🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- Cuba’s National Electric Union announced that the entire national electric grid collapsed today. The outage leaves around 10 million people without power amid the U.S.-imposed oil blockade on the island nation.

🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens reported in Kuwait.

🇳🇬⚡️- Multiple blasts heard in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, per Reuters.

🇮🇱⚡️- White House staff are almost exclusively sharing praise from jewish commentators while calling everyone else "panicans" or "doomers" over the Iran war.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A direct line of communication between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been reactivated in recent days, per Axios.

🇨🇦⚡️- Despite promises from the Carney Government and a temporary drop in new arrivals in 2025, skilled immigration is being expanded and streamlined with its conversion to an online experience with the Digital Platform Modernization initiative.

Citizenship tests and similar exams can be taken fully online now to gain Canadian residency.

🇮🇶⚡️- Two strong explosions heard in Baghdad, Iraq.

🇨🇱🇵🇪🇧🇴⚡️- Chile has started building barriers at the borders with Peru and Bolivia to slow immigration.

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇪🇺⚡️- In a joint press release, Germany, France, Italy, Canada & the United Kingdom oppose a major Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- Visual confirmation of a drone directly impacting the Al-Rasheed hotel in Baghdad, Iraq.

Locals say the hotel is hosting European delegations.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡️- Multiple casualties in Kabul per AFP journalists stationed in the city.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian ballistic missile launches to central Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump posted a record 959 word wall of text on Truth Social and then reposted it via screenshots a few hours later.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Explosions in Kuwait.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi says there has been no communication with Steve Witkoff, and that any information claiming otherwise is false and an attempt to save oil markets.

🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇼⚡️- Explosions in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, and sirens in Kuwait.

🇺🇸🇲🇾⚡️- Two Gulf-based U.S. minesweeper ships, the USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, left the Gulf and traveled 4,000 miles to Malaysia for what the U.S. military is calling a "logistical stop", according to the Financial Times.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to central Israel.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The Trump administration has told Cuban negotiators that President Miguel Díaz-Canel has to go, according to the New York Times.

The U.S. so far is not pushing for any action against members of the Castro family, who remain Cuba's top power brokers.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Multiple explosions in Dubai, UAE.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain.