🇸🇾 - World Bank says rebuilding Syria will cost about $216 billion — roughly ten times the country's GDP for 2024.

🇬🇧🇸🇾 - UK government removes HTS from its list of banned terrorist organizations.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities confirm they have identified the two dead Israeli hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday.

🇫🇷🇸🇾 - Government forces confirm they have surrounded a camp housing French jihadists near Harem, Syria.

🇺🇸 - CBS News reports the US military recently struck a drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.

🇺🇳🇺🇸🇻🇪 - UN experts say US strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to "extrajudicial executions."

🇨🇳 - European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announces the opening of its second assembly line in China.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - US Vice President JD Vance says the country will not send troops to Gaza.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - US President Donald Trump announces new sanctions targeting Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Ministry says nuclear talks with the US will not resume because of "unreasonable demands."

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - US Vice President JD Vance says Israel will not annex the West Bank.

🇵🇸🇺🇳 - WHO says rebuilding Gaza's health system will cost at least $7 billion.

🇺🇸🇨🇦 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he aims to reduce economic and security reliance on the US.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for dialogue after a meeting with US President Donald Trump was postponed.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russian President Vladimir Putin says new sanctions against the country will not significantly affect its economy.

🇨🇴🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses the US of conducting "extrajudicial executions" in the Caribbean.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US President Donald Trump says there will be "land action" in Venezuela soon.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirms the destruction of a drug vessel in the Caribbean.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - Chinese lawmakers establish October 25 as the "Commemoration Day of Taiwan's Restoration."

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders the deployment of an aircraft carrier to South American waters.

🇺🇸🇨🇴 - US Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, citing illicit drugs.