🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: Massive Rapid Support Forces advances in the Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile State, southeast Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces counteroffensive continues to gain momentum.

🇸🇩 - The Rapid Support Forces have captured the town of Kurmuk, with reports that the Sudanese Armed Forces withdrew all the way north to Pomfa - Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile State, southeast Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces have also effectively merged the Geisan and Kurmuk axis into a single front. The UAE-backed group is now less than 45km from Khandaru. Sudanese frontline sources report RSF movement across other areas of the Blue Nile State border with South Sudan and Ethiopia, and therefore expect additional fronts to open in this direction.

🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡- A high-level Iraqi delegation has arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for talks regarding the recent Saudi attacks on the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces position in retaliation for the PMF's attacks on Saudi's oil facilities.

The Iraqi security delegation consists of the Chief of Staff, the Chief of Baghdad's security services, the Air Defense Commander, and the Chief of Baghdad's Counter-Terrorism Agency.

🇫🇷⚡️- Thousands of firefighters in France have started a strike following "disastrous" early talks with the government.

Among their main demands are better salaries, new trucks, as the average fire truck in France is around two decades old, and for more cancers to be recognized as work-related risks.

🇫🇷⚡️- In private, French President Emmanuel Macron is increasingly criticizing his constitutional inability to serve a third term, calling it some "grim bullshit".

"He's begun to talk about himself as if he were eternal. He doesn't seem to conceptualize he'll be gone next year." - Executive source to Paris Match.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah attacked ARAMCO's Jizan oil refinery in southwest Saudi Arabia with two drones.

This would be the third time the processing facility has been struck by the Yemeni group in less than three weeks.

🇮🇹⚡- Explosion outside the KNDS ammunition facility in Colleferro, Italy. No injuries reported. An investigation has been launched into the incident. Firefighting teams are currently on site tackling a large fire.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel is astonished at Iran's rapid military rebuild following the U.S.-Iran war, The Jerusalem Post reports.

The report states Tel Aviv believes Iran will rebuild to pre-war levels by 2027, and become a major threat again by 2028.

🇺🇸⚡️- Fox News polling shows Republican Mike Rogers beating Abdul El-Sayed 51 - 47 in the Michigan Senate race. Fox's polling has consistently shown better results than most for the Democrats.

🇹🇷⚡️ - Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker says he is suing conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings for defamation after Jennings played and commented on the numerous controversial clips from Hasan’s live streams.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡- The Catholic Biblical Association of America has elected Amy-Jill Levine, a practicing Orthodox Jewish woman, as its president.

Levine is a scholar in Jewish studies and the New Testament, where she seeks to eliminate antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic readings of biblical texts.

🇬🇧⚡️- Turnout for the Clacton special election is 43% according to the returning officer.

🇬🇧⚡️- RN estimates this will be Nigel Farage's most dominant re-election in his electoral career, all owed to every other party refusing to field a candidate instead endorsing Jonathan David Harvey aka Count Binface.

🇱🇻🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Latvia has issued an air threat warning in several municipalities in the south eastern corner of Latvia that borders Belarus and Russia.

"AIR THREAT IN THE AIRSPACE OF AUGŠDAUGAVA, PREIĻI, RĒZEKNE, AND BALVI MUNICIPALITIES.

The National Armed Forces of Latvia inform - air threat in Latvian airspace. Seek safe place indoors and follow the two-wall principle. If you see a low-flying and suspicious object, do not approach it and call 112. You will be informed when the threat has ended." - Latvia Armed Forces.

🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage claims he received more votes tonight than he did in 2024.

🇬🇧⚡️- Farage will not attend the election count due to protestors planning to disrupt the declaration of results.