🇨🇴🇺🇲⚡️- Colombia recalls their ambassador to the US for "consultations".

🇦🇺🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- China has accused Australia of violating its airspace after an Australian P-8A Poseidon passed over China-administrated Woody Island in the China-Vietnam disputed Paracel Islands, South China Sea.

Australia have denied the accusations, claiming the aircraft flew in international airspaces.

🇾🇪🇩🇯🇷🇺⚡- Early indications suggest that the source of the blast on the Russian shadow tanker MV FALCON was related to its cargo itself. One person still remains missing.

Reuters reports operations to salvage the vessel are now underway.

Note, reports that the tanker was heading to an Ansarullah port are all false. Reports that the tanker departed from Iran or is a part of Tehran's shadow fleet are all false. The tanker is owned by India's Delta Overseas and operated by Russia's SIBUR. It departed from Sohar Port, Oman, and was heading to Djibouti.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

🇲🇲⚡- The two junta pockets in Bhamo city, northern Myanmar, continue to merge together into a single front. Myanmar's junta forces have driven the Kachin Independence Army from the residential areas south of Bhamo Airport.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli drone activity over Lebanon, including Beirut. Israeli military activity in Lebanon has increased ever since the Gaza ceasefire.

🇺🇸🇦🇺⚡- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is welcomed into the White House by President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- "26% of Republicans and independents would back Donald Trump Jr. over JD Vance and other contenders in the 2028 Presidential race," - Center Square.

🇺🇸🇦🇺⚡- BREAKING: US and Australia sign a mega $8.5 billion rare earth mineral deal. The deal will see 30 critical metals flow from Australia to the US.

🇺🇸🇦🇺⚡- "In about a year from now, we'll have so much critical mineral and rare earths that you won't know what to do with them," - President Trump.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas found and have delivered to Israel the body of another deceased Israeli hostage, leaving 15 within the Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇧🇴⚡️- Bolivia’s newly elected president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, has vowed to restore ties with the United States, severed in '08 under Evo Morales, and to seek fresh lithium partnerships.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "At the Trump-Zelensky meeting, Zelensky refused to cede any territory with President Trump stating it's preferred to end it along the current front-lines," - Politico.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that President Trump is allowed to deploy National Guard to Portland, Oregon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia is preparing for a winter military offensive campaign," - Ukraine's Defense Ministry Intelligence, GUR.

🇧🇴🇻🇪⚡- Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz spoke over the phone with Venezuelan opposition and the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado.

🇧🇴🇻🇪⚡- "Have hope, we are ready to join the fight to restore democracy in Venezuela," - Rodrigo Paz, Bolivian President-elect.

🇧🇷⚡- "In Latin America and the Caribbean, we are also experiencing a time of growing polarization and instability. Maintaining the region as a zone of peace is our priority. Foreign interventions can cause greater damage than anticipated," - Lula da Silva, President of Brazil.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump currently believes Hamas leaders are willing to continue negotiations in good faith. But there is concern within the Trump administration of Netanyahu withdrawing from the Gaza agreement," - The New York Times, citing a White House official.

🇸🇩⚡️- AFP reports a drone attack in the vicinity of the Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.