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BREAKING: 🇨🇳🇻🇪 China's CMEC plans to reactivate the oil-fired, 600-MW Unit 6 next month at Planta Centro, Venezuela's largest fossil fuel-burning plant, sources say.

— Bloomberg

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BREAKING: 🇸🇩 The RSF carried out at least 43 attacks on hospitals and healthcare sites in el-Fasher between May 2024 and October 2025 before taking over the city.

— BBC

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BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will reactivate a dormant shipbuilding line in Tamano during fiscal year 2027 to build a naval replenishment ship

— Nikkei Asia

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Axios:

Trump's advisors believe that a new Israeli government may be more responsive to Washington.

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🚨 BREAKING: 🇸🇦🇾🇪 Three explosions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were reported recently.

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WATCH: 🇮🇷 Situation on The Beaches of Qeshm Island, Iran.

Increasingly, beaches in the Persian Gulf are being covered in oil from oil tankers damaged in attacks.

A similar situation is currently occurring in several coastal areas of the UAE (including near Dubai) and Oman.

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🇺🇸 US Embassy in Amman:

We are closely monitoring the terrorist attack on the church in Al‑Karak and tightening security at shopping centres, foreign embassies and other sites in Jordan.

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🇮🇷 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC):

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that it had targeted one of the most important gathering centers of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) in a preliminary operation.
The operation followed intelligence surveillance identifying the center.

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BREAKING: 🇬🇧 UK Chancellor John Healey to unveil a £7 million fund in Wednesday’s Budget to explore a potential Olympic Games bid for northern England in the 2040s.

The feasibility study will examine potential costs, venues, transport infrastructure, and the prospects of a successful bid.

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BREAKING: 🇮🇹 Italian police arrested nine people and briefly detained 371 others during protests across Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Florence, with 110 minors among those detained or arrested.

Some demonstrations turned violent, prompting police to deploy tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds.

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BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is exploring cryptocurrency and blockchain as alternatives to traditional banking in preparation for potential international sanctions.

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BREAKING: U.S. naval forces in the Middle East are bracing for a potential escalation with Iran as President Trump considers launching fresh strikes in the weeks ahead.

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BREAKING: 🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admits that the ruling CDU/CSU bloc has lost its political dominance, calling for faster government reforms to restore public trust and ease tensions within the coalition.

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🚨 BREAKING: 🇫🇷 More than 400,000 people joined nationwide protests over rising living costs in France.

— Interior Minister Laurent Nunez

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WATCH: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

They have no jet fighters left. They had 259 jet fighters. You know, they are laying out all over the runway in little pieces. Our military knocked out every jet fighter in Iran.

Our military knocked out every ship, 259 ships — all are at the bottom of the sea.

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🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says US is considering launching strikes on Iran as soon as tomorrow.

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WATCH: 🇮🇶 Suicide drones enter the airspace over the outskirts of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A new drone attack targets Iranian opposition sites in Erbil.

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BREAKING: 🇨🇳🇰🇵 North Korea's leader met with senior Chinese officials in the border city of Dandong after crossing the New Yalu River Bridge for a brief visit to China.

— Yonhap

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BREAKING: 🇲🇦🇺🇸 Morocco has formally asked the US to train Moroccan jet pilots to fly the F-35A, signaling preparations to acquire the fifth-generation stealth fighter.

— Assahifa

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BREAKING: 🇱🇾🇹🇷 Turkey's foreign minister says he is expecting "very good news" in the near future on efforts to reunify Libya's rival eastern and western administrations.

— AFP