🇦🇪🇨🇳⚡- An Emirati Boeing 747 military cargo aircraft has visited China’s Urumqi region, a key military hub for the Chinese PLA. The aircraft likely transported military cargo back to the United Arab Emirates and made two separate visits within just the past week to the city, which is located just north of the highly sensitive Tarim Basin.

Note, China is a major supplier of the Emirati military and is also discreetly providing arms to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. These developments come amid heightened tensions between the UAE and Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has begun chairing a multi-party cabinet meeting following his call with President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇲🇱⚡️- A drone belonging to the Malian junta struck a location in central Mali. Local outlets report the drone directly hit a wedding ceremony, killing at least 10 civilians.

🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia has intercepted three drones that entered its airspace from Iraq. This development follows an earlier incident today in which unidentified drones struck a power generator located outside the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates. Riyadh has affirmed that it reserves the right to respond.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump once again attacks Republican Congressman Thomas Massie and calls for him to be thrown out of office ahead of his primary election on Tuesday, May 19.

🇾🇪⚡- An external fuel tank belonging to a drone was found in the Safer oil fields, Marib region, Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council controlled Yemen.

The fuel tank still had its suspension points attached, indicating the drone was performing a "sudden or rapid maneuver," likely to avoid possible air defenses, Yemeni sources report.

🇸🇩🇱🇾⚡- NASA's FIRMS shows fire marks along the Darfur (Sudan) - al-Kufrah (Libya) road.

Heavy Sudanese airstrikes were reported in the area over the past two days amid a large-scale build-up of Rapid Support Forces (and allied troops) in southeast Libya.

The single road in the vast empty desert is visible on Google Maps, the point of fire is at 17.3811015, 25.4726631.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Approximately 57 ships have departed Marmaris, Turkey headed for Gaza, intending to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli assassination airstrike against Baalbek, eastern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump is expected to summon the top national security team to the Situation Room on Tuesday to discuss potential further military action in Iran, according to Axios.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The Cuban Foreign Minister in response to the Axios article alleging Cuba has acquired 300 attack drones capable of reaching the United States:

"Without any legitimate excuse, the US government is, day after day, building a fabricated case to justify its ruthless economic war against the Cuban people and eventual military aggression.

Certain media outlets are playing into its hands, spreading slander and leaking insinuations from the US government itself.

Cuba neither threatens nor desires war.

It defends peace and is ready and prepared to confront external aggression in the exercise of the right to self-defence recognised by the UN Charter." - Bruno Rodríguez P, Cuban Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸 - A possibly AI generated image of President Trump walking side by side with an alien at Area 51.