🇺🇸🏳️⚡️- 64-year old American academic researcher Dennis Coyle is being released from Afghan Taliban detention today after being abducted by the group in January 2025.

The Taliban’s foreign ministry says the Supreme Court determined his period of detention sufficient after receiving a letter from Coyle’s mother.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Marco Rubio will attend a G7 meeting on the topic of Iran this Friday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran’s embassy in South Africa mocks President Trump’s claim of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to southern Israel.

🇵🇭🛢⚡️- BREAKING: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of "national energy emergency", citing risks to the country's fuel supply and energy stability due to the war in the Middle East.

🇫🇷🇺🇸⚡️- AFP, citing sources, reveals the Rothschild bank in Paris was raided by the police last Friday as part of the French investigation into the Epstein files.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡️- Lebanon has given notice to the Iranian ambassador that he must leave the country by Friday.

🇪🇺🇮🇸⚡- The Commissioner of Enlargement for the EU, Marta Kos, announces that Iceland “will be ready” for EU membership.

🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- Marta Kos also stated that Ukrainian membership by January 1st, 2027 is “impossible.”

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: According to the NYT, Prince Mohammed bin Salman is convincing President Trump to use ground forces to seize key Iranian energy infrastructure and to bring about regime change in the “hard-line” government.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Mohammed bin Salman has also reassured Trump’s concerns over gas prices and economic instability as “only temporary”. - NYT.

🇺🇸⚡- California is suing the Department of Energy to stop it from restarting the Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iranian missile launched towards southern Israel.

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: According to early reports, Iran has launched a missile towards Beirut in retaliation for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador.

🇮🇷🇧🇭🇦🇪⚡- “An Emirati soldier killed in Bahrain "while repelling" an Iranian attack,” per AFP.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The Department of War will be deploying 3,000 troops from the US Army's 82nd Airborne to the Middle East.

The 82nd Airborne Division are an elite paratrooper division that specializes in airborne assault and infiltration missions, headquartered out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- According to AFP, the Israeli military has confirmed a missile launched from Iran impacted in Beirut.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Clarification: Iranian, Arab, and Israeli sources all reported the launch from Iran towards Beirut on Tuesday.

Locals in Beirut claim there has been no impact and that the “impact” may have been from an interception.

AFP cited the Israeli military, which claimed to confirm a missile was launched from Iran and fell in Beirut.

Rerum Novarum will provide updates on the story as it progresses.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The UK's Royal Navy will lead efforts to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and ensure safe passage of merchant ships," The Times reports.

The plan is under development by the UK and France, and seeks the support of the US.