🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- "Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a 'Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement' pledging that aggression against one country would be treated as an attack on both," - Arab News.

🇻🇦🇵🇸⚡️- "I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forced once again from their own lands. Before Almighty God, who commanded “Thou shalt not kill,” and throughout human history, every person always has an inviolable dignity, to be respected and upheld. I renew my appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and a negotiated diplomatic solution, in full respect of international humanitarian law. I invite everyone to join my heartfelt prayer that a dawn of peace and justice may soon arise." - His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV.

🇺🇸⚡️- ABC cancels Jimmy Kimmel Live after his remarks on Charlie Kirk's assassination. He repeated the conspiracy theory that the shooter was "MAGA" and refused to correct or apologize after backlash.

🇧🇷⚡️- Brazil's Congress is currently voting on a general amnesty for all participants in the January 8th, 2023 protests in Brasilia. The amnesty will include former president Jair Bolsonaro.

If the Congress passes the amnesty, Bolsonaro will be allowed to run in the next elections.

🇨🇳🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Middle East Monitor reports that Egypt has deployed the Chinese-made HQ-9B air defense system in the Sinai region, a move that has not gone well with Tel-Aviv.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- For the first time in 25 years, the Foreign Minister of Syria has arrived in the US. Asaad al-Shaibani will visit Washington in hope of having the remaining US sanctions on Syria lifted this week.

🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- Poland's Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has arrived in Kiev, Ukraine.

🇨🇳🇵🇰🇺🇳⚡- China and Pakistan have submitted a joint-bid at the United Nations Security Council to recognize the Balochistan Liberation Army as a terrorist entity.

🇵🇸🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- "UAE is considering downgrading diplomatic ties with Israel, if Tel Aviv's annexation of parts of the West Bank go ahead," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- President Donald Trump is currently having a business meeting with UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

🇳🇱🇻🇪⚡- HNLMS Friesland has deployed both of its tenders, FRISC RHIBC 01 and 03, in the Caribbean waters. The boats have their AIS activated and are operating off the coast of Curacao.

Friesland has been involved in numerous naval operations in recent years, in particularly shadowing Russian vessels in the Baltic waters.

🇨🇳⚡- China and Chinese state-backed companies are now the main investors and administrators of 37 ports (32%) out of 118 in the Central and South America region.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Rerum Novarum have geolocated the four IDF evacuation orders for southern Lebanon. The four structures are located at: 33.37034, 35.5927, 33.34505, 35.50261, 33.16764, 35.51682 and 33.16024, 35.51147.