🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- Hamdan Daglo, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, claims they have captured 16 Egyptians and are holding them as hostages.

🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- The families of the hostages have repeatedly appealed to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry for help, but have received no response.

🇸🇴⚡- Jubaland region in southwest Somalia cuts all ties with Mogadishu and bans the Prime Minister from entering the region. The dispute arose over how to conduct regional elections.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- Iranian Vice President invites Saudi Crown Prince to Tehran, Iran.

🇰🇬⚡- Kyrgyz Special Forces foil a coup attempt. Multiple arrests have been made so far.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia's illegal actions on the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan [Karabakh] will be examined in detail by the International Court of Justice," - Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The Russian Defense Ministry has told Israel that actions similar to the airstrike it carried out near the Russian base in Syria in October are unacceptable.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Armenia fears that Trump's tough policy toward Iran could backfire on their country and strengthen Azerbaijan," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸🇹🇷⚡- After years of waiting, the US has finally agreed to provide Turkey with 40 F-16 fighters. Turkish Defense Minister Guler confirms that the "contracts have been signed" and called the relationship between the two countries "very positive".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The IRGC says they have arrested 12 mercenaries "collaborating with Israel" in the Sistan-Baluchestan region.

🇫🇷🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani President Aliyev accused France of "committing serious crimes on its overseas territories. New Caledonia and French Polynesia were declared self-governing territories by the UN, but colonial rules still remain there." Aliyev also said "France is guilty of polluting the soil and causing damage to French Polynesia as a result of nuclear tests there."

🇩🇪⚡- Bundestag President, Barbel Bas, has received the application to ban the AfD Party. 113 members of the Bundestag have already signed the application.

🇩🇪⚡- Marco Wanderwitz, of the Christian Democratic Union, said he hopes the Bundestag can vote on the ban before the snap elections next year.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "After Trump's victory in the US presidential election, Iran has decided to postpone its retaliation strike against Israel," - Sky News Arabia, citing Iranian sources.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- A building collapsed on Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, killing 7 and injuring many others.

🇹🇭⚡- Thailand invited to become BRICS partner.

🇬🇧⚡- British outlet, The Guardian, has announced that they will be leaving the X platform. The outlet says X has "disturbing content" which " includes far-right conspiracy theories and racism". And X is "a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

🇮🇹⚡- Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, said Elon Musk should respect Italy's sovereignty and stop giving advice to Rome.

🇷🇺🇬🇶⚡- "Russian power creeps across West Africa with Equatorial Guinea mission, as Russia deploys 200 military instructors to the country to protect the Presidency," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The FBI arrest CIA official, Asif Rahman, in Cambodia. Rahman was allegedly behind the leaking of classified documents detailing the plans for Israel’s retaliation against Iran.

🇹🇷🇮🇱 - Reports of Turkey cutting all relations with Israel are incorrect. Erdogan confirmed to cut trade ties only.