🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "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.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his professional team met with the head of Egyptian intelligence at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

In the meeting, they discussed advancing President Trump's plan, Israel-Egypt relations, strengthening peace between the countries, as well as other regional issues," - Netanyahu's Press Office.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Rubio-Lavrov meeting has been rescheduled for next week Thursday, October 30th, in Budapest.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump has released a statement on TRUTH Social in the midst of speculation that the Gaza ceasefire is in jeopardy.

Trump threatened to go into Gaza to "straighten our [sic] Hamas" if they "continue to act badly," adding that the end of Hamas will be "fast, furious, and brutal."

🇬🇧🇸🇾⚡- Britain removes Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from its list of terrorist organizations.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "No plans for President Trump to meet President Putin in the immediate future," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump’s policy on Ukraine is going in circles," - AFP, citing a Ukrainian official.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi.

🇺🇸⚡- Speaker Johnson plans to permit a floor vote on the release of Epstein files when Congress reconvenes: "If it hits 218, it comes to the floor."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump-Putin summit in Budapest, Hungary, is called off after a phone call between Rubio and Lavrov to prepare for peace talks turned sour," - The Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio to join Vice President JD Vance in Israel in the coming days.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- A senior Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus, Syria.