🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The US Department of Defence has added 4 Chinese companies, Alibaba (E Commerce platform), Baidu (Chinese Google), BYD (Car Manufacturer), and Nio (Car Manufacturer), to a list of companies believed to be working with the Chinese military.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli security officials fear the Hezbollah fighter who infiltrated northern Israel near Ramim Ridge may be part of a larger cell that has been hiding in a local tunnel for an extended period.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones enter Beirut airspace.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Two people from Lebanon were killed in the incident, one person who crossed the border and fired at the IDF with a handgun and then killed by IDF troops, a second was also killed while still on the Lebanon side.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Venezuela's oil exports have reached 1.25 million barrels per day, the highest level in seven years and a result of Secretary Rubio's and President Trump's three-phase plan" - US Embassy in Caracas.

🇮🇱⚡️- An Israel police officer, and two IDF reservists, including one with the rank of Colonel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder for shooting an IDF member in the back while in southern Lebanon.

🇧🇬🇺🇦⚡️- "Bulgaria’s newly-appointed government plans to end providing weapons to Ukraine in a move that would run counter to Europe Union’s attempts to pressure Russia to end the war.

'Ukraine needs more people, not more armament,' Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told reporters in Sofia on Tuesday. He called for 'just peace that will be defined by both sides participating in the conflict.'" - Bloomberg.

While Bulgaria doesn't supply high end weapons or equipment, they are a large supplier of soviet standard ammunition and artillery rounds for Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump says they have a "good chance" of signing a deal with Iran in two or three days and "no sticking points".

Reminder.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli strikes on Tyre, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Following the initial report of gunfire towards IDF forces operating in the Ramas Ridge area, forces operating in the area identified a terrorist on Israeli territory, near the border fence with Lebanon. The forces eliminated him shortly after he crossed into Israeli territory.

Ground forces, including special forces and Air Force aircraft, rushed to the location and continue extensive searches.

Details of the incident are under investigation." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The Dahieh district in Beirut should have been burned down. If there is no severe response to a terrorist infiltrating Israeli territory, we are probably really second-class citizens." - Eitan Davidi, Chairman of the Margaliot council, one of the settlements in lockdown.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The Lebanese Ministry of Health says that there have been 3,666 killed and 11,321 injured in IDF attacks since March 2.

🇧🇷🇨🇳⚡- "Western companies are pouring money into Brazil’s rare-earth industry, hoping the South American nation can help loosen China’s grip on the minerals used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and advanced weapons.

Miners are racing to develop deposits across Brazil, which holds the world’s second-largest rare-earth reserves after China. But their ambitions extend beyond digging up ore. Companies and government officials say they want to build processing plants that can separate rare earths, produce metals and eventually manufacture magnets.

The realization of that ambition would represent a much bigger challenge to China. While Beijing holds roughly half of global rare-earth reserves, it controls more than 90% of processing and magnet production, giving it a dominating influence over global supply chains," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇱🇧🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The Iranian attempt to set equations and change reality will fail. The strike we carried out in Iran was preparation for a much more significant and heavy blow." - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of the General Staff.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF says they have completed searches in the area of the border breach and found nothing else. The roadblocks and restrictions are being lifted now.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces that Iran shot down the AH-64 Apache patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States “must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - An investigation into the downing of the AH-64 Apache determined it was hit by an Iranian drone, according to a U.S. official, telling Axios.

The official claimed the investigation did not determine whether the attack was intentional.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf seemingly confirms President Trump’s statement that an Iranian drone struck the AH-64 Apache last night.