South Korea: Pro-Palestinian activists protest the the presence of Israeli arms companies accused of enabling war crimes in Gaza at Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (ADEX).

Palestinian children in Gaza:

We will end the Zionist entity and your dreams.

The promise of demise has already appeared on the horizon.

When asked if the U.S. is dictating Israeli policy after Trump said he blocked West Bank annexation, Netanyahu replies:

They’ll always say that, it doesn’t matter.

We are an independent country.

The White House fears Israeli actions and remarks — including Finance Minister Smotrich’s comments on Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu’s rejection of Turkish troops in Gaza — could collapse the Gaza agreement.

JD Vance was “shocked when he heard about the Knsesset vote on West Bank annex” and said before departing:

“If this was a political stunt, it was a stupid one — and I was offended by it.”

Source: N12

Two people were killed and dozens arrested as protests erupted in Cameroon over likely re-election of 92-year-old President Paul Biya.

Rival Issa Tchiroma claims he actually won and accuses the government of fraud.

Authorities warn protesters face military trials amid internet slowdowns and rising unrest.

Kremlin:

Putin’s promised “stunning response” wasn’t about Tomahawk deliveries specifically, it referred to any attempts to strike deep inside Russia.

Sudan: Media reports say FM Mohieddin Salem arrived in Washington with the intelligence chief and senior military officials for a series of talks.

U.S. envoys are flooding Israel to keep Netanyahu from breaking the Gaza ceasefire, with Trump boasting he “stopped” the war and warning against annexation.

Critics say Israel now acts as a U.S. client state, while Netanyahu denies losing independence.

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The South Sudanese army announced that integration would begin immediately after more than 2,000 opposition soldiers switched sides.

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Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev is set to meet Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami this weekend.

Source: Axios

The US carried out a new strike against a suspected drug trafficking boat.

White House said next month’s inflation data likely won’t be released due to the government shutdown, as funding issues prevent data collection.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul abruptly canceled his first official trip to China, citing scheduling issues after Beijing confirmed only one meeting with his counterpart Wang Yi.

Japan’s new prime minister vowed to quicken the country’s rearmament.

She tied the shift to rising pressure from China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Why Trump-Putin Meeting In Budapest Was Canceled?

The shift followed pressure from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a longtime Russia hawk who called Putin a “gangster.”

Rubio canceled talks with Lavrov after concluding Moscow was “slow-walking cease-fire talks.”

White House aide Anna Kelly insisted Trump “always leads on foreign policy,” but officials said Rubio’s tougher stance drove the change.

Source: Bloomberg

Spain’s top criminal court opened an investigation into Spanish steelmaker Sidenor executives for allegedly exporting 1,200 tons of steel to Israel’s IMI Systems in violation of Madrid’s arms-trade embargo.

Prosecutors say the steel was knowingly sent for weapons production despite Spain’s ban, potentially amounting to smuggling and complicity in war crimes.

NATO's Rutte:

Thousands of Russians are dying for Putin’s deluded aggression.

Putin is running out of money, troops, and ideas.

President Trump said it very well. They should stop where they are now.

Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen:

Putin’s strategy has been to wait for us to stop helping Ukraine, at some point he expected us to give up.

This will never happen.