🇺🇲🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "There is nothing new in the Kremlin’s latest threats of escalation. For a long time, Putin intimidated us, urging us not to do this, or that, with threats. These threats were not implemented and have no basis,” – NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.

— 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Yemen's Ansarullah says it struck the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with an anti-ship ballistic missile

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🇮🇱 - Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a photo of 'Greater Kurdistan', demanding its freedom.

🇿🇦 - African National Congress, ANC, currently leads the polls after 63% of the ballots counted, with 42% of the votes. ANC, the current ruling party of President Cyril Ramaphosa, is most likely to win but could lose a majority of seats.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli forces have reached the center of Rafah, raising a flag on the city’s water tower.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Russian Federation is gathering forces for an offensive on Sumy Oblast – The Washington Post.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The number of satellite communication terminals have increased greatly over the past week, along the Sumy border. There is also a large increase in radio communications, indicating a large presence of Russian troops.

However, Ukrainian sources claim there's a lack of air reconnaissance, which was present in a high number before the Northern Kharkov offensive.

🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- France has banned Israel from attending Eurosatory-2024 – world's largest weapons defense fair. The event is scheduled for the 17th-21st June, in Paris.

🇩🇪⚡️- A mass stabbing occurred in Mannheim, Germany. Anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger as well as some police officers were injured.

🇺🇸 - US Senator Joe Manchin to leave democratic caucus.

🇹🇷🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- In Istanbul, Turkey, protestors stormed Azerbaijani state oil company, SOCAR, headquarters for continuing to supply Israel with oil via Ceyhan Port (South-East Turkey).

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has fired more than 60 projectiles into northern Israel in the past few moments

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reporting that more than 100 projectiles have been fired into northern Israel by Hezbollah

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli settlers in northern Israel record interceptions and impacts by Hezbollah rockets

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Multiple injuries have been reported as a result of the barrage.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media says Hezbollah attack was estimated to be the most violent since October 7th.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- More interceptions.

🇺🇸⚡️- Biden to deliver a "very important speech" regarding the Middle East today. Sources are claiming extraordinary movement of US military assets in the region.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in northern Israel as a result of Hezbollah strikes.

🇺🇸⚡️- Biden expected to deliver address later this evening.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- For the first time since October 7th, some settlements in northern Israel experienced red alert sirens. Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets into sectors of northern Israel that had not been evacuated since Hezbollah began striking into northern Israel.