🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Eight U.S. Marines were wounded two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile struck a ship they were operating aboard in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials told NBC News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes reported throughout southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "After Trump turned down Iran's seven-day ceasefire proposal, the mediators [Pakistan and Qatar] are pressuring Iran to accept concessions on its nuclear program to help restart negotiations with the US," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- The governor of the Afar region, pro Addis Ababa, has claimed Eritrean soldiers are participating in the TDF (Tigray separatists) and Uguugumo (Afar separatists) offensive in northern Ethiopia.

🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, have entered the southern outskirts of Alamata, southern Tigray region.

🇬🇧⚡- UK diesel prices have hit an all-time high.

🇪🇹 - Current situation in northern Ethiopia:

While the Ethiopian military, ENDF, continues its successful advance in the Alamata direction, southern Tigray, and holds the line around Sekota, Tigray-Amhara regional border, it continues to lose territory to Uguugumo forces across the vast, open terrain of northwestern Afar.

Map key:
- Purple: Uguugumo,
- Red: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Blue: Fano.

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🇪🇹 - Scenes from Alamata city, southern Tigray region, as Ethiopian military forces patrol the streets.

🇻🇦🇫🇷⚡️- Despite initially refusing to meet the Pope besides the arrival meeting at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron has made last minute changes earlier this morning to assist the Pope in Metz during his last day in France.

Emmanuel Macron sat besides Pope Leo during his speech on European unity earlier today and he is currently in the Saint-Etienne Cathedral of Metz as the final mass is about to begin. Emmanuel Macron spoke to Pope Leo privately today and will do so again before his departure from France. According to sources close to the French president, his initial conversation at the Elysée on peace, AI and Lebanon motivated Emmanuel Macron to further discuss with the Holy Father.

Note: Metz is in Moselle, one of the three French departments where the "Concordat" applies, meaning the French law on secularism does not technically apply here. It is likely why Macron allows himself to be more involved politically in the Pope's tour here.

🇬🇧⚡- Prime Minister Andy Burnham is currently chairing a COBRA meeting over the security incident yesterday at RAF Fairford.

🇬🇧⚡️- The five men arrested in connection with the suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford have been released on bail.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- The Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen has declared a general mobilization to confront the "Ansarullah threat."

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Bombshell accusations have been levied against Candace Owens in a scathing new article posted by Esoteric Shaggyism concerning her sexuality, personal connections, marriage, and personal life.

Containing multiple screenshots, picture evidence, and digital forensics, Owens had frequented lesbian dating websites during her time studying at the University of Rhode Island, and likely has used these profiles as recently as 2022. The article also explores accusations against Owens' husband, George Farmer, and his sexuality.

The article also explores Owens' hidden relationship with Milo Yiannopoulos, who likely possesses a homosexual sex tape of Owens and may be heavily involved in the writing and production of her live show.

🇮🇷⚡️- Preliminary reports of ballistic missile launches from the vicinity of Tehran, the capital of Iran.