🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The rapprochement between America and Europe is essential to support Ukraine," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇫🇷⚡- "We live in an unstable world," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The day this conflict comes to and end, security guarantees will be rolled out. That is what we promised," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "Germany, Italy, and Poland are among the countries guaranteeing Ukraine's security," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: "Among the security guarantees is our membership into the EU," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇨🇩⚡️- Ebola outbreak in Congo, at least 15 dead

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "Hungary and Slovakia are helping Russia’s war machine by buying its oil, and this must stop," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "It's concerning when two EU countries [Hungary and Slovakia] are purchasing Russian oil," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France, during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris.

🇪🇺🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to meet EU's Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the E3's activation of the snapback mechanism

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇵🇪⚡- Peru’s Congress has officially designated the Venezuelan Cartel of Los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) as a terrorist organization.

🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar says that French President Macron is not allowed into Israel as long as Macron's government continues down its anti-Israeli path.

🇬🇧🇳🇴⚡- Norway agrees to purchase five City-class Type 26 frigates from the UK. The deal struck with BAE Systems is reportedly worth over $13.5 billion.

🇹🇭⚡- Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand amid the political turmoil involving the Shinawatra family.

🇨🇩🇷🇼 - Imagery shows massive expansion of the Kanombe Military Cemetery near the Rwandan capital Kigali.

The majority of the expansion occurred in the past year, the same period the M23 launched its offensives in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇱⚡- After the Kiev-Manila drone deal, Ukraine and Poland signed a similar joint drone production deal with Taiwan.

🇺🇸⚡️- US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order officially renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War,' the name held by what is now known as the Department of Defense for 158 years until September 1947.

🇷🇺🇭🇺🇸🇰⚡- Hungary and Slovakia have proposed to the EU to lift sanctions on Russian-Jewish billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven.

Both, along with Fridman's Alfa Group, have been sanctioned by the US, the UK and the EU for playing a leading role in orchestrating the Ukrainian war, according to the Economic Times.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Two Venezuelan F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets buzzed the USS Jason Dunham, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer stationed in the Caribbean.

Venezuela is believed to be in possession of three F-16 fighter jets, sold to the nation in the 1980s by US President Ronald Reagan. It is also one of two countries in Latin America - alongside Chile - to operate the F-16.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- ICE has reactivated a $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon. The contract was put on pause during the final months of the Biden Administration.