🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Pakistan reaffirms its mediation role between the US and Iran while warning it will side with Saudi Arabia if called upon, Reuters reports.

➡️ Foreign ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi called on "all parties to exercise maximum restraint," saying "there is no alternative to sustained engagement, dialogue, and diplomacy."

➡️ Pakistani officials say the mediation effort is as much about securing oil and gas supply routes — disrupted by tensions around the Strait of Hormuz — as it is about diplomatic influence.

➡️ One Pakistani official said Islamabad has no intention of abandoning its mediator role: "We have invested a lot in it, and we have an interest in keeping it afloat."

➡️ A separate Pakistani source close to the mediation was more direct: "If Saudi calls us in, we will stand by them and there is no doubt about that."

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — Rogan: Most people think Epstein was Mossad.

Vance: "Ya. Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel…He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence."

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — American projectiles struck locations near Qeshm Island at 18:10 local time, Mehr News Agency reports.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Hormozgan Province governorate confirms US missiles struck locations near Bandar Abbas.

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🇮🇷❌🇦🇪🇺🇸 — CONFIRMED: Explosions reported in Dubai, UAE, Reuters reports.

-UPDATE: UAE local sources denying the Reuters report.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage shows the damage to a cargo ship in the Black Sea, reportedly struck by a Russian drone. The ship was allegedly carrying military cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the port of Chornomorske, in the Odesa region.

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🇮🇶⚡️ — Explosions reported in Al-Faw, near the Iraq-Kuwait border.

🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — NEW: Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has warned that Saudi oil and vital facilities will be targeted if Riyadh escalates against Yemen.

➡️ Al-Houthi declared: "Sanaa airport for Riyadh airport, airports for airports, ports for ports, blockade for blockade."

➡️ He made no mention of closing the Bab el-Mandeb strait, despite reports Iran asked the Houthis to stand ready to do so if the US strikes Iranian infrastructure.

➡️ The threat follows Houthi missile strikes on Saudi Arabia this week, after accusing Riyadh of backing strikes on Sanaa airport.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Senate Democrats block the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act over Trump's war with Iran and US-Israeli military integration provisions.

➡️ The procedural vote failed mostly along party lines, with Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen voting against advancing the bill.

➡️ The NDAA includes a $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget — a roughly 28% increase over current base spending — plus $350 billion in supplemental funding for munitions, shipbuilding, missile defense, drones, and AI.

➡️ A provision quietly added to this year's bill would significantly expand US military and intelligence coordination with Israel, including cooperation with Israeli surveillance and AI contractors.

➡️ Sen. Ed Markey has separately introduced the Slash the Pentagon Act, which would cap military spending at $750 billion.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇶 — Satellite imagery indicates a U.S. Patriot air defense launcher at Erbil Airport was destroyed by an Iranian Shahed-136 drone strike overnight.

➡️ Iran systematically degrade air defense capabilities of US in the region.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Zelensky's sweeping government reshuffle has undermined Ukraine's defense capability, the Financial Times reports.

Zelensky announced a major cabinet reorganization, describing it as necessary for an "updated political strategy" — the third such reshuffle since the start of the war.

Svyridenko is leaving her post; Naftogaz chief Sergiy Koretsky, a former state secretary at Ukraine's Defense Ministry, is cited as a leading candidate to replace her.

The frequent leadership changes come as Ukraine simultaneously faces Russian strikes, weapons supply challenges, and pressure to scale up drone production, directly disrupting state institutions.

Zelensky intends to assign individual officials dedicated portfolios covering key foreign policy tracks, including relations with the US, Europe, Poland, Hungary, China, the Middle East, and international organizations.

The reshuffle caught part of Ukraine's political elite off guard — Rada sources say the changes had been expected in autumn but were accelerated.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Strike reported on a logistics company in Dnepropetrovsk, per local authorities.

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