🇬🇧⚡️- Two UK Secretaries of State have resigned in defiance of Starmer.

🇬🇧⚡️- Over 100 Labor MPs have signed a letter supporting Starmer.

🇺🇸⚡️- CPI inflation rose to 3.8% in April, the highest level since 2023.

For the first time in three years, inflation is outpacing wage growth.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇲⚡- "There is no danger in it [our relationship with China]. We will have the courage and fortitude to protect our relationship with China," - Bruce Golding, Jamaica's former Prime Minister, on the growing Chinese influence in the island nation, such as the 'Beijing Highway' project.

Jamaica, which has become yet another failed Carribbean island nation while eating up tens of millions of US and UK financial aid, continues to foster hostile Chinese influence.

🇺🇸🇦🇹⚡- Austria scrambled Eurofighter jets twice in two days to intercept US PC-12s that entered the central European country's airspace "without permission," - Die Welt reports.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡- Kuwait's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador after claiming IRGC attempted to infiltrate Kuwait's Bubiyan Island.

Kuwait alleges six Iranian operators attempted to land on the island on a rented fishing vessel, which was a driving force for Saddam Hussein's Project 17. Four of the armed men were arrested, the two others escaped. One Kuwaiti soldier was injured in the firefight.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia carried out a series of unpublicized retaliatory strikes on Iran during the war, according to Reuters.

The strikes were assessed to have been carried out in late March.

🇾🇪 - There have been no attacks or explosions in Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopia informed Sudan that its ambassador was not welcome on its territory and has reportedly expelled him.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran won't enter a second-round of talks with the US unless five points are met by Washington, Fars News reports.

The five points:
- Ending the war on all fronts,
- Compensating war damages,
- Releasing frozen assets,
- Lifting of all sanctions,
- Recognition of Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- President Trump has departed for China.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejects the claims made by Kuwait, saying the 4 Iranians that were arrested were on a routine naval patrol mission and entered Kuwait’s waters due to “disruption in their navigation.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has access to the majority of its missile and launch sites, with 90% reportedly operational. - NYT citing intelligence agencies.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- The CIA planted a car bomb that killed Sinaloa Cartel member Francisco “El Payin” Beltran on March 28 in Mexico, according to CNN.

Sources tell CNN that it was a targeted assassination that is part of an expanded CIA campaign in Mexico headed by the agency’s Ground Branch.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China's four red-lines in US-China relations:

- The Taiwan question,
- Democracy and human rights,
- Paths and political systems,
- China’s development right.

They must not be challenged," - Chinese Embassy in the US.

🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️- "Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration.

The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration.

Now the Global Compact’s latest report urges nations to expand migration pathways and pursue “regularization” of migrants.

UN agencies – working with the NGOs they fund – established a migration corridor through Central America and to the U.S. border.

As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the UN was on the ground pipelining migrants to our southern border.

As Europe endured sustained migratory pressure, UN officials staffed all ends of the Mediterranean migration route – from the coast of Libya to the shores of the Aegean to the islands of Greece.

Then UN agencies condemned frontline states who refused to open their borders.

The Global Compact on Migration claims to support “safe” migration.

For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies." - U.S. Department of State.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- "This is false and salacious reporting that serves as nothing more than a PR campaign for the cartels and puts American lives at risk." - CIA Spokesperson commenting on the CNN article claiming they were involved in a car bomb attack in Mexico.

To our best knowledge, Iran hasn't successfully exported* any crude oil by sea over the past 28 days. Some refined products managed to escape because US OFAC did not slap sanctions on those tankers.

In addition, Kharg Island hasn't loaded any tankers since 2026-05-06 as a result of the oil leak which Tehran denied taking place.

That said, there are still plenty of cargo-empty tankers both inside and outside the blockade perimeter; as well as plenty of cargo-laden tankers grouped together not too far away from Pakistan.

*(Our updated definition of an export out of Iran is when a tanker exfiltrates the US Navy blockade line and doesn't return with the oil.)

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