🇸🇸⚡- Stephen Par, member of the pro President Kiir faction of SPLM-IO is likely to replace Riek Machar as Vice President of South Sudan.

🇸🇸⚡- Major General James Chuong, and the entire 1st Division of the South Sudan's People Defense Force, have defected and joined the anti President Kiir SPLM-IO in the northeast of South Sudan.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel says they have made it clear to Turkey that establishing military bases in Syria is a red line.

🇸🇾 Syrian Representative:
We urge the Security Council to take immediate action to compel Israel to withdraw at once from the territories it occupies.

The Houthis continue to sanction the international world. Ships are still seen taking the long route via Cape of Good Hope instead of going through the Suez Canal.

Each black dot represents a ship with a Flexreport container.

🇰🇿🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The second batch of Kazakh peacekeepers have been sent to the Golan region border between Israel and Syria.

The 139 Kazakh military personnel will replace the current Kazakh peacekeeping force in the volatile region, and will ensure the implementation of the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire, patrol, guard checkpoints, and escort UN personnel.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- The White House has raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145%.

🇺🇸⚡- US stock market crashes -4.78% again.

🇺🇸⚡- US30 down -4.14%.

🇺🇸⚡- US100 index drops -5.58%.

🇺🇸⚡- Tesla stocks plunge to -10.12%.

🇺🇸⚡- Apple trading at -6.20%.

🇺🇸⚡- The New York stock exchange indexes.

🇺🇸⚡- US companies trading rates.

🌎⚡- Global stock market rates.

🇨🇳 - China is building 55 mega-factories of semi-conductors, with 100% of them having state subsidies.

-According to French Investment Bank's leader.

🇸🇩🇮🇱⚡- Sudan's Government denies having sent an envoy to Israel to obtain weapons and diplomatic support.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: The U.S. pledges to Increase tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% at 12:01am EST tomorrow morning.

🇺🇸⚡- INDOPACOM Commander Samuel Paparo has confirmed an entire Patriot battery was transferred from his Osan Air Base, South Korea, to CENTCOM in the Middle East.