Israeli opposition Leader Yair Lapid:

There comes a moment when people who call themselves the national camp must also say to an American President — we are a sovereign country; there’s a limit to interference.

Mali: FAMa forces foiled a JNIM blockade, securing over 300 fuel tankers that reached Bamako.

NEW: House Democrats released newly obtained Jeffrey Epstein emails mentioning Donald Trump.

In a 2011 exchange, Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had “spent hours at my house with [Trump]” and called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked.”

Newly released 2015 emails show journalist Michael Wolff and Jeffrey Epstein discussing how Donald Trump might respond if asked about his ties to Epstein.

Wolff advised Epstein to “let him hang himself.”

A 2019 email from Jeffrey Epstein to Michael Wolff appears to reference Trump and Mar-a-Lago, stating:

“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Zelensky:

I believe that the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Energy cannot remain in their positions.

NEW: Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show Israel has demolished over 1,500 buildings in Gaza since the ceasefire began on 10 October, mostly in areas still under Israeli control.

Entire neighborhoods have been flattened through controlled demolitions, even where buildings appeared undamaged before.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani:

By directive of His Excellency President Ahmed al-Sharaa, we are heading from the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Kingdom on the first official visit.

BREAKING: The Indian government has officially classified the Delhi blasts as a terrorist attack.

Pete Hegseth:

No more identity months. No more DEI offices. No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change.

Pete Hegseth:

Enemies are gathering and threats are growing, we have to prepare now.

Pete Hegseth:

I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are fat and out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men in their units.

Pete Hegseth:

Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan?

Suddenly it's become this fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon so they can grow a beard and no one challenges them because no one's upheld standards for a long time.

Now a quarter of the platoon is sporting beards because they're suddenly Nordic Pagans.

We're not doing that stuff anymore.

Pete Hegseth:

If you're trafficking drugs to poison the American people and we know you're from a designated terrorist organization, you're a foreign terrorist and a trafficker — we will find you and we will kill you.

RFK Jr: You had a VP like Dick Cheney, who seemed to be actually running the country.

JD Vance: Not very well, it turns out.

JD Vance:

Trump does not want yes men.

U.S. intelligence gathered in late 2024 indicated Israeli officials discussed using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza tunnels suspected of being rigged with explosives.

Source: Reuters

White House:

We are not interested in building a base near the Gaza border.

New shipyard photos suggest China’s next aircraft carrier — the Type 004 — will be nuclear-powered, marking a major leap in the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s capabilities.

This would give the carrier unlimited range, greater power generation, and bring China closer to U.S.-level naval capability.

Source: TWZ

Trump:

The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects.

NEW: Italian prosecutors are investigating claims that wealthy Italians and other foreigners paid to travel to Bosnia in the early 1990s for “sniper safaris,” shooting civilians in besieged Sarajevo from Serb-held positions.

The allegation—based on new testimony gathered by journalist Ezio Gavazzeni—suggests tourists paid different rates to kill men, women, or children.

Source: BBC