🇦🇺🇨🇳⚡️- Australia gave China a 99-year lease on Port Darwin in 2015 and a 98-year lease on Newcastle in 2014, which is the world’s largest coal port. Now Australia wants Darwin back, citing national security. China calls the move “ethically questionable.” Australia is rethinking who should control key infrastructure.

🇺🇸🇦🇺⚡- 3 US tankers arrived at Amberley Air Base, Australia. The deployment indicates a possible large-scale US aerial deployment across the Pacific, from the US.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump is eyeing sanctions against Moscow this week as he grows frustrated by Putin’s continued attacks on Ukraine and the slow pace of peace talks," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches from Yemen by Ansarullah against Israel. Alarms are expected in areas of the occupied West Bank and possibly central Israel imminently.

🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Ballistic missiles from Yemen launched by Ansarullah detected.

🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Continuous red alerts in surrounding settlements due to the ballistic missile threat.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Initial reports of explosions in Tel-Aviv.

🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Nablus, Israeli-occupied West Bank. Red alert sirens can be heard in the distance.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️ - The explosion heard in Tel-Aviv was likely the sound of interceptors being launched. No alarms were sounded in Tel-Aviv.

🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The ballistic missile was intercepted by Israeli air defense systems above the occupied West Bank.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli security officials in Tokyo, including the former deputy head of Mossad, have expressed direct concern to their Japanese counterparts regarding the inclusion of Saudi Arabia in future fighter jet development projects with the US," - Israel Defense, Israeli outlet.

🇷🇺🇦🇪⚡- "The UAE will join North Korea and Iran at a high-level intelligence and security meeting in Moscow, which will be attended by Putin's top security aide Sergei Shoigu," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The US Golden Dome project directly undermines strategic stability; Washington should abandon the deployment of weapons in space," - The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Russia joins China and North Korea in opposing the US Golden Dome project.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- "Russia and Turkey want to strengthen cooperation in finding solutions to problems in the Middle East and Africa," - Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that ended just moments ago.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- "The West is artificially trying to complicate relations between Russia and Turkey, but at a meeting with the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Putin confirmed Russia's determination to advance joint projects despite outside attempts to hinder cooperation," - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.

🇮🇱⚡- "Warnings that dozens of Arab citizens in Israel are forming ISIS cells in the country," - Ma'ariv, Israeli outlet.

🇷🇺🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We are in full cooperation with the new authorities in Syria," - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Moscow.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A US P-8A recon aircraft operating directly over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

Under the new US administration, the US has taken a much more direct approach in the South China Sea, than it ever has in the past. A month ago, in a first, the US deployed vessels to the border of Scarborough, while also moving the NMESIS to the Luzon Strait.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its strike group enter the South China Sea from the Singapore Strait.