🇨🇳 - Chinese construction of a mockup Arleigh Burke class destroyer for target practice to help missile calibration.

🇪🇹⚡- Current Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins the country's general elections, with his party securing an absolute supermajority, 438 of the 501 seats in parliament.

🇸🇩⚡- A significant build-up of Rapid Support Forces has been observed around El-Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan region, indicating that the UAE-backed group may be preparing to launch an offensive on the city. Large military reinforcements have been reported to the west in the al-Khawi area, and to the north in the Azsaf area.

Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement warning of “the imminent risk of mass atrocities” as “substantial military reinforcements by the Rapid Support Forces” continue to surround El-Obeid, raising concerns over a potential "ground offensive against the city."

🇺🇸⚡️- Alan Greenspan, the 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve, has died at the age of 100.

🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- President of the European Union Commission Ursula von der Leyen praises Starmer's Premiership thanking him for his service.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️- The Big Z thanks Starmer for his support and advocacy for Ukraine against Russia.

🇮🇳🇦🇪⚡- "The Indian government is in talks with the UAE to sell its flagship defence system Akashteer, and supersonic cruise missiles BrahMos," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- Iran has agreed to bring UN's IAEA inspectors back into the country for the first time in over a year.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The US has lifted sanctions off Iran's oil sector. The Treasury Department's waiver lasts 60 days - the duration of the U.S.-Iran talks.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Iran's Majlis Speaker Ghalibaf travels to Oman and is set to discuss enhancing bilateral cooperation, as well as joint efforts to stabilize Iranian arrangements for managing the Strait of Hormuz," - Reuters.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "IDF field commanders on Saturday received orders to limit their operations in Lebanon to defense," - Israeli officials tell the New York Times.

🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk threatens to sue members of Congress for claiming DOGE era cuts led to the deaths of millions of African children. The talking point has been universal among the left since last year when USAID was shut down.

🇬🇧⚡️- One of the first gay British men to adopt children via surrogacy, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, has been charged with 18 criminal counts, including rape, sexual assault, paying for sexual services of a child, and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli psychic Uri Geller told Channel 14 that Iran is using a low-frequency electromagnetic weapon to brainwash and influence President Trump into accepting the MoU.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- “The message we received from the Americans was clear: you had unlimited credit and it has run out.” - Senior Israeli official to Channel 13.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "Since the end of February, Hezbollah has launched at least 7,285 rockets and drones at Israel," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇨🇦🇮🇱⚡️- "The killed civilian was identified as Rabbi Michael Moshe Mizrahi, a Jewish local and member of the local Chabad center, the Jewish organization announced. Initial reports indicate that Mizrahi may have been killed by crossfire during a shootout between police officers and the attacker, Israeli media stated." - The Jerusalem Post, indicating the man shot by the female police officer was a local Rabbi.

🇸🇴🇪🇹🇮🇱⚡- "Israel deployed 50 Israeli soldiers of Ethiopian origin to Somaliland as part of bilateral security arrangements, not to draw attention to themselves and to blend in more easily with the local community.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz recently said that Israel and Somaliland had been cooperating secretly for years," - Middle East Eye, citing an Israeli official.