🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- An unprecedented 21 Chinese military vessels positioned at the Thitu Reefs, South China Sea. The move is likely to reinforce China's positions at the Subi Reef, located just south of the Thitu Reefs, where China and Vietnam have 'clashed' recently.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Tensions continue to escalate between the UAE-backed Ethiopia and the Saudi and Egyptian-backed Eritrea, especially after Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh's visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday.

Ethiopian right-wing media lay claim to the Eritrean Port City of Assab, which has been mostly funded by Ethiopia.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "The war-mongering psychosis that has apparently gripped certain political circles in Ethiopia these days is astounding indeed. Almost on a daily basis, we see an upsurge of blatant distortion and revisions of ancient, medieval and modern history of the region; brazen rejection of relevant provisions of international law; and irresponsible recycling of inflammatory propaganda. All these to justify and rationalize what is clearly illegal and that can only destabilize the region," - Yemane Meskel, Eritrean Minister of Information.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "Unless Ethiopia's incompetent leader tones down his aggressive rhetoric toward Eritrea, a major geopolitical firestorm could soon engulf the region. This situation would draw in competing Middle Eastern powers, Saudi Arabia and Egypt versus the UAE, potentially reshaping both the political landscape and the future of Abiy Ahmed's leadership in Ethiopia," - Tesfa News, Eritrean outlet.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡️- Scenes from the North Sea, after the US-flagged tanker STENA IMMACULATE collided with Solong, a Panamanian cargo ship.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's Kursk operation continues to crumble. In just the past few hours Russian forces have captured Yuzhnyy, Zazulevka, Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, and Kolmakov - Kursk region of Russia.

Ukrainian forces now control just 202sqkm of the Kursk region, Russia.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡️- Photograph of the STENA IMMACULATE on fire, taken by British outlet Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- CORRECTION: Vessel "Solong," which apparently crashed into the STENA IMMACULATE, is a Portuguese-flagged vessel, not a Panamanian vessel.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹⚡- UK's Royal Navy Search & Rescue helicopters are at the scene which occured off the coast of Hull.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹⚡- Live satellite image shows a large volume of smoke off the coast of Hull, northeast England, from the collision.

🇺🇦🇸🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky has left for Saudi Arabia.

🇧🇦⚡- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrives in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹⚡- STENA IMMACULATE, which was anchored still at Immingham Docks, northeast England, is just one of ten tankers designed to bring oil to the US army, to supply it with fuel during armed conflicts or emergencies.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹⚡- 32 casualties reported so far, according to Sky News.

🇺🇸⚡️- X is suffering a global outage.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹 - The path of SOLONG as it approached and then crashed into STENA IMMACULATE, which was anchored still at Immingham Docks, northeast England.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "US open to minerals partnerships with Democratic Republic of Congo," - Reuters.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have captured Nyabiondo, Goma direction, North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.

🇸🇸⚡- "US orders non-emergency staff to leave South Sudan as tensions rise," - BBC.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Currently, there is no threats of encirclement of our units in the Kursk region, Russia. The units are taking timely measures to maneuver to advantageous defense lines," - Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief.