Denmark says it is to purchase 16 new F-35 fighter jets.

Denmark has so far received 21 of its 27 ordered F-35A jets.

NEW: Trump will host a leaders’ summit on Gaza in Egypt next week during his visit.

Leaders or ministers from major European and Arab countries are expected to attend, though Israel’s Netanyahu is not.

Source: Axios

Hidden high above Moscow, Syria’s former dictator Bashar al-Assad spends his exile in front of a screen.

Assad now lives quietly in a luxury tower in Moscow City — protected by Russia’s security services, surrounded by marble bathrooms and bodyguards, and reportedly addicted to online video games.

After his regime collapsed in December 2024, he fled to Moscow with his family. Under Vladimir Putin’s protection, he has vanished from public life.

Sources close to his former circle say he rarely leaves his apartments and spends long hours gaming online — his only escape from the isolation of exile.

Source: DIE ZEIT

BIG: Venezuela asked the U.N. Security Council for an emergency session over recent U.S. military actions near its waters.

Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”

NEW: About 200 U.S. troops have started arriving in Israel to set up a civil-military coordination center during the Gaza ceasefire.

They won’t enter Gaza but will help manage humanitarian aid, logistics, and security assistance, and monitor progress toward civilian governance.

The setup is still in early stages and expected to take several weeks.

Source: CNN

Hamas leader Basem Naim to Sky News:

We would not have reached the end of the war without the personal interference of President Trump.

We thank President Trump and his personal efforts to interfere and to pressure Israel to bring an end to this massacre and slaughtering.

Hamas leader Basem Naim to Sky News:

We believe and we hope that President Trump will continue to interfere personally and to exercise the maximum pressure on Netanyahu to fulfil the obligation.

First, as according to the deal, and second, according to the international law as an occupying power, because I think without this, without this personal interference from President Trump, this will not happen.

Hamas leader Basem Naim to Sky News:

Our weapons are going to be handed over only to the hands of a Palestinian State, and our fighters can be integrated into the Palestinian National Army.

Before that, no one has the right to deny us the right to resist the occupation by all means.

Hamas leader Basem Naim to Sky News:

We are not going to be disarmed as long as we are not sure that this will lead, by any other means, to having an independent self state which is able to defend itself.

Hamas leader Basem Naim on disarmament:

If this question has to be directed, it has to be directed to the aggressor, who must be disarmed of his nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, which have already been used in the Gaza Strip and other areas during this war.

Hamas leader Basem Naim on Tony Blair:

We Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims and maybe others around the world have bad memories of him.

We can still remember his role in killing, causing thousands or millions of deaths to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We can still remember him very well after destroying Iraq and Afghanistan.

All Palestinians have a very negative image of him. I don't think he will be very welcomed.

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Palestinian people:

They’re not Hamas. They’re women and children.

You can’t unsee the images of kids blown apart and pulled from rubble.

That’s not fake or propaganda, it’s real.

French President Macron’s own deadline for naming a new prime minister passes without an announcement.

Russia’s UN Envoy Nebenzya:

Venezuela believes the U.S. may move from threats to action, possibly involving its navy.

We urge Washington to stop escalating and avoid a grave mistake.

NEW: Macron re-appoints Lecornu as French PM.

Lecornu was the shortest Prime Minister in the history of the French Fifth Republic.