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🇺🇸🇺🇸🌪❗️ — URGENT: A rare Hurricane Warning has been issued for Hawaii’s Big Island after Tropical Storm Lala unexpectedly shifted its projected path farther north. ▶️The storm is also becoming stronger, with sustained winds now reaching around 50 mph.

🟧🔘 • ⚡️📱 Upcoming 6G mobile communications standard will not only transmit data, but also "function like a radar." • Heute

🟥🔴 • 🇯🇵 A 7.1 magnitude earthquake was felt in southern Japan, resulting in a tsunami warning being issued. • 🟥 Frontline Report

🟧🟠 • 🇺🇸 📣 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 Trump threatens China and Russia if they provide material support to Iran, "...it would be very bad for them."

🟧🟠 • 🇲🇾 ❌ 🇮🇱 Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced that effective immediately Israeli citizens will be barred from entering the country and any Israeli citizens currently in Malaysia will be deported immediately. • Northern Provisions

🟨🟢 • 🇧🇩 💵 Bangladesh has rolled out a new interoperable QR payment system nationwide, with the economic and planning adviser to PM saying the objective of the "Bangla QR code system" is "to gradually transform Bangladesh into a cashless economy." • DiscloseTV

🟨⬛️🟡 • 🇳🇿 Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in the “Jurassic Park” movies, has died, his family announced Monday. He was 78. “Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,” the family said in a statement on social media. “The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free,” it added. Neill had announced he was cancer free in April after five years undergoing treatment for blood cancer. • 📰 NBC

🟩🟤 • 🇺🇸 U.S. Marines on Guam recently fired the service’s new Medium-Range Intercept Capability system, the Corps’ first medium-range air defense system since the HAWK system in the 1990s. The ongoing Exercise Valiant Shield became the proving ground for III Marine Expeditionary Force personnel, as Marines at Camp Blaz successfully used the MRIC to intercept an aerial target on June 30, 2026. The MRIC is a “significant leap in operational capability,” a service release stated. The system bridges the gap between the shoulder-fired Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System and the long-range Patriot missile system and is designed for the “expeditionary nature of Marine Corps operations.” Deployed via trailers carrying 20 interceptors each, MRIC systems can down targets from two to 43 miles away. • Defense News

🟨🟠🟤 • 🇹🇼 Taiwan has reinstated "anti-communist" patriotic education for military academy graduates for the first time since 2002, citing growing military and infiltration threats from China, Reuters reports. The Defense Ministry said the classes are intended to help graduates understand national security threats and "why we fight, and for whom we fight," while fostering a "clear awareness of friend and foe." Officials from the Mainland Affairs Council, National Security Council, Ministry of Justice, and Academia Sinica will deliver lectures as part of the program. • Reuters TabZ

The Indonesian Army has announced the recovery of Nicholas F. Goselin, an American civilian pilot working for the Indonesian airline PT AMA, who was killed earlier this week and his aircraft burning by a New Guinea armed separatist group known as the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), after landing at Ipdeheik Airport in Balinggama Village on Papua, Eastern Indonesia.

Intel/ Military • 🇮🇩 🇺🇸 West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) has claimed to have killed American pilot Nicholas F Gosselin and burned his plain in the Yahukimo region of Highland Papua province. SOURCE: The Guardian

🟨🟠 • 🇷🇺 🛬 🇨🇳 Russian media reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China for a two-day visit. The Russian president's plane landed at Beijing airport. According to the Kremlin, the main working day of the trip is May 20. So, tomorrow there will be talks between Putin and Xi Jinping in a narrow format, and then in an expanded format with the participation of delegations. • Bellum Acta

🟧🟢 • 🇮🇳 ✈️ Air India ​posts a $2.8 billion loss for fiscal year ​2025-26. • Reuters

🟨🟢 • 🇯🇵 Japan has begun to print food packaging in black and white due to the global oil crisis (the dyes require oil to be manufactured). • Frontline News

🟧🔵 • 🇦🇺 🦠 Australia is planning to place six people from the cruise ship in a purpose-built quarantine facility north of Perth for at least three weeks, the government said on May 11. The passengers, four Australian citizens, one permanent resident in Australia and a New Zealander, are to be kept at Western Australia’s 500-bed Bullsbrook centre, originally built for the Covid-19 pandemic. • The Straits Times

🟧🔵 • 🇺🇳 WHO's Tedros says that he "expects more cases" of Hantavirus to be announced, due to the gap between the first case and when the virus was identified, as the passengers were interacting on the ship during this time.

🟨🟤 • 🇮🇳 India is pressing ahead with a $9 billion infrastructure project to bolster its military footprint on the Great Nicobar Island which sits far from the Indian mainland near one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes. The project is attracting attention as disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, following the U.S.-Iran-Israel conflict brings focus to other vulnerable maritime chokepoints. • Defense News