🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- "Preparations are underway for an Erdogan-Trump meeting as soon as possible," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met John Ratcliffe, Director of the CIA, and David Barnea, Chief of Mossad.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡-"Ukraine wants to buy a large aid package from the United States, which includes, in particular, air defense systems. This is our format, how we will pay for it. And we did not ask for the future package for free," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸⚡- Goldman Sachs drops recession forecast after Trump tariff suspension.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel has confirmed the direct negotiations between itself and Turkey.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is not seeking a confrontation with Turkey, but will not hesitate to act if necessary to defend itself," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Negotiations are underway with two large countries to absorb very large numbers of Gazans who will voluntarily emigrate," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel knew in advance about the US talks with Iran about its nuclear program, and the US wanted to know what a good agreement was from Israel's perspective," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇹🇼⚡- Romeo Brawner Jr., Philippine Chief of Staff, says the Philippines would inevitably get involved in a China-Taiwan conflict.

🇵🇰⚡- 3 Pakistani security forces killed, 2 others injured, in an attack on the outskirts of Quetta, disputed region of Balochistan, southwest Pakistan.

🇺🇸⚡- "Let him cook," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇺🇳⚡- China files a WTO complaint against the U.S. over tariff measures.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Air Force and Navy cancels Independence Day parades on May 1 for a second year in a row.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: Mahdi al-Mashat, Private Secretary to the Head of Ansarullah Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has been wounded in a recent US airstrike - Fares al-Hemyari, Yemeni military journalist, confirms.

Al-Mashat also serves as the President of the Supreme Political Counci, de-facto Head of Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

This would mark the first top Houthi casualty in the current US campaign against the group.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Ansarullah have arrested Abd al-Qader al-Shami, Houthi Intelligence General, on suspicion of 'providing information to the enemy'.

This follows Israeli reports that Tel-Aviv were upset with the US Signal chat leaks, as Israel had a 'source on the ground assisting us with targeting'.

🇨🇳🇮🇳🇧🇩⚡- Mint, an Indian outlet, claims Bangladesh has invited China to help 'revitalize' the Lalmonirhat Air Base (25.8875000, 89.4330560), near India's Siliguri Corridor also known as the Chicken’s Neck - India’s critical gateway to its northeastern landlocked states.

🇨🇳🇮🇳🇧🇩⚡- "India ends trans-shipment facility for Bangladesh to export goods to other countries," - NDTV, Indian outlet, in response to the Chinese-Bangladeshi developments near India's Siliguri Corridor.

🇰🇿🇦🇿⚡- Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea.

India have intercepted 6 Houthi UAVs / USVs / missiles since October 7.

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡- "We are committed to constructive talks with the United States on tariffs," - Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President.