🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- Turkey's biggest refineries, SOCAR and Tupras, are joining China and India in cutting Russian oil imports after the US and European sanctions on Russian energy giants, Reuters reports.

Turkey is turning to Iraqi and Kazakh alternatives.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Today marks exactly two months since the US began striking narco-terrorist vessels in international waters in the Eastern Pacific and the Carribbean waters.

- 15 strikes in total. 3 in September, 11 in October and 1 in November.
- 65 narco-terrorists have been eliminated in total.
- 9 strikes occurred in the Carribbean waters, with the other 6 in the Eastern Pacific.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Parliamentarians from 14 different countries met in Caracas, Venezuela, calling for the respect of international law amid the so-called US 'military aggression' which allegedly threatens Venezuela's sovereignty.

The 14 countries demand an immediate end to US military operations in the Carribbean arena.

"We, parliamentarians from the nations of Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras and Uruguay gathered in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, for the purpose of defending peace, respect for sovereignty and international law in our region, in the face of the growing threats and aggression by the government of the United States of America," - Joint statement from the 14 countries in Caracas.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡- Estonia's Foreign Ministry demands an explanation from Russia after a Russian patrol vessel under the Wagner Group's flag was seen in the Narva river.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, a cruiser and four destroyers have entered the South China Sea, and are positioned just southeast of the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

Marking it the largest US deployment to the disputed waters in over a quarter of a century, delivering on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's promise on tackling Chinese gray zone tactics in the Indo-Pacific arena.

🇺🇸🇳🇬⚡- "There could be US airstrikes and military boots on the ground in Nigeria.

Record numbers of Christians in Nigeria are being killed. There are other very bad countries in that part of the world where they're killing Christians in very large numbers. We're not going to allow that to happen," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Two US B1-B Bombers have departed from Misawa Air Base, Japan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Reports indicate Israeli airstrikes in the eastern parts of Gaza City.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli intelligence has recorded an increase in Hezbollah activities in several regions of Lebanon, including the north, the Bekaa region and even areas of the south, Ma'ariv reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has been using Syrian smuggling routes to quickly rearm despite the challenges that followed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, while also building weapons and UAVs domestically.

The group has been studying Russian drone tactics used to swarm cities in Ukraine in preparation for a future confrontation with Israel. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government faces challenges in its efforts to disarm Hezbollah, leaving the process at a standstill as their attention shifts toward countering Israeli advances into southern Lebanon.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- The UK has quietly provided Ukraine with more Storm Shadow missiles ahead of winter, Bloomberg reports.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China has been an unreliable partner in many ways, and the US needs to get out from under the sword of Chinese control of rare earth minerals," - Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli assassination strike in the town of Deir al-Ashair, Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon. Casualties reported.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- "The Chinese Southern Theater Command has organized forces to closely monitor the situation, with all such disruptive and sensational activities under full control. The troops of the theater command remain on high alert and will resolutely safeguard China's national sovereignty and maritime rights and interests," - Global Times, Chinese outlet, in response to the US-Philippines build-up southeast of the disputed Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea, as part of the joint 'Task Force'.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳 - Situation in the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea:

The US Carrier Strike Group 11, with its flagship USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, a cruiser and four destroyers, are continuing their movement in a northwest direction directly towards the disputed Scarborough Shoal.

In the last few hours, the Chinese spy ship Liaowang-1 has arrived north of the shoal. The US vessels are being shadowed from the south by four Chinese Coast Guard Vessels, CCG5204, CCG5102, CCG21562 and CCG4202.

Map key:
Purple - US vessels,
Red - Chinese vessels.

🇺🇸🇳🇬🇹🇩⚡- Chad closes its border with Nigeria fearing Islamist terrorists may flee into the country from Nigeria following President Trump's statements.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Situation in the Pokrovsk direction:

Russian forces currently control 80-85% of Pokrovsk - reports of the city's full capture are false.