🇺🇸📱⚡️- Apple has announced a slew of new releases for texting, including satellite-based end-to-end encrypted messaging when not using cellular data.

🇷🇺🇳🇪⚡- "Niger will legalise the Russian military base out of necessity," – Addo Iro, Russian Consul to Niger.

🇺🇲🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡- Joint US-UK strikes along al-Faza's coast, Yemen.

🇲🇼⚡- A plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima of Malawi is “off the radar and cannot be tracked”; 10 people were on board the plane.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reports "The United States is intensifying discussions with Israel due to concern about a major escalation on the Lebanese border."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Clashes reported in Ramallah, occupied West Bank

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇺⚡- Russian Navy vessels off the coast of Florida. The fleet is heading to Havana, Cuba.

🇺🇲🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- US considers dealing directly with Hamas, without Israel, to free 5 American hostages – NBC News.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- Russian nuclear-powered submarine, Kazan, is less than 80km off the coast of the United States. Kazan is equipped with Kalibr-M missiles which have a range of 4,500km.

US Navy's P8 Poseidon 'Sub hunter' is currently circling over the position.

🇷🇺🇨🇺⚡- Russian frigate, Admiral Gorshkov, has arrived in Havana, Cuba. It is unconfirmed if the frigate is equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan has been mining the Kaohsiung-strait in the south of the country since March.

🇺🇸🇸🇴🏴⚡️- The US Chamber of Commerce reports an increase in piracy incidents originating from Somalia against ships rerouted towards the Cape of Good Hope.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Benny Gantz told US Secretary of State Blinken in a meeting "Israel will not hesitate to expand the war in the north if Hezbollah does not back down."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Large fires broke out in Katzin and the Golan Heights earlier due to Hezbollah rocket fire. Roughly 50 rockets impacted, a response to an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in the early morning hours breaking out in the Golan as a consequence of Hezbollah rocket fire.

🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️- The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution endorsing the American-proposed ceasefire in Gaza

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The Saudi regime, which uses its media to serve the Israeli regime and provides financial support to it, has adopted hostile measures against the Yemeni nation." – Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi, Leader of the Ansar-Allah (Houthi) movement.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrike against a refugee camp on the Gaza coast.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities, so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month. Which buys me the time for the rest of everything. I can't tell you what's in it, but it's real and it's deliverable," – Samuel Paparo, Commander of the US. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- The "hellscape" plan is allegedly flooding the strait with thousands of sea-mines, unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and aerial drones.