🇺🇸🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "At present, it is undertaking an escalating deployment of military forces mere miles from the Venezuelan coasts," - Venezuela's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇨🇳🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "We hope that Washington will listen to the voice of the countries of the region and ensure peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean," - China's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "At the President’s direction, the Department of War is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe.

The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold," - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "The US government hides its crimes using the mask of self-defense," - Venezuela's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "There is a killer roaming the Caribbean, a killer looking for pretexts to spark conflict," - Venezuela's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇺🇳⚡- "The United States is the only government that declares the principle of shoot first and ask questions later," - Venezuela's Representative to the UN at the Venezuelan-requested UNSC.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ - Bitcoin has crashed over $6,000 just seconds after President Trump's announcement of a 100% tariff on China.

🇻🇪⚡- Images show Venezuela 'blocking' most of their airstrips in the country every night by placing an aircraft at either end. The aircrafts are then removed every morning, so the strip can be used.

The airstrip shown in the media is at the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base, Caracas – at 10.4850000, -66.8436111.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Trump announces he will still be meeting with President Xi at APEC, South Korea.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- This was the largest crypto liquidation event in history, at nearly $10 billion.

🇲🇩⚡- Moldova's authorities present their reintegration plan for the breakaway region Pridnestrovie (Transnistria).

The plan aims to reintegrate Tiraspol with the rest of the country by 2027, with Chisinau hoping to join the EU by 2028.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Lebanese security forces foiled a large-scale Israeli plot that wanted to carry out simultaneous attacks and explosions during the anniversary of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's assassination.

The plot was organized by a group of agents within Lebanon, led by a German "Martin." Five arrests have so far been made.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Reports are coming out that this liquidation event may have been much larger, nearly $30-40 billion.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- At the height of today's crypto volatility, Bitcoin’s price went up and down by thousands of dollars every few seconds.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- A time-lapse of Bitcoin’s 1 second chart, illustrating what happened earlier today.

🇸🇾⚡- The SDF and Damascus have reached an agreement in which the SDF will hand over all oil production in the al-Jazeera region of Deir ez-Zur.

🇷🇺⚡- "The nuclear race has begun and Russia is testing new-generation nuclear weapons," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Violent protests in Lahore, eastern Pakistan – security forces have begun to use live fire rounds.

The protests are in support of the far-right Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik, Islamabad's fourth largest political party.

11 civilian casualties reported.

🇵🇰⚡- Scenes from Lahore.

The pro-Tehreek-i-Labbaik protestors accuse the Chief of Staff Asim Munir (arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan) of "surrendering to Israel and the US."