🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's Coast Guard reports an increase in violations of its Kinmen Island's water-spaces by Chinese military vessels since the start of the new year.

🇺🇸🇵🇭⚡- Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose Manuel Romualdez, met with US President-elect, Donald Trump, at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from Avdeevka today. The city was captured by Russian forces on February 17th 2024.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The driver who carried out the attack got out of his truck and opened fire. This is an intentional attack." - New Orleans Police Department.

🇺🇸⚡️- New Orleans Police say the suspect is still at large.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from the French Quarter, New Orleans, where the attack took place.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some foreign media are reporting that there are multiple attackers. The language of the New Orleans Police Department seems to indicate this is a terrorist incident.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The van crashed into the crowd at high speed and then the driver got out and started shooting a weapon and the police fired back at him." - CBS News.

🇺🇸⚡️- "A horrific act of violence took place on Bourbon Street earlier this morning. Please join Sharon and I in praying for all the victims and first responders on scene. I urge all near the scene to avoid the area." - Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.

🇺🇸⚡️- The death toll in the New Orleans attack has risen to 12, according to local media.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The attack in New Orleans is now being classified as an act of terrorism.

🇺🇸⚡️- The New Orleans Police Department says the attacker intentionally plowed his vehicle into a crowd of civilians, before exiting his vehicle and firing indiscriminately.

One officer from the New Orleans Police Department has been injured by gunfire.

🇹🇷⚡- Scenes from the "Hagia Sophia yesterday, Umayyad today, al-Aqsa tomorrow" march in Istanbul, Turkey.

🇺🇸⚡️- Photos of the truck used in the attack have been circulating in local media.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The attacker has not been apprehended." - ABC News, citing the New Orleans Police Department.

🇺🇸⚡- Witnesses of the New Orleans attack are quoted:

“All I seen was a truck slamming into everyone on the left side of Bourbon sidewalk. A body came flying at me,”

“Everyone started yelling and screaming and running to the back, and then we basically went into lockdown for a little bit and then it calmed down but they wouldn’t let us leave.”

“When they finally let us out of the club, police waved us where to walk and were telling us to get out of the area fast. I saw a few dead bodies they couldn’t even cover up and tons of people receiving first aid.”