🇬🇧⚡️- New Statesman reports that Andy Burnham will present PM Starmer with a list of 80 Labour MPs supporting a leadership bid to convince him to resign.

🇬🇧⚡️- Reform members are already tempering expectations for the election with Sarah Pochin telling GB News that the party will be satisfied with a "strong second" finish.

🇨🇺⚡️- Cuba has approved multiple market reforms to the economy including the reintroduction of private real estate development, privatization of state owned businesses, and will allow the entry of private banks into the finance sector.

🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪⚡️- In an article for the Soufan Center, Jihadist movements specialist Wassim Nasr assesses the Islamic State in Sahel has grown exponentially in power in West Africa.

The recent gains are comparable to the JNIM's progress and have similar origins. Namely, the departure of France from Mali and Burkina Faso left a massive security gap that Russia's Africa Corps has not been able to fill.

The ISSP's territorial gains have been consolidated and their military tactics and capabilities have evolved enough to allow them to strike vital targets in uncontrolled territories, sometimes even in the heart of West African capitals.

The article also underlines recent efforts from the ISSP to link up with Nigeria's ISWAP, hinting at the possible formation of a unified ISIS movement between the two terrorist groups.

Per Wassim Nasr, the JNIM has become the ISSP's main enemy in recent years in Mali, outpacing the Malian junta's efficacity in containing and fighting the ISSP.

🇨🇭🇪🇺⚡️- Switzerland will now systematically ask EU residents for their criminal records when they apply for residency.

Switzerland is also considering joining the European Union's ECRIS program, which allows country members to share criminal records.

🇺🇸⚡️- In another victory for gun rights today, Florida Appeals Court ruled that the states ban on concealed carry for 18-20 year olds was unconstitutional. The ban on 18-20 year olds was passed after the Parkland shooting in 2018.

🇬🇧⚡️- Both Labour and Reform are estimating that the turnout for the Makerfield by-election is the highest for a by-election since the 1980s.

🇬🇧⚡️- Turnout number is 58.75%, the highest turnout for a by-election in decades and over 5 points higher than the 2024 general election.

🇬🇧⚡️- Conservatives have won the Aberdeen South by-election in Scotland.

🇧🇫⚡️- JNIM forces reportedly seized a VDP outpost in Ouahigouya. The locality acts as a major road junction of the Yatenga region, with three national roads connected to it.

🇬🇧⚡️- BBC citing Labour party sources says Andy Burnham has secured 54% of the vote in Makerfield.

🇬🇧⚡️- Results are expected around 3AM according to several medias.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: JD Vance will not go to Switzerland for the talks with Iran.

🇬🇧⚡️- Rupert Lowe estimates Restore scored “somewhere in the region of 10%" in Makerfield in an interview with The Guardian.