🇷🇺🇭🇺🇸🇰⚡- 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.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: The Philippines have launched a resupply mission to the grounded BRP Sierra Madre vessel in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea.

Very heavy naval and aerial activity from both the Philippines and China. This would be Manila's first resupply mission since May.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- Two Philippine Coast Guard vessels, BRP Bacagay and BRP Malapascua, are currently heading straight to the grounded BRP Sierra Madre in the Second Thomas Shoal.

The two BRPs are closely followed by two Chinese Coast Guard vessels, CCG5304 and CCG23514. Further ahead, an additional 22 Chinese vessels are forming a military blockade of the shoal.

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "US and Taiwanese defence officials held secret talks in Alaska last week, days before President Xi Jinping flaunted China’s military might to the world at a parade attended by fellow strongmen," - Financial Times.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan issues yet another NOTAM for the Rahim Yar Khan dual-purpose airport until September 12, citing 'safety assessments'.

The airstrip reconstruction work has surprisingly lasted four months after it was struck by India during the India-Pakistan conflict in May.

🇮🇳⚡- Mumbai's police raise their state of alert as they believe 14 terrorists have entered the city with 34 bombs, and 400 kg of RDX which have been planted on multiple vehicles.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanese military deployment to Beirut ahead of today's government meeting on the disarming of non-state actors, including Hezbollah.

🇹🇭⚡- Anutin Charnvirakul of the center-right Bhumjaithai Party received 247 votes required for a majority in Parliament, becoming Thailand's new Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together

President Donald J. Trump," - President Donald Trump.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Philippines Coast Guard vessels BRP Bacagay and BRP Malapascua are now less than 90 minutes from the Second Thomas Shoal.

One of the vessels is approaching the disputed shoal in the South China Sea from the north, while the other approaches from the south. 24 Chinese vessels are currently positioned in and around the waters.

🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese government session on the disarming of non-state actors has begun at the Baabda Palace, Beirut.

🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: Amal and Hezbollah ministers have left the Lebanese government meeting on the disarming of non-state actors.

🇱🇧 - Hezbollah affiliated al-Akhbar have confirmed that Amal-Hezbollah ministers have walked out the Lebanese government meeting.

🇱🇧⚡- All four Amal-Hezbollah ministers have left the government meeting to discuss amongst themselves in a side-room, al-Mayadeen reports.

🇱🇧⚡- The final Shia-minister Fadi Makki, Minister for Administrative Reform, has also walked out of the government meeting and has joined the four Amal-Hezbollah ministers in the side-room at the Baabda Palace, Beirut.

🇺🇦🇪🇺🇸🇰⚡- BREAKING: The meeting between Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has begun in Uzhhorod, western Ukraine.

Earlier today Fico met Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, on the Slovakia-Ukraine border.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- New CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper accompanied by Envoy Morgan Ortagus have landed at Hamat Air Base, northern Lebanon.