The AfD is about to win a German state election for the first time.

Saxony-Anhalt votes tomorrow with the far-right party polling at 41–43% — nearly double the CDU's 22–23%.

That's a 20-point swing since 2021.

Every other party refuses to govern with them, so even if they win, forming a government could be deadlocked for months.

If enough small parties miss the 5% threshold, the AfD could reach an absolute majority.

The election is the first of three German state votes this month and is being watched as a signal of where the country is heading before the 2029 federal election.

EU Spokesperson:

We reject any attempt at demographic or territorial changes in the Gaza Strip and support unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.

There should be no forced displacement of Gazans. Gaza is part and parcel of a future Palestinian state.

Türkiye’s first domestically developed fifth-generation stealth fighter jet KAAN's chief engineer Emre Yaban says the jet doesn't compare to the F-16 — it competes with the F-22, Su-57, and J-20:

Only four countries have managed to develop fifth-generation aircraft comparable to this one.

But we are looking toward the sixth generation.

He claims KAAN "will have significantly superior air-to-air capabilities" versus its peers.

Parody account Parodyjeffx (180k followers) was suspended from X after getting Grok to call Israel's actions in Gaza "genocidal."

X says the actual reason was ban evasion — technical signals linking it to a previously suspended account.

In Al Jazeera's defense documentary, an ASELSAN engineer says Türkiye’s domestically built ALP-300G radar — part of the SİPER long-range air defense system — outperforms Russia’s S-400 air defence system’s search radar "in several aspects."

Asked whether any foreign components were used, he replied:

This radar was developed entirely inside Türkiye — from the most minute components like electronic chips all the way to the complete system.

Türkiye bought the S-400 in 2017, got kicked out of the F-35 program and hit with US sanctions.

SİPER is the domestic answer.

Netanyahu on Gaza:

There will be no reconstruction in Gaza unless there is, first of all, demilitarization. I can’t tell you what kind of reconstruction there will be; we are discussing this with our American friends.

Sometimes we see eye to eye, sometimes we don’t. And when we don’t see eye to eye, they raise their interests, and I raise Israel’s interests — and I stand by them.

Netanyahu on Iran:

Who would have believed on October 7 that we would change the face of the Middle East? I did.

My intention was that eventually we would clash with Iran.

Netanyahu on Iran:

If Iran attacks us, they will absorb such a blow that I do not want to detail it.

Netanyahu:

The central question in these elections is: Who will finish what has to be finished? Who will finally finish off this regime in Iran? Who will finally finish off Hezbollah? Who will finally finish off Hamas?

My political opponents give in to every pressure. America tells them "no," and they immediately tremble.

Will they do it? No. They won’t do it. We do it.

Netanyahu on the Qatar ties affair:

I attacked Qatar — I also bombed it and attacked them during the war, and they attacked me.

This whole Qatar thing is one big bluff. Qatar is a hostile state, but Qatar is not a state that dictated anything here.

Netanyahu:

Eisenkot cannot form a government, and he knows it. He is trying to hide that.

He cannot form a government without the Arab parties, and they reject the very existence of the State of Israel.

It is ridiculous and shameful to try to give legitimacy to something that is not legitimate. Maybe it is legal, but it is not legitimate.

Q: Where are you planning to be on the eve of the holiday?

Netanyahu: That’s a secret. I can’t tell you.

Q: I understand that something serious is planned?

Netanyahu: It's something that we're tracking and seeing.

Netanyahu on the alleged attempt against his son Yair:

I can only say that there was such an attempt. It was significant. The security services acted quickly.

They even brought reinforcements from forces we had in the United States in order to evacuate him quickly from the United States. This is completely real.

And this happened as a result of simply irresponsible — really reckless — behavior by several journalists and other people who exposed Yair’s location in real time: the exact address where he was staying, a photograph of the apartment, the floor number, the apartment number.

Kremlin:

Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out on Kyiv for the next three days, starting at midnight tonight.

Putin:

With the citizens of the country, we will overcome any difficulties and any challenges.

All the problems are temporary. But Moscow, Russia — they are eternal.

BREAKING: A Greek Air Force F-4 Phantom crashed at Tanagra Air Base during Athens Flying Week.

There is no official update yet on the crew’s condition or the cause of the crash.

For the first time in decades, NATO allies held submarine-hunting drills off Iceland without U.S. ships or aircraft, as European and Canadian forces took the lead in defending the North Atlantic.

The exercise focused on the GIUK Gap, a key route for Russian nuclear-powered submarines entering the Atlantic, amid growing concerns over Russia and the U.S. pullback from Europe.

Source: POLITICO

WATCH: The moment a Greek Air Force F-4 Phantom crashes during an aerial display at Tanagra Air Base.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he would resign as president and run for prime minister if his ruling party wins an early parliamentary election expected on Oct. 25.

The election follows more than a year of mass, student-led protests over corruption and the November 2024 Novi Sad train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people.

Source: AP