🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas had the three released Israeli hostages sign a document which included a "commitment not to return to service in the IDF."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has begun transferring the Palestinian prisoners for exchange from Ofer Prison in Israel.

🇨🇩⚡- Southern African Development Community, SADC, announces it will withdraw all of its peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The decision came after an emergency summit was held by the SADC countries, after SADC forces took heavy casualties in eastern DR Congo in recent days. In a statement, SADC admitted that "the set goals were not achieved."

🇸🇾⚡- 2 Syrian government forces were killed and another injured after they were ambushed by a pro-Assad cell in al-Mukhtariya, Latakia, western Syria.

🇺🇸🇱🇾⚡- The US military and the 166th Battalion of the Khalifa Haftar-led Libyan National Army hold joint training in Sirte, Libya.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ken Martin has been elected the new Chair of the DNC, Martin was previously the chair of the Minnesota Democrats and Vice Chair of the DNC.

🇸🇦🇸🇾⚡- Saudi outlet, al-Arabiya, believes Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- Labour party is under investigation by the Electoral Commission over receiving funds from the EU during the election last year

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- US President Trump orders airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Puntland, northern Somalia.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- "This morning, I ordered precision military airstrikes against the senior ISIS attack coordinator and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, whom we found hiding in caves, were threatening the United States and our allies. The message to ISIS and anyone else who attacks Americans is this - We will find you and we will kill you," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Mainstream conservative and pro-Israel media in the United States have been pushing a story of a Chinese student, Liu Lijun, being arrested and her visa revoked for pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of California Los Angeles.

The original FOX News clip comes from May 2024 of a pro-Palestine campus protester of Asian descent being arrested and unmasked by authorities.

In fact, there has been no expulsion or deportation of this student, and this story is false.

🇺🇸⚡️- After no candidate received a majority of the vote, the DNC Vice Chair vote will hold a second round. The top 3 contestants in the last round were Artie Blanco with 117, David Hogg with 61, and Malcolm Kenyatta with 54.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- Mexico announces retaliatory tariffs against the United States in response to President Trump's 25% tariff against Mexico.

🇺🇸⚡️- DNC Vice Chair will be shared by the three candidates.

Malcolm Kenyatta, who ran for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 2024 and lost by more votes than Kamala Harris did.

Artie Blanco, a Nevada former Super Delegate who voted for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in 2016.

And David Hogg, who supposedly is a survivor of the Parkland School Shooting in 2018 who led the March for Our Lives organization ever since. Got a free ride to Harvard and has been a party activist ever since.

Hogg is the most notable for campaigning on winning back the youth vote which in 2024 swung heavily towards the GOP.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is building settlements and bases in the demilitarized zone in Syria," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- China to file complaint with the World Trade Organization, WTO, over US tariffs, the Chinese Commerce Ministry says.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli military operation is expanding in the northern West Bank, with three army brigades participating," - al-Akhbar, Lebanese outlet.

🇮🇱⚡- Eyal Zamir appointed as new Chief of Staff of the Israeli army.

Zamir was Netanyahu's preferred choice in January 2023 when he came a close second to Halevi in the race for Chief of Staff.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Victory over Hamas, the return of all hostages and the fight against the Iranian axis will be the main topics of discussion during the meeting with President Trump.

Working together and diligently with President Trump, we can change everything for the better - strengthen Israel's security, expand the circle of peace and create an era of prosperity and peace from within," - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told reporters before leaving for the US.