🇹🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡- "I, along with the German Federal Government, want to see Turkey in the European Union," - Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor, while on a visit to Ankara, Turkey.

🇹🇷🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Germany and Turkey, as NATO allies, share the same interests. Turkey is well aware that Russia's militant revisionism poses a threat to Europe and the Atlantic region.

We are pleased with Turkey's decision to acquire 20 Typhoon jets, as these aircrafts will serve our shared security," - Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor, while on a visit to Ankara, Turkey.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇮🇷⚡- India receives a six-month exemption from US sanctions on Iran’s Chabahar Port, which will help complete the International North-South Transport Corridor - a rival to China's Middle Economic Corridor.

India's External Ministry confirmed the news, with a positive trade deal between Washington and Delhi very likely now.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Three Israeli airstrikes against Harouf, Southern Lebanon.

🇹🇿⚡- BREAKING: Curfew announced in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as violent protests escalate against President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

🇮🇱⚡- "We will show no patience toward any threat that emerges; we will believe an enemy that declares its intention to harm us, and we will destroy it.

There will be no tolerance when the safety of Israeli citizens is threatened. This is a principle I intend to uphold. We are operating in all arenas even now, with high readiness for as broad a campaign as required. In some arenas, we will again act with much greater force than we have during the past two years," - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of Staff.

🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The intensive fighting in the Gaza Strip is expected, indeed, to end, but many challenges still lie ahead of us on several fronts, and we will not cease to act until we achieve them.

On the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, we have not had the final word yet. The Houthis will pay a heavy price for their attempts to strike the Israeli home front over the past two years. We have not said the last word," - Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister.

#BREAKING | French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating sinks to record low of 11%, lowest for any sitting French President in 50 years, per Verian.

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🇨🇾🇷🇺 - Cyprus-registered energy company Gunvor - owned by Putin's friend oligarch Timchenko - plans to buy Lukoil's foreign assets after the oil giant fell under the new US sanctions.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is considering escalating its military operation in Lebanon, Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reports.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has informed the United States that the pace of Israeli strikes on Lebanon will increase," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "It is likely Israel will launch a preventive attack against Hezbollah, which is growing stronger and has begun to pump weapons into wide areas of southern Lebanon," - Yossi Eliazer, Israeli journalist for 301.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Lebanese Army reinforcements headed to the southern borders of the country, at the request of President Aoun.

🇱🇧🇪🇬⚡- Egyptian Mukhabarat Chief Hassan Rashad met Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem's representative in Beirut, Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The Lebanese army will confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon in implementation of the president's decisions." - Lebanese Justice Minister Adel Nassar.