🇺🇸🇦🇲⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Armenia.

🇨🇺⚡- Amid escalating blackouts and severe fuel shortages, crowds across Havana chant "Freedom," protesting against the failed regime of Cuba.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️- BREAKING: UKMTO reports that a tanker has exploded on its port side 60 nautical miles east of Muscat, directly in the Strait of Hormuz.

📈 Confirmed: Live metrics show a partial restoration to internet connectivity in #Iran on day 88, after 2093 hours of near-total isolation from international networks, the longest nationwide internet shutdown in modern history. It is unclear if the restoration will be sustained.

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected the Republican gerrymandering map, which would’ve given them two more seats at a 7-0 advantage.

The decision came as the Supreme Court believed the map was “tainted with racial discrimination,” and the current map is “race-blind,” even though the two Black districts only exist as a result of race-based gerrymandering from the VRA.

🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- Turkey's President Erdogan spoke with Iran's Pezeshkian over the phone, discussing the ongoing US-Iran talks and regional issues.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "President Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David on Wednesday to hold a cabinet meeting as peace talks with Iran near crunch time.

All cabinet members — including outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — are expected to join Trump at the presidential retreat in rural Maryland," - The New York Post.

🇦🇲⚡- Armenia's Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the country is actively diversifying its sources of military procurement, moving away from its traditional reliance on Russia, confirming that Yerevan is now acquiring defence equipment from approximately six to seven different countries, while also boosting domestic defence manufacturing capabilities.

The Prime Minister further noted that these newly acquired systems will be publicly showcased at an upcoming military parade.

In recent years, Armenia has concluded significant defence agreements with France and India, reflecting a broader strategic shift in its military partnerships, and away from Moscow's grip.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- Russia's ambassador to Baku proposes holding a joint inter-parliamentary meeting between Russia and Azerbaijan on the Karabakh territory.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- The U.S. Navy has resumed operation Project Freedom, escorting a Greek supertanker, loaded with two million barrels, through the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The U.S. is expected to escort several additional vessels in the coming days.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: US Central Command (CENTCOM) has rejected these claims in a post on X, stating that Project Freedom has NOT been resumed.

🇪🇸⚡- Francesc Boya, the official of demography in the Spanish government, is calling for rural Spain to be repopulated by migrants to replace the old population.

The call comes amid tensions created by migration into Spain’s largest cities, which have increased housing costs, straining infrastructure, and public services.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces have begun advancing north of its self-declared 'Yellow Line' in southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We are deepening the operation in Lebanon and capturing controlling territories. We are fortifying the security strip," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

News of Israel reports Netanyahu approved plans for an expanded ground military operation and aerial campaign in Lebanon during a cabinet session.