🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Russia has given up on replacing the US dollar with the Chinese yuan in international trade.

The yuan has not gained significant ground internationally, remaining under 3% of global trade settlements and falling in global payment rankings," - Business Insider.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran says it has targeted a U.S. early-warning radar system in Bahrain in response to U.S. attacks on southern Iran.

The IRGC says further attacks on its territory will lead to an escalation “beyond any borders.”

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen will challenge Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader at the next congressional session.

🇺🇸⚡️- The United States Department of War has re-established the Office of Strategic Services (OSS,) which was dissolved in 1945 and largely merged into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA.)

The announcement came via X.

🇮🇱⚡️- Mark Levin has recovered his email and mocks the goyim for their Microsoft Outlook emails being down all day.

🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- “Under the bilateral agreement between the governments of Haiti and El Salvador, a joint operation involving the Haitian National Police, the Haitian Armed Forces (FAd’H), the Task Force, and El Salvador’s Special Forces successfully took control of Sylvio Cator Stadium and secured it. During the operation, we discovered several human skulls inside the stadium.

We will now establish an operational base at the stadium so we can continue advancing deeper into territory controlled by the gangs.

We now have the upper hand on the ground.

I firmly demand that all gang members leave the area before the offensive begins.

Those who choose to stay and fight our forces will have to face the consequences.” - El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on X.

🌍⚡️- Microsoft is currently experiencing a massive global outage, with services disrupted across multiple regions as the company works to restore normal operations.

This map shows the affected regions across the world. China appears to remain unaffected, possibly because it operates separate Microsoft service infrastructure from the rest of the world.

🌍⚡️- "Attempts to fix the global outage are not going as expected." - Microsoft.

🌍⚡️- Microsoft says that there are "no signs" of a cyberattack being the cause of the global outage. However, Microsoft also says it isn't sure what is causing the global outage as of now.

The outage has been persisting for almost 10 hours.

🇦🇺🌍⚡️- Reuters reports that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service as well as the Australian Federal Police have been "hit" by the outage, affecting basic systems and day-to-day operations.

🌍⚡️- "The servers we returned to service can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic. We're analyzing diagnostic data to determine what's triggering the behavior." - Microsoft.