Egyptian President el-Sisi:

I heard a statement by an Israeli official suggesting that we would not go to war because we are afraid of losing Sinai.

I want to tell him: Who told you that we want to go to war?

We have no agenda against anyone.

We have our land. We fought to recover it, and that matter is finished.

Trump:

I have a friend of mine there. He looks like shit, actually.

He looks like he's going to have a heart attack.

Trump:

They show you a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake, and they say, “Which one is the lion?”

Joe Biden was unable to answer that question.

Egyptian President el-Sisi:

As long as our borders are peaceful and secure, we have a peace treaty with Israel, we have no ambitions regarding them or their territory.

Egyptian President el-Sisi:

Stability will be achieved if a Palestinian state is established side by side with the Israeli state.

Two states: an Israeli state that is respected and a Palestinian state that is respected.

Egyptian President el-Sisi:

The American ambassador used to ask me: "Who is going to come to power?"

I told her: "The Muslim Brotherhood."

She asked: "And then?"

I said: "They will leave."

Egyptian President el-Sisi:

The national security of the Gulf countries is part of Egypt's national security.

Floyd Mayweather:

We couldn't have chosen a better president than Donald Trump.

Trump:

I want to say happy birthday to a great man, Charlie Kirk.

NEW: The U.S. military has developed plans to potentially use the “mother of all bombs” (MOAB), its most powerful non-nuclear bomb, against Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites, including Pickaxe Mountain, before or after the midterm elections.

Officials doubt the bomb could destroy deeply buried nuclear facilities but say it could serve as a psychological weapon, allowing Trump to claim a symbolic victory and withdraw U.S. forces without restarting a full-scale war.

Source: CNN

The Trump administration is considering easing sanctions on shadow fleet tankers previously used to transport Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil to reduce record-high shipping costs.

The proposal would allow sanctioned vessels to carry non-sanctioned oil with U.S. Treasury approval, but officials say it would not benefit Russian oil exports.

Source: Reuters

The U.S. has proposed unfreezing some Russian sovereign assets and transferring them to a Washington-controlled fund to help revive Ukraine peace talks.

The proposal, presented by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during talks in Miami last week, was rejected by European officials, who opposed surrendering control of the assets or returning any to Moscow.

Around €260 billion in Russian assets remain frozen, mostly in the EU.

Source: FT

BIG: Zelensky says Kyiv will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries after Moscow continued attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure despite Trump's announced energy ceasefire.

Source: FT

The Trump administration is investigating Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in an effort to strip her of U.S. citizenship and deport her.

Federal agents searched her Washington home, seizing her passport, phone and computers, while relatives were subpoenaed.

Investigators are examining whether her age was falsified in citizenship paperwork, allowing her to obtain citizenship automatically through her father in 2000.

Source: WSJ

Israel signed a deal to buy 12 Apache helicopters from U.S. manufacturer Boeing, with deliveries starting in the early 2030s.

The government approved NIS 1 billion in funding, largely by cutting a five-year development program for Arab communities.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia said U.S. government employees now need special authorization to use airports in the Kingdom following Houthi missile and drone attacks.

Q: What's your understanding of the nature of the relationship between Trump and Putin?

Zelensky: I think President Trump is a man who speaks about it openly and loudly, that he loves such people and respects such people.

Because for him, people who can be leaders for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years — that means they are very strong, because they can hold power.

Q: How much longer will you maintain the stoppage of attacks on Russian refineries?

Zelensky: That's it. The block is out.

This evening, I spoke to my military people after they again killed people today, after such a massive attack.

Zelensky:

We got [a message saying], "Don't attack, because maybe you will have problems with intelligence."

I can say that they said there were technological problems at some level.

But at the military level, before that, they said that if we did not stop, they would block intelligence.

When it comes together with Starlink's decision, which was 100% a decision of the American side, it creates huge problems.

Zelensky:

I said to my military people that during the energy ceasefire, we would not attack Russian refineries or anything connected with diesel.

Because even if we are right, and we are right, somebody will say that we broke the energy ceasefire. I don't want to play this game.

That's why, for three days, we didn't attack any of Russia's energy or diesel infrastructure.

And for three days, they attacked us.