🚨 At Least 139 Dead, 84 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Djibouti

At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died and 84 remain missing after a boat carrying more than 300 migrants capsized off Djibouti while heading toward Yemen, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).

More than 80 people, all Ethiopian nationals, survived the disaster as search-and-rescue operations continued. The tragedy highlights the deadly risks faced by migrants crossing the Gulf of Aden in search of safety and economic opportunities.

Source: Al Jazeera

#Djibouti #Yemen #Migration #HumanitarianCrisis #GulfOfAden #IOM #ThinkBRICS

🇷🇺🎯 KREMLIN: ZELENSKY IS IN "HYSTERIA" – "Incapable of Considered Actions"

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky as being in a state of "hysteria" and incapable of making measured decisions.

🗣️ "Naturally, being in a state of hysteria, Zelensky is hardly capable of taking any considered actions right now."

🕊️ "If he were capable of considered actions, he would be demonstrating an inclination toward peace negotiations."

💰 Accused Zelensky of seeking more money from "all his overseers" – for air defence, long-range weapons, and Starlink access to strike deep inside Russia.

⚠️ "You cannot treat Russia that way. Those who behave like that toward Russia pay a price. Right now, Ukraine is paying the price."

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #Peskov

🇺🇸💀 PENTAGON ADMITS: US DEATH TOLL IN IRAN WAR WAS UNDERREPORTED – Hegseth Called It a "Lie"

The Pentagon has quietly revised its official death toll from the Iran war – after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth dismissed reports of undercounting as a "complete lie."

📊 Official count raised from 18 to 21 military deaths – including a National Guard major who died in Kuwait, a Navy suicide, and a soldier killed in a training accident in Iraq.

🏥 865 wounded service members.

🗣️ Democratic Reps. Smith and Houlahan: "An embarrassment. There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude."

🚢 The Navy previously admitted eight sailors attempted suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln during a 10‑month deployment.

#US 🇺🇸 #Iran 🇮🇷 #Pentagon #Hegseth #WarLies

🇮🇷💥 IRGC NAVY: THIRD SUPERTANKER HITS NAVAL MINE IN HORMUZ – "Disabled Navigation = Hostile"

A third crude oil supertanker has struck a naval mine and caught fire in the southern Strait of Hormuz today after disabling its navigation systems and violating regulations. The IRGC Navy has declared: any vessel with disabled navigation will be treated as hostile.

🚢 Third supertanker in two days to strike a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz.

🔥 The vessel's engine room caught fire after the explosion.

📡 The ship had disabled its navigation and identification systems – a deliberate attempt to evade detection.

⚠️ New policy: "Any ship within the Strait of Hormuz that turns off its navigation and identification systems will be considered hostile and will be dealt with severely and decisively."

#Iran 🇮🇷 #Hormuz #IRGCNavy #Sovereignty #BRICS

🛢️🤝 THE DIESEL DEAL AND ANCHORAGE: Putin and Trump Reshape Ukraine, Iran, and Europe

A Greek tanker carrying Russian diesel for the US set sail from St. Petersburg on September 22 – the very day United Russia won its largest Duma majority. The deal was announced 18 days later. In that window, Moscow closed in on Kiev.

🇺🇦 Zelensky on the chopping block. After talks in Miami ended, official statements about holding elections in Ukraine appeared in Bulgaria. Trump has signaled: get a new president.

📞 Putin as mediator on Iran. Putin reportedly carried a message from Iran's president to Trump. Russia granted Iran a $10 billion loan and frozen Iranian assets are being flown to Tehran.

🇪🇺 Europe is the biggest loser. Economically, the US and Russia will set diesel prices. If Nord Stream is restored, Brussels is finished.

👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-diesel-deal-and-anchorage-putin

#Russia 🇷🇺 #US 🇺🇸 #DieselDeal #Ukraine #Iran #BRICS

🇷🇺🇺🇦 ENERGY CEASEFIRE: Putin-Trump Deal Reshapes Ukraine War

In a major diplomatic breakthrough, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an immediate energy ceasefire – announced by US President Donald Trump following his call with Vladimir Putin.

