Overview
- AP and CNN reported at least seven blasts in Caracas before dawn, with witnesses hearing low-flying aircraft and some neighborhoods losing power.
- A CBS reporter, citing U.S. government sources, said President Trump ordered attacks on Venezuelan military sites and the detention of the country’s leader, a claim still awaiting fuller official confirmation.
- Japanese authorities have begun urgent information-gathering and are weighing an NSC session to shape their response to the reported U.S. action.
- Separately in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Defense Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov will lead the Presidential Office, replacing Andriy Yermak.
- In Japan, firefighters in Tomakomai are battling a large blaze at a pig farm with four buildings burning and no injuries reported, police in Mito confirmed a stabbing as the cause of a woman’s death, and Tokyu Land plans an industrial logistics hub targeting early-2030s operation tied to semiconductor supply chains.