🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump announces the nomination of Dr. Susan Monarez as head of the Center for Disease Control, the CDC. Monarez was one of the biggest proponents of masking children in schools and promoted the COVID vaccine as late as October 2024.

🇮🇱⚡- "The first public confrontation between Defense Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir," - Yedioth Ahronoth.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The situation along the Belgorod front, Russia:

Around 10-15 Ukrainian soldiers broke into Demidovka, but failed to establish a foothold in the south of the town. Ukrainian troops successfully crossed the Udava River, and have taken positions in the forest west of Popovka. The intensity of fighting has reduced over the past few hours, with Ukrainian forces making less attempts to storm the towns.

Reports that Demidovka and Popovka have fallen into Ukrainian control are completely wrong.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- "US President Trump ready to open F-35 fighter jets sale to Turkey if it disables its Russian S-400 air defense systems," - Army Recognition.

🇺🇸⚡️- Although the Trump Admin has confirmed the texts in The Atlantic story from today are real, Pete Hegseth is denying that any war plans were shared in that chat.

🇺🇸⚡️- Others in the Admin are speculating that Mike Waltz was already leaking to Jeff Goldberg to begin with which is why his name popped up in Signal to add to the group chat in the first place.

🇰🇬🇹🇯⚡️- The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan has ratified a new treaty on the official demarcation of Kyrgyzstan's border with Tajikistan. Tajikistan's Assembly of Representatives, the lower house of Tajikistan's parliament, has also ratified the same agreement.

The two countries are moving to officially demarcate and solve their border disputes, which caused clashes between Kyrgyz and Tajik troops in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan both have unsettled border disputes covering over half of their border, meaning the ratification of this treaty will seriously change their border and how it appears on maps.

🇨🇦⚡️- Nanos polling shows the Conservative party doing best with 50-59 (gen X) and young people while the Liberal party is now reliant on boomers and older.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇪⚡- Belgium retaliates to Rwanda ending all diplomatic relations between the two by sending a 'training force' to eastern DR Congo.

Belgium has deployed 300 troops, along with tanks and drones, to Kindu, Maniema region, 165 miles from M23's current positions. M23 outlets have blasted the decision, calling it an escalation that won't help reach a ceasefire.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israel has once again struck the T4 and Palmyra airbases in central Syria.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 announces they will no longer withdraw from the resource-rich Walikale area, North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo, after initially claiming they would do so as a 'goodwill gesture'.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli artillery shelling of the village of Koayiah, south Daraa region, southern Syria, kills 7 and wounds many others - Warfront Witness.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Alexandropol, and most of Panteleimonovka, Konstantinovka direction.

"The intensity of fighting in the Konstantinovka direction is increasing," - 'Bakhmut Demon', Ukrainian military journalist in the north Donetsk direction.

🇸🇩🇸🇸🇹🇩⚡- "We will take revenge on the centers of power in South Sudan and Chad that are [both] supported by the UAE. We announce that N'Djamena [Chad's capital] and Umm Jars Airports [Chad's International Airport] are legitimate targets for us," - Yasser al-Atta, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, accuses the UAE backed nations of Chad and South Sudan of supporting the Rapid Support Forces.

🇸🇸🇸🇩🇺🇬⚡- Violent Ugandan strikes against the Akobo region, SPLM-IO controlled northeast South Sudan.

🇸🇸🇸🇩🇺🇬⚡- SPLM-IO's defense forces believes the Ugandan military, UPDF, is preparing to attack 'Nuerland', SPML-IO controlled territory in the northeast of South Sudan. Heavy UPDF reinforcements arrive in towns and cities along the ceasefire line. UPDF presence reported in Bilait, Bor and Fajak.

🇪🇬🇪🇷🇪🇹⚡- "Egyptian, Eritrean Foreign Ministers reject involvement of non-bordering countries in Red Sea security," - Egypt Independent, Egyptian outlet. The move is aimed at distancing Ethiopia from the Red Sea.

🇸🇩🇦🇪🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: The thousands of Rapid Support Forces who had previously participated in the UAE-led Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen, which in turned formed the Southern Transitional Council, are returning back to Sudan. This comes amidst RSF's collapse along its front-lines in Sudan.

The RSF were the main guarantors of UAE's security in southern Yemen against Ansarullah.

🇸🇩🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi and the UAE officials clashed behind closed doors over Sudan, with both countries supporting opposing sides, according to Gulf Nashra.

🇸🇩🇸🇸🇹🇩⚡- "The comments made by the senior Sudanese General amounts to a declaration of war. If a single square meter of Chadian territory is threatened, Chad will respond under the principles of international law. It is appropriate to reiterate that the conflict in Sudan is an internal matter, the sole responsibility of the warring parties," - Chad's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.