🇹🇷⚡️- Terror-related charges have been brought against Mayor İmamoğlu, which will give the Turkish government the authority to detain and unseat him from power. This comes precisely one year after his re-election victory as Mayor of Istanbul.

🇹🇷⚡- Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and press advisor Murat Ongun have been detained after terror-related charges were raised against the both of them.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish authorities have issued nearly 100 detention orders under the same terror-related charges.

🇹🇷⚡- Major sites and roads have been shut and closed off to the public, including the Istanbul Police Department, and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality building.

🇹🇷⚡- The Turkish Lira is in free-fall.

🇹🇷⚡- "You took him from his home at dawn, a person who you know will perhaps govern this country in the future. It's nothing but evil," - Selim Imamoglu, son of the Istanbul Mayor who was just detained.

🇹🇷⚡- Mayor of Ankara and member of the opposition party CHP, Mansur Yavas, blasts the Turkish authorities decision to arrest the Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu.

🇸🇸🇸🇩🇺🇬⚡- Ugandan helicopters strike Akobo district, SPLM-IO controlled South Sudan.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡- "Panama Canal ports sold to 'BlackRock' in victory for Donald Trump. Deal involves sale of a bulk of the ports owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison," - Financial Times.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇶🇦⚡- Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, met in Doha, Qatar, with Qatar's Emir, Tamim bin Hamad, as mediator.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Kosovo, Albania, and Croatia have signed a trilateral defense agreement in Tirana, Albania, essentially forming a defense military alliance.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Albania’s Defense Minister, Pirro Vengu, has said other countries are also interested in joining the alliance.

🇷🇸⚡- Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the alliance between Kosovo, Albania and Croatia an "open provocation".

🇷🇸⚡- "The [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia] alliance is a targeted strategy aimed at isolating Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "We are demanding an explanation from Albania and Croatia regarding why the agreement [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia alliance] was made without consulting Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.