🇮🇱 - No further details have been released by Israeli media or any local outlets. It's possible this was of criminal or accidental nature, and not an attack.

🇮🇩⚡️- Mount Merapi, known by the locals as "Fire Mountain," has begun erupting in central Java, Indonesia.

🇺🇸🇳🇴⚡- Norway's Foreign Ministry says Trump's tariffs may have breached NATO Article 2.

Article 2 (also known as The Washington Treaty) stipulates that "international relations between member states should be conducted peacefully and with mutual respect ... and promotes the elimination of opposition factors about international economic policies."

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- "The tariffs announced by Trump are extremely worrying and will impact various sectors of our economy. US tariffs are unfair, unjustified," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- "All options are on the table to respond to US tariffs," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: For the first time a Chinese military aircraft intercepted a US jet operating in international airspace off the southwestern coast of Taiwan.

The airspace is considered by China as Chinese sovereign territory as part of its wider Taiwanese claim.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran, just like the US, is carrying out massive military build-ups. Recent satellite imagery shows rapid developments of radar bases at key locations.

Iran has built a new Ghadir OTH Radar site northwest of Tabriz (the location of a known large underground missile base). Rerum Novarum have geolocated the imagery to 38.756697, 44.955930. Two separate developments can be seen along the south coast, likely also radar sites - Rerum Novarum have geolocated both sites to: 27.864164, 51.612287 (south of Shiraz) and 38.756697, 44.955930 (east of Bandar Abbas).

The site south of Shiraz is likely an impressive fifth generation OTH Radar base. The new class are more powerful than the Ghadir, using larger and more numerous masts.

The three new sites are mapped as red crosses, along with the locations of the existing 8 sites.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Large-scale Israeli airstrikes against Damascus, Syria.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- Initial reports, Ansarullah have shot down yet another MQ-9, this time over Sana'a airspace, Yemen.

The 2nd today, 3rd in 3 days, 4th under Trump, and 18th in total.

🇶🇦🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- "The State of Qatar strongly condemns the statements published by several journalists and media outlets [Qatargate] claiming that Qatar made financial payments to undermine the efforts of Egypt or any of the mediators involved in the ongoing negotiations between Hamas and Israel and to portray Egypt's mediation efforts in a negative light," - Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- After complaining to the US regarding Egypt's military build-up in the Sinai region, an Israeli C-130J, along with two B-707 tankers, are currently operating off the coast of northern Sinai coastline, northeast Egypt.

Israel is closely monitoring Egypt's actions in the Sinai.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- An Ansarullah ballistic missile was intercepted in the south of the Red Sea by the US Navy.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- While Israel accuses Egypt of violating the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Agreement, Israel has for several years broken the agreement itself.

Rerum Novarum has geolocated several military sites Israel has built along the Egyptian border (shown on the map), some have already been constructed, others are new and under work.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: "Iran has ordered its military to leave Yemen, distancing from the Houthis to avoid a direct clash with the US amid escalating airstrikes," - The Telegraph, British outlet.

The report is not confirmed by Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️- "President Donald Trump has moved to fire several White House National Security Council officials after he was urged by far-right activist Laura Loomer to purge staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal to his 'Make America Great Again' agenda." - Associated Press, citing Trump administration officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪 - As expected, our source in Yemen denies The Telegraph report.

This would be the second time the British paper has spread false reports regarding the Iran-Ansarullah relations in just the past month.

Our source tells us there is 'no Iranian military' in Yemen for 'it to leave in the first place', besides 'a few instructors'.

🇺🇸💰⚡️- Nearly $3 trillion in stock assets were wiped off the US stock market today, the single largest loss since COVID-19 in 2020.

The losses today are to blame for overspeculation as a result of the sweeping tariffs beginning yesterday.

🇺🇸💰⚡️- Map of today's losses on the stock market.

All red- no green.

🇻🇪🇬🇾⚡- "Sooner rather than later the rights to the Esequibo will be restored. Sooner rather than later, with intelligence, boldness and strategy, we will achieve it," - Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu likely to visit the White House next week," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "US President Trump says Iran has changed its mind over indirect talks, and now wants direct talks," - Reuters.