⚡️🎮 GAMING - First gameplay at Hyrule Castle in ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME’ remake.

⚡️🚨🇯🇵 WTF - Nagoya, Japan right now...

104.5 mm of rain was unleashed in ONE HOUR, the highest total since records began being kept in 1890.

Subways have been shut down, commuters have been stranded, and streets are absolutely flooded.

Nagoya authorities have issued the highest Level 5 emergency safety warnings and Level 4 evacuation orders for parts of the city...

⚡️🤡🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli President Isaac Herzog:

Later today, we expect to see headlines announcing certain British trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

If this happens and other nations may join, I believe it will prove to be a grave miscalculation, a decision that will fall on the wrong side of history.

Sanctions are not a solution. Dialogue is. I say to all foreign governments, stop.

Step away from the dead end of sanctions and boycotts and turn towards constructive dialogue and towards cooperation.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Twelve countries issued a joint statement announcing national bans on trade in goods from illegal Israeli settlements:

🇫🇷 France
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇸 Spain
🇫🇮 Finland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇪 Sweden

Macron, UK PM Burnham, and Canadian PM Carney agreed the situation is deteriorating with "unprecedented" settler violence and settlement expansion, specifically calling the E1 project "inadmissible."

They salute measures already taken by Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium.

The statement demands Israel immediately stop settlement expansion, hold violent settlers accountable, and investigate allegations against Israeli forces.

They "firmly oppose any action resulting in the annexation of Palestinian lands or forced displacement."

⚡️🇦🇪🇮🇱 NEW - UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed gave Netanyahu a direct warning about a week and a half before October 7, 2023, saying that Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major Hamas operation against Israel.

Netanyahu responded that he believed Hamas was focused on the West Bank and said Israel was prepared for any scenario.

The warning came after earlier signs of a possible escalation. In September, intermediaries relayed messages from Sinwar referring to an approaching “earthquake,” prompting discussions among Israeli security officials.

Netanyahu is accused of not informing the heads of the Shin Bet, Mossad, or IDF about the later warning from bin Zayed.

Some senior security officials said that knowing about it could have changed their assessment of Hamas’s intentions.

Netanyahu’s office denies that he received any warning from the UAE president and called the claim an “absolute lie.”

Source: Haaretz

⚡️📈 NEW - Copper hits all-time high

⚡️🇮🇹 NEW - Italian PM Meloni:

I remain firmly convinced that the Schengen area can only be preserved in the best possible way if we defend the external borders of the European Union, and only if all member states continue to do their part in the fight against traffickers and in the fight against mass illegal immigration.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Macron:

Video games have become one of the great creative forms of our time, at the crossroads of images, writing, music, design and technology.

I firmly believe that video games are part of our culture and should therefore be part of France’s cultural exception, just as we have done with cinema and other forms of creation.

That is why we are going to create an international video game festival, conceived from the very beginning as a major global gathering for creativity, innovation, players and the industry.

⚡️🇹🇷 NEW - Turkish President Erdogan on Iran:

The cost of the war that began with Israel's provocations and machinations is being paid not only by the Iranian people and our brotherly Gulf countries, but by everyone, whether directly involved or not.

It was once again Israel's lies and acts of sabotage that thwarted the Islamabad Accord, which had given our entire region a much-needed respite.

Unless this radical mindset, which sees even the slightest possibility of peace as a threat to itself, changes, the storm of crises in our region will not subside.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - Greenland signs joint declaration with EU including a new €200 million partnership package. Ursula von der Leyen: "It reflects a clear choice expressed by Greenland to strengthen the ties with the EU in line with your values, your freedom and your interests."

⚡️🇦🇷🇮🇱 NEW - Itmar Ben Gvir is calling for Israel to recognize the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) as Argentina territory.

Falkland Islands is a self-governing British territory. In a 2013 referendum, 99.8% of voters chose to remain an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

This is not the first time Ben Gvir has made this demand. The last time, he caused outrage within the British right, the only segment of the population that is still somewhat supportive of Israel.

⚡️💬 GN - The moment you are upset by an insult or flattered by praise, you are still a slave.