🇺🇸⚡️- Boeing has been selected to build the U.S. Navy's sixth-generation fighter jet, the F/A-XX. The aircraft is intended to replace the Navy's fleet of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers in the 2030s.

The contract marks the second big win for Boeing during President Trump's second term, after the company was awarded the U.S. Air Force's F-47 program in 2025.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Efforts by Qatari mediators to broker a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran are at a stalemate, with neither side willing to concede to the other's demands, according to Axios.

U.S. officials believe President Trump could order a new round of strikes on Iran after the midterm elections, while Qatari officials are reportedly growing frustrated with both sides.

"It is stuck. The Iranians are asking for things the U.S. can't accept and the U.S. thinks it is winning so there is no need for compromise," one source told Axios.

Others in the region, including Egypt and Pakistan, have reportedly urged Iran to agree to nuclear concessions, but Iran has said the only way that will happen is if the U.S. returns to the terms of the June memorandum.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️- American LNG giant Cheniere has signed a 22-year supply agreement with Brazil's Petrobras. Petrobras will purchase roughly 800,000 metric tons of American LNG annually, giving Brazil a long-term source of gas for its power market while providing another major overseas customer for US energy exports.

🇺🇸⚡️- TSA airport security agents checking IDs and boarding passes across the country are no longer allowed to sit down during their shifts.

TSA confirmed the policy change today, telling media outlets: "This welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert. All officers must meet fitness for duty requirements to be capable of performing their vital national security function."

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The U.S. Senate blocked a resolution that would require the Trump administration to report to Congress about the increasing violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

The vote was 51-47 and largely along party lines, with Republican Senator Rand Paul joining Democrats to support the resolution while Democratic Senator John Fetterman joined Republicans in blocking it.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that intelligence suggests Israel's enemies are planning an attack. However, those claims were recently pushed back on by the security establishment and senior IDF officials.

For what appears to be the first time, Israel's military and intelligence leadership have publicly broken with Netanyahu on the assessment. Rerum Novarum views this as a sign of growing tensions between him and the country's security establishment as he looks to secure re-election and remain in power, though it increasingly looks like he may be isolating himself.

Netanyahu also met with officials from several Arab countries in the UAE earlier this week, where Iran and its proxies were a main topic of discussion. It should be noted that several countries reported to have met with Netanyahu have publicly denied the meeting, further isolating the prime minister. Israeli elections are scheduled for October 27, 2026.

🇸🇦🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡️- Both Saudi and Jordanian officials have come out today denying that they took part in the Abu Dhabi meeting.

One senior Jordanian official told Axios' Barak Ravid: "These claims are blatant falsehoods promoted by Israeli media affiliated with Netanyahu for electioneering purposes."

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡️- Three South Korean personnel were injured last week in a landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone.

South Korea's Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul blamed the blast on North Korean mines, but North Korea denied the accusation, saying South Korea will pay a price for shifting the blame to Pyongyang.

The United Nations Command concluded today that the mine blast violated the Korean Armistice Agreement and vowed to prevent further escalation on the peninsula.

The attached photo, released by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, depicts a North Korean antipersonnel mine found on the same day as the explosion.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Various explosions are reported across southern Lebanon.

Moments ago, explosions were documented in Ayta al-Jabal, followed by an Israeli double-tap airstrike against Mansouri.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv briefly squawked 7500, the code for a hijacking.

The plane is currently flying over northern Saudi Arabia.

🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says that a return to the EU is amongst the options his government is looking at, as Brexit has “done more harm than good.”

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli fighter jets have scrambled to intercept a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv!

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli authorities have lost contact with the FlyDubai plane, all directions are being examined.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- 100 Israelis are said to be on the plane, according to Israeli Channel 12.

🇦🇪🇮🇱 - The aircraft did not make contact with air traffic control in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, nor Israel.

🇦🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Israel has been informed that the aircraft will land in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, in about 10 minutes, after which the conditions of the aircraft will become clear, Israeli Channel 11 reports.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- The cause of this entire debacle was a physical altercation between the pilots aboard the FlyDubai plane. The situation is over. Nothing ever happens.

🇦🇪🇮🇱 - "Pilots beat each other in flight - and the entire Middle East went on emergency alert," - Amit Segal of Israeli Channel 12.