⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇳 – Channel 12 also reports that, as part of an agreement, Iran agreed to a secret, unannounced visit from the International Atomic Energy Agency to its nuclear facilities.

Channel 12 says this report originated from Qatari media, without specifying the outlet.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 – Israeli outlet i24 News claims Trump came "very close" to approving a strike in Iran on at least one occasion in recent weeks.

There have been unconfirmed reports of U.S. strikes in Iran recently, and just yesterday some outlets reported a strike on Konarak Naval Base, Sistan and Baluchestan province.

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⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸🇳🇴 – The meeting between Ukrainian President Zelensky and U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff in Olso, Norway, has begun.

Jared Kushner is expected to join virtually, and both the Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre are in attendance.

The meeting is meant to restart peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, at a time when relations between Washington and Kyiv remain very strained. Witkoff will also visit Moscow following the Oslo meeting.

🇷🇺❌🇷🇺 - Reportedly, according to Chechen Opposition Sources a major security operation is underway across Chechnya, Russia, following reports of armed clashes between militants and Russian security forces.

⚡️ According to Chechen opposition movement NIYSO, Russian security forces, including the FSB, have launched a large scale manhunt across several districts following reports of gunfire and armed confrontations on October 19.

⚡️ Helicopters, military vehicles and armed personnel have reportedly been deployed across Grozny, Gudermes, Kurchaloy and surrounding areas. Security forces are allegedly conducting widespread vehicle searches, phone inspections and arrests, while some personnel have reportedly changed into civilian clothing to conduct undercover surveillance.

⚡️ NIYSO claims that approximately 30 armed militants may be involved. At least two fatalities have also been reported, although none of these figures have been independently confirmed so far.

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🇷🇺❌🇷🇺 - Opposition to Ramzan Kadyrov has been fueled in part by his decision to send Chechen men to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, a conflict some Chechen opposition groups have condemned as “Putin’s war.”

⚡️ Critics accuse Kadyrov of sacrificing Chechen lives to serve Putin's interests, adding to historical grievances over political repression, human rights abuses and Russian control of Chechnya.

🇺🇦 As a result, hundreds of Chechen volunteers have joined Ukrainian forces to fight against Russia, including members of the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur battalions. Many view Ukraine’s war against Russia as a continuation of Chechnya’s own struggle for independence, having previously fought Russian forces during the Chechen wars.

⚡️🇬🇧🇮🇷 – Two men have been rearrested on suspicion of having aided Iranian security services in the RAF Fairford plot, British police said.

Five men were originally arrested and then released.

⚡️🇧🇷🗳 – With the second round of Brazil's presidential election scheduled for this Sunday, AFP News reported that Lula da Silva's campaign will ask the electoral court to annul the candidacy of his rival Flávio Bolsonaro due to alleged "interference" by Meta.

Although Meta claims that the accusations of bias are "false," it has admitted to errors such as the deactivation of Lula's ads, which it attributed to "technical malfunctions."

❗️🇺🇸🛢 - US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Trump administration is authorizing the sale of sanctioned oil tankers to replenish the global tanker fleet.

The move came after a period of intensified attacks by Iran against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in the destruction of several vessels.

Supply-demand imbalance has also pushed tanker charter rate to historical high, exceeding $1 million a day for VLCCs.

Experts are questioning the efficacy of the policy move, citing the old age and the long term contracts of the 'shadow fleet'.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 – The governor of the Yemeni province of Shabwah said the death toll from a Houthi strike on a government training camp has risen to 73, with an additional 14 missing and over 200 wounded.

⚡️🇯🇵🇨🇳🇷🇺 – Japan was forced to scramble its fighter aircraft 442 times between April and September—177 more than during the same period in 2025—in response to incursions into its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)

Of those, 285 (65%) responded to Chinese aircraft or UAVs, and 152 (34%) responded to Russian aircraft. Five additional incidents were classified as 'other'.

Some documented incidents include flights by Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) aircraft over the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean, five days of flights by Chinese Y-9 ELINT aircraft over the East China Sea in September and long-range joint flights by Chinese H-6 bombers and Russian Tu-95 bombers.

📝 An ADIZ should not be confused with a country's airspace.

ADIZs are not recognized internationally because they tend to include international airspace. Its purpose is to identify, locate and track aircraft in the region.