🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "If the forces of the Chinese Communist Party attack Taiwanese aircraft, vessels or facilities, Taiwan's main island and outlying islands, or any Chinese aircraft enters Taiwan's territorial airspace or waters, the ministry can exercise the right to self-defense and launch self-defense counterattacks accordingly." – Taiwanese Defense Minister, Wellington Koo.

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- South Korea suspends the 2018 Comprehensive Military Agreement with North Korea. In response, North Korea has begun mining its side of the border.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Ukrainian forces have recaptured territory North of Liptsy (Kharkov direction), entering the outskirts of Glubokoe – both sides confirm too.

Ukrainian forces carry out counterattacks in Volchans'k too, successfully re-entering the aggregate plant (confirmed by Russian sources) and the 'Posad' supermarket.

🇬🇧🌳⚡️- In an amazing electoral blunder, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 80th anniversary D-Day celebrations extremely early in order to get interviewed by a broadcaster, leaving former Tory PM David Cameron to take his place. President Joe Biden, the Royal Family, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau, and Olaf Scholz were all in attendance.

"How does this keep happening?" writes an anonymous Tory MP.

"Had we not been in the middle of a general election campaign, there can be little doubt that letters from Tory MPs demanding a vote of no confidence in Rishi Sunak would be dropping on to Graham Brady’s desk like confetti," writes The Telegraph's Tom Harris.

🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan bans illegal immigrants from marrying Azerbaijani citizens.

🇮🇱⚡️- Benny Gantz to make an announcement at 1:40PM EST tomorrow. Many are speculating he will announce his resignation from the coalition government.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Prime Minister Netanyahu to address the US Congress on July 24th.

🇩🇰⚡- Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, was attacked in public in Copenhagen, Denmark.

🇨🇩🏴⚡- Islamic State of the Central African region led two simultaneous attacks, moments ago. One attack killing 4 from a Christian community, in the North of Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. The other attack on a DRC military outpost, killing at least 60 soldiers.

🏳️🇩🇪⚡- The Taliban government has requested Germany to deport Afghan criminals in Germany, back to Afghanistan.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports of sonic booms over Beirut, Lebanon

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡️- French President Macron says he will give Ukraine Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jets.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah raises its military readiness in all its deployment areas.

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- Israel has been added to the United Nations 'List of Shame'. A list that involves nations and groups responsible for the deaths of children in war-zones, which includes Islamic State and Russia. Hamas is expected to be added as well.

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- "The UN put itself on the black list of history today when it joined the supporters of the Hamas murderers. The IDF is the most moral army in the world and no delusional decision by the UN will change that." – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Putin: "Russia is becoming the center of traditional European values based on Christianity. The West is losing these values."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Death toll from several Ukrainian ATACMs strikes in Lugansk has increased to 57 – Russian State media.

Ukraine claims it struck a well known military base in the area, that existed since 2016.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel would lose within 24 hours in a war with Hezbollah, simply because we will see mass destruction on a scale we've never seen before," – Eran Etzion, who was Deputy Head of Israeli National Security Council during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.

🇺🇸💵⚡️- Senator Mike Lee has proposed legislation to Congress to dissolve the Federal Reserve.