🇺🇸🇦🇪🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: The Financial Times reports US intelligence have obtained information that the UAE has passed critical defense technology to Huawei, which assisted the Chinese in developing extended range air-to-air missile systems, thus giving the Chinese fighters advantage over its American counterparts.

UAE-based AI giant G-42 was used to upgrade long-range missiles fired from fighter jets. The sensitive US information G-42 passed onto the Chinese helped upgrade the PL-15 and PL-17 missiles.

The intelligence findings are similar to that of UAE's ally Israel, which in the past has provided the Chinese vital US data on the Sidewinder and Patriot missile systems, as well as the Chinese J-10 jet program.

🇹🇷🇮🇶⚡- The PKK has announced the withdrawal of all of its forces from Turkey to Iraq.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli assassination strike kills one in al-Naqoura, southern Lebanon.

The 8th Israeli assassination in Lebanon in just the past 4 days.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇨🇳⚡- Massive right-wing pro-US and anti-China protests against President Lee Jae Myung of the Democratic Party on the eve of President Trump's visit to the country for the APEC summit.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇲🇾⚡- "China and the United States have reached preliminary consensuses on key issues including export controls, the extension of the 90-day tariff truce, fentanyl-related tariffs, the expansion of bilateral trade and US port fees," - Li Chenggang, Vice Minister of Commerce of China.

🇨🇳⚡- China launches satellite Gaofen-14 02 into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in its southwestern Sichuan Province.

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- "South Korea will discuss the North Korea file with ASEAN members at the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur," - Yonhap.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- South Korea will discuss the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula with President Trump during his visit to the APEC summit.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel's 9th assassination strike in 4 days, a vehicle was struck in Nabi Chit in southern Lebanon.

🇸🇩⚡- BREAKING: Al-Fashir falls to the Rapid Support Forces, ending a 32+ month violent urban battle.

The Sudanese military have lost their final stronghold in the Darfur and southwest region of Sudan.

🇸🇩⚡- Heavy fighting ongoing at Al-Fashir International Airport, the last position under the Sudanese Armed Forces in the area.

🇸🇩⚡- Mass fleeing of civilians from al-Fashir, Darfur direction in southwest Sudan, after the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, captured the city.

Reports of the UAE-backed RSF firing upon fleeing civilians.

🇸🇸🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- South Sudan's President Salva Kiir travels to the UAE using an Ethiopian aircraft to strengthen relations between Juba and Abu Dhabi.

South Sudan is a key supply route for the UAE to arm the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, as covered by Rerum Novarum previously.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Israeli airstrikes against the Bodai countryside, eastern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The three Israeli drone strikes were an attempt to target a vehicle in eastern Lebanon, but the assassination attempt failed.

Correction: An Israeli UAV malfunctioned and crashed. Israel bombed it to avoid it falling into Hezbollah hands.