🇱🇧⚡- Rodolphe Haykal, Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, has finished presenting his plans to disarm non-state actors.

Haykal and other military officials have now left the government meeting as well.

🇺🇦🇪🇺🇸🇰⚡- Slovakian Prime Minister Fico, after meeting Ukraine's Zelensky, says he supports Ukraine's "movement towards the EU" as well as security guarantees post-war.

🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: The Lebanese government session has ended, with the ministers accepting the military's plan on disarming non-state actors.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Jason Miller, former Trump campaign senior advisor, signed a $150,000 a month contract with the Indian Embassy this year to influence public opinion and the Trump Administration on behalf of India.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Starmer Government has undergone major shakeups after weeks of speculation round Deputy PM Angela Rayner. Rayner has now resigned leading to a reshuffling of 9 ministers so far.

Those who have resigned from all positions:
Deputy PM Angela Reyner
Leader of House of Commons Lucy Powell
Scotland Secretary of State Ian Murray

Those who have moved to new positions:
David Lammy the former Foreign Secretary is now the Deputy PM (the highest government position ever held by an African in British history.)
Yvette Cooper former Home Secretary is now the Foreign Secretary.
Shavana Mahmood former Justice Secretary is now the Home Secretary.
Steve Reed is now the Housing Secretary.
Peter Kyle is now Business Secretary.
Pat McFadden is now in charge of the Department for Work and Pensions and part of the Department for Education.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽⚡️- Trump Administration is preparing to start renegotiating the USMCA trade agreement passed under the first Trump Admin.

🇺🇸⚡️- Official ICE deportation data has been released due to FOIA requests. Official data shows little "self deportations" as claimed by MAGA influencers and a slowing rate of deportations since the summer began.

🇬🇧⚡️- Zia Yusuf, whose family immigrated from Sri Lanka in the 80s, has been named the Head of Policy for Reform UK. Yusuf was the largest donor to the party during the 2024 general election.

🇬🇧⚡️- Yusuf was also responsible for the ejection of MP Rupert Lowe from the party after he accused Lowe of physically assaulting him. Nigel Farage himself has come to Yusuf's defense recently against criticism he received online over being Muslim and from an immigrant family.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has changed his social media handles to read 'Secretary of War,' in reference to the recent executive order by President Trump changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Note: The name change can only be codified by an act of Congress, meaning the Department of Defense has not yet changed its name.

🇺🇸 - "America First. Peace Through Strength." - The White House, via a post on X.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- During a live press interview from the Oval Office, President Trump answered a question regarding the flyover of Venezuelan F-16s by turning to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine and directly authorizing him to do "anything you want" to any Venezuelan jets.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Department of Defense has rebranded on X.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- House Speaker Mike Johnson says that President Trump was an FBI informant tasked with taking down Epstein.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- CNN reports that President Trump is weighing US military strikes against terrorist cartels inside Venezuela, in addition to targeting them in the Caribbean.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "A leaked draft of the new US National Defense Strategy shows the Pentagon is pivoting from deterring China to prioritizing homeland and Western Hemisphere security," - Politico.

🇨🇦🇦🇺🇹🇼⚡- Australian HMAS Brisbane destroyer and the Canadian HMCS Ville de Quebec frigate are transiting through the Taiwan Strait.

🇺🇦🇸🇰⚡- Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico says his country will assist in providing security guarantees to Ukraine post-war.

Fico asserts no Slovakian troops will be deployed onto Ukrainian territory, however, Slovakian land can be used for logistical purposes.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- A disturbing conversation between China's Xi, Russia's Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un during the Victory Day parade in Beijing, China.

The conversation was about immortality, organ harvesting and life expectancy.

Note, the footage has been banned in China, with Chinese authorities also threatening international publications with legal actions - the video has been taken down by Reuters already. The video was initially published by CCTV, Chinese state media.

- Xi Jinping: "Earlier, people rarely lived to 70 years, but these days at 70 you're still a child."

- Vladimir Putin: "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger, and younger, and even achieve immortality."

- Xi Jinping: "Predictions are, this century there's a chance of living up to 150 years."