Nigeria: U.S. AFRICOM has drafted intervention plans targeting ISWAP, JAS, and other Islamist groups.

The plans outline three options — light, medium, and heavy operations.

NATO's Rutte:

Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules — it is working with China, North Korea, Iran, and others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels and preparing for long-term confrontation.

We cannot be naive; we must be prepared. As President Roosevelt said in 1942, powerful enemies must be outfought and out-produced.

Somalia: Defense Minister Ahmed Muallim Fiqi revealed that mercenaries are trafficked through Puntland’s Bosaso airport to join Sudan’s war.

He said aircraft carrying fighters and cargo regularly transit Bosaso en route to Chad, Niger, and western Sudan.

U.S. companies announced 153,000 layoffs in October — the most for that month in over 20 years — led by tech and warehousing.

Cuts are being driven by AI adoption, weaker spending, and rising costs.

Source: Bloomberg

Tanzania: Police shot a mother dead in front of her child during anti-government protests.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is privately telling colleagues she wants to run for President in 2028 and believes she has the MAGA base and donor network to win.

Source: NOTUS

Israel bombs southern Lebanon again.

Hezbollah:

We affirm our right to resist the occupation alongside our army and people.

Singapore has passed a new law allowing 6–24 strokes of judicial caning for male scammers and scam-recruiters under 50, a punishment previously used for crimes like rape and drug trafficking.

Somalia: Heavy clashes are reported between Puntland forces and Islamic State militants in the Baaladr Valley area of Bari region.

The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudanese nationals, requiring about 232 people to leave within 60 days or face deportation, despite ongoing conflict and severe hunger in South Sudan.

BREAKING: The US is preparing to establish military presence at an airbase in Damascus.

Source: Reuters

NATO's Rutte:

Until recently, Russia was producing more ammunition than all NATO Allies combined — but not anymore.

NEW: A U.S. watchdog report links UAE Presidential Court secretary general Ahmed Mohamed Al Humairi to a company supplying Colombian mercenaries to Sudan’s RSF militia.

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Ukrainian Special Forces struck a warehouse containing “Shahed” drones and UAV launch sites in Donetsk overnight.

Ukraine is now producing FPV-drone decoys.

They’re built to imitate “waiting” drones along roads, forcing Russian forces to waste real drones to destroy them.

Saudi Arabia’s futuristic mega-project, The Line — a 500-metre-tall, 170km mirrored city meant to house 9m people — has been dramatically scaled back after colliding with engineering limits and soaring costs.

Conceived by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the centrepiece of Neom, the project featured fantastical concepts including a giant suspended “chandelier” building, a floating football stadium, and a deep desert cruise-ship marina.

As planning advanced, architects warned that many elements were physically unworkable or unsafe, and required impossible quantities of steel, concrete, and glass.

Foreign investment failed to appear, timelines slipped, and estimated costs ballooned from $1.6tn to around $4.5tn.

Despite $50bn spent, only early groundwork is complete, including massive piles and excavation.

The planned 20 building “modules” have been cut to about three, making the project widely seen as financially unviable.

Neom insists The Line remains a long-term goal, but insiders say the grand vision has effectively collapsed — undone by physics, cost, and politics.

Source: FT

A satirical video goes viral after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York.

TikTok is now filled with similar videos.