🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- Alarms at Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base.

🇮🇷⚡- New ballistic launches from Khorramabad, southwest Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Several explosions heard near Konarak, southwestern Iran.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money.

The US took control of Venezuela’s oil exports and suspended some sanctions after capturing President Nicolás Maduro in January and installing vice-president Delcy Rodríguez as leader.

Washington has given diverging accounts of what it is doing with the money, ranging from an executive order describing its own role as “custodial” to President Donald Trump saying the US was “making a lot of money” from Venezuelan oil.

The Venezuelan government set up a website to track the revenue from US-run oil sales, but it has only one entry — a transfer of $300mn in March." - Financial Times.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli city of Ramat Gan, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv with a population of 172k people, has ordered all bomb shelters to be opened.

Home Front Command has made no statements about changes to instructions, and the Ramat Gan government says its purely precautionary.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇮🇷⚡️- Video from an Iranian attack on Jordan's King Feisal Air Base yesterday.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "Met today with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the ASEAN Ministerial.

We discussed the U.S.-Russia relationship and the need to end the Russia-Ukraine war." - Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.

🇺🇸🇧🇭🇮🇷⚡️- Sirens have been activated in Bahrain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- 6 Month price chart for Brent crude oil, considered to be a benchmark of oil prices.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️- The European Union has approved the 21st sanctions package against Russia.

This sanctions package primarily targets Russian financial institutions, and expanding shadow fleet sanctions. It still allows European Union countries to buy Russian oil and gas capped at the existing $44.10 per barrel limit, and has lowered restrictions on Greece exporting Russian LNG to third party, non EU states.

Greece has been given an exemption to continue shipping this LNG for the foreseeable future, despite the EU intending to ban these imports in January 2027. The exemption will be reviewed annually, but as Greece did this time, they are able to use their veto to block actions unless they get the exemptions extended. As we previously reported, Greek shipping companies have continued to be a major transport bridge for Russian gas throughout the war.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has arrived in Iran to meet with Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Two terrorists carrying explosives were killed in a clash with Jakirur border guards.

This follows U.S. strikes on border posts intended to clear paths for terrorist infiltrations near Chabahar and Bampur." - IRIB, Iranian state media.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡️- 30 minutes ago, Qatar Ministry of Interior reports they contained a fire at a tire warehouse.

🇨🇳🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Two Chinese vessels, Xin Long Yang (IMO: 9761463) and COSNEW LAKE (IMO: 9804289), both loaded with Saudi Arabian oil from the port of Yanbu, have reportedly secured clearance from the Houthis to pass through the Bal el Mandeb Strait after being turned away yesterday, according to Lloyd's List.

Xin Long Yang has already sailed through the Strait, while COSNEW LAKE has its AIS turned off while making the transit through the narrow section now.

Both vessels are owned by COSCO Shipping, a Chinese state-owned shipping company.

🇺🇸⚡️- Footage has been released by the US Attorney's Office of the protest at the US Federal Building in New York.

The individual, identified as former U.S. Army soldier Andrew Arrabaca, used fireworks, a pellet gun, and Molotov-style bottles to start a fire before he was arrested. He is reported to have made anti-ICE and anti-government statements during his arrest and time in detention. Two people were injured in the event: two government employees and an immigrant who was attending an immigration court hearing at the building.

🇷🇺⚡- A Russian Su-57 has crashed in the Moscow region, Russia. Initial reports indicate the pilot ejected safely.

🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇼⚡- Kuwaiti air defenses are active over the east of the country, working against Iranian or Iraqi one-way drones.

🇮🇶🇰🇼⚡- The Iraqi-Kuwaiti border point in Abdali has been struck.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "'As of today, the entry of ships has been ​suspended. This is a decision taken by the shipowners. Ukraine, as a state, ⁠has not imposed any restrictions,' Interfax-Ukraine cited Taras Vysotskyi as saying on Wednesday.

Ukraine has lost about a third of its capacity to export grain via the Black Sea ports due to Russian missile and ​drone attacks, traders and analysts have said.

But Russian attacks on Ukraine's deepwater ports ​and international vessels have intensified in recent weeks. Brokers have said shipowners are refusing to ​enter Ukrainian ports because of sharply increased war-risk concerns, while traders have paused purchases." - Reuters.