🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN 750) will arrive in the southern Caribbean next week, as Reuters reports the US has ordered more warships off the coast of Venezuela.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- BREAKING: IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says his first team of inspectors from the organization are back in Iran.

Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal said Grossi believed full cooperation between the IAEA and Iran in the near future is possible.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- "Negotiations between Iran and the IAEA on 'modalities' have made progress. Some points are still pending, and they are being discussed. Inspections should resume at agreed sites," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Saudi-outlet Asharq al-Aswat that Tehran is ready to resume indirect nuclear talks with the US.

Araghchi also praises the growing Iran-Saudi Arabia relations, calling the Arab Kingdom "one of the key poles of the Islamic world alongside Iran".

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli military incursion into the al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria.

An Israeli convoy is reportedly travelling northwards, east of 'Sad Kudna' (33.0267182, 35.9218708).

🇲🇦🇮🇱⚡- Morocco successfully tests the EXTRA artillery rocket system.

EXTRA is produced by the Israeli defense giant Ta'as (IMI).

🇲🇲⚡- 12 civilians including 5 children killed and 21 injured after a Myanmar's junta airstrike struck Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, Arakan Army controlled Myanmar.

🇺🇸🇹🇭⚡- Thailand has joined a newly established, US-led 'war room' to share intelligence and strategies to combat crime in the region.

The war room includes forces from the US, Japan, India and now also Thailand.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli recon aircraft over Damascus, Syria.

#BREAKING | Denmark has summoned the US chargé d'affaires following reports of alleged interference attempts in Greenland.

According to Denmark's Ministry, at least three individuals linked to US interests have been involved in covert influence operations in the region.

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🇺🇸⚡- At least 25 countries have suspended postal package deliveries to the US citing impact from Trump's tariffs. They include the UK, most of the EU, India and Japan.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- The Pentagon is deploying officials responsible for the adoption of new commercial technologies by the US military to dozens of allied countries, including Taiwan and Japan, to combat China's military build-up in the Indo-Pacific region, the Financial Times reports.

The move includes deploying Pentagon representatives to Taiwan to speed-up collaboration on military drones.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack has cancelled his visit to southern Lebanon after protests broke out in the region.

🇩🇪⚡- German defense company Rheinmetall is opening the largest artillery ammunition factory in Europe, in Unterluss, Lower Saxony, Germany.

At full capacity, by 2027, the plant will be able to produce an incredible 350,000 shells per year.