🕊️ "Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #EnergyCeasefire #Putin #Trump

🇮🇷⚡ IRAN'S WARNING: "We Are Fully Prepared to Introduce NEW Capabilities" – $2 Trillion in US Assets at Risk

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, has delivered a stark warning to the US: if war resumes, Iran will destroy the most valuable American assets in the region – cables, data centres, and AI facilities worth over $2 trillion.

🛡️ "Today we are fully prepared to introduce new capabilities if the war starts again."

📊 Iran held back during the 12‑day war – revealing only a small portion of its capabilities.

⚔️ The 40‑day war was different – Iran brought far more resources into the field.

🎯 Targets not yet touched: US assets in the UAE and around the Strait of Hormuz – including "cables, data centres, artificial intelligence facilities."

💥 "These cables, data centres and AI facilities are worth more than $2,000,000,000,000."

🗣️ "Almost every new move it has made has ended in failure."

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #Rezaei #BRICS

🇷🇺🇨🇳 RUSSIA & CHINA DEEPEN SHIPBUILDING TIES – Arctic Routes, Ice-Class Vessels, Joint Investment

Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev is on a six-day mission to China – exploring technology partnerships, joint investment, and Arctic shipping cooperation that could reshape Eurasian trade.

🚢 Chinese shipbuilders as technology partners and equipment suppliers for new Russian shipyard facilities.

🧊 Joint construction of ice-class vessels – including for Chinese shipping in the Arctic.

🛤️ Trans-Arctic transport corridor: Patrushev: "Polar trade routes will become significantly more attractive and safe."

🏗️ Joint investment in port infrastructure – drawing on China's experience building Yangshan Port over 15 years.

🏭 Putin at Valdai: The Zvezda shipyard in Russia's Far East is building "a fleet of superships that even the Soviet Union did not produce."

#Russia 🇷🇺 #China 🇨🇳 #Shipbuilding #Arctic #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Multipolarity #SanctionsFail #Eurasia

🇺🇦😳 ZELENSKY BLINDSIDED: "The Energy Ceasefire Was News to Me"

Ukraine's president was not informed of the Putin-Trump energy ceasefire before it was announced – and is now waiting for Washington to tell him when it begins.

🤝 "If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins."

📞 He spoke with Canadian PM Carney, Finnish President Stubb, and NATO chief Rutte – all supporting the initiative.

🇺🇸 FT reports: The Trump administration is threatening to cut off PURL weapons procurement and intelligence sharing to force Ukraine to halt deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #Trump #EnergyCeasefire #Putin

🇺🇸💥 AMERICAN SENATOR: "US Bases Obliterated by Iran Within Days"

A sitting US senator has admitted what the Pentagon tried to hide: American billion-dollar bases in the Middle East were destroyed by Iran – and the US cannot protect them.

🗣️ "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days, our billion-dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians."

🇶🇦 "We don't have an effective base in Qatar because minutes into the war, the Iranians took those bases out."

💰 "Every single American should be furious – not just because Americans died, but because their taxpayer dollars at scale were wasted."

#US 🇺🇸 #Iran 🇮🇷 #ChrisMurphy #Trump #Pentagon

🇬🇧🎭 BREXIT BLAME GAME: Burnham Revives "Russian Interference" Excuse – Nine Years Too Late

🗣️ "I asked the question coming to Downing Street – was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? I've had the clear answer that yes, there was."

🇩🇪 He told Chancellor Merz that the AfD is "clearly linked to Russia, funded I believe" – without providing proof.

🇫🇷🇩🇪 "These things are important to put clearly on the record to help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies."

🇬🇧 Brexit happened because 17.4 million Britons voted for it. Dismissing that as foreign manipulation insults the very voters Labour claims to represent.

🔄 Nine years later, no proof has been published. Multiple investigations, zero prosecutions, and yet the narrative persists.

#UK 🇬🇧 #Brexit #Russia 🇷🇺 #Burnham #AfD #BRICS

🇨🇳🤖 CHINA'S AI RACE: Model Fatigue or Model Dominance?

