⚡️🇶🇦🇵🇸 - An official statement was issued by the Qatari Foreign Ministry denying the rumors regarding the closure of the Hamas office, as well as Qatar’s complete withdrawal from the mediation.

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump’s campaign released an official statement today ruling out Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley as potential cabinet personnel.

🇨🇦🦠⚡️- Canada has reported the first human case of H5 bird flu. A teenager has been hospitalized.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN has called Arizona for Trump, officially ending the 2024 United States presidential elections. Trump won all 7 swing states.

🇮🇹🇮🇱⚡️- Italy's largest air carrier, ITA, has cancelled all flights to and from Israel until January 12th, 2025.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- Turkish President Erdogan to discuss US troop withdrawal from northern Syria with US President-elect Trump.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- Turkish President Erdogan says he has no problems working with US President-elect Trump, as they had "no problems during the previous term".

🇧🇷🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli tourist will be deported back to Israel after being arrested 3 days ago on Boipeba Island, Bahia in Brazil. The tourist allegedly called two black workers "monkeys" while they were transporting his luggage.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Chief of Staff Fayyadh al-Ruwaili arrives in Iran.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡- "After Donald Trump won the US Presidential elections, Europe is preparing for a new life at a greater distance from the United States than at any time since ... 1941," - Bloomberg.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from 'Private Sector', southeast Moscow, Russia.

This morning saw the largest attack on Moscow since the Second World War. Over 40 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow alone, 32 were shot down by air defenses. Only one injury reported, a 52 year old local. Several dozen Ukrainian drones targeted other regions of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes in Volchans'k, northern Kharkov direction. Video from a Ukrainian soldier.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin will retain control over 20% of Ukraine's territory, but Ukraine will join the EU and in 3-5 years will receive a pass to NATO," - James Stavridis, former Senior NATO Commander.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The deal will include some kind of demilitarized zone between the two sides, like in Korea, which will be patrolled by European NATO soldiers and not American soldiers," - James Stavridis, former Senior NATO Commander.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Negotiations on a ceasefire and a final settlement will take months and will not fully satisfy either side, while the war continues," - James Stavridis, former Senior NATO Commander.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The United States has suspended the delivery of 134 D9 bulldozers that Israel ordered for its army," - Ynet.

🇮🇷🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has decided against attending COP29 Summit scheduled to be held tomorrow in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Pezeshkian initially faced widespread criticism from Iran's right-wing media as Israel's President Herzog has planned to travel to the summit too.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵⚡- "50,000 Russian and North Korean troops are preparing for a massive offensive to retake territory in the Kursk region," - New York Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I have spoken three times with President-elect Donald Trump in recent days. These were very good and important conversations. We agree on the Iranian threat in all its components and the danger it poses," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇩🇪⚡- German Chancellor candidate and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Friedrich Merz threatens Putin "to stop striking targets in Ukraine within 24 hours, otherwise he will allow Kiev to strike deep into the Russia" and supply "Kiev with Taurus cruise missiles".

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel has for the first time taken responsibility for the pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon in mid-September.

Netanyahu admitted responsibility and claimed some in the war cabinet opposed the operation, likely referring to former Defense Minister Gallant.