WATCH: About 90 drones plunged into Sydney Harbour during a light show at the Vivid festival after an unexpected radio frequency interference disrupted their GPS systems, triggering automatic emergency landing protocols.

Russia’s UN Envoy Nebenzya on Ukraine:

Before we achieve whatever agreement, the core reasons why the whole thing started should be eliminated.

This is the NATO membership, the threat that Ukraine poses to Russia, the neo-Nazi nature of the regime, the persecution of the Russian-speaking population.

Russia’s UN Envoy Nebenzya to Gulf states on Iran:

I'm telling them: you are the hostages of American policy in the Middle East.

We were saying long time ago that if something like that would happen, you will inevitably get into this crisis whether you want it or not.

Trump:

Based on the possible bad weather conditions tomorrow, we will be having our Cabinet Meeting in the White House, and will be postponing the Cabinet trip to Camp David. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Russia’s UN Envoy Nebenzya:

I’m not saying that war is a good thing. I'm not enjoying it.

But the difference is that we NEVER go after civilians deliberately.

Russia’s UN Envoy Nebenzya on Starobilsk dormitory strike:

When we asked whether they felt any shame — I mean our western colleagues — we received a response that has become emblematic of the moral decline of European diplomacy.

'No, we do not feel ashamed.'

The permanent representative of Latvia went even further, calling the strike on the college a provocation and a Kremlin fake.

NEW: South Korea unveiled its first official plan to develop nuclear-powered attack submarines, with the first vessel targeted for launch in the mid-2030s.

The submarines will be built entirely domestically using low-enriched uranium reactors, drawing on the country's shipbuilding and civilian nuclear industries.

The announcement follows U.S. approval granted by President Trump in October 2025.

Turkish President Erdogan:

God willing, this tyrant called Netanyahu will receive the lesson he deserves from the Muslims of the world.

Tony Blair has launched a fierce attack on Keir Starmer and Labour’s direction, warning the party will lose the next election unless it moves back to the political centre.

In a 5,700-word essay, the former PM criticised Labour’s net zero agenda, welfare spending, workers’ rights reforms and restrictions on oil and gas, arguing they hurt business and economic growth.

He urged closer ties with Trump and said Labour should focus on AI, planning reform and welfare cuts instead.

Blair also rejected attempts to remove Starmer, saying leadership change is pointless without a clear policy reset. He accused Labour of “self-delusion” by drifting left while losing voters to Reform UK.

Source: The Guardian

CDU insiders are discussing a possible replacement of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz due to stalled reforms and very poor polling.

The idea is still informal — mostly private talks among senior CDU figures, not an organized coup. Under German law, parliament could replace the chancellor without new elections via a constructive no-confidence vote.

Source: BILD

Trump’s “Board of Peace” has raised big pledges for Gaza reconstruction, but four months later the official fund has no money in it and no rebuilding projects have started.

Donors appear to be bypassing the World Bank-managed fund, while legal, political and security disputes have left the organization stuck in limbo.

Source: FT

IRGC:

The likelihood of war breaking out is low, but our forces are ready.

NEW: Hungary's new parliament voted to reverse Viktor Orbán's 2025 decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, halting the exit just days before it would have taken effect.

Orbán had announced the withdrawal during a visit by Netanyahu, who faces an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza.

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on China:

Can we outmanufacture them? No.

But we don't need to outmanufacture them to make a Taiwan invasion infeasible.

There's a world where they have a hundred times more ballistic missiles than us and we still have enough between us and our allies to deny them access to Taiwan.

If they take Taiwan, history and the words out of Xi Jinping's own mouth show they're immediately going to hop over to Okinawa, part of the Philippines, maybe part of Vietnam.

Xi Jinping is going out saying, 'I was in our national archives reading about the Ryuku Islands — 650 years ago they sent a gift to us, that means they're a tributary state.'

He's not saying this because he loves wandering the national archives.

They are constructing a national narrative that would allow them to convince their people to start with Taiwan and end with a lot of our Pacific allies.

Finland President Alexander Stubb:

Americans don't ask anymore.

You go into Venezuela, you don't ask.

You make claims on Greenland, you don't ask.

You go into Iran, you don't ask.

Finland President Alexander Stubb:

If the United States wants to project power in the Middle East — say Iran right now — it has absolutely no chance to operate without European bases.

John Bolton:

Decision-making now consists of Trump sitting behind his Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, five or six people in a semicircle in front of him, and he says, 'I think we'd like to do X.'

That's when Pete Hegseth says, 'Yes, sir, we'll do that.'

That's decision-making.

John Bolton:

Trump sees international relations as embodied in the relations of heads of state.

So if he's friends with Xi Jinping, he thinks the US-China state-to-state relations are in great shape. He calls Xi 'King.'

He thinks he's friends with Xi Jinping and with Vladimir Putin.

And I will guarantee you that's not how they see Trump. I think they both see him as an easy mark.