Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023. (Reuters) (Jerusalem Post)

The Trump administration deploys 10 F-35 jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in Venezuela and Latin America. (The Guardian)

Venezuelan Air Force F-16s flyover the USS Jason Dunham in international waters for a second time in 24 hours as tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela. U.S. officials describe the situation in the Caribbean Sea as a "game of chicken" between both countries. (CBS News)

During a state visit to Beijing, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif announces new US$8.5 billion investment agreements with China, including $7 billion in a memorandum of understanding and $1.5 billion in joint ventures between the two countries. (AP)

Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leaves her other government posts amid a scandal over a tax underpayment on a property she owns in Hove, East Sussex. Prime Minister Keir Starmer conducts a cabinet reshuffle and appoints David Lammy as the new Deputy PM and Shabana Mahmood as the new Home Secretary. (BBC News)

Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili pardons opposition politicians Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, allowing them to run in the upcoming elections after serving prison sentences for refusing to testify before parliament. (Reuters)

Official results show that the FAST party led by Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt wins the election by a landslide, securing 30 out of the 50 Legislative Assembly seats. (Al Jazeera) (NZ Herald)

The House of Representatives of Thailand elects Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the conservative opposition Bhumjaithai Party, as the country's prime minister, replacing Paetongtarn Shinawatra. (Al Jazeera)

U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is to be now known as Secretary of War. (BBC News)

The Jupiter supercomputer, capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second with 24,000 Nvidia chips, is inaugurated in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, marking Europe's first system considered internationally competitive in training artificial intelligence models. On a partial system test, Jupiter has achieved a preliminary 793.4 Petaflop/s, placing it 4th in the Top 500 behind El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora at the DOE. (AFP via France 24)(Top 500)