🇦🇪🇺🇸⚡️ — The Trump administration has granted the UAE expanded access to advanced AI chips after aiding the U.S. in its war against Iran by striking Iranian targets and helping keep oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz, WSJ reports.

➡️ Under the rule change, the UAE will be treated similarly to European countries, South Korea, and India when purchasing dual-use technology.

➡️ The decision is expected to face congressional scrutiny because UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who controls AI company G42, became a major business partner of the Trump family last year.

➡️ G42 has also discussed becoming a U.S.-based company majority-owned by American investors.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to meet in Washington on Monday, according to i24NEWS.

🇱🇧🇺🇸⚡️ — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️ — Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad went to the Qatari embassy in Tehran to offer his condolences following the death of former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Lebanon and Israel agreed during U.S.-brokered talks in Rome to establish two pilot zones in southern Lebanon, one currently occupied by Israel and another adjacent to Israeli positions, a Lebanese official told Al Jazeera.

A follow-up meeting between Lebanese and Israeli military delegations will focus on implementation mechanisms, including Israel's withdrawal and the deployment of the Lebanese Army.

Beirut is also demanding third-party verification of the army's implementation of its duties and a timeline for expanding the pilot program to other areas of southern Lebanon.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — Three possible impact points are visible at King Faisal Air Base in Jordan following the recent Iranian ballistic missile attack.

Sentinel-2 imagery indicates one missile struck a warehouse/hangar in the base's troop accommodation complex, while two others hit storage areas, with one possibly damaging another hangar.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pursued sweeping efforts to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy, including proposing $5 billion for research into a "vaccine-autism link" and privately considering eliminating the entire federal childhood immunization schedule, Reuters reports.

Kennedy ultimately reduced the recommended schedule by removing vaccines for six of 17 diseases, though a federal judge later blocked the changes. He has also ended some mRNA vaccine programs and altered CDC language on vaccines and autism.

Officials said Kennedy relied heavily on longtime allies Stefanie Spear and vaccine litigator Aaron Siri, often sidelining established government experts.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — Six U.S. Coast Guard fast-response cutters previously deployed in the Middle East are now operating from Singapore and Subic Bay in the Philippines to counter China's growing maritime power in the Pacific, WSJ reports.

The ships are approved to operate there through at least September and could help offset U.S. Navy vessels redeployed to the Middle East for the Iran war.

Their presence also puts the Coast Guard closer to South China Sea flashpoints and China's expanding "gray-zone" campaign around disputed waters and Taiwan.

🇺🇦🇪🇺⚡️ — Ukraine and the EU have signed a bloc-wide drone production deal combining Kyiv's battlefield expertise with Europe's industrial and technological capacity.

➡️ The agreement will involve companies and countries across the EU and provide secure production sites to scale up Ukrainian drone and counter-drone systems.

🏴❌🇲🇱 — The JNIM terrorist group released a video of yesterday's ambush on the Malian fuel convoy near the town of Niono in the Segou region.

JNIM forces used a drone to track down the convoy and coordinate their assault.

At least one Malian soldier was captured alongside vehicles and weapons.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli artillery shelling targeted Houla, southern Lebanon, a short while ago.

🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to fly to Washington on Saturday night and remain through Tuesday, according to The Jerusalem Post.

➡️ Netanyahu is scheduled to attend the memorial service for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham and is also planning to meet President Trump, though the meeting has not yet been officially scheduled.