🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "I am close to India and Pakistan. They have had that fight for a 1,000 years in Kashmir. Kashmir has been going on for a 1,000 years, probably longer than that. Tensions on that border [Kashmir] has been for 1,500 years. They'll get it figured out one way or the other. There's great tension between Pakistan and India, but there always has been," - Donald Trump, US President, commenting on the 76 year old conflict in Kashmir.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "Pahalgam is nearly 200km [via accessable roads] from Line of Control. It is not a border village that someone could sneak in, do their thing and go back. How did four terrorists carrying big guns come in 200 km inside, shoot nearly 50 people and go back unscathed?

Four to six gunmen came in military uniforms and fired and killed 32 tourists. Kashmir is the world's most militarized zone with nearly 350,000 security personnel including the Indian Army, Paramilitary Forces and J&K Police," - India's Karela region Congress.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- GPS interference across central India and parts of northwest India, near the Kashmir region.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's security cabinet has set-up an Operation Room due to the rising tensions.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Beersheba, southern Israel. Ballistic missile fire by Ansarullah in Yemen detected.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ansarullah likely targeting either Hatserim or Nevatim Air Base.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli air defenses intercepted the ballistic missile.

🇾🇪🇸🇾⚡- Aden-based Yemeni Presidential Council is reopening its embassy in Damascus, Syria.

The last Yemeni embassy in Damascus was Ansarullah's, which was quietly shut down by the Bashar al-Assad government in 2023.

🇷🇺🇰🇬⚡- Viktor "Vasiliev" Lukovenko, a former top official of PMC Wagner and close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been arrested in Kyrgyzstan on suspicion of 'working as a mercenary'.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes between Bedouin Arab tribes and Druze clans, southern As Suwaida region, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Over 100+ trucks of food and aid arrived in Syria from Iraq.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇳🇪⚡- While Russia's gold mining company Nordgold, which has known ties to Wagner, has secured the gold mines of Mali and Burkina Faso. Swiss-based African Think Tank IMPACT believes there is intense competition between Russia and China over the uranium mines in Niger.

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces likely to choose Nyala, southwest Sudan, as the administrative capital for the parallel government.

🇺🇸🇸🇩⚡- US sanctions Sudan's Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

🇺🇸🇸🇩🇦🇪⚡- "Sudan’s al-Burhan has blood on his hands! The US has slapped him with sanctions. His army of butchers have killed more than 150,000 innocent people," - Hassan Sajwani, UAE media personnel.

The UAE, which arms the Rapid Support Forces, welcomes the US decision to sanction al-Burhan.

🇺🇸🇦🇺⚡️- BREAKING: Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser, has been found dead at her home in Neergabby, Australia.

Initial reports suggest she committed suicide.

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🇻🇦⚡- In the majestic St. Peter’s Square the funeral of the late Pope Francis has begun. 200,000+ have gathered in prayer to bid farewell.

"Human existence does not end at the grave, but continues in the Father’s house," - Cardinal Giovanni Battista.

🇮🇷⚡- Violent explosion rocks the Aftab Oil Refinery, Bandar Abbas Port, Iran. Cause of explosion is currently unknown, but has caused widespread damage.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡- US President Trump pays his respects to Pope Francis at the Vatican.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- The third round of US-Iran talks have begun in Muscat, Oman.