🇨🇩⚡️- The Ebola outbreak has spread to M23's zones of control, per M23 officials.

🇫🇷🇺🇲🇮🇷⚡️- The French government believes the crisis in the Middle East will last longer than other nations believe.

The French state aid to gas for fishing and farming industries has been prolonged by three months. France has unlocked 710M€ of additional public aid to lower the effects of the gas crisis.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The U.S. depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors defending Israel from Iranian strikes during the war, according to The Washington Post.

The report says the U.S. expended “far more high-end munitions” defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves.

🇵🇰🇰🇼🇸🇦⚡- Islamabad has entered talks with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to build a strategic oil reserve capacity of 17 million barrels in Pakistan.

Reports indicate plans for Kuwait to build a capacity to hold 7 million barrels, with Saudi Arabia to make up the remaining 10 million barrels of oil.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir has cancelled his trip to Tehran.

He was expected to exchange messages between the United States and Iran.

🇧🇴⚡- "Former Bolivian President Evo Morales and his supporters have issued a 90-day ultimatum to the government of President Rodrigo Paz, demanding new elections or the resignation of the Paz government while warning of coordinated escalations if their demands are ignored," - Joseph Bouchard of Drop Site.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan is meeting with War Secretary Hegseth at the Pentagon today.

The meeting, at Hegseth's request, comes as USS Nimitz aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean this week amid heightened tensions with Cuba" - MS Now.

🇺🇸🇵🇱⚡️ - "Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to Endorse, and our relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland." - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Ethiopia has accused Egypt of preventing the country from gaining "access to the sea," something which Addis Ababa describes as "unacceptable."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇼⚡️- The United States is pausing arms sales to Taiwan because of the war with Iran, according to Navy Secretary Hung Cao.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "It's a very challenging mission to escort ships in a contested strait, we have to get to a place where there is a generally accepted ceasefire before we can demine or escort ships in the Strait of Hormuz." - Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle.

🇨🇩⚡️- A large angry crowd attempted to seize a temporary Ebola treatment center in the DRC.

The incident happened after health authorities denied the return of the body of a local man who had died from the virus, due to health protocols. The locals refused to acknowledge his corpse was a health risk and trying to storm the temporary health center.

Several tents were burnt, at least one isolation ward was fully destroyed.

The crowd dispersed after law enforcement fired warning shots.

Health officials indicated this would impact the ongoing efforts to fight the outbreak.

🇨🇩⚡️- "People are not properly informed or sensitised about what is happening. For a certain segment of the population, especially in remote areas, Ebola is an invention by outsiders - it does not exist." - A local politician from the Ebola outbreak epicenter in the DRC.

🇺🇸🕊 - After being hospitalized as the result of a severe illness earlier today American Stock Car Racer Kyle Busch has passed away at the age of 41. Busch is survived by his wife Samantha and their two children.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Venezuelan Foreign Minister announced that on May 23rd, US (assumed military) aircraft will be flying over Caracas, Venezuela, and doing rehearsals for diplomatic evacuation procedures.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡️- "Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated nine Hizballah-aligned officials, including individuals embedded across Lebanon’s government seeking to influence key state decisions. Hizballah’s continued militant activity and coercive influence over the Lebanese state undermine the Lebanese government’s ability to assert its authority over state institutions and disarm the terrorist group." - US Treasury Department.

"Hizballah is a terrorist organization and must be fully disarmed. Treasury will continue to take action against officials who have infiltrated the Lebanese government and are enabling Hizballah to wage its senseless campaign of violence against the Lebanese people and obstruct lasting peace." - Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The Largest US energy company, Exxon Mobil, is in talks with the Venezuelan government to reacquire oil production rights in Venezuela, after being kicked out of Venezuela almost 20 years ago when then-President Hugo Chavez began to nationalise the Venezuelan oil industry.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The House of Representatives has cancelled their vote on the war powers, which would stop new strikes on Iran, as they lack the votes to pass.

The House has now failed 4 votes on the war powers resolution.