🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel informed the US administration that the current situation is leading to the erosion of Israel's deterrence power." - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf mocks the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and says oil will reach $140 after breaking $120 earlier today.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Situation in northern and central Mali.

The FLA has asked Russia to withdraw from the country permanently.

Map key:
Purple: FLA+JNIM,
Orange + Green: Malian military, FAMa, and pro-FAMa,
Grey: Islamic State of the Sahel region areas of operations.

Note, unmarked territory indicates JNIM areas of operations / influence, and weak FAMa presence.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Gas prices have spiked by $0.70-$0.90 in multiple states, including Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, according to GasBuddy.

Prices have risen to as high as $5 per gallon in a single day.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "I told Netanyahu he has got to do it more surgically. Not knock down buildings. He can't do it. It is too terrible and makes Israel look bad." - President Trump to Axios on Israel's attacks on Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡️- "The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"- President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. CENTCOM has asked to send the Army's Dark Eagle hypersonic missile to the Middle East for possible use against Iran, according to Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Trump Administration is asking countries to join a "Maritime Freedom Construct" that would see countries involved share information, coordinate diplomatically, and enforce sanctions to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The MFC would be a joint effort between the U.S. State Department and CENTCOM.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: U.S. nationwide gas prices have reached an average of $4.30 per gallon, the highest since July 2022, according to GasBuddy live data.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- Iranian-linked oil tankers are spoofing and disguising themselves as Iraqi ships to bypass the U.S. blockade. - Fox News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Oil futures continue to rise, with Brent crude up over $126 per barrel and WTI over $110.

🛢⚡️- Despite oil prices skyrocketing since the war in Iran, TotalEnergies recorded a 50% increase in benefits in Q1 2026 thanks to repeated accurate speculations on the oil market.

🇫🇷🛢- France's Prime Minister asked the French-based oil company to redistribute this wealth, all while refusing to lower state taxes on gas prices, which amount to 60% of the cost of gas in France.

🇲🇱⚡️- Bamako's blockade has been confirmed to be in effect in numerous access points around the capital.

Per the map released by Le Monde, nearly half the capital's entry national roads are blocked.

In green, the roads with no reported blockades.
In red, the roads with reported and confirmed blockades by the JNIM.

🇲🇱⚡️- Per RFI Afrique, one blockade on the Bamako-Kéniéba axis already has nearly 1000 vehicles stopped, and no vehicles have been allowed to pass in hours.

Only vehicles exiting Bamako are allowed through by the JNIM. Only a few vehicles have found bypasses.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Starmer Government has announced an extra £25 million increase in security funding for jewish communities in the country in response to the Golders Green stabbing.

🇪🇺⚡️- Eurozone inflation reached 3% in April and Q1 growth is at 0.1%. This means the Eurozone has officially re-entered a stagflation situation for the first time since 2023.

🇩🇪⚡️- Germany's unemployment rate reached 6.4%, the highest since the Covid-19 peak, which also was at 6.4%.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡️- Russia has refused the JNIM+FLA demand to have their military presence entirely removed from Mali.

🇲🇱⚡️- JNIM forces have reportedly seized the police and gendarme stations of Fana, a city 120km east of Bamako.