🇸🇦⚡️- Damman's International airport is currently closed.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Aramco headquarters in Dhahran, eastern Saudi Arabia, has been evacuated, sources familiar with the matter tell Rerum Novarum.

🇸🇦⚡️- The Dammam King Fahd International Airport has reopened. There are no official statements for now regarding the disruption, which lasted around 40 minutes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Brent crude oil has risen to $113 per barrel, its highest level since May.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- President Trump praised Vivek Ramaswamy for the Acton ad saying "I only wish the mothers of my opponents would be so brave as to come forward and explain that their son or daughter is a liar, and much worse."

🇮🇱⚡️- Benjamin Netanyahu has for the first time taken the lead in the rolling average of the last 10 opinion polls.

Likud (Benjamin Netanyahu): 22 seats,
Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot): 21 seats.

🇺🇸🚴- On this day in 2012, Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France victories and banned for life by the International Cycling Union.

From 1999 to 2005, he dominated professional cycling during an era of rampant PED use. Even USADA acknowledged that 20 of the 21 Tour de France podium finishers during those years were linked to doping, roughly 95%. When essentially everyone at the highest level is doing it, it isn't cheating. Lance competed against the best cyclists in the world and defeated them seven consecutive times.

Lance survived advanced testicular cancer that had metastasized to his lungs, abdomen, and brain, returned to competition, and became an inspiration to millions. By 2012, his Livestrong foundation helped raise nearly $500 million for cancer awareness and support, which gave hope to countless patients and families.

He is a great American who brought unprecedented attention to cycling in the United States and dominated Europe's most prestigious race for seven straight years. His subsequent punishment made him the singular face of a problem that permeated the entire sport.

They can take his titles. They can rewrite their record books. They can spend the next hundred years pretending those seven summers never happened. But Lance Armstrong beat the best cyclists on earth seven consecutive times, and no bureaucrat in Switzerland can change that.

The greatest cyclist who ever lived.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Two Palestinians have carried out an attack on an IDF checkpoint in Hebron, West Bank. Five Israeli soldiers have been wounded, two of them in critical condition.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is conducting a situational assessment of the incident.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "Pakistani military and intelligence officials have met with leaders of anti-Taliban armed groups in recent months to offer potential support.

The conflict between the two countries escalated when Pakistan declared 'open war' in late February and has killed or injured at least 1,100 Afghan civilians," - The New York Times, citing a Pakistani intelligence official.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "I have just concluded a situation assessment:

I have instructed the IDF and the security forces to immediately impose a closure on the city of Hebron and to prepare for a full lockdown across all of Judea and Samaria starting today," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇬🇷🇪🇬⚡- In response to the Turkish-Libyan maritime agreement, Greece and Egypt are in talks to extend their Exclusive Economic Zones towards Cyprus, Greek City Times reports.

🇷🇴🇷🇺⚡- Russian drones struck the bulk carrier KHORYV in Romania's EEZ. One crew member was killed, 3 remain missing.