American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) will go private in a record $55 billion leveraged buyout, the largest ever, led by Saudi Arabia’s PIF, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.

EA shareholders will get $210 per share, a 25% premium.

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says he would honor the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu:

Whether for Netanyahu or Putin.

I’m not Trump, I’ll follow the law, not bend it.

New Ukrainian device, a spinning concertina wire that cycles 1 minute on/1 minute off, designed to entangle and break Russian fiber-optic FPV cables.

Sweden’s Defense Ministry denies current plans to send JAS 39 Gripen jets to Ukraine, but said the option remains under consideration.

Israel’s Minister of Finance Smotrich on Trump's Gaza plan:

After October 7 and two years of heroic sacrifice, returning to the old Oslo-era delusions — outsourcing our security to others, trading real battlefield gains for polished diplomatic theater, re-empowering Qatar as a central broker, and training a Palestinian police — is a tragic, backward step.

It risks repeating the same mistakes, forcing our children to fight in Gaza again.

China launches new “K Visa” to attract young foreign STEM talent.

— Open to recent graduates in tech/engineering, no job offer required.

— Provides entry, residence, and work rights with multi-entry stays.

— This is part of China’s “Talent Power Strategy,” countering U.S. H-1B fee hikes.

BIG: EU moves ahead on Ukraine & Moldova accession.

Despite Hungary’s veto, Brussels plans to begin technical work on membership “clusters” for Ukraine and Moldova.

The workaround lets integration prep continue even without formal talks.

Leaders will debate the approach in Copenhagen this week, as Kyiv pushes to sway Budapest.

Source: FT

WATCH: Palestinian medic Marwan Abedin working at Gaza's Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was shot by an Israeli quadcopter drone while inside the facility.

Security footage shows the worker collapsing from a head wound near a window.

Madagascar: Footage emerged allegedly showing police firing on civilians during ongoing anti-government protests.

The UN said 20 civilians have been killed so far.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent reading a text from Agriculture Secretary Rollins warning that $20 billion U.S. bailout to Argentina backfired.

"We bailed out Argentina yesterday and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, sold a bunch of soybeans to China."

Poland to criminalize denial of the Volyn massacre.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki submitted a bill equating Ukrainian nationalist symbols (UPA/OUN) with Nazi and Communist ones, banning their display and making denial of the 1943–45 killings of Poles a crime.

South Sudan: Authorities confirmed over 52,000 people were displaced from Tambura due to renewed conflict.

Kremlin:

There are many people living in Ukraine’s Odesa and Mykolaiv regions who want to link their fate to Russia but are afraid to speak out.