🇸🇾⚡- Clashes between Arab Bedouin tribes and the SDF in the Deir ez-Zur region, eastern Syria.

❗🇱🇧⚡ Hezbollah rejects US-backed disarmament plan in Lebanon


@BriekBPeek

🇺🇸🇲🇾⚡- President Trump arrives in Kuala Lumpur and is welcomed by the Malaysian President Ibrahim.

🇺🇸🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thailand and Cambodia sign a peace agreement under President Trump's mediation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

🇺🇸🇹🇭🇲🇾⚡- The United States has signed a major rare earth minerals deal with Thailand in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

🇲🇾⚡- 13th ASEAN summit family photo - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

🇺🇸🇲🇾⚡- President Trump announces new trade deals with Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia at the 13th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur.

🇺🇸🇧🇷🇲🇾⚡- President Donald Trump meets Brazil's Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur.

"It's a great honor to be here with the President of Brazil, it's a great country. It's a big beautiful country. They're doing very well. I think we should be able to make some good deals for both countries.

We've been speaking [with Lula da Silva]. I think we'll end up having a very good relationship. We always have had a good relationship, it will continue," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇧🇷🇲🇾⚡- "They're not great questions today. It's a lot of boring questions, we'll see you later," - President Trump cuts the press conference short during his meeting with Brazil's Lula da Silva at the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur.

🇺🇸🇻🇳⚡️- The US - Vietnam trade agreement's framework was completed

🇺🇸🇲🇾⚡- After Thailand, the United States is set to sign a critical minerals deal with Malaysia too.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- North Korea's Foreign Minister to visit Russia today.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Three Turkish citizens have been indicted in Israel for weapons related offenses, one of them is also charged with attempting to provide means for carrying out a terrorist act. The indictment alleges the group was trying to establish a network for smuggling weapons from Turkey into Israel.

🇫🇷⚡️- AFP reports two men have been arrested in connection with the Louvre Museum heist.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We seek the peaceful reunification with Taiwan and call on residents on both sides of the Taiwan Strait not to leave room for separatist activities.

China's victory in the war of resistance against Japanese invasion and the return of Taiwan to China represented a great victory and a magnificent event for the Chinese people.

The complete reunification of China is a historic responsibility. There is a global consensus that there is only one China and that Taiwan is its inalienable part," - Wang Huning, Chairman of the CPPCC, and one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee.

Huning was one of the founders of China's 'wolf warrior diplomacy' in the late 00s. He's also the architect of Chinese foreign policy in the South China Sea. Huning is one of the most powerful men in China, and largely influences President Xi.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: The Financial Times reports US intelligence have obtained information that the UAE has passed critical defense technology to Huawei, which assisted the Chinese in developing extended range air-to-air missile systems, thus giving the Chinese fighters advantage over its American counterparts.

UAE-based AI giant G-42 was used to upgrade long-range missiles fired from fighter jets. The sensitive US information G-42 passed onto the Chinese helped upgrade the PL-15 and PL-17 missiles.

The intelligence findings are similar to that of UAE's ally Israel, which in the past has provided the Chinese vital US data on the Sidewinder and Patriot missile systems, as well as the Chinese J-10 jet program.

🇹🇷🇮🇶⚡- The PKK has announced the withdrawal of all of its forces from Turkey to Iraq.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli assassination strike kills one in al-Naqoura, southern Lebanon.

The 8th Israeli assassination in Lebanon in just the past 4 days.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇨🇳⚡- Massive right-wing pro-US and anti-China protests against President Lee Jae Myung of the Democratic Party on the eve of President Trump's visit to the country for the APEC summit.