⚡️🇫🇷🇪🇺🇱🇧🇮🇹 — President Macron and Italian PM Meloni announced a multinational coalition to support Lebanon after UNIFIL's mandate expires December 31, 2026:

"Regarding Lebanon, France and Italy have a special responsibility because both contribute to UNIFIL. Together with Prime Minister Meloni, we want to launch a coalition to prepare a post-UNIFIL mechanism, naturally in cooperation with the European Union and the United Nations.

The objective is to strengthen Lebanon's sovereignty and prevent its territory from once again becoming the starting point of a new regional conflict. I believe our cooperation on this issue is excellent, and I hope it will open a new perspective before the end of UNIFIL's mandate."

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸 — US-mediated talks on Israel-Lebanon understandings remain stalled over specific contractual wording, causing a direct delay to the scheduled signing ceremony and media event previously set at the State Department — i24 Diplomatic Correspondent Guy Azriel

"Reporters have been asked to move to a waiting area — Could be a long evening ahead."

➡️ Concurrently, the United States is exerting intense pressure on both delegations to force an agreement, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio's intervention successfully driving the opposing factions to yield to a preliminary "Declaration of Intent" expected for signature today.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇷🇺 — Israeli airline El Al suspends flights between Tel Aviv and Moscow, According to TASS.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes targeted the town of Beit Yahoun South Lebanon, According to Al Mayadeen TV.

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⚡️🇮🇷⚛️ — Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi:

We have a memorandum of understanding stipulating that our agency will oversee the inspection of Iranian nuclear facilities.

We are ready to move forward with our artistic work in Iran.

The details of our work in Iran and the composition of the inspection coordination committee will be determined by the Iranian-American negotiations.

We hope that IAEA experts will soon be able to access Iranian nuclear sites.

Thinning Iran's highly enriched uranium is one of the proposed solutions for dealing with Iran's uranium stockpile.

We believe that Iranian nuclear materials have not been moved since our last inspection in 2025, but we need to confirm this.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — The US State Department announced that US-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon will continue for an additional day into the morning to extend the fifth round of negotiations initiated this week, while the process faces an explicit diplomatic divide with the Lebanese delegation seeking an "intent declaration" compared to the Israeli demand for an "agreement" — Al-Jadeed correspondent in Washington.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — An Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Al-Nabatieh Al-Fouqa in southern Lebanon — Al-Jadeed correspondent.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 — The fifth round of border negotiations in Washington faces difficulties due to historical disputes compounded by "emergency" complications from Iranian involvement in monitoring the ceasefire, while Israel evades establishing a withdrawal timetable and rejects "more than ten proposals" for pilot areas submitted by Lebanese and US mediators — An-Nahar

➡️ Tactical deadlocks persist over a drafted security annex as Israel demands Lebanese military operations expand outside the occupied zone both south and north of the Litani River, leaving structural disputes over wording and linking an IDF withdrawal to complete disarmament despite existing consensus on separate undisclosed points.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump addressed farmers, stating the U.S. will soon use unfrozen Iranian assets to fund major purchases of American products:

"We have a new market coming up, and that's called The Lovely Country of Iran. It's a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there? They're having a hard time with food and we're going to be taking some of their money and we'll spend it and we're going to be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn, a lot of it, and that process is going to be starting soon. It’s going to be big."

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on Iran:

"They want to make a deal with us very badly. And we probably will, I think we will, but the Strait is open. Yesterday, they took out 19 million barrels of oil. That's the most in the history of the Strait. And the oil prices are dropping like a rock."

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on Iran:

"We knocked the hell out of them, and now we're negotiating from a position of pure strength, pure strength. They know that. And the straits are already open, and we're setting records of the strait. But we had to do that. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon."

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 — Lebanese military negotiators rejected any potential Israeli "trap" designed to trigger an armed clash with the resistance, coinciding with Hezbollah informing all relevant mediators that it will completely block any security measures enacted outside the Litani River — Al-Diyar

➡️ The group rejected all tactical Israeli demands regarding operational security measures in the Ali al-Taher mountains near Nabatieh, emphasizing that any potential agreement outside the strict scope of Resolution 1701 has "no place in the party's lexicon" to halt further compromises.

