🇫🇷🇨🇳⚡️- A French Rafale pilot has been indicted for potentially revealing military secrets to Chinese operatives. Authorities believe he is part of a wider, potentially continental-sized, intel gathering scheme from Beijing. It is believed this scheme vastly contributed to Chinese advancements in fighter technology.

🇯🇵⚡️- BREAKING: 7.1 earthquake detected around 15 minutes ago south-west of Japan.

🇯🇵⚡️- A tsunami warning has been issued by Japanese authorities.

🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡️- Jordan shot down an unknown drone that breached their border earlier this morning. The IDF has also announced they downed a drone from an unknown origin near their border with Jordan.

🇨🇳🇸🇰⚡️- Xi Jinping held talks with Slovak President Peter Pellegrini in Beijing today.

🇮🇶⚡- Iraq has fired 20 drones at Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in the past few days, i24 reports.

🇺🇦🇮🇷⚡- Ukrainian monitoring channels detect movement in Iran indicating a possible Iranian medium-range ballistic missile launch towards Ukraine in the next 24 hours.

🇫🇷⚡️- Fires in Gironde have started regaining strength. Their trajectory has also changed due to new winds. The fires are now encroaching on the territory of the military base of Souge, home of the prestigious 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment.

🇫🇷⚡️- Firefighters in the area indicate numerous rekindling of fires. The "megafire" is no longer under control in several areas as the weather degraded faster than anticipated. Local authorities now say a miracle is needed to restabilize the fires before a heatwave hits the region tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah has announced that it targeted the Saudi tanker NCC GHAZAL in the Red Sea, claiming the vessel violated its blockade on Saudi ports along the Red Sea coast.

This would mark the fourth Saudi tanker reportedly struck by the Yemeni group in less than a week since the blockade was announced.

🇸🇦🇮🇶🇾🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has presented its counterparts in Baghdad intelligence showing the drones that attacked the Abqaiq oil refinery were launched from Iraqi territory.

Iraq's intelligence had earlier claimed Ukrainian special forces are operating in the Middle East, carrying out false-flag operations.

🇾🇪🇨🇳⚡- China has held talks with Ansarullah to allow the safe passage of its tankers through the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb carrying petrochemicals from Saudi seaports, Reuters reports.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- Qatar has condemned comments made by Israeli opposition leader Naftali Bennett, accusing him of spreading false information and making misleading claims.

Doha reiterated that its role in the region is that of a mediator and peace broker, highlighting its involvement in efforts to secure multiple ceasefires.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Qatar bears responsibility for the October 7 massacre. It financed the events of October 7 and continues to host and provide sanctuary in Doha to leaders of the terrorist organization responsible.

Qatar has never condemned the October 7 massacre. Instead, it celebrated the killing, murder, and rape of Israeli civilians carried out during the attack.

Qatar is an enemy, and we [if Bennett becomes Prime Minister] will designate it as an enemy state," - Naftali Bennett, Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister.

🇺🇦🇮🇷⚡- Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha spoke with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefly met on the sidelines of Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral, marking a rare public interaction between two leaders whose relationship has often been strained.

Points of friction have included allegations involving Ukrainian far-right groups operating in the Middle East (a claim echoed as recently as a few days ago, this time by the Iraqi intelligence), concerns over rampant antisemitism within Ukrainian society, Israel's continued purchases of grain originating from Russian-controlled territories in the Donbass and Crimea, reports linking the Port of Haifa to vessels associated with Russia's ghost fleet, and Israel's refusal to provide military aid to Kiev. Jerusalem has traditionally justified the latter by citing its security coordination with Russia in Syria, a position that has remained largely unchanged despite the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government over 15 months ago. Netanyahu has also maintained a notably close working relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with few foreign leaders receiving more calls from the Israeli premier since his return to office in late 2022.

Israeli officials have likewise viewed Ukraine's expanding involvement in several regional conflicts with caution, as Kiev has increasingly found itself supporting actors opposed to Israeli interests. This includes support by the Timur Special Forces unit for anti-RSF operations in Sudan, assistance to Tripoli-based forces against Khalifa Haftar's LNA in Libya, and allegations of Ukrainian cooperation with anti-junta factions operating in the Sahel via Mauritania.

🇸🇦🇮🇶🇾🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defense has stated that the Kingdom's eastern airspace came under attack within the past hour, alleging that the drones once again originated from Iraqi territory.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- At 49%, nearly half of Americans want Netanyahu arrested on US soil, including almost a quarter of Trump voters. — Haaretz