🇦🇲🇪🇺⚡- Armenia has appointed a military attaché to the EU, led by Vardan Ovakimyan.

🇬🇧🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: The first Russian secondary sanctions go into effect: UK has slapped restrictions on the Beihai facility in China, a LNG terminal and power station, for importing Russian fuel.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- The Philippines Coast Guard says their probes may have detected underwater Chinese structures in the disputed region of the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - One year ago today, the Head of Hamas Yahya Sinwar was killed in action in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "Some Indian refiners are preparing to cut Russian oil imports, with expectations of a gradual reduction, with the US pressuring New Delhi to stop buying Russian crude to help end the war in Ukraine," - Reuters.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Al-Jazeera, citing an Afghan Taliban source, says has Pakistan violated the ceasefire once again by firing artillery across the border.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah announce the death of their Chief of Staff Abdul Karim al-Ghamari. He was previously a target of Israeli airstrikes.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Syrian President al-Sharaa yesterday at a meeting asked Putin for Russia's support against Israel, which wishes to create a wide buffer zone in southern Syria.

Al-Sharaa also raised the topic of redeployment of the Russian military to their previous observation posts in southern Syria to deter Israel and limit IDF activities in the region. A set-up identical to what Russia had in place during the Assad regime," - Reuters.

🇳🇱🇨🇳⚡- Beijing has strongly condemned and firmly opposes the Dutch seizure of Nexperia, arguing the takeover "violates the spirit of contractual agreements and market principles."

The chip-manufacturer Nexperia, headquartered in Nijmegen, was taken over by the Netherlands in a bid to protect Europe's economic security. Nexperia is owned by the Chinese semiconductor giant Wingtech.

Chinese Ministry of Commerce has accused the US of interference in Dutch legal procedures.

🇨🇳🇲🇾⚡- China and Malaysia will hold joint drills named "Peace and Friendship 2025” in late October.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- President Trump to speak to Russia's Putin today, Axios report.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- "I am speaking to President Putin now. The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy one, and I will report the contents, as will President Putin, at its conclusion. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- Judge rules ICE agents must wear bodycams in Chicago following clashes with protestors.

🇺🇸⚡️- Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has branded himself as a rugged anti establishment rural populist, posted on Reddit in 2021 that rural White people are "all racist and stupid" and participated in various communist and socialist subreddits.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- President Trump will meet with President Putin again in Hungary in the coming weeks, high level diplomats will meet each other next week to discuss the Ukraine war.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one.

President Putin congratulated me and the United States on the Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East, something that, he said, has been dreamed of for centuries. I actually believe that the Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine.

President Putin thanked the First Lady, Melania, for her involvement with children. He was very appreciative, and said that this will continue.

We also spent a great deal of time talking about Trade between Russia and the United States when the War with Ukraine is over. At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined.

President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this “inglorious” War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.

President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- "If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.

Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Donald Trump.