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🇮🇱⚡- "The suspicion involves large sums of money allegedly transferred from external Arab sources to increase voter turnout in the Arab sector through illegal means," - Amit Segal of Israeli Channel 12. "The foreign Arab country involved is likely Qatar," - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a satellite image of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane, which closely copies the design of the American X-37B, a spacecraft the US has operated for nearly two decades. These reusable, unmanned spacecraft conduct classified military experiments, maneuver in orbit, and deploy satellites before returning to Earth. The image, captured by an American satellite in 2024, shows Shenlong with its payload bay doors open, giving US intelligence a rare look at China's orbital operations.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Far-right Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, a member of the Yashar-aligned camp, has cut contact with Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, and Yair Lapid. According to Israeli Channel 12, Lieberman has made it clear that he will not, under any circumstances, join or support a government that depends on Arab seats.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Internal polling from the Ohio GOP shows that Vivek Ramaswamy is collapsing as Amy Acton takes an 8 point lead.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is heckled multiple times during his rally in Chillicothe, Ohio. The protesters shout insults related to Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has reportedly deployed approximately 1,000 troops to Haiti after a gang ambush left four Salvadoran military personnel missing near Port-au-Prince. This is a major escalation from the initial 200 special forces deployed last week. American C-130 aircraft helped transport the reinforcements, significantly expanding President Bukele's military operations against Haiti's powerful criminal gangs.

🇮🇱⚡- Sources within the Joint List have told Channel 11 that there is resentment towards Eisenkot because he has not yet contacted the Joint List, and has only held talks with his Yashar camp.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli elections: Votes counted: 97.42% • Likud-bloc - 53 seats - Likud: 27 - Otzma Yehudit: 7 - Yahadut HaTorah: 7 - Shas: 6 - Tkuma: 6 • Yashar-bloc - 48 seats - Yashar: 21 - B'Yachad: 12 - Democrats: 8 - Yisrael Beiteinu: 7 • Arab coalition - 19 seats - Joint List: 12 - Ra'am: 7 • Other - Amcha Israel: 0 - Reservists and the Economic Party: 0 - Noam: 0

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Vice President JD Vance has sent a letter to Iran’s SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaee. The letter, ordered by President Trump, is an effort to revive negotiations and secure peace with Iran, according to the WSJ. U.S. officials believe that reaching out directly to hardliners in Iran could open a path to diplomacy, something that has not been done previously.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Flavio Bolsonaro declares himself Brazil's president-elect. He accuses Lula and the Brazilian Supreme Court of carrying mass voter fraud and stealing the presidential election.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- After 11 days, the mayor of Limoges says he has not received any call or message from Emmanuel Macron to support him after losing his town hall. However, the mayor did receive a supportive email from Vice-President J.D. Vance.

🇦🇪🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A source in the UAE told Israeli Channel 14: Everyone here is on high alert and preparing for November 4, the day after the U.S. midterm elections. Foreign ambassadors increasingly feel that an escalation is very close, and they are already considering the possibility of evacuation.

🇮🇱⚡- "Several Knesset members from Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party opposed the swearing-in of a government with Arab abstentions [let alone Arab seats joining the coalition]," - Amit Segal of Israeli Channel 12.

🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli opposition candidate Yair Lapid is working to encourage members from the Likud camp to defect, using his connections within the party," - Israel Hayom.

🇳🇪🇹🇩⚡- Niger accuses Chad of carrying out a drone strike on the Agadez region of eastern Niger, which killed two civilians. Chad denies it carried out the attack.

🇩🇿🇳🇪🇱🇾⚡- Saddam Haftar led Libyan National Army convoys have been moving towards the Libya-Algeria-Niger border over the past 48 hours.

🇷🇺🇪🇹⚡- Russia has delivered a batch of 12 Su-35 fighter jets to Ethiopia a year earlier than expected. Addis Ababa has stated they are also expecting the delivery of four S-400 air defense batteries soon too. Meanwhile, Iran has been awaiting its orders of both for 12+ years.

🇳🇴🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡️- According to the Financial Times, the call was not "frank and substantive" as RIA Novosti claimed. The call, initially planned to last 20 minutes, was dragged on for nearly 90 minutes as Vladimir Putin reportedly ranted about Slavic history during most of the exchange.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The military will implement any decision made regarding Iran," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel, responding to Gadi Eisenkot’s accusation yesterday that Netanyahu is using Israel’s security to boost his poll numbers.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "I haven't yet considered intervening to help form a national unity government led by Netanyahu, and I will take a look at that," - President Trump to Axios.