🇺🇳🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "A UNIFIL peacekeeper died early this morning from critical injuries sustained when mortar shells struck his position near Marjayoun, southeastern Lebanon.
 
Two other peacekeepers, who also sustained injuries, are being treated at a medical facility in the UNIFIL base.
 
UNIFIL has launched an investigation to ascertain the exact circumstances that led to this tragic incident.
  
UNIFIL has detected an increasingly high number of trajectories and impacts in South Lebanon. The violence must end.
 
Deliberate attacks on peacekeepers are grave violations of international humanitarian law and of Security Council Resolution 1701, and may amount to war crimes." - United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

🇫🇷⚡️- Sources tell Rerum Novarum that around 40 young French citizens across France were detained at 6AM at their familial homes this morning due to certain messages in private social media groups, including Telegram.

They were questioned for hours and accused of condoning sexist, racist and violent hate crimes before being eventually let go.

They will be judged later this year.

An arrested young man claimed they were not guilty of these crimes, but only of sharing right-wing memes.

🇫🇷- These arbitrary arrests are part of a broader crackdown from the French government as part of their policy to "sanction all extremist movements" within France. This policy was unofficially established by the Interior Minister L. Nunez following the assassination of 23 years old activist Quentin Deranque by Antifas in February.

While the government followed through on banning the largest Antifa group in the country, they have targeted multiple right-wing individuals and local groups, the latest being Patria Albiges, which was dissolved yesterday.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- Yesterday, the French police shut down a lecture near Paris featuring Jared Taylor, an American author and editor of the American Renaissance magazine. The event, part of Taylor's French tour, was hosted by the local French nationalist group Les Natifs.

The French Anti-Crime Brigade intervened in full gear, citing an alleged "threat to public order" to end the meeting.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The War Powers Resolution has passed the House, but has yet to pass the Senate, which is required for this to take effect. After the resolution has passed the Senate, President Trump still also has the ability to veto the resolution; this veto can only be bypassed with a two-thirds majority in Congress, meaning they would require 290 of 435 House members (they currently have 218), AND 67 of 100 senators.

It's important to note that the War Powers Resolution limits the president from continuing military action for longer than 60 days without congressional approval, but does not prevent the President from starting military actions in situations of a "national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." This would include "self-defence" strikes against Iran.

Trump and the administration have already publicly stated that the previous operation against Iran has ended because of the ceasefire, so from what Trump has publicly claimed, any new strikes would be a "new" war and not related to the previous one.

This obviously is all very grey area and lawyers trying to push the boundaries; assuming the war continues, this will be legally contested during and/or after a war, although little can be done to stop a war that has already started. It is unclear if the legal proceedings will start before or after the legal proceedings over why the Epstein Files still aren't released despite the full release being required on December 19, 2025

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where the negotiations stand. The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story - They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves. MAGA!!! President DJT" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇺🇸⚡️- John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents. CNN reports he has agreed to pay a fine of $2 million. John Bolton was paid $2 million dollars in advance for a book he wrote, The Room Where It Happened, which the Trump administration tried to stop from being released.

John Bolton was under investigation for a diary where he kept dairy entries from the first Trump administration.

🇺🇸 - Reporters: "There's a buzz out there in America that you would make a great next president of the United States."

Candace Owens: "I always tell my listeners I'd never run for President, I'd only run for dictator because I'm not dealing with Congress. I'm not dealing with lobbying. I'm not dealing with any of this. I'm not dealing with Lindsay Graham calling for war. I'm just going to be like ‘Here's what we're doing’. I tell them, vote for me if the terms are acceptable that I will be dictator of the United States."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Reporter: "How do you define ceasefire?"

Trump: "In that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner"

🇬🇧🇫🇷⚡️- "The UK and France have finalized plans to lead a multinational mine-clearing mission in the Strait of Hormuz within days of an agreement between the US and Iran to reopen the waterway, according to people familiar with the matter." - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran permitted monitors at the United Nations atomic watchdog this week to visit its Bushehr nuclear power plants while stonewalling inspectors’ demands to verify the condition and location of its enriched uranium stockpile.

While the visit to Bushehr was welcomed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, it failed to resolve growing concern over the Islamic Republic’s inventory of near-bomb-grade uranium, according to a report by the group. That material — enough to craft about a dozen warheads — hasn’t been verified for a year." - Bloomberg.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The killers of prophets will not settle on our land, we will fight the invaders until we drive them out of our land and stop their aggression." - Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "As long as Lebanese villages are being bombed and people are being killed, northern Israel will not be safe." - Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- During an Israeli cabinet meeting, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defence Minister Israel Katz supported expanding operations in Lebanon, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ultra-Orthodox leader Aryeh Deri opposed the move. - Israeli Channel 13.

Several members of the Israeli cabinet are becoming frustrated with American influence over IDF decision making in Lebanon.