🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- House Speaker Mike Johnson says a bipartisan consensus is emerging in Congress to further restrict China's access to advanced American AI chips following Jensen Huang's resignation as NVIDIA CEO. Republican lawmakers are pushing to include new export restrictions in the annual defense authorization bill, with several proposals gaining momentum.

The measures would strengthen oversight of chip exports, require tracking of advanced processors, restrict Chinese access to overseas computing facilities, and push American allies to tighten their own restrictions. The effort could significantly strengthen Washington's ability to protect its technological advantage over Beijing.

🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮⚡️- Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland have announced plans for a common defense agreement to strengthen NATO's military capabilities across Northern Europe and the Arctic. The initiative will improve joint operations, troop mobility, and the movement of military equipment across borders, which will further integrate Nordic defenses against Russian threats and China's growing strategic ambitions in the Arctic.

🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Russia's ridiculous demands to end the war with Ukraine, as per BILD:

- Ukraine will not host European troops.
- Russia to be handed Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
- Ukraine to 'demilitarize' Odesa and Mykolaiv.
- Ukraine to no longer attack Russian tankers and vessels, expecting freedom of navigation in the Black Sea as well as the Baltic Sea.
- NATO to withdraw all military bases from the Baltic region.
- Finland to withdraw from NATO.
- Ukraine blocked from joining NATO, but free to join the EU.
- Demanding the federalization of Moldova, with the right to hold referendums for Gagauzia and Transnistria.

In return, Russia would:
- Withdraw troops from Transnistria.
- Remove nuclear weapons from Belarus.

🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡- Finland's Ministry of Defense has rejected Russia's demand to leave NATO, stating its position in the alliance in non-negotiable.

🇶🇦🇹🇷⚡- BREAKING: Qatar and Turkey sign a mutual defense agreement.

🇮🇷⚡- Explosions heard in Jask and Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. Causes unknown.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iranian 'air defenses' are active against US one-way drones operating over the country's southern airspace.

🇫🇷⚡️- "I'm worried about the powerlessness of the French state. We are dancing on a volcano. A tsunami threatens us, perhaps even before the presidential election!" - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to Le Figaro when discussing political unrest in France.

🇬🇧⚡️- BREAKING: RAF Lakenheath has been placed on lockdown due to a bomb threat!

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- RAF Mildenhall and RAF Feltwell are also under lockdown, with sirens sounding at both bases.

US fighter jets are stationed out of the three bases at Lakenheath, Mildenhall, and Feltwell.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- The lockdown and sirens are reportedly due to a drone threat.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- BREAKING: Locals report an armed drone in the airspace of RAF Lakenheath, with the base on "long duration lockdown" due to the infiltration!

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- One source reports that RAF Lakenheath and the other bases have been on lockdown for the past 4 hours.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- BREAKING: FPCON DELTA has been raised at "at least one or more" of the bases surrounding RAF Lakenheath.

FPCON DELTA, meaning force protection condition, means an attack is highly likely or ongoing.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- An unnamed British military source tells Faytuks News that RAF Lakenheath remains on lockdown due to drone infiltration.