🇱🇧 ⚡️ — The Lebanese President:

"We are progressively taking inventory of the weapons."

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇪🇺 ⚡️ — Negotiations between Iran and the United States have begun today. Both Europe and the U.S. State Department have issued new sanctions on Iran.

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🇱🇾 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: Zubayr Al-Bakoush, a suspect in the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans, has been arrested and landed at Joint Base Andrews.

🔴 He was taken into custody and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland at 3 a.m. Friday.

🔴 Attorney General Pam Bondi: “We have never stopped seeking justice for that crime against our nation.” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said an eight-count indictment charges Al-Bakoush with crimes including the murders of Ambassador Chris Stevens and State Department employee Sean Smith.

🔴 The Sept. 11–12, 2012 attack involved at least 20 militants with AK-47s and grenade launchers who breached the consulate; a separate attack on the annex, including a mortar barrage, killed security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty; Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured in 2014, convicted and is serving a sentence.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — 40 fast attack boats of the IRGC Navy were observed today in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: IDF says it struck a Hamas arms depot in Gaza City after issuing an evacuation warning for a residential building

🔴 IDF says strike on the three‑story residential building in Gaza City targeted a Hamas weapons storage site and came in response to a Thursday attack on troops; military says no uninvolved civilians were present and no injuries reported

🔴 Military also struck a Hamas weapon production site in Khan Younis overnight; IDF framed both strikes as retaliation for the attack on troops and as action against “Hamas terror organization” infrastructure

🔴 The evacuation warning was the first official prior warning since September 2025; IDF earlier reported gunmen attacked troops in the north and that its forces killed a Palestinian terror operative who approached troops near the Yellow Line (188th Armored Brigade)

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🇵🇸 🇪🇬 🚁 — Follow-up | 21 Palestinians returned to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, including a patient and their companion, after receiving treatment in Egypt.

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🇵🇸 ⚠️ — Preventive authority in Jenin arrests teacher Wasim Mahameed from the village of Taybeh.

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 — NEW: Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov says Kyiv will disconnect unverified Starlink terminals in Ukraine, send a “white list” of verified terminals to Elon Musk, and tighten drone-defence measures.

🔴 Denys Shmyal warned of more power blackouts after Russia struck energy infrastructure 217 times this year; 200 emergency crews are restoring power to 1,100 buildings in Kyiv.

🔴 Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov reported Russia is extending drone reach and using Geran drones as carriers for FPV drones up to 50km from the front; Ukraine is countering with a new short-range “small air defence” using drone crews.

🔴 Oleksandr Syrskii said hundreds of UAV crews moved under Air Force control for interception; Yurii Ihnat reported only 38 of a 71-missile strike were shot down as many were ballistic.

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🇮🇱 ❗️ — Former head of Netanyahu's security team claims: "Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Netanyahu, has an obsession with stealing towels from hotels repeatedly."

🔴 "She steals gifts, towels, and everything."

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 🇹🇷 ⚡️ — Turkey dismantles Israeli intelligence cell targeting Palestinian supply chains

🔴 Istanbul police and Turkish intelligence arrested two individuals last month, missing for three weeks, in a joint operation.

🔴 The cell, active since 2012, ran shell companies to gather intelligence on Palestinian targets and attempted to export drone parts.

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🏳️‍🌈 ❗️ — Druze dogs have announced a number of confirmed casualties

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🇮🇷 🇪🇬 ⚡️ — The Iranian Ambassador to Egypt:

"Today's first round of negotiations is viewed as an exploratory session."

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🇮🇷 🇪🇬 ⚡️ — The Iranian Ambassador to Egypt:

"The primary prerequisite for continuing negotiations is the cessation of war threats."

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🇮🇱 🏳️‍🌈 ❗️ — Druze in Sweida during the shelling of villages around Sweida observed the Israeli flag.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇴🇲 ⚡️ — Today's negotiations were not direct. The Omani delegation was conveying messages between the rooms of the Iranian and American delegations.

🔴 Omani delegation during message transmission:

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — According to an American report, the U.S. military currently has 450 Tomahawk missiles in the region ready for use against Iran, apart from the Air Force.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ⚡️ — Kremlin:

A new round of negotiations on Ukraine will be held soon.

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