🇷🇺⚡- Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have followed Kazakhstan in tightening health checks at their borders in response to the Irkutsk laboratory plague outbreak.

Several regions across Russia have also introduced additional precautions, with Moscow imposing temporary mandatory health checks on all passengers arriving from Irkutsk.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An Iranian projectile struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire in the engine room, UKMTO reports.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- The US military detected 378 drone incursions across the southern border in just 30 days as Mexican cartels increasingly use drones to surveil American forces and facilitate smuggling operations.

The Army is now using the border to test radars, interceptor drones and autonomous weapons against the threat. The military has already shot down 11 cartel drones with lasers since deploying the systems in August.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia’s partners, Turkey and Pakistan, have agreed to provide military assistance under the Mecca Agreement. The nature and scope of the assistance have not been disclosed.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- China's state-backed LOGINK maritime data platform has suffered a major international collapse after years of US pressure aimed at preventing Beijing from gaining access to global shipping data.

Its international partnerships have stalled, its website has gone dark and its Chinese operations hub appears abandoned. Washington had warned that LOGINK could give Beijing visibility into global cargo flows, including potentially sensitive military shipments. Roughly 80% of world trade moves by sea, making the unraveling of LOGINK a significant loss for China’s ambitions to shape the systems behind global maritime trade.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah, speaking from Mocha, southwestern Yemen, confirms that PLC forces have not entered the city and that it remains under Ansarullah control, contrary to false reports by PLC-aligned media.

🇹🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A note indicating the presence of explosives was discovered on AJET 4180, a passenger flight en route from Ankara to Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The aircraft has landed at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport, where all 136 passengers and seven crew members have been evacuated.

Security units are currently searching the aircraft for potential explosives.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are always open to direct talks with Iran." - President Donald Trump.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Three Saudi military personnel have died along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border in the past 24 hours.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Multiple Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡- A US MH-60R Seahawk was squawking in the emergency transponder before losing all altitude and likely crashing in the Red Sea. The incident occurred just off the coast of Yanbu.

🇾🇪 - As Rerum Novarum anticipated, the PLC has failed to hold Dhubab Airport amid intense Ansarullah shelling from the al-Omari heights.

Ansarullah forces have not only reversed the PLC’s gains from earlier today, but are now launching offensive operations of their own towards Bir Market, east of Murad - Aden direction.

🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: Ta'izz city is now completely encircled.

A separate PLC pocket in Bani Yusuf, southeast Ta'izz direction, is also encircled.

🇾🇪 - The situation in the Ta'izz direction right now.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi airstrikes on the al-Moqadah junction, southeast Ta'izz direction, which means it has likely fallen to the Ansarullah control.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes are still ongoing in al-A'lum, southern Ta'izz direction. PLC frontline sources report their forces are besieged in the town.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes between locals and Ansarullah forces in Az Za'azi', southern Ta'izz direction. The town was captured by the al-Houthi forces over 24 hours ago.

🇾🇪⚡- PLC frontline sources report Ansarullah are attempting to advance south into al-Sharjab, southern Ta'izz direction.

🇺🇸⚡️- Nidal Malik Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people during a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad.

The time and place of the execution will soon be determined.

🇮🇷⚡- Tasnim News reports that a faction within Iran's parliament, the Majlis, has tabled a motion to impeach Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- A Saudi soldier was killed along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border in the past few hours.