Trump:

I told the head of the Congo, he's a good guy, actually. I said, "You sent us a lot of your people from prisons," and they did. They emptied their prisons.

Q: Andy Burnham said Iran was involved with the RAF Fairford incident.

Trump: We're studying it right now. We're studying it very hard. Iran's got a lot of problems right now.

Trump on Iran:

Iran's leaders are fighting for control very strongly, but control of what?

Q: You describe the Iranians as crazy. How do you get a deal done with crazy people?

Trump: Maybe you blow them up. We have to make that decision. We blow them up or make a deal. The time is coming. It's gonna end very soon.

Trump:

The king of Saudi Arabia said to me, “Sir, during the Biden administration, you were dead country.”

Trump:

We have the best economy anywhere in the world. There’s no economy like this economy. The only thing we don’t have is good public relations. We don’t seem to be able to get the word across.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

PM Burnham says the UK Government "can confirm our belief that we believe Iran to have played a part" in the RAF Fairford incident.

I can confirm Iran's belief that releasing supposed terrorists working for foreign states really says it all.

You're barking up the wrong tree.

Trump on AI:

Super intelligence—we’ve changed the name officially, by the way. I signed the document.

We don’t call it artificial intelligence. Because it’s not artificial. It’s real.

It’s a terrible word. It’s amazing it lived on so long, actually.

Q: Have you decided to ban diesel exports?

Trump: I’m thinking about it.

Trump on Iran:

We’re literally running the Strait of Hormuz. We have total control. I guess that’s always subject to change, you know, if they drop one mine…

Trump on Russia:

Diesel is really hurt much more, not by the Middle East, but by what’s going on in Russia.

Those diesel refineries are being knocked out at a pretty alarming rate.

If that didn’t happen, we wouldn’t have a diesel problem.

Brazilian intelligence officials briefed French and German officials in September on alleged U.S. and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election.

According to a meeting report seen by Reuters, Brazil’s Abin spy agency alleged U.S. interference ranging from “lawfare” to openly acknowledged political involvement, but provided no details about alleged Russian activity.

The U.S. has denied trying to interfere, while Russia has previously denied meddling in foreign elections.

Source: Reuters

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has received a federal security clearance after a nine-month wait, allowing him to participate in classified briefings on security threats and emergencies.

The Trump administration approved the clearance this week.

Officials did not explain the delay, though federal security clearances have faced broader processing backlogs.

Belgium's Defense Minister Theo Francken:

Russia is Belgium's biggest threat.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius:

Is there any proof — real proof — intelligence services are providing something on the table that Russia is getting ready for something?

And there is actually none.

NATO's Rutte:

You've heard the Supreme Allied Commander saying, hey, when able, when you are sure this is Russians — or almost sure this is Russians — attribute it to the Russians, exactly like Estonia did.

I applaud it.

Netanyahu met the passenger who helped stop the Flydubai cockpit attack, telling him "without you it could have been another 9/11."

Yaniv Hayoun, a plumber still in a blood-stained shirt, said he put the attacker in a chokehold and pulled the controls back.

He told Netanyahu he watches air-crash investigation shows on TV, and that's how he knew to pull back on the controls.

He has no aviation or military background mentioned in reports.

Netanyahu says the Israeli plumber who saved the Flydubai plane “prevented another 9/11.”

Netanyahu:

There’s some who have fallen prey to this propaganda, you know, primarily carried out on social media that vilifies Israel.

Israel is the David here fighting this Goliath of global Islamic fundamentalism that seeks death to Israel, death to America — that’s what they chant — death to everything in between.

Netanyahu:

The first casualty of 9/11 was a brilliant Israeli entrepreneur, Daniel Lewin. He had been an officer in my unit, special unit in the military.

What happened then is that Lewin basically attacked the attackers, the hijackers, that were en route to the White House with one of those suicide planes, and he was then stabbed in the back by another hijacker.

He was the first casualty of 9/11, an American-Israeli. He was the first casualty.