🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: A Panama-flagged UAE carrier was hijacked in the Gulf of Oman, near Iran's port Bandar-e-Jask.

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - The ship was likely Oceanus Leader.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Former IDF general and Israeli opposition figure Yair Golan said Israel risks becoming a “pariah state” and accused it of “killing babies as a hobby.” He later clarified he was criticizing far-right leaders, not the military.

🇹🇷🇨🇳⚡- Turkey uncovers a major spy network linked to the Chinese intelligence. Turkey's MiT dismantled the spy ring which, according to Turkish outlet Milliyet, was tracking the locations of citizens, including government officials and members of the Uyghur community.

MiT has funded Uyghur militant groups in Syria, such as Ansar al-Tawhid and the Turkistan Islamic Party.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- US crude futures rise more than $2 after the report that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

🇱🇾⚡- Over the past week three military cargo aircrafts belonging to the Haftar-led Libyan National Army have landed in Sirte, west Libya, taking off from Benghazi, east Libya.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "The alternative plan to the failure of the nuclear talks is to continue the enrichment strategy that existed before that.

The strategy also includes strengthening relations with allies such as Russia and China," - Reuters, citing an Iranian official.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran refuses to transfer its stockpile of highly enriched uranium abroad, an Iranian official tells Reuters.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran refuses to enter into discussions regarding its ballistic missile program," - Reuters, citing an Iranian official.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇵🇸⚡️- The UK has joined France's initiative to recognize a Palestinian state at a UN conference in June.

⚡️🇭🇺 Hungary's Parliament voted to leave the ICC in a 134-37 vote. Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó, who implemented the decision, said that this decision was motivated by the ICC becoming a political body and issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Minister described this arrest warrant as openly anti-Semitic.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Foreign Ministry has said that the timing and location of the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the US have been determined and will be announced soon.

🇸🇩⚡- BREAKING: The Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have withdrawn from most of Omdurman, Khartoum direction, Sudan.

The Sudanese Armed Forces are preparing to storm the last remaining stronghold of the RSF in the As Sani District, southwest of Omdurman.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: A Ukrainian DRG unit was reported at Subbotovo, deep inside Bryansk Oblast, Russia. The Russian National Guard have been deployed, with all roads leading to the town closed off.

Somehow Russian border forces allowed an entire unit 45km inside Russia.

🇺🇿🇭🇺⚡- Uzbekistan and Hungary sign an enhanced strategic partnership agreement.

🇪🇺🇮🇱⚡- "We completely reject the direction taken in the EU statement, which reflects a complete misunderstanding of the complex reality that Israel faces," - Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- China has significantly increased gray-zone warfare against the disputed Senkaku Islands of Japan, according to US-based Philippine Think Tank 'Sea Light'.

🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan hold large-scale military exercises across Taiwan, Pengjia Island, Dongyin Island and the Penghu County.

A large number of airspaces have been closed after several NOTAMs were issued, including in the Taiwan Strait, and the major city of Kaohsiung. The Taiwanese military will hold live-fire training at 9 separate points.

The closed air-spaces (red) and firing points (yellow X) have been marked on the map.

🇨🇳⚡- China issues three NOTAMs in the Yellow Sea for military exercises starting tomorrow. The exercises come just two days after China's recent military drills in the Taiwanese Strait.

🇺🇦🇪🇸⚡- BREAKING: Andriy Portnov, top advisor to former Ukrainian President Yanukovych, has been assassinated outside the American School in Madrid, Spain.

Portnov served as the senior advisor to the Viktor Yanukovych’s administration. Yanukovych was ousted from power in Kiev in 2014

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli assassination strike targeting a vehicle in Yater, southern Lebanon.