🇺🇸 - The US Space force has awarded 12 companies with a total of $3.2 billion for the purpose of building prototype interceptors for the planned Golden Dome missile defence system.

🇸🇴⚡️- The oil vessel, Honour 25, has been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia along with its 17 crew members on Wednesday afternoon, according to security officials who spoke with the BBC.

The vessel was carrying 18,500 barrels worth of oil when it was captured.

The nationality of the 17 crew members is ten Pakistanis, four Indonesians, one Indian, one Sri Lankan, and one from Myanmar.

🇩🇪🇮🇷 - The German Navy will deploy a minesweeper vessel to the Mediterranean Sea, in case they are given the orders by the Bundestag (German Parliament) to assist with mine sweeping in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇲🇱⚡- BREAKING: Massive joint FLA (Tuareg separatists) and JNIM offensive across Mali!

90%+ of the major city of Kidal has fallen to FLA+JNIM, with fighting ongoing in the cities of Tessalit, Anefil, Mopti, Segou and Gao.

FLA+JNIM have entered the capital city of Bamako.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- FLA+JNIM are patrolling the center of Gao, overrunning Malian and Russian military positions. Making it the second large city to fall today.

🇲🇱 - Scenes from Gao, with FLA+JNIM seen entering the city.

🇲🇱⚡- Malian government confirms the capital Bamako is under attack.

🇲🇱⚡- FLA+JNIM have overrun Kati, a town directly northwest of Bamako, Mali's capital.

🇮🇷 - The main international airport in Iran, Imam Khomeini International Airport, has now reopened for the first time since the start of the war.

🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫⚡- FLA spokesman has threatened Niger and Burkina Faso against intervening in Mali.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - FLA+JNIM have captured Kidal's military base, which was home to the Wagner Group (now Africa Corps).

Malian and Russian flags can be seen taken down.

Footage credit: MH_Rainn.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️- The UK Ministry of Defence has denied engaging any drones over Romania or Ukraine, Stating the aircraft were scrambled as part of a wider NATO mission, and "standard procedure".

Romania had given the two British Typhoons that were patrolling authorization to engage the drones IF they entered into Romanian airspace, but Romanian radar lost track of the drones before any engagement took place, and it appears the drone crashed by itself.

Confusion and misreporting of the events comes from the poorly worded Romanian press release, which has since been clarified by both Romanian and UK Ministries of Defence.

🇲🇱⚡- Malian/Russian helicopter shot down by FLA+JNIM in Gao, Mali.

🇲🇱⚡- BREAKING: FLA+JNIM claim to have arrested Sadio Camara, Mali's Defense Minister.

🇲🇱 - Pro-junta sources confirm Mali's Defense Minister Sadio Camara's house was severely damaged in a VBIED attack, but have not yet commented on his capture by FLA+JNIM.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The destruction of a village in Khiam, IDF controlled southern Lebanon by the Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Lebanese media report an Israeli assassination strike on a vehicle in Yohmor, southern Lebanon.