🇬🇧🇷🇺 - The United Kingdom has seen more Russian strategic military aircraft flights near the UK in the first six months of this year, than in the whole of 2025.

🇯🇲⚡️- Jamaica has faced a nationwide power outage today, without a reason publicly given yet. Power has begun to be restored in some locations and will be brought back online overnight and tomorrow morning.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive.

The previously unreported plan, which the Social Security Administration said was not carried out, would have used one of the government’s most consequential identity databases to effectively erase people from the financial system, potentially cutting them off from wages, banking, government benefits and other services.

Schofield said he realized the plan’s possible intent — to intimidate and worsen the finances of immigrants — as well as its potential unlawfulness after taking a sample of people from the 2.7 million and discovering they were all alive. Some were U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, teenagers and senior citizens, including one widow who was a legal permanent resident receiving survivor benefits." - The Washington Post.

🇫🇮🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- With the increase in Ukrainian strikes on Saint Petersburg, Russia, Finland has introduced aviation restrictions near the border areas at the Gulf of Finland where Ukrainian drones have been spotted. They did not specify a reason why the restriction was put in place.

"Please note that a temporary aviation restriction zone has been established for the Southeast Finland area on Saturday, June 6. Always check airspace restrictions before taking off – this applies to both manned and unmanned aviation" - Finnish Defence Force.

🇺🇸 - "A Santa Monica man pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge for doxxing a lawyer at United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Gregory John Curcio, 68, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the protection of individuals performing certain official duties.

In February 2025, Curcio created a Facebook post in which he identified the victim – an ICE attorney – as an ICE agent, posted her home address, and directed others to “swat” her at that address. Curcio also posted the victim’s home address on another social media account with instructions to swat her.

The victim said she never met Curcio, but that he had harassed and threatened her mother for years and engaged in a campaign to harass the victim and her family beginning from at least January 2024." - US Department of Justice.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel has targeted a Lebanese Army brigadier general and other personnel in an assassination strike on the Khardali–Nabatieh road.

🇺🇸🇷🇼🇨🇩⚡- Rwanda has, for the first time, indirectly confirmed the presence of its troops in M23-controlled areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The acknowledgement came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Kigali to honour its commitments under the ceasefire agreement and withdraw its forces from the DRC, a process that was meant to be completed by July. In response, Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry accused Kinshasa of breaching the US-mediated deal, insisting that any withdrawal would only take place once the FDLR militia has been fully disbanded. The FDLR remains active and operates with the Wazalendo.

The exchange comes amid increasing political pressure from Washington, which recently imposed sanctions on senior Rwandan officials.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "On 6/6/2026, an Israeli aggressive and barbaric raid targeted a military vehicle on the Kafr Tibnit - Kharbital (Nabatieh) road, resulting in the martyrdom of two officers, with ranks of brigadier general and captain, and a soldier.

The continuation of the Israeli brutal, deliberate, and repeated aggression against Lebanon and its people and army only increases our steadfastness, faith, and determination to confront these aggressive attempts aimed at thwarting all efforts to reach a solution that allows for the restoration of stability, a comprehensive ceasefire, and the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories." - Lebanese Army.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A statement from the IDF last night:

"Following the alerts that were activated a short time ago in several areas in the north of the country, surface-to-air missile launches were identified towards [Israeli] Air Force aircraft, and therefore alerts were activated in the northern communities.

The event ended without casualties or damage to the aircraft." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Joseph Aoun, strongly condemned the Israeli attack that targeted a patrol of the Lebanese Army on the Khardali-Nabatieh road this morning, which resulted in the martyrdom of two officers and a soldier who joined the caravan of those who preceded them among the military and civilian martyrs, children, women, ambulance and rescue personnel, and media workers, watering the dear land of the South with their pure blood.

President Aoun considered this attack to constitute a flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and of international laws and norms, coming in the context of ongoing escalation that threatens stability and security in the South despite the efforts Lebanon is exerting in the Washington negotiations to put an end to the ongoing Israeli attacks without deterrent.

President Aoun called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and put an end to these repeated attacks, and to ensure respect for the relevant international resolutions, in a manner that preserves Lebanon's security and stability." - Joseph Aoun, Lebanese President.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli Defence Force's statement on the strike that hit a Lebanese Army Vehicle. They claim the vehicle was misidentified as a Hezbollah vehicle as it was in a combat zone:

"- Earlier today (Saturday), the Israel Defense Forces identified a vehicle moving suspiciously toward the troops near the village of Tebnine in southern Lebanon.

- The vehicle was traveling in an active combat zone that had been evacuated, and an alert was received regarding gunfire directed at Israel Defense Forces troops in the area. Available information with the Israel Defense Forces also indicates that Hezbollah is operating extensively in this area.

- Following the identification of the vehicle, and based on the warning information and the danger it posed to the troops, it was targeted, with initial examination results revealing that two officers and a soldier from the Lebanese Army were inside the vehicle. The incident remains under investigation.

- It is noted that movement in a combat zone requires coordination with the Israel Defense Forces.

- The Israel Defense Forces is investigating the incident and will draw the necessary lessons according to the results. We emphasize that Israel Defense Forces troops operate against the terrorist Hezbollah and not against the Lebanese Army." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇷⚡️- The Interior Minister of Pakistan will visit Tehran, Iran today.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- An unidentified convoy of vehicles in the Sheraro area of northern Tigray, Ethiopia, was drone struck by the Ethiopian military.

The convoy had entered Ethiopia from Eritrea. Initial reports suggest at least nine casualties.

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇵🇭⚡- China’s Ministry of Transport has announced the launch of a “special maritime traffic law enforcement operation” in waters to the east of Taiwan.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), the move was undertaken in response to the recent announcement by Japan and the Philippines of maritime boundary negotiations in the same area—an initiative that Beijing asserts encroaches upon China’s "sovereignty and maritime rights".

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇪🇬⚡- "The US administration recently requested clarifications from Egyptian and Turkish representatives in Washington regarding security and military contacts between the two countries' defense ministries.

US intelligence warns against these cooperation steps, indicating that they could include "game-changing" arms deals that would affect the balance of power in the region [i.e. affect Israel's hegemony in the Middle East]," - Ma'ariv.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level from “high” to “critical," after Israeli spy agencies intensified efforts monitoring U.S. officials involved in the U.S.-Iran talks, the New York Times reports.

🇺🇸⚡️- A mass shooting has occurred at a festival in Toledo, Ohio, where multiple people have been shot.

Victims have been transported to the hospital. The shooter is not in custody.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The threat of military intervention has once again shaken the streets of Cuba. Amid the deployment of military might by the United States near the island, the Havana government has begun distributing weapons to ordinary citizens, officially urging them to prepare for an imminent foreign invasion," - Version Final.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The climate of tension and uncertainty is palpable on the ground and is already affecting daily life in the Cuban capital. Preparations for a war scenario have reached the point where administrators of state-owned buildings are consulting tenants about wartime logistics.

In the state building where our main offices are located, one of the administrators approached us to ask if we were going to need the office during an invasion," - CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann tells Bloomberg.