🇦🇿⚡️- Azerbaijan becomes the first majority Muslim country to define antisemitism in school textbooks.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- Violent clashes between pro-Iranian protestors and the Lebanese military, with reports of gunfights too.

The protests have been ongoing for three nights in a row.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "We are on the way to Bunia [Ituri region capital, eastern DR Congo], the people are welcoming us as liberators. They should lay down their arms otherwise we will kill them all," - Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda's Chief of Staff.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼 - There are no verified reports as of yet confirming a Ugandan advance towards Bunia, Ituri region, eastern DR Congo.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Rwanda-DR Congo border in Bukavu, eastern DR Congo, falls to the M23 (AFC).

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: The entire of Bukavu city, eastern DR Congo, falls to M23.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Marco Rubio is now meeting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel.

🇺🇦⚡️- Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on October 26th, 2025.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️-PM Keir Starmer has said he is ready to station British troops in the Ukraine after a ceasefire with Russia. Stating it was “essential if we are to deter Putin from further aggression in the future".

🇵🇸⚡- Hamas has said that it is ready to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- "Saudi Arabia wants to become a mediator between the US and Iran on a new nuclear deal," - CNN.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is taking steps to derail the second phase of Gaza ceasefire deal. Netanyahu is deliberately delaying the process and not initiating discussions on the next phase of the agreement," - The Times of Israel.

🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- European leaders to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine in Paris, France, today. The foreign ministers of the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the EU, and others will be present.

🇷🇺🇸🇦⚡- Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, to visit Saudi Arabia today.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡- Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, arrives in Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇦⚡️- "US and Russia to discuss restoration of ties in Saudi Arabia talks tomorrow." - The Kremlin.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - One year ago today Russian forces captured the strategic city of Avdeevka, Donetsk region.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone strike assassinates Mohammed Shahin, senior Hamas military official, in Sidon, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has used the airstrike to leave his court hearing yet again.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Russia is close to a deal with the new Syrian government that would likely allow it to maintain a reduced military presence in Syria, keeping the Tartus naval base and the Latakia airbase," - Bloomberg.