🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel is ready to resume the war with Iran and is awaiting Trump's greenlight, Israeli Channel 14 reports.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: UAE missile alerts have been sent out.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia announces it will cease fire on the 8th and 9th of May for Victory Day, and hopes Ukraine does the same.

Russia's Ministry of Defense warns it will strike Kiev, which Moscow already does every other day, if Ukraine breaks the ceasefire.

🇩🇪 - A car rammed into pedestrians in Leipzig, Germany, earlier today, leaving two dead and multiple injuries.

Local authorities have apprehended the suspect, but have not released the identify nor the motive.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- Bahrain, Jordan, and Egypt have condemned Iran's attacks on the UAE, and stand in solidarity with the Emirati State.

🇺🇸⚡- Trump and the GOP have undergone a campaign to flip Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, with Trump offering “his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall” to Fetterman.

When asked by POLITICO, Fetterman claimed he would not switch parties. At the same time, Senate Republicans and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have kept close to Fetterman in an effort to win him over.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- The UAE Ministry of Defence announced it confronted 12 ballistic missiles, 3 cruise missiles, and 4 drones fired by Iran on Monday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump did not want to say whether Iran violated the ceasefire with its attacks today on the United Arab Emirates and U.S. warships.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Shots fired near the White House, area is now under lockdown.

🇺🇸⚡️- The all clear has been given.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Ben Gurion Airport is on high alert due to the possibility of Israel's airspace being closed. - Israeli Channel 14.

🇨🇦⚡️- PM Carney is fast tracking permanent residency for 33,000 foreign workers.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Physical shortages in oil supply are starting to emerge as a result of the Strait of Hormuz closure. - Chevron CEO Mike Wirth.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Even after two months of U.S.-Israeli bombing, Iran’s timeline to build a nuclear weapon remains unchanged and would still take about one year. - Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has condemned Iran's attacks on the UAE.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "The UAE has unleashed Arab influencers, fashionistas, and media figures residing within its borders to attack the [Saudi] Kingdom because the Sons of Zayed [Emiratis] have not forgotten the previous dispute [Treaty of Jeddah] and their hearts are filled with much hatred and resentment," - Hureya, Saudi outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- “Events in Hormuz make clear that there's no military solution to a political crisis.

As talks are making progress with Pakistan's gracious effort, the U.S. should be wary of being dragged back into quagmire by ill-wishers. So should the UAE.

Project Freedom is Project Deadlock.” - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on X.

🇸🇩🇦🇪🇪🇹⚡️- Sudan's government accused the UAE and Ethiopia of being involved in today's drone attack on Khartoum Airport, according to the Sudanese state news agency.

Sudanese officials say they have the right to respond to the aggression at the time and place they determine.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Unprecedented GPS disruptions in the Persian Gulf.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Initial reports of nearly 30 US in-air refueling aircraft airborne above various parts of the Middle East, with most currently loitering above Iraq.

The aircraft above Iraq have their transponders disabled.