🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "URGENT WARNING TO RESIDENTS OF LEBANON LOCATED IN THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND VILLAGES: Shabriha, Hmaideh (Tyre), Zaqaq al-Mufdi, Mashouk, Al-Hawsh

- In light of the terrorist Hezbollah's violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Defense Army is compelled to act against it forcefully. The Israeli Defense Forces do not intend to harm you.

- For the sake of your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns for a distance of no less than 1000 meters to open areas.

- Anyone present near Hezbollah elements, their facilities, and their combat means exposes their life to danger!" - Israeli Defence Force Spokesperson.

🇫🇮⚡️- Air traffic at Helsinki airport was briefly closed earlier due to suspected drones.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reporter: "Do you feel that think you have to get the dust [Iran's enriched Uranian], or have you been told there's maybe a way to entomb it, so that they could never get to it".

President Trump: "We were thinking about doing it early on. it would take a while, it would take a week and a half [to get the Uranian out of Iran]. that's a long time to be in enemy territory.

i don't think its necessary, except for a public relations standpoint. i think its important for the fake news that we get it. I'm the one who said were gonna get it, and were gonna get it, we have our eye on it."

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in Beijing next Wednesday, May 20, according to Chinese media.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- President Trump: "Ask the President [Xi], other presidents and prime ministers, does he bring them here?"

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- President Trump has left China, concluding the two-day summit.

🇨🇩⚡️- An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 246 cases and 65 deaths.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media I24 reports that in addition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the UAE during the Iran war, the Mossad Chief, Shin Bet director and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir also visited the UAE.

The UAE has previously publicly denied that Netanyahu visited.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF has announced the death of the sixth soldier since the start of the ceasefire in Lebanon due to mortar fire in southern Lebanon.

🇦🇪⚡️- The UAE has announced they are building a second oil pipeline to Fujairah, on the eastern side of the UAE, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, which will double its current capacity to 3-3.6 million barrels per day.

The project is expected to become operational in 2027.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The IDF has begun attacking Hezbollah terrorist organization infrastructures in the Tyre area in southern Lebanon." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed attempted to form a regional coalition to respond militarily to Iran's attacks against the Gulf region, Bloomberg reports.

MbZ personally contacted the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and even Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the Emirati proposal was rejected.

🇸🇩🇱🇾🇹🇩⚡- A large-scale military build-up is being observed by Sudanese monitors in the al-Kufrah region of southeast Libya, near the Sudan-Chad border point.

The build-up consists of Emirati officers, Khalifa Haftar's run Libyan National Army elements, pro-Haftar Chadian militias, and the Rapid Support Forces. The Sudan-Chad-Libya-Egypt border point is currently under the control of the Rapid Support Forces and remains one of the key logistical support routes for the group.

🇺🇸⚡️- The United States currently has 115 empty ambassador posts, meaning only 41% of positions are filled with permanent ambassadors. The rest are currently staffed temporarily by an Incumbent. Only 22 of the 115 vacant ambassador positions have an nomination.

Some of the countries currently lacking a permanent ambassador include, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Australia, South Korea, Pakistan, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and 37 of 51 African embassies.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: "Do you think President Xi is a dictator?"

President Trump: "No, but I think President Biden was an incompetent president... he gave us the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon within a matter of years.

I terminated it, if I didn't terminate that Iran would have a nuclear weapon and they would've used it 2-3 years ago. If I didn't go in with the B-2 bombers 9 months ago, Iran would have a nuclear weapon. By the way, they would've used it already."

Reporter: "But do you think President Xi is a dictator, or not?"

Trump: "I don't think about it"

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: "Would the US defend Taiwan if it came to it?"

President Trump: "I'm not gonna say that, there's only one person that knows that, you know who that is? me. I'm the only person. that question was asked to me by President Xi, and i said 'I don't talk about those things'."

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇷⚡️- "I had a good phone call with Donald Trump on his way back from China. We agree: Iran must come to the negotiating table now. It must open the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

We also discussed a peaceful solution for Ukraine and coordinated our positions ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara. The U.S. and Germany are strong partners in a strong NATO." - Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: "Did the Nvidia H200 advanced AI computer chips come up with China?"

President Trump: “It did come up… They have a much higher level than H200… China needs it and so yeah it came up.”

Reporter: “They haven’t bought it so far?”

Trump: “No, because they choose not to because they want to try to develop their own. I think something could happen on that.”

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reporter: “What about the arms sales to Taiwan?”

President Trump: “I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period.”

Reporter: “You're not necessarily gonna go ahead? It was your proposal.”

Trump: “I’ll make a determination. I have to speak to the person that right now, you know who he is, that's running Taiwan.”