🇸🇴⚡- BREAKING: UKMTO reports a new incident of Somali pirates boarding a tanker and steering it towards Somalia's water-spaces.

🇲🇱 - FLA+JNIM continue attacking the towns of Kati, Mamaribougou and Djicoronicoura around Mali's capital Bamako. The situation in the capital remains tense, but without fighting.

FLA+JNIM in the north of the country have captured Kidal. Fighting continues in Gao, where Malian and Russian troops are entrenched and surrounded. Most of Gao has been overrun by FLA and JNIM.

In the center of Mali, several towns along the Niger River have fallen to FLA+JNIM, including Taboye, Bourem, and Bamba. Heavy fighting continues around the Mopti countryside, with the key towns of Savare and Konna coming under the control of FLA and JNIM. Somadougou and Sofara, Mopti direction, remain contested.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- “I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their “leadership.” Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP” - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇭🇺⚡️- Viktor Orban will not hold a seat in parliament for the first time in 36 years, after he announced he is withdrawing and focusing on restructuring the Fidesz Party.

🇺🇸⚡️- A mass shooting is occurring at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Local reports indicate multiple police officers are down, and SWAT units are deploying to the area.

🇺🇸🇵🇰⚡- NY Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos received a message from President Trump telling her to “Come home!!!” from Islamabad, Pakistan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Pakistan appears to have abandoned hopes of resumed talks between the United States and Iran, as roadblocks and security perimeters in Islamabad have been dismantled, according to i24NEWS.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the IDF to strongly attack Hezbollah positions in Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Artwork drawn by a U.S. soldier in a concrete shelter at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, counting daily Iranian drone and missile attacks.

🇲🇱 - Current situation in Kidal, northern Mali.

There are reports suggesting Russia has requested a safe corridor to withdraw from Kidal's FAMa military base.

Map credit: Thomas van Linge.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: Mediators say the United States is showing a willingness to allow some Iranian nuclear enrichment in the second half of a proposed 20-year pause, according to the WSJ.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- BREAKING: Politico reports that FBI Director Kash Patel will be fired from his position by the Trump administration, citing an unnamed source in the White House.

🇨🇴⚡️- A cylinder bomb targeting a bus in western Colombia killed thirteen people and injured seventeen. The communist group, “FARC,” is believed to be responsible.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Shots fired reported at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, where President Donald Trump is currently attending!

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has been hastily evacuated from the ballroom.

Secret Service donned in tactical gear are currently positioned on the main stage.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner ballroom.

Secret Service are present on stage; President Trump has been evacuated.