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

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Two Iranian vessels are crossing the Strait of Hormuz despite Trump's blockade, Kpler reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah released a statement in which they claim to have confronted an Israeli fighter jet.

"[...] The fighters of the Islamic Resistance confronted [and/or intercepted] an Israeli warplane in the skies of Western Beqaa with a surface-to-air missile at 14:00 yesterday, Monday, April 13, 2026."

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇻🇦⚡- "I have expressed my solidarity with the Pope, as the comments surrounding him were very unacceptable," - Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy.

🇮🇹🇮🇱⚡- Italy suspends automatic renewals of defense agreements with Israeli companies.

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇻🇦⚡- "Do people like that Meloni is doing nothing to secure the oil [in the Strait of Hormuz]?

I'm shocked, I thought she [Italian PM Meloni] had courage but I was wrong.

She's actually the one unacceptable, because she doesn't care if Iran has nuclear weapons.

Iran could blow up Italy in two minutes," - President Trump lashes out at Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇭🇺⚡- "Viktor Orban was my friend, he's a good man. He didn't let people come in and ruin his country like [Italian PM] Meloni," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The U.S. and Israel have defined the removal of enriched material from Iran as a prerequisite for ending the campaign." - Israel Katz, Israeli Defence Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is stronger than ever and is no longer threatened with annihilation." - Israel Katz, Israeli Defence Minister.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The main concern at the moment is the disarmament of Hezbollah," - A US official tells i24.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released footage of an FPV drone directly impacting an Israeli Humvee.

🇫🇷⚡️- A political scandal in France is brewing after a team of state inspectors were denied entry in the Elysée by the authorities. The inspectors were mandated by the French justice to search precise parts of the Elysée as part of an official investigation into recent "Panthéonisation" ceremonies conducted by the French government.

A company named "Shortcut Events", the French National Monuments Center and several advisors of Emmanuel Macron are targeted by the ongoing investigation.

The Elysée's authorities invoked Article 67 of the French Constitution to prevent this search alongside any future attempts.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- "Received a call from my friend President Donald Trump. We reviewed the substantial progress achieved in our bilateral cooperation in various sectors. We are committed to further strengthening our Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership in all areas. We also discussed the situation in West Asia and stressed the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and secure." - Indian PM Narendra Modi on X.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah launches rockets into northern Israel, simultaneously with Lebanon-Israel negotiations in Washington.

🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷⚡️- Foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey will hold a meeting to discuss the Middle East, per the AFP citing Turkish diplomatic sources.

🇮🇳⚡️- A boiler explosion at a power plant in central India caused 10 deaths and 40 injuries.

The initial investigation has ruled out terrorism and is privileging subpar components or poor labor.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The first direct Lebanon-Israel talks since 1983 have ended, lasting 2.5 hours.

Both sides described the talks, held in the US, as positive.

🇨🇦🇱🇧⚡- Canada will allocate $40 million in humanitarian aid to Lebanon through NGOs, according to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡- A Russian bulk-carrier ABINSK carrying grain from Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories docked at Israel's Haifa Port two days ago, violating US, UK, and EU sanctions.

Israel continues to use Haifa, which has been leased to China's SIPG, against the interests of the West. The port has routinely been used by the Russian ghost fleet.