🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Ismail Haniyeh, former Chairman of the Political Bureau of Hamas, was in the middle of a phone call during the time of his assassination in Tehran," al-Alam, Iranian outlet.

🇰🇪⚡- Devastating landslides struck Chesongoch Road in the Rift Valley, Kenya, leaving 26 dead.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Hegseth bars military officials from discussing sensitive military operations, including drug boat strikes, with Congress without prior approval," - CNN.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Peak tension on the Israeli Northern Front – a month from now the Lebanese government deadline for Hezbollah's disarmament in Lebanon ends," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸⚡- USS George H.W. Bush has departed from her base at Norfolk, VA.

The aircraft carrier's main radar is on, which is typically a sign that the vessel will enter active operations.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas have handed over the bodies of three Israeli deceased hostages, leaving eleven within the Gaza Strip.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "The [Ansarullah] front in Yemen is a very serious threat to Israel and we will do everything we can to remove it," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇨🇳🇰🇷 - China's Xi doesn't seem to be a fan of Korean Makgeolli.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: An Israeli infantry unit crossed the blue line in the Kroum al-Marah sector, on the outskirts of the town of Meiss el-Jabal, Lebanon. In response the Lebanese army deployed reinforcements to the area, the Israeli infantry unit then retreated back to Israeli territory.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ - This marks a huge shift in policy from the Lebanese government, after direct order from Lebanese President Joseph Aoun the Lebanese army is now directly confronting Israeli advances into Lebanese territory.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- Turkey's biggest refineries, SOCAR and Tupras, are joining China and India in cutting Russian oil imports after the US and European sanctions on Russian energy giants, Reuters reports.

Turkey is turning to Iraqi and Kazakh alternatives.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Today marks exactly two months since the US began striking narco-terrorist vessels in international waters in the Eastern Pacific and the Carribbean waters.

- 15 strikes in total. 3 in September, 11 in October and 1 in November.
- 65 narco-terrorists have been eliminated in total.
- 9 strikes occurred in the Carribbean waters, with the other 6 in the Eastern Pacific.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Parliamentarians from 14 different countries met in Caracas, Venezuela, calling for the respect of international law amid the so-called US 'military aggression' which allegedly threatens Venezuela's sovereignty.

The 14 countries demand an immediate end to US military operations in the Carribbean arena.

"We, parliamentarians from the nations of Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras and Uruguay gathered in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, for the purpose of defending peace, respect for sovereignty and international law in our region, in the face of the growing threats and aggression by the government of the United States of America," - Joint statement from the 14 countries in Caracas.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡- Estonia's Foreign Ministry demands an explanation from Russia after a Russian patrol vessel under the Wagner Group's flag was seen in the Narva river.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, a cruiser and four destroyers have entered the South China Sea, and are positioned just southeast of the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

Marking it the largest US deployment to the disputed waters in over a quarter of a century, delivering on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's promise on tackling Chinese gray zone tactics in the Indo-Pacific arena.

🇺🇸🇳🇬⚡- "There could be US airstrikes and military boots on the ground in Nigeria.

Record numbers of Christians in Nigeria are being killed. There are other very bad countries in that part of the world where they're killing Christians in very large numbers. We're not going to allow that to happen," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Two US B1-B Bombers have departed from Misawa Air Base, Japan.