🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- 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.

🇲🇱⚡️- JNIM+FLA forces seized a Malian military base in Hombori, Mopti region.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡️- The Africa Corps and Malian forces repelled a JNIM+FLA attack in Sebabougou.

🇲🇱🇧🇫⚡️- Yesterday, the JNIM carried out an attack in the Passoré province, Bagaré region, western Burkina Faso, and seized a local militia's outpost.

Local Burkinabé forces assess the JNIM may extend their offensive to Burkina Faso.

🇮🇷⚡️- Mojtaba Khamenei will publish a message shortly, per Iranian medias.