⚡️🇰🇷🇰🇵 – South Korean investigators believe Pyongyang is "highly likely" behind the land mine that injured three South Korean soldiers September 20.

The explosion occurred in the Demilitarized Zone, and Seoul has warned of consequences should North Korea's responsibility be proven.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 – Ronen Bar, former chief of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, will file a defamation lawsuit against Netanyahu following reports he received warnings from the UAE and Egypt shortly before the October 7 attacks, but failed to properly act on them.

Bar also said he warned Netanyahu of the imminent attack but was ignored, and will now summon witnesses and demand a disclosure of documents related to the PM's actions before the attack.

His full statement was published by an i24 News correspondent:

Former Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, intends to file a defamation lawsuit against Benjamin Netanyahu and demands the disclosure of evidence and documents related to information provided to the Prime Minister before October 7th.

Bar demands the disclosure of documents and a schedule of Netanyahu's meetings with the security establishment and foreign entities.

He will summon witnesses from Netanyahu's office and staff who have assisted and continue to assist him in his manipulative campaign.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has launched an unrestrained and unrealistic incitement campaign against the former head of the Shin Bet. After refusing for three years to acknowledge his responsibility and preventing the public from having a state inquiry in every way, he began selectively publishing documents in a manipulative manner, distorting their true context. Now, as evidence of warnings he received before the massacre begins to emerge, he is trying to deflect blame by accusing those who warned him in real-time.

It is not surprising that, as will soon be revealed, in his role as head of the Shin Bet, Bar warned the Prime Minister of an impending disaster in an unprecedented manner, and that the Prime Minister ignored these warnings, as well as the recommendations to restore deterrence and strengthen the border.

Until now, Ronen Bar believed that it was right to wait for the establishment of the committee that the public and the families of the victims are entitled to. However, it is not possible to allow this series of lies to continue.

Lies, distortion of facts, manipulation of protocols, and the dissemination of misleading information to the public – this is what the Prime Minister is doing as the extent of the warnings he received before the October 7th massacre begins to emerge.

Therefore, the former head of the Shin Bet has instructed his lawyers to file a defamation lawsuit against the Prime Minister and to summon as witnesses anyone who has distorted, falsified documents, and disseminated false and defamatory information against him.

Ronen Bar calls on the Prime Minister to immediately disclose all documents, so that the public can be exposed to the full truth, without manipulation.

A defamation lawsuit and the subsequent exposure of the truth are important to protect the memory of the fallen, the honor of the Shin Bet personnel who have been working in the shadows for three years, and the truth, which the Prime Minister is trying to distort through an incitement campaign against the heads of the security establishment.

Victories are achieved by proactively attacking the enemy outside, not by attacking the security forces within.

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🇪🇹⚡️- As a result of recent offensive actions by ENDF forces in the southern Tigray region the towns of Waja, Timuga, Chercher, and Alamata have all come under control of the Ethiopian defense forces.

➡️ Footage recently surfaced of ENDF soldiers moving freely in the streets of Alamata, confirming their presence in the area.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 – The IDF confirmed it launched an interceptor towards a "suspicious target" in southern Lebanon, where IDF troops are operating.

No air raid alerts were activated.

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⚡️🇺🇸🗳 – Pete Hegseth instructed the Defense Department to use "advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities to identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference" in the November midterms, Axios reported.

Officials said these efforts will use the "most advanced AI capabilities to date", putting cyber capabilities more at the center of the Pentagon's tasks.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱 – Nawaf Salam, the Lebanese Prime Minister, met today with Marco Rubio and discussed a "path to restoring Lebanon’s full sovereignty".

Salam reportedly urged the "immediate" implementation of the framework agreement between Lebanon, Israel and the U.S. made in June, the retreat of all Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hezbollah. Rubio expressed support for Lebanese sovereignty, but free from Iranian influence.

Meanwhile, the IDF announced the completion a large-scale operation in the Mansouri buffer zone, destroying over 600 buildings and infrastructure sites allegedly belonging to Hezbollah, including eight tunnels.

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🇦🇫❌🇵🇰 – The Islamist group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan carried out earlier today a new series of attacks against Pakistani army and police posts in the Waziristan region.

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⚡️🇾🇪🇾🇪 – Around 16,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Yemen just this past week, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Recent fighting has been concentrated mostly along the Taizz front, but Saudi bombardment across Houthi-controlled Yemen can also be credited for the displacements.

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⚡️🇺🇸 – According to Fox News, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth intends to cut around 20% of military general and admiral positions.

Affected roles are expected to be demoted, not excluded from the military.

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⚡️🇺🇳🇪🇺 – The International Energy Agency (IEA) said it could consider the release of more strategic oil reserves, although it currently isn't their "number one agenda".

IEA Executive Director Faith Birol confirmed during a meeting of EU Energy Ministers that the agency has already released 400 million barrels since March, of which one third is yet to reach global markets. Those barrels represent 20% of the overall oil stocks.

During the same meeting, the EU Energy Comissioner said EU countries have spent an extra €100 billion euros on energy due supply disruptions related to the war in Iran—over twice what the Pentagon believes it has lost during the war.

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