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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. and Venezuela are in talks over a "massive" deal that would give the U.S. an ownership stake in Venezuela's oil fields, according to Axios. The deal would reportedly allow the U.S. to tap into over a dozen Venezuelan oil fields, more than doubling current U.S. oil reserves.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Update: New reports suggest Israeli artillery struck the heights around Beit Jinn, Damascus countryside, with two shells.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Two Israeli airstrikes on Beit Jinn, Damascus countryside, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Explosions heard in Damascus, Syria.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- Andrew Tate will testify in a U.S. court hearing today to push for his release from a Florida jail as he faces a possible extradition to the UK, according to his lawyer.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Lake Ontario is renamed to LAKE AMERICA!" - White House on X.

🇸🇴⚡- Ilhan Omar’s son’s apartment was raided by police, where officials seized firearms and ammunition from the apartment before arresting his roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi. Abdi has been convicted more than ten times on various charges.

🇺🇸⚡️- The jury in the Lindsay Clancy case has begun deliberating whether Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder of her three children.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- A medical plane was shot down as it attempted to land in the Minembwe region, M23-allied Twirwaneho-controlled South Kivu region, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. All four on board were killed in the crash. Initial reports suggest the anti-aircraft missile was fired by the Kinshasa-funded Wazalendo or the Burundian military.

🇳🇵⚡️- The death toll from the floods in Tibet and Nepal reaches 362, with several thousands still missing.

🇷🇸⚡️- Ratko Mladić, the Butcher of the Balkans, has died in a prison hospital in The Hague at 84.

🇪🇹⚡- Very unusual: Air defenses activity reported in Bamadon, southwest Ethiopia.

🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have launched a large-scale attack on the al-Kili height, the last defensive position before the town of Khandaru, Ad Damazin direction, Blue Nile region, southeast Sudan. Earlier this morning, a Rapid Support Forces-operated Chinese/Turkish-made drone was downed in the area as well.

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- U.S. intelligence reports the three drones with explosives found at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany, have devices used by Russia's GRU.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- The European Commission Office says they were not informed in advance of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed penned a handwritten letter directly to Saudi's 90-year old King, Salman bin Abdulaziz, in an effort to amend ties between the two Arab Gulf nations. However, notably, the letter completely bypassed the Kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The letter addressed directly to the King will not sit well with MbS, but the Emirate State hopes relations can be restored with Riyadh via Salman without making the concessions required on Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and Israel. The letter was delivered to King Salman through UAE's embassy in Riyadh, and while MbS was abroad on a diplomatic visit to Paris.

🇸🇩🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Sudanese frontline sources report a battlefield transformation mirroring the Russia-Ukraine war. Close-range combat is becoming increasingly rare, replaced by swarms of FPV and large one-way attack drones. The result is slower troop movement and the expansion of the grey-zone territory dubbed the 'Killing Fields'.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Sudan has downed a Turkish-made Rapid Support Forces drone that crossed into Sudan's airspace from Ethiopia. It is the third such incident in the Blue Nile region in the last four days. Update: The downed drone was Chinese.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to revive prize courts, a largely dormant wartime legal system, to accelerate the seizure and sale of Iranian-linked oil tankers and cargo. The Department of Justice is considering using a court in Houston to allow the U.S. to transfer seized Iranian assets to the Department of Treasury with few delays and restrictions. The plan could face significant legal challenges over international law and U.S. wartime authority," - Bloomberg.

🇲🇩🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Overnight, five Russian drones entered Moldovan airspace during Russia's missile and drone attack on Ukraine. Photo shows debris from one of the drones along the Chisinau - Basarabeasca road. "On the night before Moldova’s Independence Day, our airspace was violated by not one, but five drones. A separate drone was also found on the ground in Moldova. We have repeatedly warned about the unacceptable risks posed by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Yet another Russian attack on Ukraine has once again resulted in violations of Moldova’s airspace. These incidents are another reminder of the need to strengthen our national security and our ability to protect our citizens," - Moldova's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.