Qatar will build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho to host its F-15 jets and train pilots, under an agreement announced with the U.S.

Qatar’s 10-year commitment will fund construction and maintenance, creating hundreds of U.S. jobs.

Source: Axios

🇨🇳 China is the only major world economy where food prices are declining.

Source: FT

NEW: Turkish foreign and defense ministers, along with the director of Turkish Intelligence, will meet their Syrian counterparts in Ankara tomorrow to discuss security cooperation and current developments.

Turkish President Erdogan:

First, I will go to Gaza, then you will.

Turkish President Erdogan:

Israel must stand by the agreement it has signed.

It should end its aggressive policies toward the region, which also pose a threat to the security of its own citizens.

Joe Biden is undergoing five weeks of radiation and hormone therapy for an aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.

Source: NBC News

Trump and Zelensky spoke about possibly giving Ukraine Tomahawk long-range missiles.

No final decision has been made. Zelensky called the 30-minute call “positive and productive,” thanking Trump for support on air defense.

Source: Axios

NEW: Gaza Civil Defense announces that more than 500,000 people have returned to the north since the ceasefire.

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street in May 2002 while still Prime Minister, after Lord Peter Mandelson lobbied for the meeting.

Mandelson described Epstein as “safe” and said Bill Clinton wanted to introduce him to Blair.

Source: BBC

Macron will travel to Egypt on Monday to support the "implementation" of the agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas official to AFP:

Hamas will not participate in the official signing of the agreement.

Hamas official to AFP:

Hamas will repel the aggression if the war resumes in Gaza.

NEW: Ukraine attacks Russia's Belgorod.

Hamas official to AFP:

The idea of expelling members of the movement from Gaza are absurd.

Hamas official to AFP:

Hamas expects more complex negotiations for the second phase of the Trump plan.

Witkoff and Kushner visited Gaza today.

Israeli crowd in Tel Aviv:

"Thank you Trump!"

Steve Witkoff mentions Netanyahu.

Israeli crowd in Tel Aviv boos.

Trump:

I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.

We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.

I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown.

Trump's envoy Witkoff:

We thank the leaders of Türkiye, Qatar, and Egypt for their efforts to reach this moment.

BREAKING: Intense clashes have erupted at several points along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.