🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thai outlet The Standard has clarified earlier reports of possible gunfire or explosions in the Preah Vihear area were false.

The Thai military initially accused Cambodia of a ceasefire violation, but after clarifying the situation, no explosions or gunfire took place.

🇺🇸⚡️- Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks has resigned after 37 years of public service. Thus marking the second major immigration official to resign this month, along with ICE Director Todd Lyons.

🇬🇧⚡- British university student, Henry Nowak, was walking home when he was stabbed at random by a Sikh named Vikrum Digwa, wielding a Sikh ceremonial sword, which is specially permitted in Britain due to religious exemption laws.

Digwa then “aggressively chased” Nowak, leaving a trail of blood, as Nowak looked to flee over a fence. Astoundingly, when Southampton police arrived, they arrested Nowak after Digwa alleged he was racially abused. Shortly after, in police custody, Nowak fell unconscious and died due to his wounds.

The trial is currently underway with Digwa pleading not guilty, and his mother is also on trial for helping cover up the murder.

🇮🇷🇦🇪🇮🇳⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi becomes the first senior Iranian official to openly confirm UAE's involvement in the war against Iran. The comments were made during the BRICS foreign ministries summit in New Delhi.

🇨🇺⚡- BREAKING: Protests erupt in Cuba as Havana cuts power to the country's eastern regions indefinitely.

The government states that they have "absolutely no fuel left," with the situation now "critical."

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Relentless operations to stop narco-terrorism.

US Coast Guard Southeast crews aboard CGC Tahoma and an embarked helicopter seized approximately 6,085 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $45.8 million Saturday after stopping three vessels off the coast of Colombia.

The interdiction required disabling fire after warning shots proved ineffective. Tahoma’s crew apprehended 9 suspected drug smugglers following the operation, then sunk the vessels as hazards to navigation," - US Coast Guard.

🇮🇷🇨🇳 - The vessel Iran seized earlier today is HUI CHUAN, the BBC reports.

HUI CHUAN is one of many of China's military ghost vessels that are used by Beijing to prop up armies and militias around the world.

HUI CHUAN was used by Chinese private military contractors to help escort commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea, bypassing Iranian, Houthi and Somali piracy.

🇮🇷🇨🇳 - Reuters has confirmed the report too, citing two maritime security sources.

Iran seized a Chinese military floating armory, flying under a false Honduras flag.

🇸🇩⚡- Heavy Sudanese airstrikes on Nyala, Rapid Support Forces controlled Sudan's capital.

🇺🇲🇨🇺⚡️- CIA Director J. Ratcliffe met with members of the Cuban government in Havana.

☢️ 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 U.S. removes highly enriched uranium from Venezuela in ‘accelerated’ secret mission

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🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- The internationally recognised and Saudi backed Yemeni government and the Iran-aligned Houthi group will exchange more than 1,600 prisoners, the office of the U.N. special ​envoy for Yemen said on Thursday, marking the largest release ‌of detainees since the outbreak of the war in Yemen.

Under the agreement, the Houthis will ​release 580 prisoners, including seven Saudis and 20 Sudanese, while the ⁠government will release 1,100 Houthi prisoners.

The two sides agreed to hold further talks on ​additional releases and allow mutual visits to detention facilities. They also agreed on an implementation plan with the International Committee of the Red Cross to move forward with the ​release operation.

🇺🇸⚡️- On this day we remember the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, when Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lt. William Clark led the Corps of Discovery into the vast unknown. Two of the Republic’s earliest legendary Army officers, they were defined by duty to country, courage in the face of hardship, and a loyal friendship that became one of the great bonds in American history. Their expedition helped unite a continent and shape a nation from ocean to ocean.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- President Donald Trump defends Chinese President Xi Jinping for referring to the United States as a “declining nation” and also said that the “decimation of Iran” is “to be continued.”

🇭🇹⚡️- A new wave of inter-gang violence has sparked in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, since Saturday. At least 78 deaths were recorded locally.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump’s Justice Department is considering settling a $10 billion lawsuit Trump has against the IRS, potentially resulting in a $10 billion payout to Trump from taxpayer funds, per CNN.