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Vice President Vance Travels to Israel to Shore Ceasefire Agreement + Ceasefire Status Returns After Two IDF Soldiers Killed in Rafah Leads to Israeli Retaliation + More
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1. Vice President Vance Travels to Israel to Shore Ceasefire Agreement.
2. Ceasefire Status Returns After Two IDF Soldiers Killed in Rafah Leads to Israeli Retaliation.
3. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday told US President Donald Trump to “keep dreaming” if he thinks US airstrikes in June destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities.
4. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and have him arrested if he traveled to Canada in an interview published on Friday.
5. Ukrainian general Mykhailo Drapatyi has been named the commander of the Armed Forces' new Joint Forces Task Force, a new command structure responsible for the front line in and around Kharkiv Oblast, the force announced on Oct. 20.
6. Germany and the Netherlands are set to receive hundreds of Jackal infantry fighting vehicles under a €3.4 billion ($4 billion) contract.
The procurement is based on a split between 150 Jackal units for German armed forces and 72 for the Dutch military. A “call off” of up to an additional 248 units is also included.
7. Poland's Defense officials have sent requests for information to six countries for submarine designs for the Polish Orka (Orca) submarine program.
8. Azerbaijan and South Korea have held defense talks in Baku to expand cooperation on military development and regional security.
9. President Donald Trump threw his support behind the trilateral AUKUS agreement today, even suggesting the US is moving more quickly to provide nuclear-powered subs to Australia.