🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "NATO is considering shooting down missiles on approach to the Alliance's borders.

Various concepts are being analyzed within NATO, including the possibility of shooting down such missiles when they are very close to the NATO border," – Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Andrzej Szejna.

Szejna has admitted Ukrainian permission will be needed, as Poland (and NATO) would be targeting Russian missiles on non-NATO soil.

🇧🇾⚡️- Telegram users in Belarus began to receive messages calling for terrorist attacks, including shootings in shopping centers – Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

🇷🇺⚡- A deputy of the Kursk City Assembly proposed blocking the Telegram application on the territory of the Russian Federation.

🇵🇰🇨🇳 - Terror attack kills five Chinese engineers in Pakistan’s KP province.

NatSecJeff says expecting ISKP to claim it.

🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian President Zelensky has dismissed Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

🇯🇵⚡️- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida caught up in $6.5 million (USD) Liberal Democratic Party slush fund scandal; approval ratings drop below 20%.

🇯🇵⚡️- "The race to replace Kishida is now gathering pace behind closed doors" — East Asia Forum

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election is in September 2024, and the next Japanese general election before October 2025 (TBD).

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- U.K. High Court judges grant Julian Assange permission to appeal against removal from U.K., in a victory for Assange and his legal team.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York City Council petitions New York State Supreme Court to let illegals (upwards of 800,000 in New York) vote in elections.

🇲🇩🇷🇺⚡- "Transnistria does not currently plan to appeal to Moscow with a request to be included in the Russian Federation," – Foreign Ministry of Transnistria Republic.

🇳🇮🇻🇦 - 10 Nicaraguan Catholics will mark a year since being jailed this week. They were imprisoned during 2023's Holy Week for participating in & covering religious activities.

🇮🇶🇷🇺 - In Baghdad, Iraq, buildings are illuminated as a sign of solidarity with Russia.

🇺🇸⚡️- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces Silicon Valley attorney Nicole Shahanan as his running mate for POTUS.

🇺🇸⚡️- Shahanan, 38, was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and is substantially wealthy; she is seen as someone who will help bankroll the campaign and get RFK Jr. on the ballot quicker.

🇺🇸⚡️- Shanahan is also a longtime Democratic donor; donated to Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Soros-backed DA George Gascón.

🇵🇱 - Warsaw's middle class started buying apartments in Spain to have somewhere to flee in case of war – Polish media.

🇺🇸⚡️- Washington State Supreme Court rules the bar exam is “racist,” bans the bar exam in Washington State, following the trend of blue states abolishing or making their their bar exam irrelevant (Virginia, Wisconsin, California, and soon Oregon)

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli airstrike kills at least 7 in southern Lebanon near city of Nabatieh; Israel expecting 'strong response'

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- 30 missiles launched from Lebanon towards Israeli settlements in the north.