🇫🇷 - The French government very rarely openly accuses opposition parties of being behind violent protests. Not even during the height of the Yellow Vests' violences had this happened.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️- Hezbollah and the Syrian government have held face-to-face talks in Turkey aimed at easing tensions between the two sides, sources told Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The United States is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt to the Middle East, making it the third aircraft carrier in the region.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have launched a new large-scale offensive to capture the city of Ta'izz, southern Yemen.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the current situation in the Ta'izz - Aden direction.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Ethiopia has closed its embassy in Eritrea and has demanded 10 Eritrean officials to leave Addis Ababa within 48 hours.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Syria denies the Reuters reports that Damascus held direct talks with Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight is linked to Iran.

Trump says that if confirmed, Iran will be “hit very hard.”

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The U.K. has arrested a British-Iranian dual national in connection with the RAF Fairford plot.

They believe he planned the operation, British intelligence is investigating potential foreign state involvement.

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- A Saudi official tells NBC News that yesterday’s FlyDubai incident increasingly appears to have been an attempted terrorist attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s Foreign Minister offered to restore IAEA nuclear inspectors access to all damaged facilities in exchange for sanctions relief," - Bloomberg.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has transferred the Omani copilot from yesterday's FlyDubai aircraft to Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: In retaliation, Eritrea has severed all diplomatic relations with Ethiopia.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iranian projectiles struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Trump has told his aides he will resume attacks on Iran after the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🇾🇪⚡- Several explosions in Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Ethiopia and Egypt have expelled each other’s embassy advisers, giving the diplomats 48 hours to leave their respective host countries.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Eritrean media report Eritrean forces destroyed three bridges along the Eritrea and Tigray (Ethiopia) border.

🇪🇹⚡- Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, are in complete free fall, with the Ethiopian military, ENDF, capturing the cities of Korem and Moheni.

Over the past hour, ENDF forces have begun probing Maychew’s defences, while the city comes under heavy Ethiopian shelling and airstrikes.

Map key:
- Purple: Ethiopian military forces,
- Red: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Orange: Uguugumo,
- Yellow: Fano areas of operations.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia's air force struck Sana'a, Ansarullah's capital, four times.

🇾🇪⚡️- Visual confirmation of Ansarullah soldiers dancing on the Ta'izz-Aden road after capturing the strategic supply line route used by PLC forces.