🏳️⚡- "I crave war now. Sitting in an office is boring, we long for war," – Mullah Janan, Taliban Official.

🇺🇸⚡️- The first night of the DNC has gone on so long that CSPAN ended its livestream expecting it to be over by 11:00PM

🇺🇸⚡️- The other major networks also planned for the event to be over by 11 and have had to delay regular programming to continue coverage.

Commentators are speculating the DNC lengthened its speaking times to minimize the viewership of Bidens keynote speech.

🇺🇸⚡️- Longtime Biden aides are upset at the DNC for pushing Biden out of primetime, one texting a CNN journalist:
“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them—do they have to cut him out of prime time?"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Upwards of 55 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights. Multiple fires have been reported in the Golan Heights as a result.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF reports that it was able to recover 6 hostages from tunnels in Khan Yunis, although all 6 of those rescued did not survive.

🇮🇷🇸🇩⚡- Iranian military cargo plane has landed in Port Sudan, Sudan, a day after Russia's Wagner-linked plane arrived at Port Sudan.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that more than 75 rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon since this morning.

🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡- The meeting between Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, begins in El Alamein, northern Egypt.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Many Western journalists were onboard the Philippine Coast Guard ship which deliberately collided with the Chinese Coast Guard, this all appears to be meticulously orchestrated – Global Times, Chinese state-owned media.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The fighting in the Kursk region will end most likely in 2 to 3 months. In fact, the entire Special Military Operation will end in 2 to 3 months," – Russian Commander of the "Akhmat" Special Forces, General Apti Alaudinov.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- Chinese State Council Premier, Li Qiang, Arrives in Moscow, Russia, to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

🇸🇴🇹🇷⚡- Turkey will send the Oruc-Reis research vessel to explore for offshore oil in Somalia next month – Director of the Ministry of Oil of Somalia, Muhammad Hashi.

🇱🇾🇹🇩⚡- Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army have established full control over the Kalanga mountains region on the border with Chad following clashes with Chadian armed groups who were engaged in illegal gold mining.

🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan has officially submitted an application to join BRICS — Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷⚡- "There could be a long wait for Iranian retaliation against Israel," — Alimohammad Naini, IRGC Spokesman.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Since February 24th 2022, Russia has fired 9,627 missiles of all types and 13,997 drones at Ukraine – Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian artillery uses 14,600 shells per day, while Russian artillery uses 44,500. The ratio of artillery shells is 1:3 in favor of the Russians – Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "As of today, 1,263 sqkm of territory and 93 settlements in the Kursk region, Russia, are under the control of Ukrainian Armed Forces," – Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The frontline remains our top priority, particularly the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) and Toretsk (Dzerzhinsk) directions," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It looks as if we are giving up the Donetsk region. Ukrainian Armed Forces are being withdrawn from the Donetsk region, the Russians are passing through empty fortifications." – Mariana Bezuhla, Peoples Deputy of Ukraine.