🇦🇫🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan border forces attack Afghanistan's Taliban security forces setting up a checkpoint along the Afghan side of the border. Clashes led to the deaths of three Pakistani security forces.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has ordered Southern Command to draw up a new more offensive-minded battle plan for Gaza," - Israel Today.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Incoming Chief of Staff Zamir also intends to fire much of the General Staff and senior IDF brass and replace them with more aggressive generals. He says this is also needed to restore public trust in the army," - Israel Today.

🇨🇳🇻🇳🇮🇱⚡- Vietnam to buy two spy satellites from Israel for $680 million to help monitor Chinese activity in the South China Sea, as tensions escalate between the two countries over the disputed Paracel Islands.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- US aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, and its strike group arrive at the South Korean port of Busan, in response to North Korea's recent military activity in the Yellow Sea.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan seizes yet another Chinese cargo ship in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan has previously accused Chinese cargo ships of breaking Taiwanese undersea cables.

🇷🇺🇲🇲⚡- Russian President Putin invites Myanmar's junta leader to Moscow. They will meet tomorrow.

🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- Chinese naval exercises underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, on the border of Vietnam.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to renegotiate with Russia the 49-year lease for the Tartus naval base and Khmeimim airbase. Al-Sharaa is open to keeping the bases but wants better terms from Russia, including diplomatic backing and financial compensation from Russia.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: US considering eliminating AFRICOM, US Africa Command.

AFRICOM to be moved to a subcommand under EUCOM.

🇺🇸⚡- Trump also planning on merging NORTHCOM and SOUTHCOM into a single AMERICOM.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Three Chinese vessels operating in the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇦🇹⚡- Christian Stocker sworn in as Austria's new Chancellor.

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🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: A car-ramming attack in Mannheim, Germany. Police are investigating the incident.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The risk of war on the European continent has never been this high," - Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister.

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "The threat keeps getting closer to us, the front line keeps getting closer to us," - Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister.

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- "Events at the White House were intentional escalation," - Friedrich Merz, Germany's Chancellor-elect, blames Trump for the Trump-Zelensky clash.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "Europeans can no longer rely on NATO as they used to, as Trump's position has weakened it."

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "We will need 10 years to free ourselves from American influence through massive local and European investment."

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- Macron: "I thought that an independent Europe could be built by re-engaging with Russia, but we couldn't do that."