🇺🇸 🇺🇦 ⚡️ — NEW: US Air Force conducted the first live warhead test of the Extended Range Attack Munition less than 16 months after awarding the contract.

🔴 Test fired Jan. 21 at Eglin Air Force Base, involved Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate, the 96th Test Wing and industry partners, and met all primary objectives including full warhead detonation.

🔴 ERAM contract was awarded to Zone 5 Technologies and CoAspire; Brig. Gen. Robert Lyons III said the move from contract to live-fire in under two years shows delivery “at the speed of relevance.”

🔴 U.S. government approved sale of up to 3,350 ERAMs to Ukraine in Aug. 2025 (including embedded GPS/navigation) for about $825 million.

@TPOnow

🇮🇷 🇸🇦 ⚡️ — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan around two hours ago to discuss regional developments and the need for resolving issues through diplomacy.

@TPOnow

🇸🇦 ⚡️ — US vice president JD Vance:

If the Iranians get nuclear weapons, do you know which country will get nuclear weapons the very next day? Saudi Arabia!

@TPOnow

🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇶🇦 ⚡️ — BREAKING: The Gaitanist Army of Colombia (EGC) has temporarily suspended peace talks in Doha after reports that Colombian President Gustavo Petro pledged to target its leader.

🔴 The EGC said the suspension is “by order of the Joint Chiefs of Staff” to consult and verify the reports and warned such moves would violate the Doha commitments.

🔴 Colombia’s Defence Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed a list of three drug “kingpins” as high‑level targets, naming Jesus Avila Villadiego, alias Chiquito Malo, with a 5 billion peso ($1.37m) reward; the announcement echoed Petro’s closed‑door White House meeting with US President Donald Trump.

🔴 The suspension jeopardises a December 5 “commitment to peace” and planned March demobilisation to temporary zones, after the government had earlier suspended arrest warrants for EGC commanders and the US designated the group a foreign terrorist organisation.

@TPOnow

🇮🇷 🇴🇲 ⚡️ — The White House confirms that U.S.-Iranian talks will be held on Friday in Oman.

@TPOnow

🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 💥 — The sound of explosions in Gaza reached as far as Jerusalem. May God protect Gaza and its people.

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 ⚡️ — NEW: Elias Rodriguez, accused of killing two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., was indicted on four additional terrorism counts in an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

🔴 The new indictment brings nine charges total, including earlier hate-crime counts; several carry a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment.

🔴 U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said the additional terrorism-related charges carry a mandatory life sentence under D.C. Code and “reflect the reality that this act was in fact an act of terror.”

🔴 Prosecutors say Rodriguez fired about 20 shots outside an American Jewish Committee event, called out “Free Palestine,” killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim (both Embassy of Israel staff), and published a manifesto, FBI assistant director Darren B. Cox said.

@TPOnow

🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 💥 — A loud explosion was reported in central occupied Palestine, Israel

@TPOnow

❗️ — WATCH: Gangs in the lawless city of Chicago ambushed one of their rivals using fully automatic rifles and semi-automatic pistols.

🔴 it seems the American regime is too busy plotting the destruction of other countries, to control the crime in their own.

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇮🇩 ⚡️ — Indonesia will withdraw from Trump's "Board of Peace" if there is no progress in Palestinian independence

🔴 President Prabowo Subianto stated Indonesia is not obliged to support policies conflicting with its national stance.

🔴 Vice Chairman Kholil Nafis mentioned Indonesia will abstain from voting if BOP's policies don't align with their position.

🔴 Foreign Minister Sugiono confirmed participation depends on peace in Gaza, stability in Palestine, and full independence.

@TPOnow

❗️ — Out of the three passengers, two adults and one infant, one adult was killed at the scene, another was seriously injured, and the infant is unharmed.

@TPOnow

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 🇪🇺 — REPORT: Ukrainian and Russian officials wrapped up a “substantive” and “productive” first day of United States-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi, Kyiv’s lead negotiator, Rustem Umerov, said.

🔴 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told France 2 TV an estimated 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and a “large number of people” are officially missing.

