovery and Protection.

I have also been informed that several oligarch families have already left the country, and that the Mészáros family is expected to travel to Dubai in the coming days. According to reports, several influential oligarch families have already withdrawn their children from school and are arranging trusted security personnel for their departure," - Peter Magyar, Hungarian Prime Minister elect.