🇬🇧⚡️- The Government has announced a new refugee program that will bring in thousands of new arrivals. Shabana Mahmood announced this new program today. This combined with Andy Burnham ascending to PM at the end of July will mark a new pro migrant attitude from the Labour government.

🇮🇷 - Iran Fars News denies reports of a recent IRGC statement acknowledging the U.S. attack.

Note, the alleged IRGC statement was initially posted by Iran's ISNA. The statement has since been deleted.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱 - U.S.-mediated Lebanon-Israel 14-point framework agreement:

1. End the conflict and formally transition toward a cessation of hostilities.

2. Israel will withdraw from Lebanon in phases, contingent on evolving security conditions.

3. The Lebanese Armed Forces will progressively assume full responsibility for national security.

4. Hezbollah and all other non-state armed groups must be fully and verifiably disarmed.

5. Israel affirms it has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and will withdraw once security threats are resolved.

6. Lebanon reaffirms the state’s exclusive authority to maintain armed forces and declare war.

7. A US-backed coordination and verification mechanism will oversee implementation.

8. Both parties commit to a sovereign, stable Lebanon free from armed groups threatening either side.

9. The US will support and strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces, with assistance tied to verified progress.

10. The US will lead coordination of international reconstruction, humanitarian aid, and economic recovery efforts.

11. Lebanon and the US will ensure that aid and reconstruction funds do not reach Hezbollah or other armed groups.

12. Israel and Lebanon will establish working groups to negotiate a comprehensive peace and security framework.

13. Both sides will cease hostile political and legal actions and cooperate on the return of detainees and remains.

14. Israel and Lebanon acknowledge the US role and express appreciation for President Donald Trump’s leadership.

🇱🇧⚡️- Initial reports of clashes in Dahiyeh, a suburb of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

Dahiyeh is Beirut's stronghold of Shia Muslims, and is Hezbollah's primary political stronghold in the capital.

🇻🇪⚡️- 5.4 magnitude earthquake in Venezuela.

🇻🇪⚡️- Earthquake has been downgraded to a 4.9.

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🇲🇾⚡️- Malaysia has passed new legislation restricting maritime activity, such as ship-to-ship transfers of products or bunkering (refueling at sea) that occur within international waters, but inside its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without receiving permission from the Malaysian government. Violations of the regulation allow detention of the vessel and its crew and seizure of cargo.

Russian and Iranian oil tankers have been well documented as using Malaysia's EEZ as a hotspot for ship-to-ship transfers of oil, usually China-bound oil.

From the 18th of June to February 28th (The start of the US-Iran war), the organization United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) recorded 76 ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian Oil and LPG within the area now regulated by Malaysia. UANI also recorded 46 sanctioned and mostly empty Iranian tankers that were anchored and waiting inside this Malaysian EEZ for the US blockade to end before returning to Iran. Many of these tankers have since begun their journey back to Iran since the end of the blockade.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Residents of Beit Aryeh, in the West Bank have been told to stay inside their homes for the past 4 hours due to a suspected terrorist infiltration, According to Israeli media the IDF has yet to issue an all clear.

"A short while ago, an alert was activated due to a suspected infiltration of terrorists in the community of Beit Aryeh in the Binyamin Brigade, following the identification of two suspects found in the community.

IDF forces deployed to the area and began searching for the suspects.

The IDF is in ongoing contact with the residents and security forces in the area." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An unknown projectile has struck the command deck of a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

This follows a similar incident from a few days ago when Iran struck the wheelhouse of a commercial vessel too, which led to a US retaliatory strike on Sirik, southern Iran, last night.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡- Bahrain alleges Iranian drones attempted to strike its territory early morning today. Manama calls the attack a 'blatant violation of sovereignty'.

🇴🇲🇮🇷 - The UK Maritime Trade Operations raises the alert for all vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to a maximum.

🇴🇲🇮🇷 - The Joint Maritime Information Center has also raised its level of alertness to 'substantial' for the Strait of Hormuz.