🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plans to invite Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, on a historic visit to Turkey.

The visit is seen as part of the process of normalisation of relations between the two countries, laid out by Turkey. Erdogan is hopeful Russian President, Vladimir Putin, can meditate between the two parties.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇭🇺⚡- "Orban does not represent NATO's position," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Multiple red alerts in northern Israel

— 🇮🇷 The election, based on the expected turnout, will be EXTREMELY close.

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🇺🇸🦁⚡️- President Trump has disavowed Project 2025.

🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah officials reportedly told Reuters that a Gaza ceasefire means a Hezbollah ceasefire, "from hour one."

🇭🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has been added to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets "Kill List" after meeting with Russian President Putin.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voter turnout has surpassed 51% – exceeding the turnout of the 2021 Presidential election – with half an hour left

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🇺🇸⚡️- Joe Biden tweeted today that he intends to stay in the 2024 presidential race.

🇮🇷⚡- Reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, leads in the second round of the presidential elections – Reuters.

🇮🇷⚡- Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to win Iran's presidential election with nearly 16 million votes – Raja News, a pro-Jalili news outlet.

🇮🇷⚡- Raja News estimate 13 million have so far voted for Saeed Jalili.

Note, these are not official figures.

🇮🇷⚡- The first official count:
Masoud Pezeshkian: 1,263,874 votes
Saeed Jalili: 1,244,640 votes

— 🇮🇷 Final results:

Total votes counted: 30,530,157 votes

Pezeshkian: 16,384,403 votes

Jalili: 13,538,179 votes

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🇮🇷⚡️- Masoud Pezeshkian (Reformist) has been elected the 9th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

🇧🇬⚡- "I sincerely believe that we should advocate peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and Bulgaria will act as a mediator. And this is what I will offer, there are no problems," – Caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Glavchev, at the NATO Summit 2024.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇮🇳⚡- "NATO is not present in India, but the 'Alliance' is interested in creating a secure Indo-Pacific bloc in this region." – Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

🇺🇦🇬🇧⚡- "Delighted to have a telephone conversation with the new Prime Minister of UK Sir Keir Starmer. We discussed an unprecedented 100-year agreement between Ukraine and Great Britain." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "Since the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014, NATO has radically transformed. Today we have 500,000 troops on high alert; more advanced capabilities, including fifth-generation aircraft; two new members: Finland and Sweden." – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇨🇳🇧🇾⚡- Chinese military has arrived in Belarus for joint exercises.