🇨🇮 - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara secures a fourth term in office, winning 89.77% of the vote.

🇺🇸 - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces three "lethal strikes" against four drug vessels in the eastern Pacific.

🇵🇱🇧🇾 - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says two more border crossings with Belarus could be reopened in November.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities accuse Hamas of handing over the body of an hostage already recovered by the military.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders "powerful strikes" to be carried out immediately in Gaza.

🇸🇩 - African Union condemns the "atrocities" and "alleged war crimes" committed by the RSF in al-Fashir, Sudan.

🇯🇵 - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announces plans to strengthen the country's defense capabilities.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 - TASS says Belarus will deploy Russia's new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile system in December.

🇺🇸🇷🇴 - The Romanian Defense Ministry says the US plans to scale back its military presence along Europe's eastern border.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵 - US President Donald Trump says he will work to resolve tensions between North Korea and South Korea.

🇸🇾🇽🇰 - Syria recognizes Kosovo's independence.

🇺🇸🇧🇦 - US Department of the Treasury lifts all sanctions on Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik.

🇫🇷🇺🇳🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Diplomatic sources say France ordered UNIFIL to shoot down the Israeli military drone over Lebanon on Monday.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli military confirms it struck several targets in Gaza, killing 30 militants overnight.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Palestinian Civil Defence reports at least 100 deaths following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇱🇧 - US special envoy Morgan Ortagus urges the Lebanese government to fully disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli military says it is resuming the ceasefire in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇰🇷 - US President Donald Trump says he has given South Korea approval to build nuclear-powered submarines.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - The Chinese government says it will "absolutely not" rule out the use of force with regard to Taiwan.

🇺🇸 - US President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Department of Defense to resume testing nuclear weapons.

🇰🇷🇺🇸🇨🇳 - US President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea.