🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran denies Musk met Iran's Representative to the UN.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel issues third evacuation order for Beirut in just a single morning.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Violent explosions heard over Haifa, northern Israel.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Bzhania proposes to hold elections as early as December, in which he will run as a candidate too. In return, the opposition leave all Government buildings.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- The Abkhaz opposition rejects Bzhania's proposal.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Abkhaz media say President Bzhania has called Secretary of Russia's Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, asking for military assistance. Shoigu allegedly agreed.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Another wave of Israeli airstrikes on southern Beirut.

🇫🇷⚡- BREAKING: Hostage situation in Paris, France.

🇫🇷⚡- Initial reports, a restaurant owner's son is holding 4 as hostage.

🇫🇷⚡- New reports, the restaurant owner, Albert Botbol, is holding 4 of his employees in his restaurant as hostages, threatening to kill himself and them.

🇫🇷⚡- Security have closed the area off.

🇫🇷⚡- Firefighters are at the scene, in Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France.

🇫🇷⚡- "The man who took hostages has announced his intention to commit suicide. Only the restaurant's employees are in the restaurant, there are no customers," - Le Figaro, French media.

🇫🇷⚡- Le Figaro claims it is the owner's son as well.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If Trump forces Kiev to sign peace on unfavorable terms, mass unrest could break out in the country, leading to its conquest by Russia," - Dmytro Kuleba, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister.

🇫🇷⚡- "The man who took hostages at a restaurant in a Paris suburb is armed with a knife," BFM TV, French media.

🇫🇷⚡- The Search and Response Brigade (BRI) arrives at the scene to enter the restaurant.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Bzhania's Press Office denies that he has asked for Abkhaz or Russian military assistance.

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ali Yusuf, says that if "talks fail between Ethiopia and Egypt" over the construction of the 'GER' Dam in Ethiopia, "Sudan may side with Egypt". Yusuf also claims "war is an option".

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry summons the Sudanese Ambassador over the comments.