🇮🇱 Israeli Opposition Leaders Offer Little Change on Palestine

Five opposition leaders are joining forces to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s October 27 election. However, Al Jazeera reports that most maintain right-wing positions, oppose a Palestinian state, and support Israel’s military actions in the region. Yair Golan is the only leader in the group open to working with Palestinian parties.

Source: Al Jazeera

#Israel #Netanyahu #Palestine #Elections2026

🇮🇹 Italy Expands Probe to Include Israeli Defense Minister

Italy has expanded its investigation into alleged abuse of Gaza flotilla activists to include Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and 12 other senior officials. The probe follows complaints by Italian activists who reported torture and sexual abuse in Israeli detention. Israel has denied mistreating the detainees.

Source: RT News

#Italy #Israel #Gaza #HumanRights

🇹🇷 Türkiye Deploys First Floating Gas Platform to Black Sea

Türkiye has sent its first floating natural gas processing platform, Osman Gazi, to the Black Sea. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the facility is expected to double daily gas production to 20 million cubic metres by 2027, supplying domestically produced gas to one in every three households.

Source: Anadolu Agency

#Türkiye #Energy #NaturalGas #BlackSea

🌏 Chinese Ship Surveys in Japan’s Waters More Than Double

Unauthorized Chinese maritime surveys in Japan’s exclusive economic zone rose to 14 cases by October 2026, up from six in all of 2025, according to Japan’s Coast Guard. The latest incident involved the research vessel Kexue, which left the zone after repeated warnings. The increase comes amid growing maritime tensions between China, Japan and the Philippines.

Source: Indo-Pacific Defense Forum / AFP

#China #Japan #SouthChinaSea #MaritimeSecurity

🌍 Macky Sall Withdraws From UN Secretary-General Race

Senegal’s former president Macky Sall has withdrawn his candidacy to lead the United Nations after all seven candidates received at least one veto in the latest Security Council straw poll. His exit leaves Uganda’s Olara Otunnu as the only African contender.

Source: Africanews / AP

#MackySall #UnitedNations #Senegal #GlobalPolitics

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A fisherman confronted them on camera.

One asked him to stop filming and apologized. He kept recording.

The clip spread online, with many calling out the littering in a public park.

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🇾🇪💥 YEMEN: HOUTHIS CLAIM "REHEARSAL" – Advanced Missiles and Heavier Warheads "Not Yet Deployed"

A senior Ansar Allah official says the fighting so far is just "a rehearsal for comprehensive escalation" — claiming Yemen's forces possess hypersonic missiles, multiple-warhead systems, and newer drones that have not yet been used.

🚀 Undisclosed arsenal: Hypersonic missiles, multiple-warhead systems, and newer drones remain unused.

💣 Heavier warheads: Warheads deployed so far have not exceeded 300 kg — but up to two tonnes are allegedly available.

🗣️ "A rehearsal for comprehensive escalation."

#Yemen 🇾🇪 #Houthis #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 #UAE 🇦🇪

🇺🇦🛰️ ZELENSKYY: STARLINK RESTRICTIONS ARE A "PLANNED OPERATION" – Ukraine's War Effort Held Hostage by a US Billionaire

Ukraine has tested it: Starlink works fine at high speeds in EU countries — but is throttled in Ukraine. Kyiv's conclusion: this is deliberate. And no one is answering the phone.

🛑 Starlink remains deactivated in Ukraine at speeds over 160 km/h — preventing Ukrainian drones from intercepting Russia's high-speed Shahed drones.

🧪 The test: Ukraine sent Starlink-equipped vehicles into EU countries at speeds over 180 km/h. "Starlink kept working… The conclusion is this: the restrictions are in effect in Ukraine, but not in EU countries. So, this is a planned operation."

