🇨🇳🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- 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.

🇷🇺⚡️- "It is possible to consider returning the name Stalingrad to Volgograd," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia not only fully meets the army's needs for aviation but also exports it," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "The issue of visa-free travel for Chinese citizens is under consideration," - Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's President Putin says there are 700,000 Russian soldiers active along the "line of combat" in Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "My visit to Britain achieved deals worth $350 billion," - President Donald Trump.