🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah rocket alerts in northern Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇦⚡️- "His Holiness Pope Louis XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah." - Masoud Pezeshkian on X.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A post from the official Israel X account.

🇪🇸⚡️- The wife of the current Spanish Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, has been charged with influence peddling and private-sector corruption.

She is accused of using her position as the Prime Minister's wife to secure sponsors for a university master's degree course that she ran.

🇩🇿⚡- BREAKING: Twin suicide attacks in Bilda, southwest Algiers, targeting the Algerian military positions.

The attacks coincide with the Pope's visit to Algeria.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- UKMTO issues an advisory warning that all Iranian ports and access to the country's coast has been restricted.

"Neutral vessels within Iranian ports have been granted a limited grace period to depart," - UKMTO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The US Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has now begun.

"The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports." - U.S. Central Command.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- "There is no solution other than land entry into Iran - but a governmental alternative must be established.

There is no solution other than a ground military entry by the US into Iran and a repeat of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

But this time we need to find a successful, acceptable, and secular alternative government on the Iranian street. It would be better if it wasn't Reza Pahlavi.

There is no other solution. They should treat this like the Saddam Hussein regime, and recreate the Bush administration's experience.

The war has not achieved its results, and Iran is continuing with its nuclear program, and has even become more aggressive towards us, towards you [Israel], and towards the US and its interests in the region and the world," - A Saudi Royal tells Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that 8 IDF soliders were wounded by a Hezbollah drone in southern Lebanon. 2 of them are in moderate condition, and the other 6 are in mild condition.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated - 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, “fast attack ships,” because we did not consider them much of a threat. Warning: If any of these shipsa come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea. It is quick and brutal. P.S. 98.2% of Drugs coming into the U.S. by Ocean or Sea have STOPPED! Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸⚡- “A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.” - Associated Press.

🇩🇿 - Footage displaying the aftermath of the suicide attacks.

The attacker(s) targeted a “security directorate,” which killed two police officers and injured numerous civilians, according to the Daily Express.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The Wall Street Journal reports 15 US vessels are currently enforcing the blockade of Iran.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- The IDF announces they have struck 150 Hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours.

🇺🇸🇻🇦 - The post has been deleted.

🇲🇾⚡- Malaysia's Coast Guard seized two tankers for carrying out illegal ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Malacca Strait.

The Malacca Strait is a well-known hotspot for ship-to-ship transfers, especially involving Russian and Iranian crude oil. In February, Malaysian authorities detained two tankers linked to Iran for such activities.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem said the group outright rejects direct talks between the Lebanese and the Israeli governments.

The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US are set to meet in Washington tomorrow, the first direct talks between the two countries since 1983.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Russia's Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov says Moscow is still ready to accept Iran's enriched uranium.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- CBS reports the US and Iran are still in contact through mediators following the failed Islamabad talks.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is considering a second round of talks with Iran before the expiration of the two-week ceasefire - CNN.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- Despite President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV, treating the Vicar of Christ like a routine political rival, a March 2026 NBC News poll of Americans shows Leo at 42% favorable, 8% unfavorable (+34). Trump stands at 41% favorable, 53% unfavorable (–12). A recent Gallup poll also ranks Leo as the most popular public figure in the world.