While Silicon Valley wrestles with whether upgrades justify costs, China's tech giants are churning out models so fast – and so cheap – that the entire global pricing floor keeps resetting.

🚀 One day in September: Xiaomi streamed its MiMo‑V2.6 training live, Anthropic launched Opus 5.5, and OpenAI surprise‑dropped GPT‑6 Sol and Luna – all within hours.

🇨🇳 Before that: Major releases from Z.ai, DeepSeek, Tencent, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI.

🧠 China is not slowing down. When Anthropic's CEO urged the industry to temper development citing safety risks, Chinese researchers and state media framed it as an attempt to preserve US technological lead.

🎯 Specialisation is survival. ByteDance dominates video generation; Ant Group's AI health app has 150 million users.

#China 🇨🇳 #AI #Tech #Innovation #BRICS

🇺🇦🎭 ZELENSKY'S DOUBLE GAME: "Stop Playing Games With People" – While He Keeps Making It Worse

In a new interview, Zelensky tells the world to "stop playing games" and admit that rising prices come from the Middle East war and the Hormuz blockade. Yet the same man has spent months ignoring US requests to halt strikes on Russian refineries – strikes that have driven fuel prices higher for ordinary people worldwide.

🗣️ "Everybody understands – because of the war in the Middle East, the prices are rising… If we want to speak with people fairly, we have to stop. Don't play games with people."

🛢️ Zelensky's own strikes on Russian refineries have worsened the global fuel crunch – driving up diesel and petrol prices from Europe to Africa to Asia.

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #Hypocrisy #FuelCrisis #Trump

🇺🇦 Ukraine Faces $4.86 Billion in External Debt Repayments in 2026

Ukraine is expected to repay approximately $4.86 billion to foreign creditors in 2026, including principal repayments and interest, according to calculations by TASS based on data from Ukraine’s Finance Ministry.

The country’s state and state-guaranteed debt stood at $215.55 billion as of August 31, 2026. TASS estimates that this equals roughly $8,622 per person based on a population of 25 million, although Ukraine’s current population remains uncertain.

The figures highlight the scale of Ukraine’s debt burden as the country continues to face the economic pressures of war.

Source: TASS

#Ukraine #Economy #PublicDebt #GlobalFinance #UkraineWar #Geopolitics #ThinkBRICS

🇮🇱 Poll: Gadi Eisenkot Leads Netanyahu 43%–38% Ahead of Israeli Elections

Former Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot leads Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the preferred candidate for prime minister, according to a poll published by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN.

The survey projects 22 seats for Eisenkot’s Yashar party, compared with 20 for Netanyahu’s Likud in the 120-seat Knesset. Netanyahu’s political bloc is projected to win 53 seats, short of the 61 needed for a parliamentary majority.

The poll also found that 30% of respondents remain undecided, while 21% are considering not voting. The results suggest that forming a governing coalition could remain challenging after the October 27 election.

Source: Anadolu Agency

#Israel #Netanyahu #GadiEisenkot #IsraeliElections #MiddleEast #Politics #ThinkBRICS

🇮🇳 Indian Opposition Marches to Supreme Court Over Alleged ‘Vote Theft’

India’s opposition parties, led by the Congress, marched toward the Supreme Court in New Delhi on October 12, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged electoral irregularities.

The controversy centers on a voter-list revision that reportedly removed around 130 million names. Opposition leaders argue that the process threatens electoral fairness, while related cases are already pending before the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Delhi Police has withdrawn Jantar Mantar’s status as a designated protest site, recommending alternative locations for demonstrations.

The dispute is intensifying debate over electoral transparency, democratic accountability, and the right to peaceful protest in India.

Source: Al Jazeera

#India #RahulGandhi #Congress #VoteTheft #ElectionCommission #Democracy #NewDelhi #ThinkBRICS

Rosatom’s foreign order book was about $200 billion at the end of 2025. It is building the first nuclear plants in Turkey, Egypt, and Bangladesh, and owns and operates Turkey’s. Nuclear exports largely escaped the sanctions that hit Russian oil and gas.

#Russia #Sanctions #Oil #Nuclearpower

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