Happy Fourth of July!

🇾🇪⚡- UKMTO reports a commercial vessel is currently under attack by 'unknown armed assailants' in the Red Sea.

🇲🇱⚡️- The FLA claims to have ambushed and decimated a relief convoy from the FAMa and Africa Corps from Gao headed to reinforce their last garrison in Anéfis.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mallory McMorrow has dropped out of the Democrat Primary race for Michigan's Senate seat.

This clears the way for DSA aligned Abdul El-Sayed to win the primary and likely a seat in the US Senate.

🇺🇸⚡️- Robert O’Neill, the US Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear, comments on Sneako’s rant about making the entire world Muslim.

🇺🇸⚡️- Michigan's Attorney General has endorsed Haley Stevens for Senate. Other state Democrat leaders, and national figures, are expected to endorse Stevens in opposition to El-Sayed.

🇺🇸🇳🇴🇧🇷⚡- Brazil's national soccer team have been eliminated from the World Cup following an Erling Haaland brace.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇲🇽⚡️- England has beaten Mexico 3-2 in The World Cup

🇦🇺🇫🇯🇨🇳⚡- Australia and Fiji have signed the Ocean of Peace Alliance, committing to come to each other's defense in the event of an attack.

The pact is Fiji's first military alliance and Australia's fourth, alongside its agreements with the United States, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea, reinforcing Canberra's efforts to counter growing Chinese influence in the Pacific.

Just hours after the agreement was signed, China, in a very North Korean way, test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-run submarine in the southern Pacific. Australia called Beijing's immature behavior destabilizing, New Zealand criticized the lack of notice, but Beijing alleged it was a 'routine exercise'.