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• Guillot: National Guard vital to NORAD, U.S. Northern Command Army News 03 Nov 2024 -- The National Guard is a vital contributor to North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, Gen. Gregory Guillot told National Guard adjutants general and senior enlisted leaders from the 50 states, three U.S. territories and the District of Columbia gathered in Colorado Springs on Oct. 29.
• US Air Force B-1B bomber joins air drill with South Korea, Japan Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- A US Air Force B-1B bomber has joined a military air drill with the South Korean and Japanese forces.
• Australia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement enables largest combined joint activity in recent history Australia DOD 03 Nov 2024 -- The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) will conduct the largest combined joint activity in recent history, Exercise Keris Woomera from 3 November 2024.
• Iran to host rescue and relief exercise in Caspian Sea IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- The Iranian Navy is slated to host the Caspian Sea combined rescue and relief exercise.
• Russia Sees Benin's Interest in Cooperation on Army Modernization - Ambassador Sputnik 03 Nov 2024 -- Russia sees Cotonou's interest in cooperation with Moscow on modernizing the Beninese armed forces, Russian Ambassador to Benin and Togo Igor Evdokimov said in an interview with Sputnik.

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• Israel sends troops into Syria, detaining alleged Iranian agent VOA 03 Nov 2024 -- Israel said Sunday it launched a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian it claimed was involved in Iranian networks supporting militants in the region.
• IDF Says Eliminated Commander of Hezbollah Rockets Array Sputnik 03 Nov 2024 -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that it had eliminated the commander of the Hezbollah Nasser unit's missiles and rockets array, Jaafar Khader Faour, by a precision strike on southern Lebanon.
• PM Netanyahu on the Lebanese Border: "With or without an agreement, the key to returning our residents in the north safely to their homes, is to push Hezbollah beyond the Litani, strike at any attempt to rearm itself and respond vigorously to any action Israel - Prime Minister 03 Nov 2024
• Nov. 2: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 03 Nov 2024
• Only Half of 101 Israeli Hostages Held in Gaza Strip Still Alive - Reports Sputnik 03 Nov 2024 -- About half of 101 Israelis who have been held hostage by Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip for over a year now are still alive, Israeli daily reported on Sunday, citing intelligence assessments and open source data.
• Hamas fighters deceived Israeli soldiers in deadly Jabalia operation: Hebrew daily IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has reported that Palestinian resistance fighters deceived Israeli forces in an operation that led to the deaths of four of them in northern Gaza less than a week ago.
• Over 1,800 Zionists killed since start of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm: Israeli sources IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- The death toll among Zionists since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm has reached 1,802, according to Zionist sources.
• Over 26,000 missiles targeted Israeli bases in a year: Report IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- A Zionist news outlet says more than 26,000 missiles have been fired at different areas in occupied Palestine since October last year.
• Two Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza offensive IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- The Israeli regime's army has acknowledged the death of two troopers from the Givati Brigade during its offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Israel once again besieges and bombs three main hospitals in north Gaza Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Three partially functioning hospitals treating severely wounded patients and sheltering displaced Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza have been encircled and bombed by Israeli troops in the besieged territory.
• Israel ramps up attacks on north Gaza as UN warns of 'apocalyptic' crisis Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Israeli forces have ramped up their deadly airstrikes on northern Gaza, where United Nations officials have described the conditions as "apocalyptic."
• Israeli forces struck Gaza children during polio campaign: WHO Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Israeli forces have struck a clinic during a polio vaccination campaign, injuring several Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
• Israel killed over 50 children in Gaza's Jabalia in 48 hours: UNICEF Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has said that the Israeli killing of more than 50 children in "deadly" 48 hours in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip is another "dark chapter" of the "terrible" Israeli war against the besieged territory.
• 40-plus Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on 100s of residential buildings in N Gaza: Report Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- The Gaza Strip's Government Media Office says more than 40 Palestinians, including many women and children, have been killed during Israeli attacks on hundreds of residential buildings in the northern part of the coastal sliver.
• Hezbollah launches extensive attacks on Israeli positions IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Hezbollah has carried out a series of widespread attacks targeting Israeli military installations and settlements in northern occupied territories.
• Hezbollah once again warns Israelis about drone attacks IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Lebanon's Hezbollah has once again warned the Israeli regime and settlers about drone attacks on the occupied territories.
• Lebanon death toll nears 3,000 amid continuous Israeli attacks IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Israel has conducted fresh attacks on Lebanon following airstrikes leaving dozens of people dead in a span of 24 hours that pushed up the total death toll to nearly 3,000.
• Hezbollah attacks Israeli base in Haifa with drones Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement presses ahead with its retaliatory operations against Israel, targeting the regime's military positions deep inside the occupied territories.
• Israeli airstrike kills 3 people in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Lebanon says three people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a densely populated neighborhood near the southern city of Sidon.
• Israeli military issues displacement order for Lebanon's Baalbek region Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- The Israeli military has issued new evacuation orders for the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, warning that it is planning to strike positions belonging to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in the area.
• UN says humanitarian situation in Lebanon worse than during 2006 war Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- The present situation in Lebanon has become worse than during the 2006 war, according to the United Nations humanitarian agency.
• Middle East crisis: Gaza polio vaccine campaign under fire UN News 03 Nov 2024 -- Attacks on a clinic and UN staff member were reported during a resumed polio vaccine campaign in besieged northern Gaza, Israeli forces continued airstrikes on Lebanon on Sunday and in Yemen, a new water project launched a "lifeline" for populations fleeing conflict, with updates from Syria.
• UNRWA Situation Report #11 on the Lebanon Emergency Response: All information from 24 October - 30 October 2024, valid as of 30 October 2024 at 1:00 PM UNRWA 03 Nov 2024
• UNRWA Situation Report #146 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. All information from 25-31 October 2024, is valid as of 31 October 2024 at 22:30 (local time) UNRWA 03 Nov 2024
• Iranian President Says Cease-Fire Could Affect Tehran's Response To Israeli Strike RFE/RL 03 Nov 2024 -- Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian said that if a cease-fire were reached by Israel and Tehran-allied groups in the region, the action "could affect the intensity" of any retaliatory strike by Iran's military, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
• Iran will 'certainly' launch Operation True Promise III against Israel: IRGC commander Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will "certainly" launch another attack against Israel in response to the occupying regime's latest act of aggression against the country.
• Resistance fighters target Israeli positions in West Bank 445 times IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli positions in the occupied West Bank 445 times in October, according to a Palestinian center.
• Yemen rejects 'proposals' to withdraw support for Gaza: Official IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Yemen's ruling Ansarullah movement has rejected "proposals" to withdraw its support for Gaza and the Palestinian resistance, a senior official with the group has said.
• 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq will increase anti-Israeli operations' IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- A senior leader of Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya says the Islamic Resistance in Iraq will increase operations against the Zionist regime's positions in occupied Palestine and the Golan.
• America bases on target if US helps Israel attack Iraq: Al-Nujaba IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Haider al-Lami, a member of the political office of the Iraqi Al-Nujaba movement has said the resistance group would target America bases in case of any US help to the Zionist regime's potential attack on Iraq.
• Iraqi resistance launches drone strikes on Israeli targets in Jordan Valley, Golan Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Iraqi resistance fighters have conducted separate drone strikes on strategic targets within the Israeli-occupied territories in response to the usurping regime's ongoing atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza and bloody offensives in Lebanon.
• Drone penetrates occupied Golan Heights airspace IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- A drone has reportedly entered the airspace of the occupied Golan Heights from Syrian territory, causing sirens to sound across different locations.

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• Reduced Myanmar supply 'to drive rare-earth prices higher' Global Times 03 Nov 2024 -- As November kicks off, the rare-earth market is back in the spotlight due to supply disruptions from Myanmar, with analysts noting on Sunday that a sustained rise in prices is expected.
• African Union soldiers killed in al-Shabab mortar attack VOA 03 Nov 2024 -- Two African Union soldiers were killed and a third one injured by an al-Shabab mortar attack Sunday on their base inside the perimeters of Mogadishu's international airport.
• No: 229, 3 November 2024, Regarding the Situation in Sudan Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs 03 Nov 2024

News Reports

• Pro-West Sandu Declares Victory In Moldova's Tight Presidential Runoff RFE/RL 03 Nov 2024 -- Pro-Europe incumbent Moldovan President Maia Sandu has declared victory over Russia-friendly challenger Alexandr Stoianoglo, in balloting marred by accusations of of Russian interference and voter fraud.
• EXPLAINED: What is China's United Front and how does it operate? Radio Free Asia 03 Nov 2024 -- Evidence is mounting of clandestine Chinese influence operations in the heart of America.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 03 Nov 2024
• White Paper of DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies Betrays Criminal Colors and Miserable Plight of Puppet Yoon Suk Yeol KCNA 03 Nov 2024 -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made public on October 27 the final results of investigation into the case of a ROK-borne drone's serious encroachment upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, thus fully bringing to light the plot hatched by hideous criminals.
• US cruel pressures against Iran continue up to now: Iran FM spox IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh has stated that the US provided all-out support to the Saddam regime during the eight-year-long war imposed on Iran, emphasizing that the US's unlawful interference and cruel pressures against Iran continue up to now.
• Iran kills ringleader of terrorist group behind deadly attack on border guards in southeast Press TV 03 Nov 2024 -- Iran's police have killed the ringleader of a terrorist group responsible for the deadly attack on a police convoy in Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
• Terror ringleader behind Taftan attack eliminated: Police IRNA 03 Nov 2024 -- The Iranian police spokesman has announced that the ringleader of a terrorist group responsible for the deadly attack on a police convoy in southeastern Iran has been killed.
• Return of abducted lawyer for Pakistan's jailed former leader sparks controversy VOA 03 Nov 2024 -- A leading lawyer for Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has resurfaced under mysterious circumstances nearly a month after his alleged "enforced disappearance."