🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "If such [Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan] was to happen, the limited exercise of the right of self-defense is possible, allowing the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces for defense as well as the use of force," - Senae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "Rescuing Japanese nationals would be the top priority. We must also be prepared for the worst-case scenario," - Senae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile factories are operating 24 hours a day. Iranian officials hope to launch 2,000 missiles simultaneously to overwhelm Israeli defenses, rather than launching 500 missiles over a 12-day span. - Iranian officials to Ali Vaez, ICG Iranian project director.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Both the Iranian and Israelis have worked extensively to rearm and prepare for another war, the Iranians have done a better job at rebuilding and rearming themselves and their proxies considering the Israelis were fighting wars on multiple fronts, Iranian oil exports have since skyrocketed which allows them to quickly rearm while also funding Hezbollah and other militias in the region, which came to a surprise to the Israelis.

Iran has also boosted construction at "Pickaxe Mountain," a deeply buried facility just one mile south of the Natanz enrichment facility. Israeli officials worry the majority of Iran's enriched uranium is safely stored in "Pickaxe Mountain."

Since US strikes during the Twelve-Day War, Iran has set up a security wall around "Pickaxe Mountain" and created multiple tunnel entrances inside the mountain. Iran has also refused to allow IAEA inspectors near "Pickaxe Mountain" since the Twelve-Day War, causing fear in the international community that Iran is rebuilding key parts of its nuclear program.

Israel could use this as a pretext to launch more preemptive strikes against Iran and its nuclear facilities while also targeting the regime itself, as Iran currently faces a severe water crisis in its major parts of the country.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli drone strike targets car in southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and some others who were charged for their activities during Stop the Steal in late 2020.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is awaiting a green light from the United States, according to Lebanese officials.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "FBI Director Kash Patel visited China last week on an unannounced one day visit to discuss fentanyl and law enforcement issues," - Reuters.

🇬🇧🇧🇪⚡- The UK has sent military troops and equipment to Belgium to help with the repeated drone incursions Brussels has been reporting across its country, the BBC reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah announces the death of its 365th member in the past 348 days, since the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire agreement.

🇱🇾🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from prison on bail in Lebanon.

He was arrested in 2016 by Lebanese authorities after he fled Libya over the disappearance of Lebanese Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr in Libya in 1978.

Russia and Turkey both lobbied for his release, but all efforts were blocked by Hezbollah and the Amal Movement. Gaddafi's bail was reduced from $11 million to $0.9 million last week, after a Lebanese court ordered he had been in jail for almost 10 years without a trial.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- The Iranian Foreign Ministry says inspectors from the IAEA visited a number of the country's nuclear sites last week.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- Thailand has suspended their peace agreement with Cambodia after 2 Thai soldiers were seriously injured by land mines that the Thai government claims were "newly planted" in the Si Sa Ket province of Thailand.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: The IDF has launched an unannounced large-scale military operation across the West Bank, with Israeli sources indicating it could last several days.

🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- India and Russia are negotiating guarantees for the safety of Indian labor migrants in Russia, after Indian workers were repeatedly forced to fight for Russia in Ukraine, Indian outlet The Economic Times reports.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has begun its pivot towards the Caribbean waters.

🇺🇸🇧🇾⚡- John Coale has been appointed as the US Special Envoy to Belarus by President Trump.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- Talks between Sudan and Russia for the establishment of a Russian naval base in Sudan on the Red Sea have been suspended, Russia's Ambassador to Sudan announces.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone strike targets an open area near al-Himyari in the Tyre district, southern Lebanon. No casualties reported.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in October, marking the biggest monthly total since the UN began tracking in 2006," - Reuters.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇴🇲⚡- Sana'a International Airport is close to reopening following technical assistance provided by Saudi Arabia and Oman, al-Omana reports.

The opening of the airport and the flow of Saudi humanitarian aid into the Houthi-controlled Yemen are described as "confidence-building steps" in a plan mediated by Oman to establish relations between Riyadh and Sana'a. Talks between the Saudi Kingdom and Ansarullah have been ongoing in Muscat, as Oman have a historically close relationship with the Houthis themselves.