🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te to give a "key" speech ahead of its 'National Day' celebrations.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Lai's speech could trigger a military response," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "United States is adding fuel to the fire on the Taiwan issue by providing arms to Taipei, and pushing Taiwan step by step into a dangerous situation of war," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman, after it was confirmed 3 members of the US Congress will be in attendance for Lai Ching-te's speech tomorrow.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Lai has recycled the ‘Taiwan independence’ fallacy once again and exposed his malicious intent to escalate hostility and confrontation," - Zhu Fenglian, China's Spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affairs Ministry.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "It is impossible for China to be the motherland of Taiwan. On the contrary, it is Taiwan which is the motherland of China. China is only 75 years old," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China is likely to launch military drills this week near Taiwan, using Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's upcoming national day speech tomorrow as a pretext," - Reuters.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- More than 300 rockets were fired by Hezbollah towards the Israeli city of Safed, one of the largest single attacks by Hezbollah since the beginning of the war.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden and Netanyahu to speak via phone in roughly 30 minutes.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Hezbollah arrivals in Safed, northern Israel. There are reports of several casualties.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Safed, northern Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden and Netanyahu are now talking over the phone.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Moment a Hezbollah rocket impacted earlier in Safed, northern Israel.

🇵🇸⚡- "Representatives of Fatah and Hamas have reached an agreement to create a committee to jointly govern the Gaza Strip," - Sky News Arabia.

🇵🇸⚡- "The new committee will consist of 10-15 members from the Palestinian Authority who are not members of the various Palestinian armed factions," - Sky News Arabia.

🇵🇸⚡- "The new committee will take over the management of border crossings, health care, education and social development. It will also oversee humanitarian aid to residents," - Sky News Arabia.

🌩⚡️- Hurricane Milton has spawned the first supercell near Miccosukee, Florida, close to I-75.

🌩️⚡️- Scenes from Clewiston, Florida.

🇰🇼⚡- Kuwaiti Air Force confirms the death of the pilot who crashed their F/A-18 jet during exercises earlier today.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Massive explosions at Odessa's Port, Ukraine. Russia likely hit a container ship.

🇷🇺🇾🇪⚡- Russia is preparing to open an embassy in Aden, South Yemen, territory held by the separatist, anti-Ansarullah and UAE-backed 'Southern Transitional Council'.