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  • President Trump Announces Ceasefire & Hostage Agreement between Israel & Hamas; Deal to be Signed Thursday in Egypt; Hostage Release to Begin Saturday + President Trump to Visit the Region this Weekend + More
    Oct 9 2025

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    1. President Trump Announces Ceasefire & Hostage Agreement between Israel & Hamas.

    Deal to be Signed Thursday in Egypt.

    Hostage Release to Begin Saturday.

    President Trump to Visit the Region this Weekend.

    2. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty tells the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya that “additional Arab countries will sign peace agreements with Israel if the war in Gaza comes to an end.”

    3. The German budget committee approved a long-planned order of advanced Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, greenlighting the €3.75 billion ($4.36 billion) procurement of 20 additional aircraft, designed to the Tranche 5 standard.

    4. Spain is reportedly considering acquiring Turkey’s incoming fifth-generation KAAN fighter jets after shelving plans to purchase US-made F-35s.

    5. Bangladesh’s top air force officer, announced last month that his country’s interim government had given an in-principle approval for the purchase of “multirole combat and attack aircraft”.

    Though not specified, there is a strong likelihood it will be the J-10CE fighter from China.

    6. The US Department of War is expected to decide as soon as this week which US company will assemble the US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation stealth aircraft.

    According to Reuters- Boeing and Northrop Grumman competing for the contract.

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    19 mins
  • "Positive Atmosphere" at First Day of Talks in Egypt + IDF on High Alert for 07 October Anniversary and Holiday Period + Chinese Underwater Drone Found in Philippine S. China Sea Waters + More
    Oct 7 2025

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    1. "Positive Atmosphere" at First Day of Talks in Egypt.

    2. IDF on High Alert for 07 October Anniversary and Holiday Period (Sukkot).

    3. Families of hostages held in Gaza urged the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Monday to give the Nobel Peace Prize to United States President Donald Trump this month for his efforts to secure the release of their loved ones.

    4. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 6 that he has "sort of made a decision" on whether to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk long-range missiles.

    "I think I want to find out what they're doing with them, where they're sending them, I guess. I have to ask that question," Trump mused to reporters in the Oval Office.

    5. Chinese Underwater Drone Found in Philippine S. China Sea Waters.

    Filipino fishermen discovered the 12-foot-long drone and turned it over to a Philippine Coast Guard station. The drone was equipped with a conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor for oceanographic survey operations.

    6. Sierra Nevada Corp. for the first time publicly displayed the Battery Revolving Adaptive Weapons Launcher—Reconfigurable (BRAWLR), which SNC says can carry up to four types of rockets and missiles at once to take out enemy drones and cruise missiles from the back of a pickup truck, a trailer or the ground.


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    24 mins
  • Negotiations to Enact President Trump's 20-Point Peace Plan Begin Monday in Cairo + Russian President Putin: Supplying US Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine "Completely New Stage of Escalation"
    Oct 5 2025

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    1. Negotiations to Enact President Trump's 20-Point Peace Plan Begin Monday in Cairo.

    2. The head of Hezbollah said Saturday that Washington’s plan for a ceasefire in Gaza was “full of dangers,” - but said the decision of whether to accept it was ultimately Hamas’s.

    3. The IDF says it has intercepted a single missile fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen. There are no immediate reports of impacts, injuries or damage after sirens sounded in parts of central Israel and the southern West Bank.

    4. Russian President Putin: Supplying US Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine - "This would mark a qualitatively new, completely new stage of escalation between Russia and the U.S.”

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    22 mins
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