🇺🇸🇧🇴⚡️- Bolivia’s newly elected president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, has vowed to restore ties with the United States, severed in '08 under Evo Morales, and to seek fresh lithium partnerships.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "At the Trump-Zelensky meeting, Zelensky refused to cede any territory with President Trump stating it's preferred to end it along the current front-lines," - Politico.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that President Trump is allowed to deploy National Guard to Portland, Oregon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia is preparing for a winter military offensive campaign," - Ukraine's Defense Ministry Intelligence, GUR.

🇧🇴🇻🇪⚡- Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz spoke over the phone with Venezuelan opposition and the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado.

🇧🇴🇻🇪⚡- "Have hope, we are ready to join the fight to restore democracy in Venezuela," - Rodrigo Paz, Bolivian President-elect.

🇧🇷⚡- "In Latin America and the Caribbean, we are also experiencing a time of growing polarization and instability. Maintaining the region as a zone of peace is our priority. Foreign interventions can cause greater damage than anticipated," - Lula da Silva, President of Brazil.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump currently believes Hamas leaders are willing to continue negotiations in good faith. But there is concern within the Trump administration of Netanyahu withdrawing from the Gaza agreement," - The New York Times, citing a White House official.

🇸🇩⚡️- AFP reports a drone attack in the vicinity of the Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

🇯🇵⚡- BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi becomes the new and first female Prime Minister of Japan.

Takaichi, of the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, won a majority in both of Japan's houses – 237/465 in the Lower House, and 125/248 in the Upper House.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent met with Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Bessent encouraged Smotrich to embrace President Trump's Hamas-Israel peace deal.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Prime Minister has told the White House Tel Aviv strongly opposes any Turkish or Qatari presence in Gaza post-war, calling it a red-line.

The White House, worried Israel may walk out on the deal, insists the role of Turkey and Qatar would be purely humanitarian and civilian. A position rejected by Tel Aviv, as the Israelis believe it will give Ankara and Doha expanded influence," - Israel Hayom.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's meeting scheduled for Thursday has been postponed, White House sources tell CNN.

🇫🇷⚡- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins his five-year prison sentence today at La Sante Prison in Paris.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have reached the Ukrainian-controlled Liman's last line of defense - Liman direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces launched offensive operations in the Orekhov directions. Russian troops have entered the towns of Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will not agree to a ceasefire until the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine are resolved," - Segrei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡- "Putin’s plane could be forced to land for arrest if it flies over Poland on its way to Hungary," - Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Armenia lifts all restrictions on the transit of goods from mainland Azerbaijan through Armenia to the exclave of Nakhchivan.

🇷🇺🇪🇹⚡- Russia's Rosatom announces plans to build a nuclear power plant in Ethiopia.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani President Aliyev has announced Baku has also lifted restrictions on the transit of all goods through Azerbaijan to Armenia. Kazakhstan has already begun dispatching wheat to Yerevan through Baku.