🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Syrian Ministry of Defense says 7 were killed, including women and children.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Dahiyeh, Beirut.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Senior Iranian Officials have informed the Gulf States that it would be unacceptable if they open their airspace for Israel to launch an attack on Iran," - Channel 12, quoting Reuters.

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The Iranian Embassy in Syria says that no Iranian citizen was harmed in the Israeli airstrike In Damascus earlier.

🌩⚡️- Hurricane Milton is now expected to shift further south from Tampa and impact the town of Sarasota.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Verkhnokamyanskoe and Grigorovka – Siversk'k direction.

Russian troops were seen raising their flag over the ruins of Grigorovka. Front-line sources say Russian troops have already entered Serebyianka and fighting ongoing in the center of the town.

Correction: We had earlier stated Vyimka and its railway station was under Russian control - this is incorrect. Ukrainian troops are still present in the strategic town, Russian sources confirm.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the Zabalka district in Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Nevelskoe pocket has finally closed – Kurakhovo direction.

Ukrainian forces have withdrawn west of the Volcha river.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Today's expected phone call between Biden and Netanyahu [on the Iran issue] will be decisive." - Barak Ravid, Axios correspondent.

🇵🇸🇪🇬⚡️- A meeting between Hamas and Fatah has started in Cairo, per AFP.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah rocket kills a couple in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, confirmed by the region's Police Department.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine wants to hold a second "Peace Summit" with Russia in December, after cancelling the one scheduled for November yesterday.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Rada has adopted a bill banning the mobilization of citizens aged 18 to 25.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- North Korea has closed all roads and railways with South Korea.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- North Korea's General Staff said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is "worsening" and requires "more decisive measures" to ensure the "country's security".

🇬🇪🇪🇺⚡- Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream Party, refuses to sanction Russia after calls from the EU Parliament.

🇬🇪🇪🇺⚡- "Georgia's democracy is at risk," - European Union Parliament.

🇻🇦🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyi to meet the Pope on Friday at the Vatican.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te to give a "key" speech ahead of its 'National Day' celebrations.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Lai's speech could trigger a military response," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "United States is adding fuel to the fire on the Taiwan issue by providing arms to Taipei, and pushing Taiwan step by step into a dangerous situation of war," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman, after it was confirmed 3 members of the US Congress will be in attendance for Lai Ching-te's speech tomorrow.