🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇷⚡️- "I had a good phone call with Donald Trump on his way back from China. We agree: Iran must come to the negotiating table now. It must open the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

We also discussed a peaceful solution for Ukraine and coordinated our positions ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara. The U.S. and Germany are strong partners in a strong NATO." - Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: "Did the Nvidia H200 advanced AI computer chips come up with China?"

President Trump: “It did come up… They have a much higher level than H200… China needs it and so yeah it came up.”

Reporter: “They haven’t bought it so far?”

Trump: “No, because they choose not to because they want to try to develop their own. I think something could happen on that.”

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: “What about the arms sales to Taiwan?”

President Trump: “I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period.”

Reporter: “You're not necessarily gonna go ahead? It was your proposal.”

Trump: “I’ll make a determination. I have to speak to the person that right now, you know who he is, that's running Taiwan.”

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: “Were you able to confirm yet that it was a U.S. missile [that hit the girls school in Iran]?”

President Trump: “Who are you with?”

Reporter: “BBC”

Trump: “Fake BBC. You mean the ones that put AI in my mouth. The ones that gave me, that had me saying a statement that they now admit was not true? The ones that put terrible words in my mouth and then had to admit that it was fake? The ones that are now being sued for $5B… They’re another fake outfit.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "As of today, 75 commercial vessels have been redirected and 4 have been disabled to ensure compliance." - U.S. Central Command.

🇷🇼🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Rosatom and Rwanda have come to an agreement to build a nuclear power plant in the African nation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran International, Iranian opposition media reports the Iranian parliament is reviewing a bill that requires the Iran government to reward €50 million to anyone who kills US President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US House of Representatives held a vote to decrease annual NATO funding by $481 Million, from the roughly $753 million (based on 2024 spending) that the US contributes to NATO.

The vote failed, with 80 Yes (all 80 were Republicans) and 333 No.

🇺🇬🇨🇩⚡️- Uganda and the DRC both announced a new Ebola outbreak was underway in their countries.

66 deaths have been recorded.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- "Filipinos should adopt a wartime mindset.

Not yet a kinetic war, but a political war, an economic war, and more importantly, disinformation and informational war is already going on.

Philippines faces illegal, coercive, aggressive, deceptive, destructive, and bullying actions [by China in the South China Sea], as well as influence and disinformation operations.

Gray zone operations test national resolve without openly declaring conflict," - Romeo Brawner Jr. Philippines Chief of Staff.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- The Philippine Coast Guard reports the Chinese Coast Guard and militia vessels have renewed their activities in Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- "It appears that Tel Aviv is betting on dismantling Abu Dhabi’s network of relations with its surrounding countries one after another, pushing it towards isolation that leaves it with no option but Israel–the same approach that Israel is practicing with the United States," - The Saudi Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian hackers have breached gas station tank readers in several U.S. states. - CNN.

🇺🇸🇧🇴⚡️- "The US ordered Rodrigo Paz’s government to carry out a military operation, with the support of the DEA and the US Southern Command, to arrest or kill me.

Among those behind this action are the former Minister of the Interior under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada – who fled to Miami following the Black October Massacre (2003) – Carlos “Zorro” Sánchez Berzaín; and the Deputy Minister of Social Defence, Ernesto Justiniano, who is currently in Washington." - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "President Trump returned from China on Friday facing major decisions on Iran, as his top aides have drafted plans for a return to military strikes if Mr. Trump decides to try to break the impasse with more bombs.

Mr. Trump has yet to make a decision on his next steps, the aides say.

Two Middle East officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the United States and Israel are engaged in intense preparations — the largest since the cease-fire took effect — for the possible resumption of attacks against Iran as early as next week.

If Mr. Trump decides to resume military strikes, options include more aggressive bombing runs at Iranian military and infrastructure targets, U.S. officials said.

Another option would put Special Operations troops on the ground to go after nuclear material buried deep underground, they said. Several hundred Special Operations forces arrived in the Middle East in March in a deployment meant to give Mr. Trump that option, the officials said." - New York Times.

🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "We need, and we have the right plans, to encourage emigration from Gaza, to promote emigration in the West Bank, to settle in Lebanon.

We must not be afraid in the face of all the pressures, all the enemies, all the wicked.

We are in a period of divine assistance.

We are in a period of the beginning of redemption, and we simply need to keep going and keep going without stopping.

Don't stop in Lebanon, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria" - Ben-Gvir, Israeli National Security Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Earlier today, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, was charged with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was transferred into U.S. custody overseas and transported to the United States.

ADIC Barnacle: 'In the span of just three months, Mohammad Al-Saadi allegedly directed 18 terrorist attacks throughout Europe—including against United States citizens and interests—and planned to conduct a similar attack here in our country. The FBI New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force maintains its unwavering resolve to hold accountable leaders of foreign terrorist organizations who utilize mass fear and suffering to further their anti-American agenda.'" - Federal Bureau of Investigation.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia congressional map redistricting effort. If allowed, this redistricting would have netted Democrats 4 additional seats under 2024 voting patterns, giving them control of 10 of 11 districts.