🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️- Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te declared that Taiwan will not surrender its freedom or accept subordination to Beijing during his National Day address, while calling on Indo-Pacific democracies to work together to preserve regional stability.

Lai also defended Taiwan's expanding military capabilities, which he said are intended to deter war and ensure that any future dialogue with Beijing takes place on equal terms.

China quickly condemned the speech, accusing Lai of promoting separatism. Washington welcomed his commitment to peace and stability, while warning that his remarks provide no justification for Chinese military coercion. A proposed $14 billion US arms package for Taiwan remains pending.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- A contractor linked to American server manufacturer Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to illegally export advanced Nvidia AI servers to China, circumventing US national security restrictions.

Federal prosecutors allege the broader operation involved approximately $2.5 billion in restricted American AI technology, including servers containing Nvidia's H100, H200 and B200 processors.

The contractor, Ting-Wei Sun, also helped stage dummy servers to deceive American inspectors, according to the indictment. The case highlights the continuing effort to circumvent US export controls on advanced computing technology, which Washington considers critical to maintaining its technological and military advantages over China.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1) announces he will be introducing bipartisan legislation to block the purchase of Russian oil, only one day after President Trump announced the plans on Truth Social.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh will resume operations within the next few hours, according to Al Arabiya.

Yemen’s Ansarullah has stated that it will continue to bomb the airport until all air operations, except for “humanitarian” ones, are halted, thus creating a significant risk to the civilian population by reopening the airport.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- The United States, the United Nations, Pakistan, Turkey, and several other countries have put out strongly worded condemnations of the Ansarullah ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which killed 12 people and injured more than 300.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Several flights headed for King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, are diverting or entering holding patterns.

The airport is likely under an Ansarullah missile and drone attack for the second time in twelve hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US disabled an Iranian tanker, flying a Panamanian flag, in the Gulf of Oman that attempted to violate the US blockade of Iranian sea ports.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Western intelligence agencies have warned Europe’s defence bosses that Russia is stepping up efforts to assassinate them, prompting companies to increase personal security around their top executives.

With progress on the battlefield deadlocked in Ukraine and Russia’s economy struggling, the Kremlin has ordered an expansion of sabotage and “hybrid” operations in Europe as it seeks to fatally weaken support for Kyiv in the coming months. 

European intelligence agencies have warned that chief executives and other senior employees at defence companies were being targeted by Kremlin operatives.

Executives at smaller companies — especially those involved in the manufacturing of drones or their components — are also in their sights," - Financial Times.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We need an ocean. So I was thinking either the Atlantic or the Pacific. We could call it the "Trump Ocean" or the "Ocean of the Americas," something like that." - President Donald Trump.

🇫🇷⚡️- French President Emmanuel Macron reaches an all-time low approval rating of 15% according to a new poll.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Ansarullah has launched a ballistic missile attack on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Terminal 4 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has been struck by a ballistic missile, according to the Saudi-led coalition.

A fire has broken out inside the terminal.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Multiple casualties on the ground, with a large number of emergency services active at Terminal 4, King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh.

Note, the Ansarullah struck Terminal 3 only yesterday.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation has confirmed the latest attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.

They have announced that there are injuries as a result of the strike.

🇻🇦⚡️- Pope Leo announces that a small nodule was located in his lung and that he will undergo surgery to remove it.

The tumor was discovered very early and the Pope is otherwise perfectly healthy.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, has been struck by Ansarullah ballistic missiles this evening.

Damage assessments are underway, according to Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation.

🇫🇷⚡️- Raphaël Glucksmann wins the French Socialist primary with 66% of the votes. Glucksmann was the staunchest anti-LFI candidate among all of the five listed candidates at the Socialist primary.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Visual confirmation of the moment an Ansarullah ballistic missile directly struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday, killing 13 people and injuring over 300.

🇫🇷⚡️- French Socialist Party leader Raphael Glucksmann was floured shortly after his victory.