🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Envoy Kirill Dmitriev:

Let us build a future of peace, partnership, and prosperity for the benefit of our families, our children, and future generations.

Dear Melania, you saved and touched so many lives.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — First Lady Melania Trump wrote "personal letters" to both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky and handed them to senior officials from both countries for delivery.

The ceasefire in Oleshky would not have been possible without President Putin and President Zelensky.

Their cooperation establishes a meaningful precedent for advancing peace throughout the region.

🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — The Ukrainian delegation presented First Lady Melania Trump with the Order of Princess Olga, First Class.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇶🇦⚡️ — Iran is examining new proposals submitted by mediators concerning the future of its nuclear program, potentially marking a breakthrough in stalled negotiations aimed at ending the war with the U.S., according to NYT, citing five officials familiar with the talks.

Tehran's renewed willingness to engage in nuclear negotiations after weeks of resistance suggests that Qatar-led mediation efforts to prevent a return to full-scale hostilities may be gaining traction.

Officials described the terms under consideration as "concrete proposals" but provided no further details.

🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning to resign from President Trump's administration to pursue the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, following the party's major midterm election losses and loss of control of both chambers of Congress, The Independent reports.

Sources in Washington and the British government say Rubio may seek to distance himself from controversial administration policies, particularly the war with Iran, to strengthen his position against potential rival Vice President JD Vance.

Both the White House and State Department have strongly denied the reports, dismissing claims of Rubio's impending departure as baseless.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Ansarallah announces targeting King Fahd Int'l Airport, Dammam, eastern KSA with a UAV.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, according to Fox News.

Dhillon, who took office in April 2025 and oversaw the department's Civil Rights Division, stepped down following Republicans' midterm election defeats, though no reason has been disclosed.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦🇾🇪 — Ansarallah has announced several operations against Saudi Arabia and PLC forces reportedly operating under Saudi command over the past 24 hours.

Forces under Saudi command were targeted with ballistic missiles in Hajjah and Al-Jawf governorates, PLC-controlled Yemen. Ansarallah also announced targeting a radar in Al-Qahmah, southwestern KSA with a UAV and a military camp in Najran Province, southwestern KSA & a border guard command and control center in Jazan Province, southwestern KSA with one ballistic missile each.

Ansarallah also announced targeting King Khalid Int'l Airport, Riyadh with a ballistic missile.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Ansarallah announces over the past 24 hours, Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 and Typhoon fighter jets conducted 61 airstrikes against Sana'a city and Ansarallah-controlled Al-Jawf, Ta'izz, Sa'adah, Ma'rib, Lahij, Ad-Dhale, Ibb, Al-Hudaydah, and Hajjah governorates.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has authorized an expansion of National Guard operations in Washington, D.C., allowing troops to deploy boats, several dozen marked police vehicles, Humvees and light medium tactical vehicles to support law enforcement activities, according to an October 29 memorandum obtained by POLITICO.

The expanded deployment, scheduled to continue through the end of the year, is part of President Trump's crackdown on what he has described as a "crime emergency" in the capital.

National Guard personnel will assist police during drug enforcement operations using military vehicles, although they remain prohibited from pursuing suspects or making arrests.

Guard-operated boats will also provide "perimeter security" during operations targeting suspected gang leaders and drug traffickers in Anacostia, southeastern Washington.

The memorandum specifies that the boats will not conduct surveillance on American citizens and that federal law enforcement officers "must always be on board" to carry out arrests, including when suspects attempt to escape into the river.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Q: What do you think you would be doing now if you only did four years in the military?

CENTCOM's Brad Cooper: I'm pretty sure I would own a bar on a beach somewhere. I like the sun. I like the beach.

🇮🇱⚡️ — BREAKING: Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu has agreed to work alongside Israeli Ultra-Orthodox party United Torah Judaism in a hypothetical government headed by Gadi Eisenkot. A compromise was reached on Ultra-Orthodox conscription.

🇮🇱⚡️ — If both Shas and UTJ join Eisenkot's Change Bloc, this will create a razor-thin 61 seat majority government with Eisenkot as PM. Ra'am and Joint List would both be absent from this government, as would Likud.

🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. tech stocks had a significant selloff today; $NVDA and $TSLA had the biggest losses. This comes amidst a broader selloff in AI companies over recent days.

🇺🇸⚡️ — A U.S. official tells Axios that the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will make port in Singapore for a few days. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is not expected to reach the CENTCOM area-of-responsibility until mid-November at the earliest.

🇺🇳🇦🇪🇨🇴⚡️ — The UAE recruited Colombian mercenaries to support Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a confidential United Nations investigation obtained by NYT.

The report, submitted to the UN Security Council last week, details how an Emirati security company with close government connections trained the Colombian fighters in Abu Dhabi before transporting them into Sudan through territories controlled by UAE-backed groups in Libya and Somalia.

The mercenaries provided drone operations, artillery support, and military training to the RSF.

The findings have also increased scrutiny of UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh's candidacy for UN secretary-general, particularly given her previous denials of Emirati involvement in Sudan's war on the side of the RSF.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A U.S. official tells i24NEWS that a joint American-Israeli strike against Iran remains on the table. A limited strike solely against Iranian nuclear facilities including Pickaxe Mountain is being considered, as well as a broader strike including energy infrastructure.

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️ — Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Major General Mohsen Rezaei stated Western responses to Tehran's demands remain unconvincing, emphasizing that the U.S. and its allies must explicitly fulfill Iran's set conditions, reports Tasnim News.

The statement came during a two-hour Kremlin meeting where Rezaei delivered a message from Iran's Supreme Leader to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Court documents reviewed by AP show that the U.S. government held talks with Iran on deporting Iranians as the Iran War waged on, with some documents dated mid-October saying the Iranians would be deported to a third country.

The documents show continued collaboration between American and Iranian officials on Iranians being sent back to Iran, specifically in regards to travel documents and "avenues for removal".

This came amidst certainly by U.S. officials that deported Iranians would face peril if sent back to Iran.