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⚡️🇰🇷🇰🇵 — South Korea will train 500,000 "drone warriors" and distribute tens of thousands of unmanned systems across frontline units, aiming to manufacture 110,000 drones by 2029 utilizing 100% domestically produced components rather than Chinese parts due to security concerns — Reuters citing Defence Ministry

➡️ Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back stated unmanned systems must become a universal "second personal weapon" to counter North Korean advancements, shifting operations from a centralized command to individual services capable of independent surveillance and strike missions.

➡️ The military will rapidly acquire 20,000 low-cost expendable drones alongside AI-based swarm systems, expanding counter-drone laser and microwave weapons while revamping procurement rules to offset combat capability losses caused by domestic demographic decline.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭 — An investigation revealed that operational damage sustained by the US Navy base in Bahrain during Iranian attacks from late February to June is "much greater than reported" after direct strikes hit the Fifth Fleet headquarters, satellite communication facilities, warehouses, and residential buildings — The Wall Street Journal

➡️ The assessment confirms multiple targeted installations are "no longer usable" inside the strategic sector, with initial reconstruction costs estimated at 400 million dollars while the final total is expected to be much higher.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Yesterday, around 22:00, an IDF officer was moderately wounded alongside another officer and two soldiers lightly injured during an encounter with a militant who threw a grenade in Beit Yahoun before being eliminated, triggering an immediate medical evacuation — IDF Spokesperson

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⚡️🇺🇸🇹🇷 — The administration of US President Donald Trump officially notified Congress of its intention to sell aircraft engines valued at approximately 700 million dollars to Turkey, representing "an important gesture" to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of an upcoming NATO summit next month — Reuters / official sources

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 — The three-day fifth round of negotiations "failed to achieve a breakthrough" regarding Israeli withdrawal or freedom of movement, with ceasefire efforts stalled by Israeli insistence on remaining positioned until the Lebanese army collects Hezbollah weapons under direct American supervision through a technical committee — a prominent political source via Al-Jumhuriya.

➡️ The Lebanese military delegation rejected entering villages and towns concurrently with the Israeli military presence, insisting that model experimental areas remain exclusively under the yellow line rather than functioning as "areas under occupation" while concurrently refusing the inclusion of Ali al-Taher hill within those experimental zones.

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⚡️🇮🇷🇴🇲🇺🇸 — Iran launched a drone toward a ship in the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt passage and halt maritime traffic after Oman approved an alternative shipping route without coordinating with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, triggering anger in Tehran as Oman faces competing pressures between United States demands for free passage and Iranian insistence on route control — an Iranian source via The New York Times.

➡️ Tehran asserts that Oman cannot provide security guarantees to vessels without Iranian approval, declaring that no external party will be permitted to interfere with its control over the strait.

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⚡️🇴🇲🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The UN International Maritime Organization paused its Strait of Hormuz ship evacuation operation on Thursday after Taiwan's Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely was struck near Oman on a UKMTO-recommended route by an Iranian projectile, likely a drone, damaging its bridge windows without causing casualties, which triggered US officials to blame Iran, while Tehran warned that vessels outside its approved routes will not be guaranteed safe passage — Reuters.

➡️ The incident follows warnings from the Persian Gulf Strait Authority that unauthorized passage consequences remain the responsibility of vessel operators, occurring concurrently with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ordering two Panama-flagged ships to alter course on Thursday.

➡️ Regional shipping adjustments proceeded concurrently as South Korea announced three remaining vessels will depart this weekend following the exit of eight others. Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings at its Ras Tanura terminal via two Bahri VLCCs capable of loading 2 million barrels each after a four-month halt, causing global oil prices to drop on Friday despite the paused IMO operation, which had launched Tuesday utilizing dual routes to "enable ships and their crew" to sail under US oversight.

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