🇺🇸⚡️ - Both chambers of Congress are currently stalled. In the Senate, Democrat Cory Booker has halted proceedings with a record-breaking 25-hour speech—surpassing Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record. In the House, divisions over rules, specifically rules requiring members to vote on laws in person which is being protested by female members, have led Speaker Mike Johnson to cancel votes for the week.

President Trump’s promised “big beautiful bill” and broader legislative agenda are far from reality as a result.

🇦🇪⚡- UAE plans on building a 'foreign legion' by summer, which will be called the Emirati Foreign Legion.

🇺🇸🇧🇭🇰🇷⚡- Our initial reports of the US transferring air defenses from South Korea's Osan to Bahrain's Isa have now been confirmed true. The US has moved 2 Patriot batteries and a THAAD battery to the Middle East.

🇶🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli billionaire Shlomi Fogel, who is considered to be close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, helped coordinate cash transfers from the government of Qatar to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which were carried out with Israel's approval.

This policy strengthened Hamas, and maintained the split between Gaza the Palestinian Authority run West Bank, thereby undermining the possibility of a unified Palestinian entity, plus a two-state solution," - Haaretz.

🇸🇸⚡- Scenes from outside South Sudan's Vice President Machar's residency, where he remains under house arrest.

President Kiir has now also ordered the arrest of Machar's family members and office staff.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Trump administration is seriously considering Iran’s offer for indirect nuclear talks while boosting military forces in the region to maintain both diplomatic and deterrent pressure. Trump does not want a war with Iran, but has given the Middle East nation a vague two-month deadline to strike a deal," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Senior Trump administration officials believe Ukraine ceasefire is unlikely to be agreed in the coming few months.

US officials, including President Trump himself, are getting increasingly frustrated with Moscow," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Baltic Foreign Ministers last week that peace in Ukraine was uncertain and that the US remained far from securing a deal," - Reuters.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China's military exercises around Taiwan have ended, lasting two days.

#BREAKING | US approves sale of 20 US F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines — worth an estimated $5.58 billion

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🇺🇸🇨🇩⚡- Democratic Republic of Congo reduces the sentences of three Americans involved in the May 19 2024 failed coup attempt from death sentences to life imprisonments.

The decision comes as DRC shifts towards the US, with a mineral deal it has offered the Trump administration, as well as a potential visit to the country by a Trump official.

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡- A South African government delegation visited the United States to clarify the country's position on a number of issues and to explain the nature of the 'Land Expropriation Act'.

🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar has left for France.

🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "UK promotes a joint-European fund to stockpile weapons. Britain has proposed that European countries establish a joint supranational institution for military equipment procurement, stockpiling, and fund rearmament across the continent," - Financial Times, British outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Despite initially insisting on direct negotiations, the US has now stated it is open for indirect negotiations with Iran. If these negotiations are conducted in a setting of mutual respect, not with threats or blackmail, then we will consider it," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - The U.S. Treasury has imposed new sanctions on 4 Russian born individuals, 3 Russian entities, 1 Chinese entity, and 1 Russian bulk carrier in the latest round of sanctions.

🇯🇵⚡️- 6.2 magnitude earthquake southeast of Kyushu island, Japan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured around 90% of Bogdanovka, Pokrovsk direction. Small pockets of Ukrainian troops remain in the north of the town.

Russian troops have just two towns left before the Dnepr region border.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu has banned all media from attending or even covering Israeli cabinet meetings from now on.

🇮🇱⚡- Haaretz confirms the report, saying "[Israeli] journalists are no longer allowed to cover government events and cabinet meetings, and the Prime Minister's Office has become unresponsive."