🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have made massive advances along the N2 highway, capturing key towns of Kasika and Kibumba, with clashes reported north of Mwenga, Bukavu direction, South Kivu region of eastern DR Congo. The DR Congo military, FARDC, managed to hold the M23 off…

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Canada's Prime Minister, Trudeau: "We will apply 25% customs duties on US goods worth $155 billion."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "Our tariffs on American goods will remain until the withdrawal of American tariffs, not a moment before that."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "If US tariffs persist, Canada will also look at non-tariff measures."

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- Trudeau: "Canada will challenge US tariffs through WTO and USMCA."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Lin Jian: "China will fight to the bitter end of any trade war."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Lin Jian: "We advise the US to put away it's bullying face and return to the right track of dialogue and co-operation before it is too late."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Lin Jian: "The tariffs are broadly negative for the US markets. It is going to have a bearish influence on prices."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Lin Jian: "Pressure, coercion and threats are not the right way to deal with the Chinese side."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Lin Jian: "If the United States has other intentions and seeks conflict, be it tariffs, trade disputes or any form of confrontation, we are ready to stand firm and fight to the end."

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Ben Shapiro is advocating for the pardon of Derek Chauvin from his federal charges in relation to George Floyd. Shapiro is the highest profile Republican commentator to campaign for this by far.

🇩🇪⚡- "We are completely rearming," - Friedrich Merz, Germany's Chancellor-elect.

🇸🇾🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Arab countries must unite in their positions towards defending the Palestinians," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.