Colombia Begins Process of Joining BRICS New Development Bank: President Colombian President Gustavo Petro is currently holding talks with the head of the financial organization, Dilma Rousseff, in Shanghai.

Ukrainian Air Force reports the loss of another F-16 The aircraft was on a combat mission, but an "abnormal situation" occurred on board, and the pilot ejected. ✈️ In early January, the Kiev military acknowledged that Ukrainian F-16s were incapable of competing with Russian aircraft.

🇭🇺🇸🇰🇷🇴 The European Union is reportedly alarmed by the prospect of an emerging alliance between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Romanian presidential candidate George Simion—an alliance seen as potentially undermining continued support for Kiev, according to Politico.

Estonia: The Russian Federation is ready to use military force to protect its "shadow fleet" "Russia behaved extremely aggressively, sending a fighter to cover the tanker, which led to the violation of Estonian airspace," said the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia Margus Tsakhkna, noting that "the situation is really serious". -> Estonia attacked a Russian ship in international waters and is surprised that Russia defends itself. That is literally stupid. Estonia says, “we will steal your ships and you should do nothing and watch.” Russia says, “we will attack you” In case you wonder why they cry like this, it’s because NATO protection does not work in international waters and they could be really shot up by Russian jets in defense. They can’t do anything about it, they just remembered that they’re a tiny state with 7000 or so military personnel.

— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'No Iranian nuclear site will be dismantled' During an interview with the Iranian press, Seyyed Abbas Araqchi stated: 'No nuclear facility in Iran will be dismantled. If they were capable of destroying our sites by military means, they would have surely done so. But they can't – and that's why they wanted to negotiate. Some people complain about our military capabilities, specifically our missile program, saying we should limit this too, because it will be an 'obstacle' for a deal. But I say to them, if it wasn't for these missiles and our defense capabilities, we wouldn't be negotiating in the first place – they would have destroyed us.'

🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israeli forces have killed 12-year-old Mohammad Bardawil, one of the four surviving witnesses of the IDF's massacre of 15 Red Crescent paramedics in Rafah on March 23.

The US is preparing to attempt to put secondary sanctions on any country or business using Chinese Ai chips. In an act that can only be described as desperation.

🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Shooting operation by Palestinian factions in Salfit, West Bank. One Israeli settler has been killed and two others have been injured.

🇺🇸/🇸🇾 WATCH: Donald Trump describes Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (Al-Jolani) as a 'young, attractive guy.'