🇺🇸🇵🇸🇹🇷⚡- US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to hold direct negotiations with Hamas in Ankara, Turkey, today. Witkoff is set to meet Head of the Hamas negotiating team and deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya.

🇺🇸🇹🇹⚡- Scenes from the ongoing US - Trinidad and Tobago military exercises on the Carribbean island.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "Taiwanese authorities have detained six current and former military personnel and one Chinese man over alleged espionage," - Anadolu Agency.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- China has suspended all seafood imports from Japan.

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡- The US to produce $700 million worth of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) fire units for Taiwan, Nikkei Asia reports.

Last week the State Department approved a $330 million sale of fighter jet parts to Taiwan.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡- Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski will close the last Russian consulate in Poland, located in Gdansk, and labels the explosion damage to the Warsaw-Lubin railway line as 'state-funded terrorism.'

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇹🇷⚡- The meeting between Witkoff and al-Hayya in Turkey has been cancelled, Israel Hayom reports.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡- Very unusual: A British Typhoon jet was operating in the South China Sea before landing on the Chinese island of Hainan.

🇨🇳 - Update: China is impersonating a British typhoon jet with its miscoded hex. It's likely a Chinese test-flight.

🇯🇵⚡️- Japan is set to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, after it gets approval this week from the local governor to resume operations.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran has released the tanker Talara, along with its entire crew.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡- "British forces were targeted with lasers while tracking a Russian spy ship near UK waters north of Scotland," - John Healey, UK's Defense Secretary.

🇩🇪🇵🇱⚡- "The Poles simply see themselves as the great, pitiful, long-term victim of European history. Being a victim as a national identity. They are simply the African Americans of Europe," - Fabian Keubel, member of the German AfD Party.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Civilian death toll rises to 19 from the Russian attacks against Ternopol, Ukraine.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies Britain's MI5 accusations of spying on Parliament.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- 15 hours after the deadly Israeli attacks against the Ein al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese government has finally responded:

"Once again, the enemy repeats its crime by targeting civilians. Lebanon must continue to submit complaints to the United Nations Security Council, and it demands an urgent session to condemn the violations," - Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, member of the Amal Movement, and part of the pro Hezbollah-Amal axis.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The White House expects that a framework agreement to end the war will be reached by all parties by the end of the month — possibly even this week," - Politico.

🇫🇷⚡️- Notre-Dame Cathedral and several other important monuments in Paris will be illuminated in red tonight to raise awareness of the persecution of Christians.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Iranian scientists visited Russia, in what appears to be a sign of Iran's efforts to obtain laser technology and expertise, so that it can design nuclear weapons without conducting a nuclear explosion test," - Financial Times.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Military officials from 20 countries are currently at the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv preparing forward plans. These includ the formation of the International Stabilization Force which is expected to enter Gaza soon.

Officials include from the United States, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

The officers from multiple nations are seated around the main table, with screens showing live images from Israeli and American aircraft over Gaza, including views of the city market, the movement of humanitarian trucks and aid groups on the ground," - Israeli Channel 11.

✝️⚡️- These illuminations are part of the Red Week worldwide initiative from the Aid to the Church in Need catholic organization.

Over 600 churches and landmarks in the Christian world will light up in red.