🇬🇧⚡- UK Prime Minister Starmer pledges to lower the voting age to 16.

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️- The EU has placed 25% tariffs on a variety of US products, including steel and aluminum, soybeans, yachts, tobacco, poultry, almonds, and orange juice.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "In 2022, we were close to signing an agreement with the US, but Israel canceled it," - Mohammad Mokhbar, Former Vice President of Iran under the Raisi Administration.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇨🇳⚡- Ukrainian intelligence believes that more than 150 Chinese have joined the Russian army to fight against Ukraine.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- BREAKING: Trump pauses tarriffs for 90 days — Truth Social

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Treasury Secretary Bessent says this was President Trump's strategy all along—to goad China into a bad position.

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🇺🇸⚡- Stock markets surge following Trump's 90-day tariff pause announcement.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Turkey and Israel begin direct negotiations over Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has confirmed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu returned from the United States confused and unaware of the essence of Trump's plan to deal with Iran. There are no guarantees that the United States will meet Israel's demands in its potential agreement with Iran," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- "Preparations are underway for an Erdogan-Trump meeting as soon as possible," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met John Ratcliffe, Director of the CIA, and David Barnea, Chief of Mossad.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡-"Ukraine wants to buy a large aid package from the United States, which includes, in particular, air defense systems. This is our format, how we will pay for it. And we did not ask for the future package for free," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸⚡- Goldman Sachs drops recession forecast after Trump tariff suspension.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel has confirmed the direct negotiations between itself and Turkey.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is not seeking a confrontation with Turkey, but will not hesitate to act if necessary to defend itself," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Negotiations are underway with two large countries to absorb very large numbers of Gazans who will voluntarily emigrate," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel knew in advance about the US talks with Iran about its nuclear program, and the US wanted to know what a good agreement was from Israel's perspective," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇹🇼⚡- Romeo Brawner Jr., Philippine Chief of Staff, says the Philippines would inevitably get involved in a China-Taiwan conflict.

🇵🇰⚡- 3 Pakistani security forces killed, 2 others injured, in an attack on the outskirts of Quetta, disputed region of Balochistan, southwest Pakistan.

🇺🇸⚡- "Let him cook," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇺🇳⚡- China files a WTO complaint against the U.S. over tariff measures.