🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: General Dynamics is testing MEDUSA (Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset), an expendable submarine-launched UUV for long-range offensive mine warfare, with prototype trials completed off Massachusetts.

🔴 Company contracted in 2024 to deliver four MEDUSA prototypes to the U.S. Navy.

🔴 MEDUSA is designed to be safely deployed from a submarine and emphasizes propulsion, navigation and “specialized autonomy behaviors.”

🔴 Program cited amid U.S. concerns over a larger People’s Liberation Army Navy; company also highlighted the Hammerhead moored encapsulated torpedo mine.

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🇱🇧 — NEW: UNIFIL condemns Israeli army for dropping chemical substances over Lebanon

🔴 UNIFIL stated that the activity of dropping chemical substances is unacceptable and violates UN Security Council Resolution 1701

🔴 UNIFIL confirmed this is not the first time the Israeli army has dropped unknown chemical substances from its aircraft over Lebanon

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 💥 — Israel conducted shooting operations killing four people including a child in Khan Younis

🔴 Four people were killed in Israeli shooting operations since morning

🔴 One of the victims was a child in the Moasi area of Khan Younis

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Prisoners' Media: The occupation forces have summoned the freed prisoner Anas Abu Sunaina for interrogation today at the "Qishla" police station in Old Jerusalem.

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🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Local sources: Settlers storm "Wardan" Mountain on the outskirts of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

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🇮🇷🇪🇺⚡️ — REPORT: Iran summons all European Union ambassadors after the EU listed the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group

🔴 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said summons began Sunday and continued Monday.

🔴 Baghaei: “A series of actions were reviewed, various options are being prepared” and a reciprocal decision is expected in coming days.

🔴 Iran’s parliament speaker said the Islamic Republic now considers all EU militaries terrorist groups under a 2019 law; the Revolutionary Guard is also conducting a drill in the Strait of Hormuz while US Central Command warned against harassment.

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🇮🇱🇪🇬🇵🇸🇺🇸 — NEW: Israel has opened Gaza’s Rafah crossing for the limited movement of Palestinians into and out of the enclave.

🔴 Over 20,000 injured and wounded Palestinians await medical treatment; Israel is permitting 50 patients (each with two relatives) to leave at a time.

🔴 Opening is first time border open for Palestinians since May 2024 and forms the second stage of US-brokered ceasefire negotiations led by US president Donald Trump; only people — no goods — may pass.

🔴 Rafah crossings show heavy surveillance, fenced lanes and security checks; UN calls for unfettered movement and entry of humanitarian cargo as Israel has banned Médecins Sans Frontières and 36 other aid groups.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️ — REPORT: More than 64,000 Lebanese remain internally displaced a year after the November 27, 2024 ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel amid ongoing Israeli attacks and widespread village destruction.

🔴 The ceasefire required Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israel to pull back, but Israel still occupies five points in southern Lebanon and carried out attacks during the truce.

🔴 The International Organization for Migration estimate (Oct 2025) cites 64,000+ internally displaced; 1.2 million were displaced during the war and many returned on Nov 27, 2024.

🔴 Since the ceasefire Israel has killed over 330 people in Lebanon (at least 127 civilians), razed several villages, attacked reconstruction equipment, and the Lebanese government recorded 2,000+ ceasefire violations in late 2025.

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🇵🇰🇦🇫🇮🇳 — REPORT: Pakistani security forces say they have killed at least 145 fighters in Balochistan after coordinated gun and bomb attacks claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army.

🔴 Attacks on Saturday struck Quetta, Gwadar, Mastung and Noshki, killing 31 civilians (including five women) and 17 security personnel; Pakistan military said 92 fighters were killed on Saturday and 41 on Friday.

🔴 Sarfraz Bugti said troops and police killed 145 members of “Fitna al-Hindustan,” that some were Afghan nationals, and accused Afghanistan and “Indian-backed terrorists”; New Delhi and Kabul deny the allegations.

🔴 Authorities imposed months-long security restrictions banning public gatherings, demonstrations and face coverings; Talal Chaudhry and Khawaja Asif said attackers dressed as civilians, used human shields and included female fighters.

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🇮🇷 🇯🇴 ⚡️ — Jordanian Foreign Minister confirmed in a call with his Iranian counterpart that Amman will not be a launching pad for any military action against Iran.

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🇮🇷 ⚠️ — Knesset member Amit Segal claims Iran's Revolutionary Guards are trying to hack his phone

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Dr. Ali Bagheri, Deputy of Foreign Policy at the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council:

Iranian officials have no intention of transferring enriched nuclear materials to any country, and the negotiations are not about such a matter at all

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🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱 — NEW: Syrian Interior Ministry says it detained the group behind rocket attacks on the Mezzeh military airport in Damascus and traced the weapons to Hezbollah.

🔴 Security units arrested all members after surveillance of suspected launch sites in several areas of the capital.

🔴 Ministry says weapons originated from Hezbollah and that authorities seized drones the group planned to use; Hezbollah denied the allegations.

🔴 Ministry also said detainees had links to unidentified "foreign entities."

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🇪🇺 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — European Union to prohibit imports of platinum, copper, iridium, and rhodium from Russia, Bloomberg reports

🔴 Measures will be incorporated into the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions.
🔴 The European Commission plans to approve the 20th package by February 24, 2026, the agency said.

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🇺🇸🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️ — NEW: US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal introduce the Save the Kurds Act to restore sanctions, enable snapback and seek redesignation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham as a Foreign Terrorist Organization after attacks on Kurds.

🔴 Act targets Syrian government officials and financial institutions and would reimpose sanctions quickly if the Sharaa regime recommences attacks on Kurdish communities.

🔴 Seeks HTS redesignation; article names Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani) as HTS head amid clashes between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the regime and a new SDF–regime integration ceasefire hailed by US Special Envoy Tom Barrack.

🔴 Sponsors cite evidence of Turkish involvement, threats to US troops, released Islamic State prisoners, and call the bill an “insurance policy” to protect Kurds during integration into the Syrian Arab Army.

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🇮🇷 🇴🇲 ⚡️ — An IRGC drone is still active in the Sea of Oman and is patrolling near the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️🇮🇷 Yedioth Ahronoth: Israel is concerned about any agreement with Iran that does not include its missile and regional program. Israeli officials demand the condition of removing 400 kilograms of uranium from Iran, which iranian officials have refused.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — trump:

india will stop buying russian oil

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