🇮🇱⚡- Knesset Opposition Leader Yair Lapid will present the bill on holding an early vote to dissolve the government to the Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana as early as today.

🇮🇱⚡- "Come [Smotrich], let us jointly call for introducing a bill to dissolve the Knesset and proceed to elections," - Yair Lapid, Knesset Opposition Leader, who has now allied and seeks alliances with everyone under the blue sky in Israel just to bring down the Likud-bloc.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡- The EU has scheduled a high-level meeting for tomorrow, with all EU Foreign Ministers required to attend. The meeting comes ahead of the Trump-Putin Summit, as the EU believes they should be a part of any deal.

🇨🇳⚡- Liu Jianchao, Head of China's Foreign Policy Department, and one of the most powerful members of the Xi-bloc within the Communist Party, has been arrested by police for "questioning".

Liu was widely expected to become China's Foreign Minister in the future, and has long battled corruption at government level.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- Abacus Data polling shows that Canadians care more about President Trump than almost every single domestic economic and political issue with 1 exception.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip targets an al-Jazeera tent, killing all 7 of the remaining journalists for foreign publications.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Director of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza city, says Israel is preparing for a major escalation in violence ahead of its occupation plan by killing off the remaining journalists.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery shelling of eastern Gaza city.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli artillery shelling has begun targeting infrastructure in the al-Zaytoun district of western Gaza city.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from al-Zaytoun, Gaza city, as Israel destroys infrastructure ahead of its military operation to occupy the city.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes now against al-Zaytoun, Gaza city.

🇦🇺🇵🇸⚡- BREAKING: Australia will recognize the State of Palestine in September.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 have launched its widely anticipated southern offensive in the Bukavu region, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

As Rerum Novarum reported early July, major troop movement was observed from either side in the south. Over the weekend, M23 launched several probing attacks, and then last night it began its full-scale offensive.

Kalole, Koshongerwe, Budodo, and the large town of Kaniola have all fallen to M23 control. Violent clashes are ongoing for the major and strategic town of Nzibira, which sits on N2-W Highway. M23 have entered Nzibira from the east and north, with street fights underway.

M23 posed in front of the 'Palacs of Martyrs' building, which Rerum Novarum have geolocated to central Kaniola, at -2.59464, 28.61634.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- With the news of the new M23 offensive, a pro-war protest took place in Bukavu, M23-controlled eastern DR Congo, in support of M23. Protestors demand M23 march all the way towards Kinshasa, capital of DR Congo.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi says Tehran and Washington are still in communication through a mediating state (likely Oman).