🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: "Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext. Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region," - Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan's Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "Being a responsible state, Pakistan open heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth regarding the Pahalgam attack," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason, India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡- "Do you have anyone in mind to be the next Pope?" - Reporter.

"As Pope? I'd like to be Pope. That would be my number one choice," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦- Bloomberg reporting that Putin is demanding full Russian control over the four annexed oblasts in Ukraine, not merely the controlled territory, and that this has caused a standstill in Russo-American talks

🇷🇺⚡- Volgograd International Airport, Volgograd region of Russia, has been renamed as Stalingrad International Airport.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Non-stop Israeli drones operating over the Damascus region.

🇮🇷 - CCTV footage from the moment the first flame went off at the Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

Multiple 'ammonium' bangs were delivered on the hanger, two were transported using a forklift and placed on a pallet. The moment they were placed, the compound ignited - almost as if it was timed.

CCTV footage does not show any visible negligence, although the Iranian authorities believe it was an accident.

🇮🇷 - Scenes from the site of the explosion at Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, south Iran, shows two large craters left over from the initial explosion and subsequent secondary explosions.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's Swat Air Base, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, goes offline for the next month.

Rerum Novarum had previously geolocated the air base to 34.81406, 72.35381, and from recent satellite imagery, the base lacked any air defenses. The strip was only recently opened after undergoing construction works for nearly two decades.

Pakistan has issued a NOTAM for the air base citing 'upgrade work' - likely extending / adding another runway.

🇮🇳🇵🇰 - Correction: There were no clashes along the India-Pakistan international border, in the Pargwal direction.

This has been denied by several front-line Pakistani military journalists, calling the reports and footage fake.

🇸🇾⚡- Scenes from Sahnaya, Damascus region, Syria.

🇮🇳⚡- Fire breaks out at Rituraj Hotel in Mechua, Kolkata, India, leaving 15 dead and 13+ injured.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡- The British government says they have joined the US airstrikes campaign against Ansarullah, conducting several raids last night.