🔴 European Union ambassadors approved details of a 90-billion-euro loan for Ukraine to meet most financial needs in 2026–2027, with conditions on weapons purchases.

🔴 Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Russian forces have attacked Ukraine’s energy system 217 times since the start of 2026; Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin reported seven killed and eight injured in Druzhkivka after cluster munitions and aerial bombs.

@TPOnow

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇦🇪 ⚡️ — NEW: Kremlin says it won’t stop fighting until Kyiv makes the right “decisions” as first day of US‑brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi ends

🔴 President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son‑in‑law Jared Kushner led the US delegation; Ukraine was represented by Rustem Umerov and Russia by military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov.

🔴 Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russian troops will continue to fight until Kyiv makes the right “decisions”; Umerov called the first day “substantive and productive” and said talks focused on “concrete steps and practical solutions”.

🔴 Talks coincided with continued Russian attacks: Moscow fired 105 drones overnight and a record number of ballistic missiles the previous night; a cluster‑munition strike in Druzhkivka killed at least seven and injured eight.

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 🇮🇩 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 ⚡️ — REPORT: Boeing says its "partnership with Indonesia" over F-15EX is no longer an active campaign, while it advances F-15 modernization work for South Korea and Japan.

🔴 Bernd Peters, vice president of business development and strategy for Boeing’s defense division, said the Indonesia F-15EX MoU from Aug. 2023 produced no contract and the campaign is dead; Boeing will continue supporting Apaches and WaveGliders in Indonesia.

🔴 Boeing received a $2.8 billion U.S. DoD contract to upgrade South Korea’s 59 F-15K fighters in St. Louis, work due to finish by end of 2037; Turbo Sjogren said upgrades will address obsolescence and cockpit improvements.

🔴 Boeing is helping Japan upgrade F-15J jets with AN/APG-82(V)1 AESA radars, new mission computers and BAE Systems AN/ALQ-250 EPAWSS, describing the effort as a total transformation to contemporary F-15 capability.

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 — NEW: President Donald Trump admits "we can use a little bit of a softer touch" on immigration after Minneapolis crackdown that saw two U.S. citizens shot dead by federal agents

🔴 Trump said "maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch" but added "you still have to be tough" and that "we are dealing with really hard criminals."

🔴 Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, were killed in separate shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents in Minnesota; the administration has framed both shootings as self‑defense.

🔴 DHS reports thousands of arrests in Minnesota; detainees have described denial of food and medical care, and border czar Tom Homan announced 700 federal agents will be pulled from Minnesota, leaving about 2,000 officers.

@TPOnow

🇵🇸 🇸🇾 ⚡️ — The Palestinian Embassy in Syria: Entry conditions for Palestinian passport holders into Syria have been expanded without the need for prior approval.

🔴 Includes Palestinians with a valid foreign residency

🔴 Those married to a Syrian citizen or a Palestinian Syrian

🔴 Palestinians who have previously entered Syrian territories

🔴 Palestinians entering Syria for the first time still require prior approval

@TPOnow

🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Haaretz reports from a knowledgeable source: The United States is pressuring Israel to expand the operations of the Rafah crossing to include the transport of goods and aid, not just the passage of a few pedestrians.

🔴 The company that secured American aid centers for Gaza, GHF, is in talks to allow it to secure the Rafah crossing.

@TPOnow

🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ❗️ — A Palestinian was martyred by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

"The escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran could set the Middle East ablaze. Iran is our ally, and we are acutely aware of the ongoing developments concerning them."

@TPOnow

🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 — BREAKING: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a humanitarian “collapse” in Cuba as the United States moved to block oil from reaching the island and threatened tariffs on nations that step in.

🔴 Severe fuel shortage is causing hours-long blackouts in Havana and driving up food and transport prices, the UN warned through spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

🔴 The US has claimed control of Venezuelan oil after a raid on Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump vowed to starve Cuba of oil and threatened tariffs on suppliers; Mexico supplies about 44% of Cuba’s oil and is seeking diplomatic agreements while preparing humanitarian aid.

🔴 Kpler data cited by the Financial Times says Cuba has about 15–20 days of oil at current demand; Cuba and the US report continued communications but no formal “dialogue.”

@TPOnow