🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan arrests over 30 Russians accused of drug smuggling into the country.

🇺🇸⚡- "DOGE is going to look at Musk. If DOGE looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune. I don't think he should be playing that game with me," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump says he will have a "very quick celebration" with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu next Monday, once again asserts that the Iranian nuclear program was completely obliterated, and says Netanyahu decided where the meeting would take place.

🇺🇸⚡- "We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the the monster that might have to come back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?

He gets a lot of subsidies, but Elon is very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated. You know what, not everybody wants an electric car! I don't want an electric car. I want maybe gasoline, or electric, maybe a hybrid, maybe someday a hydrogen car. Hydrogen has one problem, it blows up.

I'll give the hydrogen car to Peter [CNN journalist], we'll let him test it out," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Senate passes the Big Beautiful Bill with VP Vance as the tie breaking vote.

🇷🇺🇫🇷⚡- Russian President Putin and French President Macron held a phone conversation, the first in 3 years.

🇮🇷⚡- Explosion in Tehran, an IRGC site was allegedly targeted.

🇮🇷⚡- Scenes from Tehran, Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- No drones were heard prior to the explosion, and Tehran's air defenses were not active either.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- In retaliation Russian security forces have arrested two prominent Azerbaijanis in Russia.

- Yusif Khalilov, in Voronezh, the co-owner of 'Alekseevsky Market'.
- Shahin Shykhlinsky, in Yekaterinburg, Head of 'Azerbaijan-Ural'.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US Judge rejects Hauwei Technologies bid to dismiss federal indictments accusing the company of stealing tech secrets from six American companies and lying to US banks about its work in Iran.

The criminal case began in 2018 during the first Trump Administrations "China Initiative" to address Chinese intellectual property theft, the program was scrapped during the Biden Admin over accusations of racial profiling.

The trial is set to begin May 4, 2026.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump says he will arrest Zohran Mamdani if he interferes with ICE as mayor of NYC. President Trump also praised Mayor Adams for his co-operation with immigration enforcement.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches detected from Yemen by Ansarullah against central and southern Israel. Sirens expected imminently.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts across central Israel, concentrated on Jerusalem and the suburbs of Tel-Aviv. Ballistic missiles launched by Ansarullah in Yemen detected.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Interceptors have been launched.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Loud explosions heard over Tel-Aviv, central Israel. Possibly interceptions.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- The ballistic missile was intercepted.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Two Chinese nationals were caught spying on our Navy and trying to recruit American service members for the CCP’s intel service.

Our FBI won’t stand for it. We tracked them, we stopped them, and we’re not done yet.

Espionage on U.S. soil will be met with full force," - Kash Patel, FBI Director.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- An arrest of another Azerbaijani Shahin Shykhlinsky in Russia. His son was also allegedly arrested.