🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have stormed the South Kivu region, taking the large towns of Kalunga and Numbi - Bukavu direction. The advances were confirmed by DR Congo sources. Fighting was reported at Kisungwe, which leaves just 38km till the strategic city Nyabibwe.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Turkey was preparing to launch a major military operation in [SDF-controlled] eastern Syria, but we were the ones who asked them to wait to make room for negotiations with the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "The majority of the population in [SDF-controlled] eastern Syria are Arabs, and they do not agree to the rule of the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "I am not very optimistic about reaching an agreement with the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have captured Kisungwe and Mukwinja, Bukavu direction, eastern DR Congo. The advances were confirmed by DR Congo sources.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 announces a ceasefire on all fronts in eastern DR Congo starting tonight.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 demands SADC (South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi) withdraw their forces from DR Congo.

🇬🇪⚡- Mass arrests taking place in Georgia, with 7 journalists arrested over night in Tbilisi.

🇬🇪⚡- Nika Melia, Georgian opposition leader, and the former mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulava, have been arrested.

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes outside the Georgian Parliament, Tbilisi, Georgia.

🇮🇷⚡- "IRGC air force experts are working on warheads with a 3,000km range at two sites disguised as satellite launch bases. The nuclear missiles are based on designs handed to the Islamic regime of Iran by North Korea," - The Telegraph.