🇱🇧 Hezbollah announces senior commander killed in Israeli strike

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of senior commander Haytham Ali Al-Tabatabaei (known as "Sayyed Abu Ali") in an Israeli strike on the Harat Hreik area in Beirut's southern suburbs.

"He was among the leaders who laid the fundamental cornerstone for this resistance," reads the official statement.

Four other members were also killed in the same targeted assassination.

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🇧🇷🇻🇪 Brazil concerned over potential war in Venezuela, to discuss it with US — Lula da Silva

💬 "I am very concerned about the US military buildup in the Caribbean, and I intend to speak with Trump about it," Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, commenting on the possibility of an armed conflict between the US and Venezuela.

🌎 South America is a peaceful continent, where nations need to focus on their development, he added.

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⛩ Samurai sword rattling: Japan seeks to station missiles near China

📍 Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has announced that his country intends to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missiles on Yonaguni, a Japanese island located about 110 kilometers east of Taiwan.

🔊 Koizumi further insisted that this deployment is purely defensive and that “the view that it will heighten regional tensions is not accurate,” as quoted by Bloomberg.

🇨🇳🇯🇵 Relations between China and Japan soured after hardliner Sanae Takaichi became the latest Japanese prime minister.

🟠 Earlier in November, Takaichi threatened military action if China were to make a move on Taiwan.

🟠 China, which has always made it clear that the Taiwan issue can only be resolved peacefully, criticized Tokyo’s stance and advised Chinese tourists and students to not visit Japan.

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📑 Zelensky may visit US this week — Reports

American and Ukrainian officials are negotiating a possible visit by Zelensky to the US this week, as President Trump pushes for a finalized agreement by Thanksgiving, CBS reports, citing sources.

The trip depends on the outcome of Sunday’s peace talks in Geneva. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it the "best meeting so far," a senior White House official said no hard plans are set.

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✍️ US and Ukraine develop updated draft peace agreement — White House

Following Geneva talks, the White House issued a joint statement, describing the negotiations as "constructive" with "significant progress in reconciling positions."

Final decisions on the draft will be made by Trump and Zelensky after further intensive work in the coming days.

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💬 FCC paves way for 'fake news' media monopoly — Trump

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy warns a proposed $6.2B Nexstar merger would put local news under anti-Trump control in 80% of US households.

According to legal scholars, the FCC is bypassing federal law in order to push this through without Congress.

"ABC & NBC… are a virtual arm of the Democrat Party. NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS. If anything, make them SMALLER!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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🤝 Canada and India resume trade talks after 2-year pause

Prime Ministers Mark Carney and Narendra Modi agreed to restart negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement during the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

According to the statement from India's Prime Minister's Office, the deal aims to double bilateral trade to $50-70 billion by 2030, signaling a thaw in relations after a two-year diplomatic freeze.

Both leaders also reaffirmed civil nuclear cooperation and discussed long-term uranium supply arrangements.

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🗣 US Senator calls to dissolve NATO

Utah Senator Mike Lee has called for the dissolution of NATO, arguing the alliance has allowed Europe to fund socialism while relying on American protection.

He proposed creating a "European Treaty Organization" (ETO) instead, where European nations could include Ukraine or any other country in their own defense pact.

"NATO is now obsolete, so the time has come for it to be dissolved," Mike Lee wrote on X.

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🇵🇸 Palestinian authority engages US, Tony Blair on post-war statehood plans

PA Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh met with Tony Blair and a US representative in Ramallah to discuss post-war governance, reconstruction, and steps toward Palestinian statehood following the UNSC resolution.

Al-Sheikh praised Trump and mediators for "consolidating the ceasefire, facilitating humanitarian aid, reconstruction, and moving toward peace."

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🎤 Dodik declares victory in Republika Srpska Presidential Election

Milorad Dodik, leader of Bosnia’s Serb-majority entity, announced that his party’s candidate, Sinisa Karan, has won the snap presidential election.

With 95.61% of votes counted, Karan leads with 208,988 votes — a margin of nearly 9,000 over his closest rival.

Back in February, Bosnia's court convicted Dodik for defying the decisions of the UN's "high representative in BiH," Christian Schmidt. He was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from holding public office for six years.

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🗣 Sen. Paul: MAGA movement will 'splinter' if US invades Venezuela

Senator Rand Paul warned that Trump’s base could fracture if the administration pursues military action in Venezuela or renews large-scale aid to Ukraine.

He pointed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a key advocate for regime change — a position at odds with Trump’s original non-interventionist appeal.

"I think once there’s an invasion of Venezuela… you’ll see a splintering and a fracturing of the movement," he told CBS News.

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😪 ‘Boxed-in’ Zelensky in very weak position - Ex-CIA analyst

Keith Kellogg, the US president’s special envoy for Ukraine, has effectively cornered Zelensky with his impending resignation, believes Ray McGovern, a former CIA intelligence analyst.

Hardliners like Keith Kellogg “were selling the world that Ukraine is winning, the Russians are losing, and the Russian economy is going down,” he says, and Zelensky himself believed it.

🗣 But now Zelensky has suddenly realized he’s “boxed in.”  His regime is drowning in corruption; his cronies are being shown for what they truly are: “a bunch of kleptocrats,” notes McGovern, adding:

💬 “Overall, given the corruption and failures on the battlefield, Zelensky is in a very weak position.”

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❌ George Galloway: Zelensky won’t get away with ‘grand larceny’

Zelensky won’t be able to dodge responsibility for the massive corruption scandal engulfing Ukraine, says ex-British MP George Galloway.

💬 “Zelensky is not going to get away with this level of theft. Someone somewhere is probably even now contemplating how they're going to hold him accountable,” he says, adding that it’s nothing short of “grand larceny.”

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🔸 US and Ukraine develop updated draft peace agreement — White House

🔸 Hezbollah announces senior commander killed in Israeli strike

🔸 Dodik declares victory in Republika Srpska Presidential Election

🔸 US Senator calls to dissolve NATO

🔸 Canada and India resume trade talks after 2-year pause

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👀 Europe braces for looming US’ Ukraine cutoff—report

Europe’s war hawks are drawing up plans in case US President Donald Trump decides to pull the plug on support for Ukraine, reports the Financial Times.

💬 “That’s a scenario we are obviously planning for,” a European official was cited as confirming.

European diplomats are gearing up for further meetings this week between France, Germany, and the UK.

The consultations could also reportedly involve leaders of Poland, Finland, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Meanwhile, the US and Ukrainian officials reported progress in Geneva talks on Trump’s peace plan.

🗣 Their joint statement described the talks as “constructive, focused, and respectful.”

The final text of any agreement will need to be first signed by Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Zelensky before being sent to Russia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday.

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👉 Timing of Zelensky corruption probe matters — Donetsk People’s Republic head

💬 "I believe it's not a coincidence that these materials [covering the corruption of Zelensky’s inner circle] have surfaced right now, coinciding with those, let's say, versions of peace agreements we're seeing in the media," the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said in an interview.

The decision whether to utilize the investigation to compel Zelensky into accepting a peace deal or not will be made in the US, he added.

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💣❌💪🏻 Russia’s FSB eliminates saboteurs planning to derail trains

The criminals coordinated with Ukraine to install a device on the railway tracks in the Altai region of Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) stated.

They were recruited via Telegram and offered money for the terrorist act, it noted.

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📹 Watch the apocalyptic scale of destruction in southern Gaza City

Entire neighborhoods and buildings have been flattened, leaving behind a lifeless landscape of rubble, AP's new drone footage shows.

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🚨🇷🇺Russia has received no information about the Geneva talks involving the US, Ukraine, and European countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

👉He added that Moscow hasn’t seen any draft plan from those contacts.

❗️The Kremlin also refuses to discuss any US proposal on Ukraine through the media, calling it “impossible and inappropriate.”

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🇺🇸 US slaps Ukraine with aid ultimatum over peace deal—report

The US delegation that met with Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva to thrash out Trump’s peace plan now plans to hold a separate meeting with a Russian delegation, reports ABC News.

👀 The US team in Switzerland had included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, among others.

The US has threatened Ukraine with a complete halt to all assistance if it doesn’t agree to the proposed deal, the publication cited a high-ranking Ukrainian official as saying.

👉 This pause would freeze US air defense missile deliveries, cut off intelligence sharing, and suspend all other weapons support, the official said.

Marco Rubio said that “good progress" was made at the Geneva talks on Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Russia is ready for peace talks and that Trump’s plan could form the basis for a final settlement in Ukraine.

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