AP: A federal judge has scheduled a new plea hearing for a British man accused of trying to buy missile parts from undercover U.S. agents and illegally sell them to Iran.

Bloomberg: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the country’s top politicians to focus on their job and avoid disagreements that may “feed the foreign media’s propaganda.”

AFP: The United States said Wednesday it was monitoring a visit by two Iranian warships to a Sudanese port this week, but had no details about it.

Reuters: OPEC oil output has risen slightly in October as extra supplies from Iraq, Angola and Libya have offset disruptions in Nigeria and a further decline in Iran to its lowest in two decades, a Reuters survey found on Wednesday.

AFP: Iran insisted on Wednesday that it had obtained images of sensitive areas of Israel from a Hezbollah drone before it was shot down, despite the Jewish state questioning if the aircraft carried a camera.

AFP: Two Iranian warships left a Sudanese port on Wednesday, an AFP photographer said, after a visit coinciding with Khartoum’s denial that Iran is involved in making weapons in Sudan.

Reuters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would benefit them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East.

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