🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡- "White House ‘drawing up plans’ for increasing troops in Panama amid Trump’s push to ‘reclaim’ canal," - The Independent, British outlet.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- For security reasons, Alphamin Resources shuts down and evacuates its Mpama North tin mine as the M23 Movement advances. The mine is located in the Walikale area, North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo, and accounts for 4% of the global production. Prices have already jumped 3.3% globally.

🇳🇪🇨🇳⚡- Niger's junta government has ordered all Chinese officials involved in the SORAZ, CNPC, and WAPCO projects to leave the country within 48 hours.

The government cites China's lack of compliance with local laws.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇦🇴⚡- Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 Movement will hold ceasefire talks on March 18 in Luanda, Angola.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡️- “The Pentagon has been ordered by the White House to immediately provide military options to ensure US access to the Panama Canal.” - CNN, citing sources in the Defense Department.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- The meeting between the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia, China and Iran begins in Beijing, China. The meeting is focused on the Iranian nuclear question.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- "We stress the need to fully respect Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy," - Ma Zhaoxu, Deputy Foreign Minister of China.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- "We stress the need to end and lift all illegal unilateral sanctions against Iran," - Ma Zhaoxu, Deputy Foreign Minister of China.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- "Actions that escalate the situation in the Middle East must be avoided and conditions must be created for a diplomatic solution," - Ma Zhaoxu, Deputy Foreign Minister of China.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Putin received special envoy Witkoff late yesterday evening and passed on information and additional signals to Trump through him," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An unusual Israeli incursion in southern Syria, Israeli forces are advancing along Route 7, al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria.

Israeli incursions do not normally occur at this time of the day, as the IDF normally advances during the night.

🇸🇩🇰🇪⚡- Sudan halts all imports from Kenya over its 'support for the Rapid Support Forces'.

🇷🇺🇫🇮⚡- Finnish court sentenced Yan Petrovsky, 'Rusich' co-founder, a far-right Russian paramilitary, to life imprisonment for war crimes in the Donbass region.

Petrovsky had also served in Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡- BREAKING: Turkey's intelligence services, MiT, arrests 5 suspects on charges of espionage across 3 Turkish provinces. The suspects were allegedly gathering information about military bases and critical sites in Turkey for the Iranian intelligence.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- Violent clashes at the Kaziba heights, Uvira direction, South Kivu region, eastern DR Congo, with the Burundian military, FNDB, launching several counter attacks against the M23. The FNDB are suffering very high losses.

🇪🇹⚡- Fano have restarted its offensive in the Bahir Dar direction, central Ethiopia.

Fano have been attacking Debre Medhanit, with Ethiopian media confirming the violent clashes in the town. High losses reported on both sides, including civilians.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that the issue of Ukraine joining NATO is "no longer on the agenda," in an interview with Bloomberg.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Relations with Russia must resume once the fighting in Ukraine ends," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It's important for us to stop the war in Ukraine and restore relations with Russia, but we're not there yet," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- The G7 say they oppose China's increasing gray-zone warfare in the South China Sea against the Philippines and Vietnam.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- The G7 say they oppose any forceful change to Taiwan’s status quo.