🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- "The agreement between Iran and the US has reached its final stages and achieving it is very close," - Asim Munir, Pakistan's Army Chief, in a meeting with China's Xi Jinping in Beijing.

🇫🇷 - The French aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle (R91) , has now been spotted in the Arabian Sea.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's disapproval rating is now higher than it was after January 6th 2021.

🇺🇸 - Six years ago today, George Perry Floyd Jr. died, the resulting riots caused an estimated $1–2 billion in insured property losses, making it the costliest civil unrest event in U.S. history.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance and Minister in the Defense Ministry approved a 2 billion Shekel ($700 Million USD) budget for anti drone solutions, but said that defensive measures alone are not enough.

"The truth is that we will not defeat the drones through defense, but through attack. For every explosive drone, ten buildings in Beirut should fall. A strategic threat is not answered only with protection, but by changing the rules and the equation. We cannot spread nets over the entire State of Israel, nor cover it with automatic machine guns. We cannot protect ourselves to death. Exacting a deterrent and disproportionate price from the enemy must be part of the effort to defend our fighters." - Bezalel Smotrich

🇨🇩⚡️- WHO Director-General says the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is extremely severe and worrying. He is urging neighboring countries to act "right now" against the virus. He will visit the DRC tomorrow.

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel until there is an irreversible path leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state," - A Saudi source tells CNN.

🇨🇩⚡- "7 Ebola patients escaped from a hospital in Monbgwalu, DR Congo, after it was attacked by angry relatives. This is the 3rd incident in recent days," - RFI.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran says it will not toll ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, instead the IRGC will charge fees for ‘environmental protection’ in the waterway.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Qatar has offered to give Iran a $12 billion ‘humanitarian loan’ immediately upon the signing of the MoU.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "We have decided to intensify strikes against Hezbollah." - Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- “Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran.” - The Democratic Party on X.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Footage from the War in Iran of American High Mobility Rocket Artillery (HIMAR) launching missiles at Iranian targets, with a Japanese Fumo plush figure on display.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Moscow plans “systematic strikes on Kyiv.”

He urged Rubio to evacuate the American embassy in Kyiv.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The army has prepared a plan for a strong fire attack on Lebanon and is awaiting approval from the political level," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The containment is over, and Israel has decided to launch a major strike against Hezbollah," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is conducting talks with the United States about expanding military operations in Lebanon," - Israeli Channel 13.