🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — Hamas says it is open to discussions about “freezing or storing” its weapons in the next phase of its ceasefire with Israel, AP reports.

➡️ Senior Hamas political official Bassem Naim stated in Doha that the group supports a long-term truce of five to ten years linked to progress toward a Palestinian state, while maintaining its “right to resist.”

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump says he will sign an executive order this week to replace the mix of state laws with a single national standard regarding AI.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️ — NEW: Israeli operatives secretly monitored U.S. forces and allied officials at the joint Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, recording meetings without authorization, according to The Guardian.

➡️ The surveillance became so extensive that the U.S. commander at the facility ordered Israeli counterparts to halt the recordings.

➡️ The center includes U.S., Israeli, and allied military planners, as well as diplomats and aid officials, but no Palestinian representatives.

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukrainian President Zelensky told Bloomberg that negotiations on a U.S.-brokered peace plan are still stuck over who controls eastern Ukraine, even as Trump grows frustrated with Kyiv’s position.

➡️ He says negotiators still don’t have a common understanding regarding the Donbas, including Donetsk and Luhansk, and that security guarantees from Western partners are still unsettled.

🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧⚡️ — Zelensky, Starmer, Macron, and Merz are now meeting in London.

🇳🇬🇧🇯⚡️ — A video recorded yesterday shows a Nigerian A-29 Super Tucano fighter jet maneuvering to evade gunfire from forces led by Colonel Pascal Tigri, the officer behind the coup attempt.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡️ — DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi has called for a complete and verifiable withdrawal of all foreign armed forces from Congolese territory, “whether official or covert.”

🇹🇭❌🇰🇭 — Royal Thai Army First Area Army troops destroyed the Golden Horse Monument, a symbol of the Royal Cambodian Army’s 3rd Support Division, located in Phlan Hin Paet Kon along the Thai-Cambodian border.

🇰🇭❌🇹🇭 — Cambodia’s Ministry of the Interior has released a statement condemning Thailand’s attacks, accusing Bangkok of targeting civilian areas.

➡️ The ministry said Cambodian forces are exercising restraint and adhering to the peace agreement signed earlier this year.

➡️ It also urged the international community to denounce Thailand’s actions and intervene.

🇨🇳🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: China’s trade surplus exceeded $1 trillion for the first time, fueled by a strong export rebound amid sluggish domestic demand.

➡️ Exports to the U.S. fell 29% because of Trump-era tariffs, while shipments to Southeast Asia and Europe rose sharply.

🇰🇭❌🇹🇭 — Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defense says Thai forces have attacked them with F-16 airstrikes, small arms fire, artillery, armored units, and gas, while insisting that Cambodia has "not responded" to any of the Thai attacks.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S.-Ukraine peace talks are stalled over the Donbas region, according to Politico.

➡️ The U.S. is pressing Ukraine to cede the territory Russia has not captured, while Ukraine insists any deal should freeze the conflict along current frontlines, leaving about 30% of Donbas under Ukrainian control.

🇯🇵🌊 — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit off Japan’s Aomori Prefecture, causing violent Shindo 6-upper shaking.

➡️ Tsunami warnings have been issued, and evacuations are underway along much of the northeastern coast.

🇯🇵❗️ — Scenes from Japan’s Aomori Prefecture, as the earthquake struck.