🇸🇩⚡- Mass fleeing of civilians from al-Fashir, Darfur direction in southwest Sudan, after the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, captured the city.

Reports of the UAE-backed RSF firing upon fleeing civilians.

🇸🇸🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- South Sudan's President Salva Kiir travels to the UAE using an Ethiopian aircraft to strengthen relations between Juba and Abu Dhabi.

South Sudan is a key supply route for the UAE to arm the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, as covered by Rerum Novarum previously.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Israeli airstrikes against the Bodai countryside, eastern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The three Israeli drone strikes were an attempt to target a vehicle in eastern Lebanon, but the assassination attempt failed.

Correction: An Israeli UAV malfunctioned and crashed. Israel bombed it to avoid it falling into Hezbollah hands.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The IDF's resources are somewhat freed up from Gaza, and Lebanon is starting to feel it," - Ben Tzion Macales, Israeli journalist for Channel 14.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "333 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement was signed between Israel and Lebanon.

During this period [2024-2025], 344 Hezbollah militants were eliminated (if including uninvolved individuals, over 400 were killed).

In the year between October 2023 and September 2024 [before the start of the Hezbollah-Israel war], about 500 Hezbollah operatives were eliminated.

The difference between the two periods is that in '23/'24 Hezbollah responded to every elimination; so far, not a single response has been recorded, neither to the eliminations, nor to the raids, nor to the repeated bombings of its base and facilities.

1.03 militants per day over the past 333 days," - Gal Elbaz, Israeli journalist.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Yet ANOTHER Israeli assassination strike:

Al-Mayadeen reports an Israeli drone just struck al-Hafir, west of Baalbek, eastern Lebanon. One confirmed death, another in serious conditions. 10th assassination in just 5 days.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from al-Hafir, west of Baalbek, eastern Lebanon

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent calls Putin's Envoy Kirill Dmitriev a "propagandist".

“Everything we do is pushing Putin to negotiate. Russia’s economy is currently experiencing virtually zero growth and inflation of over 20%," - Scott Bessent.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Naim Qassem, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, told Al-Manar that Hezbollah will retaliate for Israel’s repeated strikes against Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- “We as a resistance are ready to defend. We will not initiate a battle, but if a battle is imposed on us by the Zionists, even if we only have sticks to defend ourselves, we won't let a single Israeli pass and we will fight him until none of our men or women are remaining.” - Naim Qassem, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, in an interview with Al-Manar, pro-Hezbollah Lebanese outlet.

🏳️🇵🇰🇹🇷⚡- Second round of talks between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan in Istanbul continues tomorrow.

Both sides confirm the talks have made significant progress made on most points. However, the issue of Tahreek-e-Taliban remains a stalling point.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Within just 48 hours, the Israeli army assassinated 8 senior leaders from the Hezbollah organization in Lebanon," - Galei Tzahal, IDF official outlet.

🇵🇸⚡- BREAKING: Palestinian factions, including Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to elect Palestinian human rights activist Amjad al-Shawa to lead post-war Gaza Strip, Kan11 reports.

🇵🇸⚡- Fatah, the governing party of the Palestinian Authority, has denied the Kan11 report that it agreed with the Palestinian factions to elect Amjad al-Shawa to lead post-war Gaza Strip.

Fatah asserts that its "official stance is that the person appointed to lead this committee must be a minister from the Palestinian Authority government, as it is the legitimate authority responsible for managing the affairs of our people in the homeland."

🇺🇸🇹🇹🇻🇪⚡- "We condemn the dangerous move by Trinidad and Tobago to conduct military exercises in coordination with the US.

This action constitutes a hostile provocation against Venezuela and a dangerous threat to peace in the Caribbean region. The government of Trinidad and Tobago has abandoned the country's sovereignty to act as a US military colony," - Yvan Gil Pinto, Foreign Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇹🇹🇻🇪⚡- "It's not about defensive drills, it's a military aggression to turn the Caribbean into a space for violence and US dominance.

Venezuela does not accept threats from any government subordinate to the United States. The National Armed Forces of Venezuela will remain on alert and in a state of mobilization in the face of this highly dangerous provocation," - Yvan Gil Pinto, Foreign Minister of Venezuela.

🇺🇸⚡- US Naval Institute reports that an F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents.

No injuries reported, with all crew members safely recovered.