🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US has disabled an Iranian LNG tanker in the Sea of Oman that was attempting to violate the blockade of Iranian ports.

Iranian TV and AP have both confirmed the incident. Two US missiles struck the ship, killing two members of the crew and damaging the engine of the vessel.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- As Rerum Novarum anticipated, the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council has claimed responsibility for the attacks on al-Hodeidah, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen, shifting attention away from any potential Saudi involvement.

🇮🇶⚡- Heavy Iraqi military deployment in Baghdad and the nearby city of Baqubah.

Iraqi security forces are allegedly moving to prevent pro-Iranian militias from continuing to launch drones or rockets toward the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and neighboring Gulf states.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Haley Stevens over DSA-aligned Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of Ansarullah missile impacts in Jizan, Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇳⚡- India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sent his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi following weeks of 'cockroach' protests.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- UKMTO reports an incident involving a tanker and military forces in the Gulf of Oman.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - NASA's FIRMS shows impacts at Saudi Arabia Jizan's ARAMCO oil refinery.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Scenes from the city of Jizan, southwest Saudi Arabia, early this morning.

🇫🇷⚡️- 98.000 hectares (242,163 acres) have burnt in France so far, an all-time historic record.

The fire in Gironde is no longer moving. Firemen have four days to put out the wildfires before the next heatwave hits.

Bordeaux's metropolitan area has activated its emergency backup plan.

🇫🇷⚡️- 167,000 people were evacuated so far in France from their homes, with 57,000 evacuations during last night alone.

🇫🇷⚡️- "These are likely the largest civilian evacuation operations [of France's history]." - Laurent Nuñez, French Interior Minister.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes at the Ansarullah-controlled half of the al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen.

The strikes targeted the Ansarullah launch sites that were used to target Jizan, southwest Saudi Arabia. Reports of targeting pro al-Houthi tribal forces and gatherings are false.