🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- China has defended its aggressive actions near Thitu Island, saying they were defending against Philippine's attempts at "occupying all of Sandy Cay."

Note, Sandy Cay is adjacent to Thitu Island, Thitu is currently under Philippine military control.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "Most in Pakistan want peace, but some are worsening ties. We’ve defended ourselves and achieved our goals. We stopped our operations at Qatar and Saudi request. We seek dialogue, but can also protect our sovereignty," - Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghanistan Taliban's Foreign Minister.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Three Pakistani checkpoints have been confirmed to have fallen to Afghan Taliban control.

Footages of all three are very graphic and won't be posted, but puts the Pakistani claims of just 23 casualties up to debate.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: New violent clashes have erupted in the Nangarhar area, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🇻🇪🇨🇺⚡- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plane lands in Cuba.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Calm across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border over the past two hours.

🇻🇪⚡- Venezuela begins running mock air raid sirens.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!!" - President Donald Trump.

🇮🇷🇪🇬⚡- Tehran rejects Egypt's invitation to attend the Hamas-Israel peace deal ceremony in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Wichita is currently en route to the Carribbean waters to replace USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, which departed from the area last night.

🇬🇧⚡- UK's HMS Medway has begun active operations in the Carribbean Sea.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The [Israel-Hamas] war is over and the ceasefire will hold," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu is a wartime President. He did a very good job. Him and I had disputes, but they were quickly settled," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "I heard there's a war between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I told them, we'll have to wait till I get back [to the US], because I'm solving another war [Hamas-Israel] right now.

I'm good at solving wars, I'm good at making peace," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukrainians are very good fighters," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If Putin doesn't settle the war, I'm going to send them [Ukraine] Tomahawks," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡- "You can literally walk over from Iran to Qatar, you can walk it in one second," - President Trump.

Note, there is no land border between Iran and Qatar, and would take 78 hours to swim across the 117 miles of sea.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- JUST IN: Image showing the Red Cross along with Hamas fighters preparing for hostage exchange in Gaza.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The hostage swap is set to take place in a few moments.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Seven Israeli hostages have been handed over to the Red Cross.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The seven hostages are reported to be Gali and Ziv Berman, Matan Angrest, Alon Ohel, Omri Miran, Eitan Mor and Guy Gilboa-Dallal.
With the remaining hostages to be released at 10 A.M.