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🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi pays his respects to the former leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah during his visit to Beirut.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The US has warned Britain and France against recognizing a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month," - Middle Easy Eye.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- President Donald Trump to speak to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping 'very soon', likely this week.
Читать полностью…🇨🇳🇸🇬⚡- "Supporting the Taiwan independence secessionist forces seriously undermines the peace and stability of the Taiwan Straits," - Hu Gangfeng, China's head of delegation at the SLD 2025.
Читать полностью…🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The latest IAEA findings prove Iran’s nuclear program is not peaceful. The statement urges the international community to act immediately to stop Iran," - Netanyahu's Press Office.
Читать полностью…🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India announces mock-drills to begin on May 31 along the entire India-Pakistan border, including regions of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana and Chandigarh. The exercises have been named 'Operation Shield'.
Читать полностью…🇹🇷🇱🇾⚡- Turkey prepares to withdraw the remaining Syrian National Army forces from western Libya.
Читать полностью…🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have crossed the Luhulu River and captured the small town of Peti, Walikale direction, North Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.
M23 have also advanced beyond Peti, towards Kisone. Meanwhile, the group has launched a pincer from the north, taking Kilambo. The attack is aimed at encircling a large number of DR Congo Armed Forces, FARDC, located on the heights of Buhimba, which is vital for the defense of Pinga - just 9km away from the frontline.
Even though the Trump Administration signed mineral deals with both sides, as well as a so-called 'ceasefire' deal - the war remains in full swing.
🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel and the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, say they will reopen the Tal as Sultan aid distribution point, which was overrun yesterday - Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Currently, it is the only point that is currently planned on being opened today.
Rerum Novarum have geolocated the aid point, and the routes to and from it: 31.3231, 34.22779
. Note the location, in the very southern corner of the Strip.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "The E3 [the UK, France and Germany] warned the Trump administration that Iran is deliberately stalling negotiations over a new nuclear agreement to hinder the ability to impose sanctions if no agreement is reached," - The Jerusalem Post, citing 'several sources familiar with the matter'.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇸🇩🇦🇪⚡- The US announced it will sanction the Sudanese government led by Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, citing the Armed Forces use of 'chemical weapons' in its attacks on the Rapid Support Forces in 2024.
The timing comes immediately after the International Court of Justice rejected Sudan's case of accusing the UAE of facilitating a genocide in the Darfur region. The UAE, which had recently signed a $1.4 trillion economic cooperation agreement with the US, have been blamed for funding the Rapid Support Forces.
The decision marks a sharp turn in US foreign policy, which had historically supported Minni Minnawi and the people of Darfur. Even as recently as January, the US Treasury sanctioned Hemedti, the Commander-In-Chief of the Rapid Support Forces.
🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Evacuation gunfire in Toul, southern Lebanon.
Читать полностью…🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The missile was intercepted. Palestinian Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for this firing.
Читать полностью…🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- IDF arrests an ISIS cell in the West Bank. 25 wanted individuals were arrested in total, with 5 associated with the Islamic State in Qabatiya, Jenin Governorate, West Bank.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸⚡️- This post from former FBI Director James Comey is being treated as a death threat against President Trump by White House staff.
"86 47" has been used repeatedly on Bluesky and other Democrat forums online in violent rhetoric aimed at the President and his Administration.
🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- "Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan and US Secretary of State Rubio held a phone to discuss the results of the second round of the Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul," - Reuters.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺⚡- Head of Russia's Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko has classified the blowing up of the bridges in the Kursk and Bryansk regions as 'terrorist attacks'.
Читать полностью…🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇾❌🇮🇷 — Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa tells the Jewish Journal that they've both (Trump and Sharaa) been shot at by the same enemy, likely hinting to Iran.
➡️Earlier today, we reported that Al-Sharaa said Israel and Syria share “mutual enemies”, answering a question regarding the possibility of normalization with Israel.
🇨🇳🇸🇬⚡- "Certain countries wantonly promote the construction of exclusive and confrontational cliques, significantly increase military presence, and frequently violate the territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests of other countries under the pretext of the so-called freedom of navigation," - Hu Gangfeng, China's head of delegation at the SLD 2025.
Читать полностью…🇨🇳🇮🇳🇳🇵⚡- India arrests two Chinese nationals on the Nepal-India border, near the city of Madhubani, northeast India.
Indian authorities have said the two Chinese attempted to enter the country illegally, and were taking photos and videos of sensitive locations on the India side.
Madhubani is situated at the entrance to India's weak-point, the Siliguri corridor, the 'Chicken's Neck'. China has been militarizing in the region recently, including deploying to sites in Bangladesh.
🇰🇷⚡- A South Korean P-3CK Orion crashes during a training exercise, killing two of the four-man crew.
Rerum Novarum have geolocated the crash site to: 35.97097, 129.40796
, an open-green area in a very built-up residential area of south Pohang city. The video was captured along Naengcheon-ro Highway, facing northwards. The highway is close to Pohang Air Base, indicating the aircraft had likely taken off from the base just before crashing.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The war of the drones.
A Russian quadcopter drone spots a Ukrainian fiber optic drone operating over Russian-controlled trenches. In an incredible maneuver, the Russian quadcopter, using its blades, cuts the cable of the fiber optic Ukrainian drone. The Ukrainian drone can then be seen shutting down slowly, having been neutralized.
🇰🇭🇹🇭⚡- Cambodian military reinforcements head to the Cambodia-Thailand border, after a Cambodian border guard was killed in clashes with Thai forces earlier today.
Читать полностью…🇸🇾⚡- Mosques in the Daraa region, south Syria, are calling for mobilization. They are demanding the mobilized march to Izraa.
Izraa is home to one of southern Syria's largest air bases, the base of the former 12th Brigade. It's currently controlled by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led Public Internal Security forces.
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the large town Kindrashovka, where heavy fighting in ongoing, and have captured the small settlement of Radkovka - Kupyansk direction.
The advance puts Russian forces directly north of the strategic city of Kupyansk, situated on the Oskol River.
🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Toul, southern Lebanon.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Thousands of Iranians, mostly students from across the country, protest in support of nuclear enrichment near one of Iran's largest enrichment facilities - the Qom Uranium Enrichment Plant, central Iran.
Читать полностью…🇪🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Spain joins Italy and France in summoning the Israeli Ambassador following the Jenin incident.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Rep. Don Bacon says the US paused cyber operations against Russia for one day in February while President Trump tried to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, which confirmed CBS reporting and contradicted Pentagon denials. "It was a one-day pause," he said.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇦🇪⚡- The Star-Spangled Banner is performed for the President at the Qasr al Watan in Abu Dhabi.
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