🇺🇸🇳🇿🇨🇰⚡️- The US is negotiating a military presence at Penrhyn in the Cook Islands, within the Third Island Chain, where the US and New Zealand are funding a roughly $60 million port upgrade near a former US WWII airfield. The facility could support the US Coast Guard, NZDF and potentially US Navy vessels, while Washington says a broader security agreement could also be considered.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Unbelievable scenes at King Fahd Industrial Port, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, after it was struck by Ansarullah ballistic missiles earlier today.

🇮🇹🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Italian Ministry of Defense says it will send navy vessels to the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb to protect its commercial cargo vessels and tankers, adding that they will not wait around for Brussels to make a decision.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is concerned by what it describes as Saudi Arabia's weakness in confronting and the Ansarullah. Tel Aviv expects Riyadh to take a much stronger stance," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇫🇷⚡️- Left-wing journal Canard Enchaîné in France has leaked a video of the chaplain of the elite 3rd Parachutist Marine Infantry Regiment preaching for a crusade against "leftists" and "the great replacement" during a mass in Carcassonne, in front of a church filled with soldiers.

🇮🇹🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- The Italian Ministry of Defense reports one of its Eurofighter F-2000 jet was damaged at Saudi's Ta’if Air Base last night. The extent of the damage is unknown.

🇾🇪 - Ansarullah advances over the past 24 hours in the Tai'zz and Aden directions. 56.5km remain until the al-Houthi forces merge the two directions into a single front.

Note, northern Jabal Habashi is left unmarked to indicate the expansion of the grey-zone following Ansarullah's breakthrough in the area last night.

🇵🇰⚡️- At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed in a terror attack in a mosque in north-western Pakistan. Local security forces are still engaged in a firefight with the attackers.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Israel is seeking compensation from the US following the possible sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia, Walla reports.

The "compensations" include access to previously-refused bunker buster bombs, Arrow 4 and Arrow 5 defense systems cooperation, space-based weapons, and other classified weapon systems.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇸🇾⚡- "Saudi Arabia recently tried to recruit Syrian fighters for Yemen, but Damascus refused, saying it was focused on reorganizing its military and had no intention of entering the conflict as a third party," - Turkey Today.

🇫🇷⚡️- The meeting was reportedly concluded. The first reactions of both right-wing and left-wing candidates is that Macron utterly failed to offer a satisfying plan to lower French gas prices. The consensus is that Emmanuel Macron made sure all the candidates knew what caused the gas prices to hike without offering any actual solutions.

The French government shared that the ongoing situation was going to last.

🇪🇺⚡️- BREAKING: According to today's data, gas prices across the EU have reached historic price heights. Records were broken in Germany, France, Poland and Denmark. Diesel prices had their records broken in Germany, France, Italy and Latvia.

Should the trend continue, all of the European Union's countries will reach their highest record gas prices at the pump in recorded history in the coming week.

🇨🇭⚡️- Switzerland also reached an all-time high gas price today.

🇪🇺⚡️- Several petroleum companies believe every country in the European Union will reach an all-time high average gas price at the pump by next week.

🇪🇺🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia will not send any crude oil in October to European refiners, citing the East-West pipeline shutdown as the reason.

🇫🇷⚡️- France will convene the G7 leaders to discuss the ongoing energy crisis.

🇬🇧⚡- Gas prices in the UK hit a four-year high.