🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran seeks tangible dividends. Nothing Netanyahu’s Allies in the Failed Biden Team say or do will change this reality," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "There is no military option, and certainly no military solution. Any strike will be immediately reciprocated," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday.

🇻🇦⚡️- Vatican confirms the papal conclave to choose the next Pope will begin on May 7th.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian President Putin has offered Ukraine a 72 hour ceasefire on May 8, May 9 (Victory Day), and May 10.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Major power outages across Spain, and also affecting areas of Portugal and France.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Scenes from Madrid, Spain, where the blackouts have ensured chaos on the streets due to no working traffic lights.

🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Madrid Metro suspends all services.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russian forces will take decisive action if the Ukrainian side violates the ceasefire during the festive period," - The Kremlin.

🇪🇸⚡- Spain's outages seem massive, much more significant than expected. The national grid lost an incredible 13GW in a matter of just seconds.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Air traffic is being impacted in both Spain and Portugal - Flightrader24.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Portugal's Lisbon Metro suspends services, joining Spain's Madrid.

🇪🇸🇵🇹⚡- Netblocks calculates less than 17% of Spain's population is currently connected to their networks.

🇪🇸⚡- Red Electrica, Spain's operator, says they're working with energy companies to restore power.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- France's grid operator RTE has now issued a statement saying parts of the country has lost power.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- Spain's government convenes a crisis meeting due to the power outage.

🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷⚡- Approximately 65% of Spain's without power, and 60% of Portugal.

🇹🇷🇵🇰⚡- Turkey's Center for Combating Disinformation under the Turkish Presidential Office confirms Rerum Novarum's earlier report.

"Turkey denied the information about sending 6 planes with military equipment to Pakistan. It was noted that the plane landed in Pakistan for refuelling," - Turkey's Center for Combating Disinformation under the Turkish Presidential Office.

Threat of storm shadow cruise missile launches for Crimea. Ukrainian Su-24/MiG-29 aircraft flew from Dnipropetrovsk to Mykolaiv Oblast.

🇧🇪🇳🇱⚡- Belgium and the Netherlands reported minor power outages as well.

🇪🇸⚡- Spanish Power Grid is starting to come back online.