🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. forces destroyed an Iranian-affiliated dhow conducting surveillance and targeting U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf of Oman.

Over the past seven months, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has continued to indiscriminately target thousands of civilian mariners transiting regional waters in addition to U.S. Navy warships.

Crew members were safely removed prior to destruction of the dhow. Repatriation efforts are ongoing," - CENTCOM.

🇾🇪⚡- Siege of Ta'izz:

Ansarullah’s deadline for the Presidential Leadership Council forces to surrender in Ta’izz has now expired.

The al-Houthi forces have launched large-scale offensive operations across the entire Ta’izz front.

Rerum Novarum’s proprietary maps are now available at MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

🇺🇸⚡️- Anthropic’s ‘Head of International Startups’ Guillaume Pincen: “Where we do think we need to be really careful with open-source is on safety.”

He goes on to say that they think open models need to be “as safe” as Anthropic’s.

🇾🇪⚡️- Clashes in Ta'izz have intensified over the last few hours, with the Ansarullah attempting to storm the northern, western, and eastern sectors of the city with a massive assault.

Saudi/PLC airstrikes are reported in the Houthi rear.

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡️- Taiwan says it has made significant progress toward purchasing 6 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas annually from Alaska, equivalent to 30% of the proposed Alaska LNG project's production capacity. Taipei is also considering investing up to $4.4 billion in the project, although final agreements have not been signed.

The project would give Taiwan direct access to American natural gas across the North Pacific, bypassing the Panama Canal and reducing its dependence on Middle Eastern energy supplies. Deliveries could begin as early as 2032, which would represent a significant long-term expansion of US-Taiwan energy cooperation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The U.S. military is considering using the “Mother of All Bombs” against Iran’s energy and nuclear infrastructure if President Trump gives the green light for renewed strikes, according to CNN.

🇺🇸🐸⚡️- Republicans Have a
Groyper Problem.

The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier on Wednesday detailing the “specter of Groyperism that is haunting” the Republican Party.

Senator Ted Cruz, one of Israel’s fiercest defenders in Congress, told the WSJ, “The Groyper problem is real,” and claims he cannot fill typical staffer roles in his office, after over half of the applicants have split views concerning Israel.

🇸🇦⚡️- Air traffic appears to have been stopped at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport. Cause remains unknown.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine claims to have destroyed 6 Russian Su-34M jets at the Borisoglebsk East Air Base in the Voronezh region in an overnight Neptune cruise missile attack.

🇸🇦⚡️- Operations have resumed at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport.

🇾🇪 - Reports of the fall of Jabal Han, northwest Tai'zz city. to the Ansarullah forces are false. PLC forces are present on Hill 14 of Han.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Since the Trump-proposed 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine:

Russia has struck:
- Kharkiv's CHP-5.
- Kyiv's CHP-4.
- Kyiv's CHP-5.
- Kyiv's CHP-6.
- Zmiivska TPP.
- Trypilska TPP.

Ukraine has struck:
- Novoshakhtinsk Storage Facility.

Russia claims the Ryazan and Saratov refineries were also attacked last night, though there has been no confirmation or evidence of this.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - AviVector's satellite imagery of the Borisoglebsk East Air Base in the Voronezh region shows at least four Russian Su-34M jets destroyed.

🇫🇷⚡️- French police and local authorities are expecting the riots to escalate their violence on Saturday. Several prefects have taken new administrative measures to prevent gatherings while police syndicates shared that police forces "were nearing their breaking point".

🇫🇷⚡️- Police members from three different syndicates and unions have warned their superiors alongside medias that their ressources were too thinly spread and that most members were tired from the prolonged deployment in the streets. Most of the French police's spokespersons have confirmed morale was at an all-time low due to the permissiveness of judges. Several anonymous police members online and in medias have said that accidents were likely to occur and things could get "very ugly" on both sides.

🇫🇷⚡️- According to Alliance, a notorious police union, Macron's government is directly responsible for the situation and the upcoming damages. They have filed a formal complaint targeting the French state for "endangering the lives of others", citing repeated vague directives and contradictory orders being given by their superiors.

🇫🇷⚡️- French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu officially declares that the ongoing riots are no longer a student movement. The French government will no longer treat the riots as "student protests" but as "urban violences".