🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: Major Lebanese drug-lord Nouh Zaiter and head of the Zaiter clan was arrested by the Lebanese intelligence in an ambush in the Bekaa region, Lebanon.

The pro-Hezbollah clan previously operated in Syrian towns along the Syrian-Lebanese border, before being pushed back into Lebanon by the Syrian military earlier this year.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- President Trump has approved the 28-point peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, a White House official tells CBS News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel knows that the disarmament of Hezbollah can only be implemented through a wide-scale operation, with a security source telling us that the army has no choice but to expand the fighting in Lebanon," - Israel Hayom.

🇱🇧⚡- "We arrested one of the most dangerous wanted men [Nouh Zaiter] in an ambush in the Bekaa region," - Lebanon's military spokesman.

🇻🇪🇮🇷⚡- A Venezuelan aircraft operated by the government landed in Iran.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- Ukraine's GUR Chief Budanov says Russian military personnel are currently operating on Aves Island, Venezuela, in the Caribbean waters. The island is located less than 350km southeast of Puerto Rico.

Budanov claims the troops belong to the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Equator Task Force (ETF), led by General Oleg Makarevich, who are headquartered in mainland Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- "Iran's President Pezeshkian has told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Tehran wants no confrontation and remains open to diplomacy with the US.

Iran has asked Riyadh for help in persuading the US to restart nuclear talks, as Tehran worries about another Israeli strike against its country and its worsening economic situation," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡️- President of South Africa says the United States informed him they had a "change of mind" about boycotting the G20 and want to take part in it.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: A 48 character long Emergency Action Message, EAM, was issued 30 minutes ago.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from the battle of Kupyansk.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "I will not refrain from going to New York and I do not pay attention to [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's] threats," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is moving to a broader attack in Lebanon. It is possible that the attack will escalate to a full escalation," - Hillel Biton Rosen, Israeli military journalist for Channel 14.

🇸🇾⚡- Second night in a row with clashes between Damascus-backed SNA forces and the SDF in the Ghanem al-Ali desert area, Raqqah countryside, northern Syria.

🇪🇹🇪🇷🇰🇪⚡- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has asked Kenya to meditate between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Democrat senate leader Chuck Schumer is leading a resolution in the Senate to condemn Nick Fuentes.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Schumer, in a statement on Twitter, says:

"Antisemitism in America has reached a dangerous tipping point.

The President of the United States DECLINED to condemn Nick Fuentes’s hateful views and defended Tucker Carlson’s decision to give Fuentes a platform.

Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn Nick Fuentes’s ideology confirms that white supremacy and antisemitism have deep roots within the Republican Party."

🇺🇸🎉🎂⚡️- Rerum Novarum wishes a very happy 83rd birthday to President Joe Biden