Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, and intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın are on a working visit to Damascus, Syria’s capital.

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Japan Moves to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Plant After Fukushima

Japan cleared the final local hurdle to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, the world’s largest.

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Somalia: The Somali National Army says it carried out a planned operation in Jabas Godane, Middle Shabelle, killing senior Al-Shabaab militants.

NEW: Ukraine says more sanctions are coming by year’s end, including at least one package targeting Russia’s military industry and its foreign partners, including in China.

JD Vance to UnHerd:

The Ukrainians understandably see [losing Donetsk] as a major security problem, even as they privately acknowledge that eventually, they’ll probably lose Donetsk.

JD Vance to UnHerd:

Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit. That’s my official policy as Vice President of the United States.

JD Vance to UnHerd:

I happen to believe that Israel is an important ally, and that there are certain things that we’re certainly going to work together on.

But we’re also going to have very substantive disagreements with Israel, and that’s OK.

And we should be able to say, “We agree with Israel on that issue, and we disagree with Israel on this other issue.”

JD Vance to UnHerd:

99% of Republicans, and I think probably 97% of Democrats, do not hate Jewish people for being Jewish.

What is actually happening is that there is a real backlash to a consensus view in American foreign policy.

JD Vance to UnHerd:

I think there are Islamist-aligned or Islamist-adjacent people who hold office in European countries right now. It’s not inconceivable to imagine a scenario where a person with Islamist-adjacent views could have very significant influence in a European nuclear power. In the next five years? No. But 15 years from now? Absolutely.

If they allow themselves to be overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas, then you allow nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the United States of America.

China will impose provisional tariffs of 21.9% to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union starting Tuesday.

The move follows a preliminary investigation launched in August 2024 that found EU subsidies had harmed China’s dairy industry.

Sudan: Aliyan, a commander of Habib Harika’s 145th Group, was killed in a Sudanese army drone strike in the Borno area northwest of Kadugli, South Kordofan.

DR Congo: Thousands of protesters take to the streets demanding President Félix Tshisekedi’s resignation.

Russian Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov:

Russia does not plan to attack NATO.

Moscow is open to legally committing to non-aggression.

EU is blocking U.S.–Russia rapprochement on Ukraine.

Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

The fact that the SDF conducts certain activities in coordination with Israel constitutes a major obstacle in the talks being carried out with Damascus.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson:

If we lose the House majority, the radical left will impeach Trump.

Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

The SDF has no intention of making progress.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

When people on these campuses scream “from the river to the sea,” they have no idea what they’re talking about. They’re clueless.

The river is the Jordan. The sea is the Mediterranean.

And if, in fact, you collapse from the river to the sea, then you have annihilated the entirety of Israel.