🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "FBI Director Kash Patel visited China last week on an unannounced one day visit to discuss fentanyl and law enforcement issues," - Reuters.

🇬🇧🇧🇪⚡- The UK has sent military troops and equipment to Belgium to help with the repeated drone incursions Brussels has been reporting across its country, the BBC reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah announces the death of its 365th member in the past 348 days, since the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire agreement.

🇱🇾🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from prison on bail in Lebanon.

He was arrested in 2016 by Lebanese authorities after he fled Libya over the disappearance of Lebanese Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr in Libya in 1978.

Russia and Turkey both lobbied for his release, but all efforts were blocked by Hezbollah and the Amal Movement. Gaddafi's bail was reduced from $11 million to $0.9 million last week, after a Lebanese court ordered he had been in jail for almost 10 years without a trial.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- The Iranian Foreign Ministry says inspectors from the IAEA visited a number of the country's nuclear sites last week.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- Thailand has suspended their peace agreement with Cambodia after 2 Thai soldiers were seriously injured by land mines that the Thai government claims were "newly planted" in the Si Sa Ket province of Thailand.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: The IDF has launched an unannounced large-scale military operation across the West Bank, with Israeli sources indicating it could last several days.

🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- India and Russia are negotiating guarantees for the safety of Indian labor migrants in Russia, after Indian workers were repeatedly forced to fight for Russia in Ukraine, Indian outlet The Economic Times reports.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has begun its pivot towards the Caribbean waters.

🇺🇸🇧🇾⚡- John Coale has been appointed as the US Special Envoy to Belarus by President Trump.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- Talks between Sudan and Russia for the establishment of a Russian naval base in Sudan on the Red Sea have been suspended, Russia's Ambassador to Sudan announces.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone strike targets an open area near al-Himyari in the Tyre district, southern Lebanon. No casualties reported.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in October, marking the biggest monthly total since the UN began tracking in 2006," - Reuters.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇴🇲⚡- Sana'a International Airport is close to reopening following technical assistance provided by Saudi Arabia and Oman, al-Omana reports.

The opening of the airport and the flow of Saudi humanitarian aid into the Houthi-controlled Yemen are described as "confidence-building steps" in a plan mediated by Oman to establish relations between Riyadh and Sana'a. Talks between the Saudi Kingdom and Ansarullah have been ongoing in Muscat, as Oman have a historically close relationship with the Houthis themselves.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "We [China] have no choice but to cut off that filthy head [of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi] that has come charging in without a moment's hesitation. Are you ready?" - Xue Jian, China's Consul General in Osaka, Japan, in response to Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi's comments that a Taiwan-China conflict would "constitute an existential crisis for Japan" and the Japanese military would potentially get involved.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- "The Chinese mask slips - once again," - US Embassy in Japan.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have complained to China regarding the "extremely inappropriate" comments by the Chinese Consul in Osaka, Japan.

🇯🇵🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "[Xue Jian's] Comments was a response to [Japan's Prime Minister] Takaichi's wrongful and dangerous statements. We urge Tokyo to take a hard look at its historical responsibilities," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, when asked to respond to the comments made by the Chinese Consul General in Osaka, Japan, threatening to behead the Japanese Prime Minister.

🇨🇳 - China's 'wolf warrior diplomacy' – co-crafted by one of China's most powerful individuals, Wang Huning, Chairman of the CPPCC, in the late 00s.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- The Thai army claims Cambodia opened fire towards Thai troops along the Thai-Cambodian border in order to provoke retaliation from Thailand. The incident occurred shortly after a land mine injured two Thai soldiers.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Israeli airstrikes against al-Mahmoudiyah in the Jezzine district, southern Lebanon.