Vladimir Putin to meet Chinese Xi Jinping.

Analysts compare Putin's reception to Trump's noting unnecessary minor details of difference.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 ❗ LOSS FOR TRUMP

U.S. Senate officially advanced the Iran War Powers Resolution in a 50–47 vote.

The measure would require congressional approval for continued U.S. military strikes on Iran.

The war is done, Israel on its own.

US ⚡ 🇮🇷 Iran military general refutes claims that there was ever a pilot whose plane was downed in Iran.

Says it was a ploy to steal uranium and it failed terribly.

USS Gerald Ford docked in USA a few dats ago having not achieved much in terms of creating a regime change scenarios.

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia - China meet

President Putin confirms his participation in the APEC summit in Shenzhen this November & invites Xi to Russia next year

Iranian media releases photos of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei with late former President Ebrahim Raisi.

Raisi died in a helicopter crash in 2024.

Is Iran hinting that the younger Khamenei is dead?

🇮🇷 Iran's speaker Ghalibaf feels US wants to start a new war.

US and Iran have had hardline stance on a number of issues top of them nuclear enrichment.

Russia says Iran has a right to nuclear technology.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 USA - Israeli relations

JUST IN - Trump says Netanyahu "will do whatever I want him to do. He's a great guy," adding, "I'm right now, at 99% in Israel. I could run for Prime Minister. So, maybe after I do this I'll go to Israel run for Prime Minister."

🇨🇳🇷🇺 Russia - China meet

Vladimir Putin met with Premier of the State Council of the PRC Li Qiang in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

❗⚡ Kanye West says he made Elon Musk

🤖 Perplexity adds Web Search to Agent Models

Why it matters: Perplexity’s Agent Models docs now list Web Search and describe it as providing “source-grounded context.”

Builders using Perplexity agents for grounded retrieval should review the new capability and test it in their integration.

🇺🇸 🇨🇺 ❗ The U.S. Department of Justice announces the indictment of Raúl Castro and several others with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals.

Trump tells journalists, 'we have to help Cuban people'.

❗🇺🇸🇷🇺 Don't wanna say that: Trump rules out Maduro-like military action against Cuba.

❗ Big reversal: The US just lifted sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese — the sharp critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.

This comes just one week after a federal judge ruled the sanctions violated her freedom of speech.

Treasury quietly updated its site today, removing her under “International Criminal Court-related Designation Removal.”

Is this free speech win… or strategic backdown? What’s your take on this timing?"