🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials against attacking NATO, the Wall Street Journal reports.

U.S. intelligence believes Russia may test NATO's resolve and unity in the coming years, ranging from cyber attacks to potential small-scale ground incursions.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes in the Red Sea between Ansarullah and the National Resistance Forces, NRF.

Following last month's failed attempt, Ansarullah launched another landing operation on Zuqar Island, but have once again been repelled by the NRF.

🇾🇪 - Despite reports, there have been no Ansarullah missile attacks on Ma'rib or Ta'izz - Yemen.

Explosions heard in Ma'rib were artillery exchanges near the Balaq Hills. The sounds of explosions in northern Ta'izz were missile launches towards al-Khawkhah and Mocha.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- UKMTO confirms Rerum Novarum's report of explosions in the Strait of Hormuz overnight.

Iranian projectiles struck a tanker, causing a fire which has since been extinguished.

🇲🇩🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Overnight, five Russian drones entered Moldovan airspace during Russia's missile and drone attack on Ukraine.

Photo shows debris from one of the drones along the Chisinau - Basarabeasca road.

"On the night before Moldova’s Independence Day, our airspace was violated by not one, but five drones. A separate drone was also found on the ground in Moldova.

We have repeatedly warned about the unacceptable risks posed by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Yet another Russian attack on Ukraine has once again resulted in violations of Moldova’s airspace.

These incidents are another reminder of the need to strengthen our national security and our ability to protect our citizens," - Moldova's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to revive prize courts, a largely dormant wartime legal system, to accelerate the seizure and sale of Iranian-linked oil tankers and cargo.

The Department of Justice is considering using a court in Houston to allow the U.S. to transfer seized Iranian assets to the Department of Treasury with few delays and restrictions. The plan could face significant legal challenges over international law and U.S. wartime authority," - Bloomberg.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Sudan has downed a Turkish-made Rapid Support Forces drone that crossed into Sudan's airspace from Ethiopia.

It is the third such incident in the Blue Nile region in the last four days.

🇸🇩🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Sudanese frontline sources report a battlefield transformation mirroring the Russia-Ukraine war.

Close-range combat is becoming increasingly rare, replaced by swarms of FPV and large one-way attack drones.

The result is slower troop movement and the expansion of the grey-zone territory dubbed the 'Killing Fields'.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed penned a handwritten letter directly to Saudi's 90-year old King, Salman bin Abdulaziz, in an effort to amend ties between the two Arab Gulf nations.

However, notably, the letter completely bypassed the Kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The letter addressed directly to the King will not sit well with MbS, but the Emirate State hopes relations can be restored with Riyadh via Salman without making the concessions required on Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and Israel.

The letter was delivered to King Salman through UAE's embassy in Riyadh, and while MbS was abroad on a diplomatic visit to Paris.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- The European Commission Office says they were not informed in advance of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow.

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- U.S. intelligence reports the three drones with explosives found at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany, have devices used by Russia's GRU.

🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have launched a large-scale attack on the al-Kili height, the last defensive position before the town of Khandaru, Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile region, southeast Sudan.

Earlier this morning, a Rapid Support Forces-operated Chinese/Turkish-made drone was downed in the area as well.

🇪🇹⚡- Very unusual: Air defenses activity reported in Bamadon, southwest Ethiopia.

🇷🇸⚡️- Ratko Mladić, the Butcher of the Balkans, has died in a prison hospital in The Hague at 84.

🇳🇵⚡️- The death toll from the floods in Tibet and Nepal reaches 362, with several thousands still missing.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- A medical plane was shot down as it attempted to land in the Minembwe region, M23-allied Twirwaneho-controlled South Kivu region, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

All four on board were killed in the crash. Initial reports suggest the anti-aircraft missile was fired by the Kinshasa-funded Wazalendo or the Burundian military.

🇺🇸⚡️- The jury in the Lindsay Clancy case has begun deliberating whether Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder of her three children.

🇸🇴⚡- Ilhan Omar’s son’s apartment was raided by police, where officials seized firearms and ammunition from the apartment before arresting his roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi.

Abdi has been convicted more than ten times on various charges.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Lake Ontario is renamed to LAKE AMERICA!" - White House on X.