🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli bulldozers have arrived at the hill geolocated by Rerum Novarum in the previous post.

Israel has also moved barbed wire and construction material to Bait Jin, Damascus countryside, indicating that the IDF are preparing to build a military base on the strategic heights.

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡- "WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t have that and do business there. I am seeing the new President today at the White House. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!" - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡- "I heard that there were raids on churches over the last few days. Very vicious raids by the new government in South Korea. That they even went into our military base and got information, they probably shouldn't have done that. But I heard bad things. I don't know if it's true or not, but I'll be finding out," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡- President Trump welcomes South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung go the White House.

🇧🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers the Brazilian President persona non grata, and bilateral relations will be managed at a lower diplomatic level," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has fired the Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after accusations that she committed mortgage fraud.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- E3-Iran talks have been ongoing for two hours in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- The E3 are demanding a full resumption of cooperation between Tehran and the IAEA.

According to the Wall Street Journal, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi believes the organization and its inspectors will return to Iran in its original full capacity.

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the US Ambassador to Paris, after the American embassy accusing President Macron of 'not fighting antisemitism'.

France calls the US statements as interference in French political affairs.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The US has agreed to provide Ukraine with security guarantees post-war. Financial Times reports that the US will support a European-led force operating in Ukraine by providing intelligence, surveillance, and air defense support, but will not send ground troops.

🇭🇺⚡- Insane footage shows Hungarian Member of Parliament Akos Hadhazy driving and recording the luxury estate Hatvanpuszta in Fejer county, northern Hungary.

Security forces patrolling the estate started chasing the car of Hadhazy, forcing them off route to prevent recording. The car of the security forces toppled in the end.

Note, Hatvanpuszta is owned by Gyozo Orban, father of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and has seen major reconstruction and development projects. Prime Minister Orban has denied accusations of spending tax-payers on the estate, and has asserted its a "modest family farm", with zebras.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- "A source with knowledge of the E3 meeting with Iran tells me the Iranians "haven't put tangible detailed deliverables on the table".

A second source told me the Iranians gave E3 representatives very little to work with in order to get an extension of the Snap-Back. With 5 days left on the clock, E3 and the EU political director will now brief their political leadership to take a decision regarding the snapback mechanism," - Barak Ravid of Axios.

🇺🇸⚡️- Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have announced their engagement on Instagram.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump again re-iterates his desire to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the U.S. saying "Its insulting to say students can't come here".

🇺🇸⚡️- US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik is advocating for the Federal Government to take ownership of new patents from University inventions. He is also asking the Pentagon to consider taking equity stakes in Defense Contractors.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- ExxonMobil has been in talks with Russia's largest state run energy company Rosneft about resuming business in the country.

🇦🇺🇵🇭⚡- Manila gives Australia access to military bases on its soil, opening the way for the possible deployment of Australian troops to the Philippines, US Naval Institute reports.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's Coast Guard reports that the same four Chinese Coast Guard vessels, CCG14608, CCG14527, CCG14603, and CCG14515, have been breaching Kinmen Islands water-spaces, Taiwan, repeatedly over the past 48 hours.

The CCG vessels break into Kinmen waters, retreat, then return, all while with their AIS turned off.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian loitering drones struck a residential complex in Rostov-on-Don, southwestern Russia.

There is speculation that the home struck is the residence of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who has been living in exile in Russia since 2014.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Senior Chinese trade negotiator Li Chenggang is expected to travel to Washington this week to meet US officials, with the two superpowers looking to chart a path beyond their current tariff truce," - Reuters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian reconnaissance drones are still heard above Rostov-on-Don.

If an attempt was made on Yanukovych's life, the drones could be there to confirm the target.