🇳🇨🇫🇷⚡- France has begun evacuations of settlements in southern New Caledonia, including the large town of Paita.

🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪⚡- The Foreign Ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger met in Niamey, Niger, to finalize the plans of forming a military confederation, the 'Alliance of Sahel Countries' (AES).

🇨🇩⚡- Gunfire reported in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's Capital.

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🇨🇩⚡- The Congolese Spokesman confirmed an attempted coup against the authorities by unidentified militants. The spokesman claims the militants were backed by "foreign powers".

🇨🇩⚡- The residency of Deputy Prime Minister was also attacked, three dead.

🇨🇩⚡️- The DRC military claims it has foiled the coup attempt.

🇨🇩⚡️- Troops arresting suspected putchists.

🇨🇩⚡️- Congolese troops deployed on the streets of Kinshasa near the Fleuve du Congo Hotel.

🇺🇸🇨🇩⚡️- One of the alleged conspirators is apparently an American Jew, named Benjamin Reuben.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces are beginning to withdraw from Klishchiivka (Bakhmut direction), after Russian forces captured the final remaining heights to the West of the town.

🇮🇷⚡- A helicopter, part of the convoy carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has crashed. Whether he was on that helicopter or not has not yet been determined.

🇮🇷⚡- Rescuers are trying to reach the site, but weather is preventing them from doing so.

Raisi had travelled to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border earlier to meet with Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, to bolster relations.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian media claim President Raisi was on board the helicopter that "made a hard landing", the other helicopters in the convoy arrived safely.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and East Azarbaijan Governor, Ayatollah Al-Hashem, were on the same helicopter.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian media claim Raisi survived and is unhurt from the incident. Although no rescuers have managed to locate the crash site.

🇮🇷⚡- There is no established contact with the crash / "hard-landing" site.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian officials say the president’s life is at risk - Reuters

🇮🇷⚡️- Over the last hour, Iranian authorities say that the helicopter crash has been located.

🇮🇷⚡️- A satellite image of the suspected crash site has been revealed.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media says that there is a "high probability of casualties" due to the severity of the crash.