🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — According to Axios Israeli minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer arrived in Washington to meet today with Steve Witkoff and other officials.

➡️Mossad director David Barnea is also with him for talks on Iran, per U.S. source. Barnea met CIA director Ratcliffe and other U.S. officials

🇱🇧🇵🇸❗️ Lebanese sources report that Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam strongly supported PA President Mahmoud Abbas's stance, prompting him to push for the disarmament of Palestinian camps.

➡️ However, several Palestinian factions opposed how the plan was being introduced, warning it could drag Lebanon into renewed bloodshed.

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🇸🇾❗️ Convoys of Syrian government security forces are heading north to the city of Suluk, north of Raqqa, amid tribal clashes.

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🇸🇾🇸🇾⚡️ Important negotiations have begun in Damascus between the SDF and the Syrian government to discuss a comprehensive political settlement.

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🇺🇸📞🇮🇱 Axios reports that during a phone call last week, President Trump warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu against actions that might jeopardize ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations.

➡️ He emphasized that the "other option" is still on the table, but he prefers to pursue a diplomatic resolution first.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳🦠❗️ BREAKING: A new, highly contagious COVID-19 variant, "NB.1.81," has been detected in the U.S., including in New York City, after causing a surge in hospitalizations in China and across Asia, the American CDC confirmed.

➡️ The variant was first identified in the U.S. in late March and early April through CDC airport testing of international travelers arriving in California, Washington State, Virginia, and New York City. Additional cases have since been reported in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.

➡️ Travel data from infected individuals showed they had passed through China, Japan, South Korea, France, Thailand, the Netherlands, Spain, Vietnam, and Taiwan.

➡️ Although cases remain too few for full tracking, experts warn it spreads faster than current strains and may better evade vaccine protection. The head of Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection cautions the variant “should not be taken lightly.”

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ NEW: Russia will launch a large-scale offensive this summer against Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.

➡️ Russia also plans to carry out smaller attacks along the border of Ukraine’s northeast Sumy and Kharkiv regions to put more pressure on Ukraine’s already overstretched front-line troops.

— The Washington Post

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