Former Deputy Director of Moldova’s Intelligence and Security Service (SIS), 47-year-old Alexandru Bălan, was arrested today at Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport in Romania on charges of treason. He is accused of selling Romanian state secrets and national security information to agents of the State Security Committee of Belarus.

At least six people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a terrorist attack earlier today at a bus depot in Ramot Junction, north of Jerusalem. The assault was carried out by two Palestinian gunmen from villages near Ramallah in the West Bank, armed with modified “Carl Gustaf” submachine guns. Both attackers were neutralized by an off-duty Israel Defense Force soldier.

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that American and African partner forces came under “indirect fire” earlier today near Kismayo, Somalia. No injuries or casualties were reported among U.S. personnel. The incident comes after a mortar attack on Camp Kismayo Thursday, which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and current chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee, asked Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. whether he believed President Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed—a program in which the Department of Defense and several other agencies helped accelerate the development, production, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Secretary Kennedy responded, “Absolutely.” Cassidy then pressed him, asking why he would say that after having just claimed minutes earlier that the COVID-19 vaccine killed more people than the virus itself.

Israeli strike on southern Lebanon