🇮🇶⚡️- An explosion was heard in eastern Baghdad.

🇧🇷🇻🇪⚡- "Maduro needs to learn how to lose an election. Whoever loses an election gets a reality check, not a blood bath. Maduro needs to learn that when you win, you stay; when you lose, you go away and get ready to dispute another election." – Lula da Silva, Brazilian President, on Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, and the upcoming Venezuelan elections in a couple of days.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris has secured 3/4 of the delegates needed to be the Democratic nominee .

🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris has now secured the required delegates to be the nominee for the Democratic party.

🇺🇸⚡️- Joe Biden has delegated various Presidential powers to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State

🇺🇸⚡️- Rumors are circulating around DC that Biden is currently in hospice care with an unknown condition but leaning towards recovery

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden has postponed a previously scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday, due to his health.

🇺🇸🕊️⚡️- “RIP Joe Biden” is trending on X amidst rumors that he is dead or dying.

🇺🇦⚡- "For me, freezing the conflict is worse than defeat. Defeat can be accepted with honor when you have done your best. Was it scary for two 16-year-old boys from Berdyansk to give their lives for the freedom of Ukraine?" – Bogdan Krotevich, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian 12th Brigade, 'Azov'.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli fighter jet was heard above Beirut, breaking the sound barrier.

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Senior official of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ihsan Ataya, commenting on the Chinese-brokered reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas: "There is a necessity for the Palestinian political leadership to form an emergency committee, especially at this stage."

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Ihsan Ataya: "Some points that carry implicit and explicit recognition have been amended by naming UN resolutions that include recognition of Israel."

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Ihsan Ataya: "The guarantee for implementing the provisions of the “Beijing Declaration” is in the hands of the Palestinians themselves."

🇨🇳🇵🇸⚡️- BREAKING: China's Foreign Minister has announced that all Palestinian factions involved in the Beijing-brokered negotiations have agreed to form a "reconciliation government," a massive step in ending the schism between Fatah and Hamas.

🇮🇱⚡️- A cyberattack is being reported by Israeli media against the Israeli Ministry of Security.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Axios: "The United States, Israel, and the UAE held a secret meeting regarding the 'day after' plan for the Gaza war."

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have captured Al-Dibab, in the Heglig direction, south Sudan.

After a pause in fighting due to the storms over the country, RSF resumed offensive operations in the south.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Dalton and Kiryat Shmona sector.)

Drone infiltration was reported in the settlements of Jish and Kadita, while rockets were detected towards Kiryat Shmona.

🇺🇲🦁⚡- Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigns after attempted assassination of President Trump.

🇮🇷⚡- Pro-Iranian militias are holding unusually large military exercises at the Syrian-Iraq border. Senior IRGC are on hand to provide training. The exercises are the largest that have ever taken place and they will last several days – Avigdor Lieberman, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister.