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• Maduro says US 'fabricating' war as naval strike group nears Venezuela Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro says the US is "fabricating" a war against him as Carrier Strike Group Twelve (CSG-12), which includes the world's largest aircraft carrier, approaches the South American country.

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• US Military May Miss Paychecks by November 15 - Treasury Secretary Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- US military personnel may miss paychecks by November 15 if the government shutdown continues, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday.
• Visit to the Joint Force command post President of Russia 26 Oct 2025 -- The Supreme Commander-in-Chief visited a Joint Force command post, where he had a meeting with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and the commanders of the groups involved in the special military operation.
• Putin Visits Command Post of United Group of Forces - Kremlin Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin visited one of the command posts of the united group of forces, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
• Putin Touts Successful Tests Of Nuclear-Powered Burevestnik Missile RFE/RL 26 Oct 2025 -- President Vladimir Putin said Russia has successfully tested the nuclear-powered, nuclear-weapon capable Burevestnik cruise missile and is seeking ways to deploy it at a time when the Kremlin's war in Ukraine drags on.
• Russia reportedly carries out test of nuclear-powered cruise missile; test yields strategic significance: Chinese experts Global Times 26 Oct 2025 -- Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, said President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, media reported. Citing Russian media data, Chinese military affairs experts said that the missile's extraordinary range carries major strategic implications.
• Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile: Russia's Absolute Deterrence Trump Card Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- A test has demonstrated the missile's ability to evade enemy missile defense systems, Chief of General Staff Gerasimov has told President Putin.
• Putin: Tests Of Burevestnik Missile Have Been Completed Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- Russia tested advanced weapon prototypes during strategic nuclear forces exercise, Russian President Putin stated.
• PLA Eastern Theater Command air force conducts training around Taiwan island: official media Global Times 26 Oct 2025 -- Multiple units from the air force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command have recently conducted realistic combat training to test their capabilities in key-area reconnaissance and early warning, aerial blockade and precision strikes, the military channel of China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday.
• INS SUTLEJ COMPLETES HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY AT MAURITIUS India - PIB 26 Oct 2025 -- INS Sutlej successfully completed a joint hydrographic survey with the Mauritius Hydrographic Service, covering an extensive area of approximately 35,000 square nautical miles.
• Authorized institutions discussed additional action to ensure airspace and civil aviation safety Lithuania MND 26 Oct 2025 -- Minister of National Defence ad interim Minister of the Interior Vladislavas Kondratovičius met with Chief of Defence General Raimundas Vaikšnoras, leadership and representatives of statutory services of internal affairs at the Ministry of National Defence.
• EU Rearmament Revives Romania's 'Stalin Plant' Town RFE/RL 26 Oct 2025 -- At the base of Romania's Fagaras Mountains, a sprawling chemical plant that was founded in 1938, in part by weapons giant Rheinmetall to produce gunpowder for Nazi Germany, stands rusting and unused. Now Germany's Rheinmetall is returning.
• AFP rebuts Duterte son's 'misleading' claims on US Typhon missiles Philippine News Agency 26 Oct 2025 -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Sunday denounced "misleading interpretations" on the temporary deployment of the United States' Typhon missile system in the country.
• Teodoro pushes for future-ready AFP, unveils Coast Guard cadet plan Philippine News Agency 26 Oct 2025 -- The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) must fast-track its transformation into a "future-ready" institution capable of producing leaders for a modernized defense force.
• Retired generals warn: Military junta a 'catastrophic betrayal' Philippine News Agency 26 Oct 2025 -- Retired military officers have broken their silence amid political tension, warning against any extra-constitutional moves such as a military junta, calling it a "catastrophic betrayal of democracy."

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• Prime Minister's Office-Mossad Israel - Prime Minister 26 Oct 2025-- From Australia to Europe: Exposing the Senior Iranian Official Who Promoted Terrorist Attacks Worldwide, and the Wave of Arrests of the Terrorist Cells Operating Under Him
• Prime Minister's Office Israel - Prime Minister 26 Oct 2025-- The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and The Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a concluding phone call at the end of the Secretary's visit to Israel.
• PM Netanyahu at the Start of the Government Meeting Israel - Prime Minister 26 Oct 2025
• Hamas urges international action as Israel keeps violating ceasefire IRNA 26 Oct 2025 -- The spokesperson for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued fresh condemnations of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza, warning that the international community's inaction could lead to an escalation of tensions.
• Hamas: Demolition of residential buildings in Gaza Strip is a clear violation of ceasefire IRNA 26 Oct 2025 -- Spokesperson for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Hazem Qassem in a statement on Saturday has announced that the continued demolition of homes in Gaza is a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement.
• Hamas: Israel failed to achieve its goals through genocide Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas reiterates that the Israeli regime has failed to achieve the objectives it had sought to realize through its two-year-plus war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
• Hamas Signals Potential Disarmament if Occupation Ends, Demands Major Aid Increase Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya stated the group's weapons are "linked to the existence of the occupation" and would revert to a Palestinian state if it ends, Al Jazeera reports.
• Gaza 'stabilization force' must be authorized by UN Security Council, not by Trump: Islamic Jihad Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, says any peacekeeping or "stabilization force" in Gaza must be authorized by a UN Security Council resolution — not by US President Donald Trump's wishes.
• Hezbollah not merely a military force but 'integrated strategic project,' says Sheikh Naim Qassem Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem says the movement is far more than an armed group, describing it as an "integrated strategic project" that addresses Lebanon's defense as well as its social and economic needs.
• Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills one in latest ceasefire violation Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- At least one person has been killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, according to the country's Ministry of Health, marking the latest violation of the ceasefire agreement between the Tel Aviv regime and the Arab nation signed last November.
• Gaza's ceasefire offers a vital chance for children - it must be seized UNICEF 26 Oct 2025 -- Statement by UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder
• UNICEF says Gaza ceasefire 'vital chance' for 1 million children in need Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has described the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as a "vital chance" to protect one million Palestinian children in need.
• UNICEF says Gaza ceasefire 'vital chance' for 1 million children in need IRNA 26 Oct 2025 -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says the Gaza ceasefire agreement is a "vital chance" to protect one million children in the Palestinian enclave.
• Israel continues to exploit Gaza aid as weapon of war: Doctors Without Borders Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- A senior official from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the Israeli regime continues to use humanitarian aid in Gaza as a weapon of war against Palestinians.

Other Conflicts

• Pakistani Military Reports New Border Clashes Amid Istanbul Talks RFE/RL 26 Oct 2025 -- The Pakistani military says soldiers and militants have died in clashes near the Afghan border, as diplomats from both countries meet to prevent violence from erupting again after the worst fighting in years.
• Israeli forces conduct new incursions into Syria's Quneitra, set up checkpoints Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- Israeli forces have launched new assaults into several villages and towns in the southwestern Syrian province of Quneitra, setting up checkpoints and searching civilians despite ongoing talks between the Tel Aviv and Syria's ruling Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regimes on a "security agreement."
• Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on Cambodia and Thailand UN Secretary-General 26 Oct 2025
• Signing of the Joint Declaration between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on border conflict (Statement by Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan 26 Oct 2025
• Thailand, Cambodia Sign Declaration to Resolve Conflict Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur signed a declaration on relations to resolve the conflict that began in May 2025, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
• Sudan: UN Relief Chief calls for protection of civilians and their access to aid in El Fasher UNOCHA 26 Oct 2025 -- Statement on Sudan by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
• OIC General Secretariat Reiterates its Strong Support for the Right to Self-determination of the People of Jammu and Kashmir Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) 27 Oct 2025 -- October 27, 2025, marks 78 years since India's illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir
• PKK militants announce withdrawal from Turkey as part of disarmament process Press TV 26 Oct 2025 -- The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group has officially announced its decision to withdraw all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq as part of a disarmament process coordinated with Ankara.

News Reports

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Ultrahang Youtube Channel, Moscow, Octobre 26, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 26 Oct 2025
• New US Sanctions on Russia Harm Prospects for Restoration of Bilateral Relations - Kremlin Sputnik 26 Oct 2025 -- Sanctions announced by Washington this week harmed the prospects for reconciliation between Russia and the United States, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
• 'US expresses its position in a tough manner, China remains resolute in safeguarding its interests'; China, US reach basic consensuses on properly addressing several key economic, trade issues Global Times 26 Oct 2025 -- China, US delegations reached basic consensuses on arrangements to address respective trade concerns after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
• Chinese, US delegations reconvene for 2nd day of economic, trade talks in Kuala Lumpur Global Times 26 Oct 2025 -- The Chinese and U.S. delegations reconvened on Sunday for the second day of talks on economic and trade issues.
• China successfully launches new satellite Global Times 26 Oct 2025 -- China on Sunday sent a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in its southwestern Sichuan Province.
• MOFA expresses 'grave concerns' over Singapore remarks CNA 26 Oct 2025 -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Sunday expressed "grave concerns" after Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財) reiterated the city state's opposition to "Taiwan independence," during a meeting with a senior Chinese official.
• No need for Taiwan to worry about U.S.-China trade talks: Rubio CNA 26 Oct 2025 -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that Taiwan should not be concerned about being used as a bargaining chip in the ongoing U.S.-China trade talks.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 26 Oct 2025
• Iran has no trust in US, won't yield to bullying: FM Araghchi IRNA 26 Oct 2025 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran has not and will not place any trust in the United States due to a lack of positive experience in the past, emphasizing that the Islamic Republic will not tolerate bullying against its people.
• Commander: IRGC looking for security of Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait IRNA 26 Oct 2025 -- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Brigadier General Alireza Tangsiri has stressed that his forces have ensured the security of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.
• Japan-Malaysia Summit Meeting Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan 26 Oct 2025
• Japan-Australia Summit Meeting Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan 26 Oct 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister of Vietnam Phạm Minh Chính Prime Minister of Canada 26 Oct 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Prime Minister of Canada 26 Oct 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister of Laos Sonexay Siphandone Prime Minister of Canada 26 Oct 2025
• The address of Assistant Secretary-General and head of the Media and Communication Sector At the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime League of Arab States 26 Oct 2025
• Launch Result of New unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft1(HTV-X1) aboard the 7th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F7) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 26 Oct 2025-- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched New unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft1(HTV-X1) aboard the 7th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F7) at 9:00:15 a.m.(JST) on October 26, 2025 from the Tanegashima Space Center.
• Status of the HTV-X1 after Separation from the H3 Launch Vehicle Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 26 Oct 2025-- At 9:00:15 a.m. on October 26(JST), 2025, HTV-X1 was launched aboard the H3 Launch Vehicle No.7 (H3-24W) from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center.
• Speech by President António Costa at the opening session of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur EC/CEU 26 Oct 2025
• Kosovo Plunged Into Turmoil As Lawmakers Reject New Kurti Government RFE/RL 26 Oct 2025 -- Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti failed to secure enough support in Kosovo's parliament to form a new government, plunging the country further into political chaos and bringing it closer to its second elections this year.
• Timor-Leste's Accession to ASEAN US Dept. of State 26 Oct 2025-- Today, the United States warmly congratulates Timor-Leste on its historic accession as the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• Readout of the Secretary-General's meeting with H.E. Mr. Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia UN Secretary-General 26 Oct 2025
• Readout of the Secretary-General's meeting with H.E. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN UN Secretary-General 26 Oct 2025
• Readout of the Secretary-General's meeting with H.E. Mr. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., President of the Republic of the Philippines UN Secretary-General 26 Oct 2025
• Readout of the Secretary-General's meeting with H.E. Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand UN Secretary-General 26 Oct 2025