🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "The United States must rescind the negative measures it has taken against our country," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Trump is welcome to visit China again," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "We and the Americans should strengthen exchanges in the diplomatic, economic, and military fields," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The US should deal with Taiwan cautiously," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "I just concluded a very good phone call with President Xi, of China, discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal. The call lasted approximately one and a half hours, and resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries.

There should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products. Our respective teams will be meeting shortly at a location to be determined. We will be represented by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer.

During the conversation, President Xi graciously invited the First Lady and me to visit China, and I reciprocated. As Presidents of two Great Nations, this is something that we both look forward to doing.

The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE. Nothing was discussed concerning Russia/Ukraine, or Iran. We will inform the Media as to scheduling and location of the soon to be meeting. Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Donald Trump.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: The battle for Pinga has begun - Walikale direction, North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.

M23 have captured the two towns of Bukutsha, and Burai, while fighting is ongoing for a third, Bese. The three towns formed DR Congo's Armed Forces, FARDC, final layer of defenses before the city of Pinga. M23 are currently attacking the city from the south and east, while also approaching from the north.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Huge M23 convoys are moving through Mbati, towards Pinga - Walikale direction, eastern DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 recalls its representatives for peace talks from Doha, Qatar.

🇺🇸⚡️- Two earthquakes at a depth of 3.1km were felt at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada, the strongest tremor being a 3.3 magnitude quake. The United States Geological Survey reported an additional 3.0 magnitude quake roughly 14 miles away.

🇷🇺⚡- Moscow city to close several streets tomorrow for Muslims to perform prayer at, as part of Islam's Eid celebrations.

🇮🇱⚡- Ultra-Orthodox communities protest against the IDF conscription law in Israel.

🇮🇱⚡- At the same time, left-wing Israelis clash with the police during a 'Pride' Parade in Tel Aviv.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives at the White House to meet President Trump.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- German Chancellor Merz gifts the President with a framed birth certificate of President Trump's grandfather, Frederick, born in 1869.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- "It's an honor to have you here, as you know the Chancellor just won a great election, a very strong election.

He's a very respected man. We've been on the phone many times, talking about some of the problems of the world outside of Germany. It's very sad what's going on, we both feel that way.

[It's sad] what's going on with Russia and Ukraine. We talked about other things too, buying particularly Russia and Ukraine. We'd like to see it end, maybe it will end.

But we got some news that there will be some fighting. Something happened a couple of days ago [Ukraine's Operation Spider Web], and now Russia will do a return. The Chancellor is unhappy about it, I'm unhappy about it. But I think eventually we're going to be successful, and stopping the bloodshed. It's pure bloodshed, 5,000-6,000 young soldiers a week are being killed. Do you know those numbers," - President Trump.

"Yes, we know the numbers," - Chancellor Merz.

"They're staggering. Staggering numbers.

Chancellor I want to congratulate you, and welcome you to the Oval Office. It's an Oval Office that's in very good shape. We like fixing things up, and having them tippy top, like they have in German. They do [have things in top conditions] in Germany very much.

I also had a great election, won everything. Won the popular vote, won all seven swing states. Which is a big deal, it's unusual to do that.

Part of our mandate is we're going to have a great relationship with your country. So I want to thank you very much for being here," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: President Trump is going hard on Elon Musk at the Oval Office!

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- "I think Elon misses the place. He's not the first. People leave my administration. And then at some point, they miss it so badly," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- "And some of them embrace it. And some of them actually become hostile. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome," - President Trump.