🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳⚡- "China’s strategic support of Venezuela turns out to have been largely rhetorical. Nicolás Maduro’s fate illustrates that China, for now, lacks both the muscle and the will to deliver a counterpunch to America," - The Economist.

🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- UAE's Foreign Minister Shakhboot bin Nahyan arrives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

🇮🇷⚡- Protests ongoing in Asadabad, Hamedan Province, western Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Borujerd, Lorestan Province, Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Tehran right now.

🇮🇷⚡- 'Protestors' in Isfahan, Isfahan Province, central Iran, attack a security officer from behind.

🇮🇷⚡- 'Protestors' in masks and dressed in all black claim to have taken control over Abdanan's city center, Ilam Province, western Iran.

🇹🇼⚡️- A Taiwanese F-16 pilot has ejected from or crashed his aircraft at an estimated 10 miles east off the coast of Taiwan.

The aircraft went missing at 7:29 PM local time; five and a half hours have since passed, with search and rescue operations still unable to find the pilot.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- California GOP Representative Doug Lamalfa has passed away at age 65.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The regions of Shabwah, Abyan and northern Lahij fall to the Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces, HSF, control.

HSF are now on the borders of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council capital, Aden.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi jets over Aden, Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Southern Transitional Council anti aircraft guns in Aden are engaging against Saudi-backed forces drones.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces drones over the Presidential Palace (al-Ma'shiq Palace) in Aden, Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Situation in Aden has returned to a relative calm, but remains tense. Gunfire heard were AA guns responding to Saudi-backed forces drones.

No airstrikes were carried out, Saudi jets were attempting to intimidate STC forces.

The Giant Brigades have assumed the responsibility of guarding the Presidential Palace, al-Ma'shiq, after the Storm Brigades were redeployed to provide street security across the city.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🌎⚡️- During the emergency meeting of the Organization of American States, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia condemned the U.S. operation: Absolute Resolve.

Importantly, both Mexico and Colombia are now facing direct U.S. pressure and potential SMOs as they have failed to combat narcoterrorism and migration.