🇺🇸🇹🇹🇻🇪⚡️- The United States announces the deployment of troops to Trinidad and Tobago for "military exercises."

Trinidad and Tobago is situated directly off of Venezuela's coast, with a channel less than 13 miles wide separating the two.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- A Israeli woman and her partner were arrested on suspicion that they stashed her 93-year-old Holocaust survivor mother in an ice cream freezer, before burying the body in a three-meter deep pit in their backyard.

With the body now hidden, the pair were able to continue to receive the Holocaust survivor's $5,500 per month benefits from the State of Germany.

The daughter's partner took his own life after the discovery, with Israeli police still awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine how the daughter's mother, Maina Tolstikov, died. The incident occurred in the Galilee region of Israel.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group to the U.S. Southern Command, whose area of responsibility includes Venezuela.

🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡- Japan scrambled jets in response to a Russian Tu-95 bomber and two Su-35 jets flying near Sado Island's airspace, central Japan.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- BREAKING: The US has sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Colombia's Interior Minister Armando Benedetti.

Sanctions have also been imposed on Petro's wife Veronica Garcia and his son Nicolas Petro Burgos for their connections to President Petro.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Our country will continue its path and cannot be stopped even if they threaten us and intimidate us," - Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Defense Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "There is a threat in the Caribbean with the deployment of US air and naval equipment but we are working without fear," - Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Defense Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We are now facing the worst military threat in over 100 years, represented by the aerial and naval deployment of the United States," - Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Defense Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "US military deployment is getting closer day by day to the Venezuelan coast," - Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Defense Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We do not love war and we are not warmongers, we are warriors but we are advocates of peace and lovers of peace," - Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Defense Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group are currently in the Adriatic Sea. It will take the vessel approximately 12 days to enter the SOUTHCOM arena.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "US actions have caused significant harm to Sino-US relations in terms of economy. We urge the United States to correct its wrong practices immediately," - Chinese Embassy in the US.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Since President Gustavo Petro came to power, cocaine production in Colombia has exploded to the highest rate in decades, flooding the United States and poisoning Americans. President Petro has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity.

Today, President Trump is taking strong action to protect our nation and make clear that we will not tolerate the trafficking of drugs into our nation," - Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent.

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- Satellite imagery shows China carrying out ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil from Russian shadow vessels.

In this way China bypasses US and European sanctions, a method Chinese vessels have used with Iran as well.

🇧🇴⚡- BREAKING: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA, has suspended Bolivia's membership in the organization after the election of pro-US President Rodrigo Paz.

🇧🇴⚡- "The governments of the member states decided to suspend the membership of the far-right government that will take power in Bolivia," - Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA.

🇧🇴⚡- "The behavior of the right-wing government in Bolivia is contrary to the Bolivarian principles and hostile to Latin America," - Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA.