🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The Cuban Foreign Minister in response to the Axios article alleging Cuba has acquired 300 attack drones capable of reaching the United States:

"Without any legitimate excuse, the US government is, day after day, building a fabricated case to justify its ruthless economic war against the Cuban people and eventual military aggression.

Certain media outlets are playing into its hands, spreading slander and leaking insinuations from the US government itself.

Cuba neither threatens nor desires war.

It defends peace and is ready and prepared to confront external aggression in the exercise of the right to self-defence recognised by the UN Charter." - Bruno Rodríguez P, Cuban Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸 - A possibly AI generated image of President Trump walking side by side with an alien at Area 51.

🇨🇺⚡️- CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd, the third and fifth largest container shipping companies in the word, have suspended all shipments to and from Cuba until further notice.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Flotilla of 50 ships heading to Gaza has already reported Naval vessels and speedboats following them. It is likely they will be boarded and seized again as Israel has done in the past.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- NATO has commenced its largest special forces exercise in Europe to date, with as many as 3,000 operators from the US, UK, as well as some non-NATO countries, Switzerland, and the Republic of Georgia, and 20 other countries taking part in a 10-day exercise over the territory of 10 different European countries.

The exercise is designed to simulate an enemy force infiltrating NATO territory with the purpose of conducting internal sabotage operations.

🇮🇱⚡️- The head of the Jdeideh-Makar Local Council, a town with a population of over 20,000 people in northern Israel, was ambushed and shot as he left a wedding.

Suhail Malham and his deputy were ambushed by a man on a scooter who opened fire before fleeing the scene. Police have launched a manhunt and haven't found the shooter yet. Israeli media reports Malham's condition as serious, and his deputy's condition as moderate.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again had his court testimony cancelled due to "security and political reasons".

🇳🇬⚡️- On Friday, an Islamic militant group attacked a military school that also trains police officers, leaving at least 17 dead police trainees, the spokesperson said. Nigerian soldiers were also killed, but he didn't specify how many.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli Navy has begun to board and arrest boats from the flotilla.

🇺🇸🇳🇬⚡️- "On May 17, 2026, U.S. Africa Command, in coordination with the Government of Nigeria, conducted additional kinetic strikes against ISIS in Northeastern Nigeria.

Intelligence confirmed the targets were ISIS militants. Complete assessments are ongoing. No U.S. or Nigerian forces were harmed.

The removal of these terrorists diminishes the group’s capacity to plan attacks that threaten the safety and security of the U.S. and our partners.

AFRICOM remains committed to leveraging specialized U.S. capabilities in support of our partners to defeat shared security threats." - United States Africa Command.