🇮🇷🔥 — BBC Persian has verified footage from Isfahan showing a building linked to the state media IRIB engulfed in flames.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️ — President Trump tells NYT that Chinese President Xi Jinping has told him that Taiwan is viewed by Beijing as a "separatist threat" that China considers part of its territory.

That’s up to him, what he’s going to be doing.

But, you know, I’ve expressed to him that I would be very unhappy if he did that, and I don’t think he’ll do that.

I hope he doesn’t

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump told NYT that he has never used GLP-1 weight-loss medications such as Wegovy or Ozempic, joking that he “probably should.”

🇺🇸🇳🇬❌🏴 — President Trump warns in an interview with NYT that U.S. strikes on ISIS terrorists in Nigeria will continue if they continue to murder Christians.

I’d love to make it a one-time strike. But if they continue to kill Christians it will be a many-time strike.

I think that Muslims are being killed also in Nigeria. But it’s mostly Christians.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — The sky is pink in Lviv after the Oreshnik struck the area earlier tonight.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A senior U.S. official on Iran's protests to Fox News:

No change to US military posture in the Middle East in response to Tehran protests; CENTCOM watching closely the growing anti regime protests in Tehran.

The US will be watching closely the Friday prayers tomorrow across Iran and how the regime responds.

A squadron of F15E’s have deployed to the Middle East but are part of a normal rotation, I am told.

There has been no plus up of forces to the Middle East.

🇻🇪🇨🇳⚡️ — Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodríguez met with China’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Lan Hu, in Caracas to reinforce diplomatic relations between Venezuela and China.

➡️ During the meeting, Rodríguez expressed the Bolivarian government’s gratitude for Beijing’s support, particularly China’s condemnation of attacks against the Venezuelan president and first lady.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Current drone situation in Ukraine.

➡️ Around 43 drones are in the airspace, and almost all are headed for Kyiv.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — WATCH: More footage showing the Russian Oreshnik IRBM striking Lviv, western Ukraine, earlier tonight.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — WATCH: Russian Geran-2 drone flies directly into a residential building in Kyiv City.