🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡️- Numerous flights headed to Qatar and the UAE have started avoiding a large part of the airspace west of Dammam. The reason is unclear.

🇬🇧✝️⚡️- Longtime stage, TV, and voice actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at 86 years old.

Stewart is best known for his role as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Alongside Star Trek, his 60 year long career on film, TV, and the stage earned him 3 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy's and 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

🇸🇦⚡️- Traffic at the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam seems uninterrupted. However, the flights that have diverted from their trajectories have not resumed their normal routes.

🇮🇷⚡️- Renewed air defense activity on Qeshm Island, southern Iran.

🇸🇦⚡️- Air activity seems to have returned to normal with commercial airliners entering the area that was avoided 20 minutes ago. Disturbances are still recorded near Riyadh, with heavy GPS jamming around the Saudi capital.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- The Ramaswamy campaign has officially pulled the Acton ad off air after successfully destroying his chances of winning the election.

The ad was defended by President Trump, JD Vance, Don Jr, and the vast majority of MAGA world.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of plumes of smoke rising in Bandar-e-Jask, southern Iran.

Reports indicate strikes took place near the airport of the coastal city.

💲⚡️- BREAKING: Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked today, resulting in over $5.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.

Although Binance claims that all user funds are safe, today remains the largest crypto hack in history.

🇺🇸🇯🇵⚡️- The US and Japan have agreed to establish a new missile production facility in Japan under an initiative called Operation Supercharge. The facility will manufacture advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles used by F-35 fighters, expanding allied weapons production capacity in the Indo-Pacific.

The agreement was announced during defense talks in the Philippines, where Washington and its regional allies are strengthening military cooperation in response to growing tensions with China.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: US has been carrying out "self defense strikes" on missile launch sites across southern Iran over the past two weeks, Barak Ravid of Axios and Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US intelligence officials believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese espionage operation involving Alice Huang, a Chinese executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, according to The New York Times.

American surveillance reportedly revealed that Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with Nvidia's CEO while passing intelligence to Beijing. Megaspeed was already under investigation for potentially helping China obtain restricted American AI chips, which raised concerns about her access to one of America's most influential technology executives. President Trump was briefed on the intelligence roughly a year ago but reportedly chose not to act.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has expanded its military deployment in Haiti to approximately 2,000 soldiers, with reinforcements expected to bring the force to 2,500. Five Salvadoran military helicopters have also arrived in the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border, while American C-130 aircraft have assisted the troop airlift.

The Haiti Information Project reports that President Nayib Bukele may be planning a much larger force of 5,000 soldiers, including two special forces units and at least two additional helicopter squadrons. Those plans remain unconfirmed, but the deployment already represents a major escalation of Salvadoran military operations in Haiti.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. officials believe Mohsen Rezaei is in regular contact with Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and that the two have communicated since Rezaei received Vice President JD Vance's letter, according to The Washington Post.

It is important to note that U.S. officials seemingly believe Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and operating as Iran's Supreme Leader. This is the central reason the letter was sent to the person currently closest to him, Iran's SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei.

The letter is essentially a message directly to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Qatari mediators have landed in Tehran this morning as part of ongoing efforts to reach a peace agreement between the United States and Iran, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump will host rallies this Sunday in Iowa and Kansas, after initially canceling them earlier this week.

🇫🇷⚡️- French left-wing groups at the National Assembly have officially included a "data tax" for the 2027 French budget. The French state would tax 5.5 euro cents per gigabyte transmitted to Internet users if the 2027 budget law were to pass. Downloading a 210 GB video game, such as GTA VI, would cost an internet provider around 11 euros per user and per download.

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Pakistan says the Mecca Joint Defence Pact is open to inviting new members, stating that there are no restrictions on Iran joining.

🇵🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Possible coup underway in Poland after EU-aligned Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police forces to the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw right after President Nawrocki left for Senegal for a diplomatic visit. Nawrocki is currently headed back to Poland.

🇵🇱⚡️- "Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other way." - Polish PM Donald Tusk.