🇫🇷⚡️- A political scandal in France is brewing after a team of state inspectors were denied entry in the Elysée by the authorities. The inspectors were mandated by the French justice to search precise parts of the Elysée as part of an official investigation into recent "Panthéonisation" ceremonies conducted by the French government.

A company named "Shortcut Events", the French National Monuments Center and several advisors of Emmanuel Macron are targeted by the ongoing investigation.

The Elysée's authorities invoked Article 67 of the French Constitution to prevent this search alongside any future attempts.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- "Received a call from my friend President Donald Trump. We reviewed the substantial progress achieved in our bilateral cooperation in various sectors. We are committed to further strengthening our Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership in all areas. We also discussed the situation in West Asia and stressed the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and secure." - Indian PM Narendra Modi on X.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah launches rockets into northern Israel, simultaneously with Lebanon-Israel negotiations in Washington.

🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷⚡️- Foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey will hold a meeting to discuss the Middle East, per the AFP citing Turkish diplomatic sources.

🇮🇳⚡️- A boiler explosion at a power plant in central India caused 10 deaths and 40 injuries.

The initial investigation has ruled out terrorism and is privileging subpar components or poor labor.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The first direct Lebanon-Israel talks since 1983 have ended, lasting 2.5 hours.

Both sides described the talks, held in the US, as positive.

🇨🇦🇱🇧⚡- Canada will allocate $40 million in humanitarian aid to Lebanon through NGOs, according to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡- A Russian bulk-carrier ABINSK carrying grain from Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories docked at Israel's Haifa Port two days ago, violating US, UK, and EU sanctions.

Israel continues to use Haifa, which has been leased to China's SIPG, against the interests of the West. The port has routinely been used by the Russian ghost fleet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to enter direct negotiations following today's talks.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Commander of Israel’s 52nd battalion has been seriously wounded in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, alongside ten other soldiers during clashes with Hezbollah.

🇺🇸❤️⚡️- President Biden calls an African American student up to the stage at Syracuse University, saying the student reminds him of Obama.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Two car blasts on Imam Khomeini Street, Tehran, attempting to target a Basij checkpoint.

Iranian security forces have closed the area off diffusing a third car rigged with explosives.

No injuries reported.

🇱🇧🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is refusing to have France be a part of the Israel-Lebanon negotiations.

🇺🇸⚡️- Vice President JD Vance is heckled by an audience member who shouts, "Jesus doesn't support genocide."

🇺🇸⚡️- Vice President JD Vance is confronted by a TPUSA audience member who shouts "You're killing children!"

🇺🇸⚡️- Disney has laid off over 1000 employees across its media subsidiaries. The new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger earlier this year, announced the layoffs to consolidate Disney's marketing division.

Marvel Studios has reportedly been hit hard as most of its Visual Development department has been let go.

🇺🇸🌎⚡- “On April 14, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Four male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump says the war in Iran is over, again.