📞 No one is responding: "We're reaching out at the military level, the Ministry of Defense level, and the diplomatic level, including to SpaceX. Right now, no one is responding."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Starlink #Musk #Trump #Russia 🇷🇺

🇮🇶💥 EXPLOSION AT PMF FACILITY IN BAGHDAD – Fire Under Control, Five Minor Injuries

An explosion rocked eastern Baghdad near a Popular Mobilisation Forces base on October 17 – sending up secondary blasts and drawing emergency response during the OIC foreign ministers meeting in the capital.

🚒 PMF statement: The explosion occurred at a storage site containing damaged equipment inside one of its headquarters east of the canal.

🩹 Casualties: Five PMF members sustained minor injuries. No deaths reported.

✅ The fire has been brought under control, and specialized committees have opened an investigation.

🏛️ The blast occurred while Baghdad was hosting an OIC foreign ministers meeting — a sensitive diplomatic moment.

#Iraq 🇮🇶 #Baghdad #PMF #Security #BRICS

🇮🇷🕊️ IRAN: CEASEFIRE ON ALL FRONTS ESSENTIAL — "If One Front Burns, the War Continues Everywhere"

Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh, speaking from Beirut, has laid out Iran's position: no partial peace, no selective truces — the war must end everywhere, or it ends nowhere.

🌍 All-fronts ceasefire – Iran secured this principle in the mid-June Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding with the US. Lebanon was a core issue in those talks.

🛑 Washington and Tel Aviv violated the Islamabad understanding through attacks on Iran and Lebanon — and US efforts to secure a ceasefire have reached a deadlock.

🛡️ The US war failed – Iran's air defences and deterrence capabilities were not destroyed. Iran resisted an existential war and will continue defending its sovereignty.

☢️ IAEA compliance – More than 15 IAEA reports confirm Iran's compliance with its peaceful nuclear commitments. Tehran is ready to address concerns.

#Iran 🇮🇷 #Lebanon 🇱🇧 #Ceasefire #IslamabadMoU #Hormuz

🇺🇸🇷🇺 BEYOND THE DIESEL DEAL: Sanctions Lifted, Donbas Advancing, Debt Spiralling

The diesel deal is bigger than diesel. Trump has effectively lifted Graham's 500% sanctions on Russia — and the 100% secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian energy.

📜 The decree: 500% sanctions gone. Secondary tariffs gone.

🤝 The swap: The US sent a list of companies needing diesel. Russia returned a list of companies whose sanctions must be lifted.

💾 Shared data centres: Dmitriev confirmed Russia and the US will share them — not just exchange. Unprecedented.

🗣️ The tantrum: A 16-signature petition to block the deal. Howling from California to Vilnius.

🔴 The absurd "100-day" proposal:

🛢️ Ukraine halts refinery strikes for 100 days so diesel flows.

📡 Then the US restores Starlink speeds — so Ukraine can strike refineries again.

👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/beyond-the-diesel-agreement-graham

#US 🇺🇸 #Russia 🇷🇺 #DieselDeal #Sanctions #BRICS #GlobalSouth

🇺🇸⚔️ HEGSETH: "GIVE UP YOUR NUCLEAR AMBITIONS AT THE TABLE — OR FACE DEVASTATION"

The US War Secretary has issued a blunt ultimatum to Iran: negotiate away its nuclear program, or face "the kind of devastation that America can bring."

🗣️ "Iran has a choice to make real quick: whether they're going to give those up at the table or face the kind of devastation that America can bring."

🎯 "Iran has built up a conventional arsenal of missiles so big that they were daring anyone to do anything about it — sort of the North Korea strategy."

⚡ He cited "Midnight Hammer," "Epic Fury," and the B‑2 strikes as evidence of US resolve.

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #Hegseth #NuclearDoubleStandards #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Sovereignty

🇺🇸🤡 TRUMP: "WE COULD BE THERE A LITTLE BIT LONGER" — Then Immediately Says "It's Gonna End Very Quickly"

The US president just contradicted himself in a single breath — admitting the Iran war has no clear end, while insisting it's nearly over.

🗣️ "We have to go to the Middle East for a period of time. We gotta knock out the weapons."

⏳ "We could be there a little bit longer because…"

🤣 "It's gonna end very quickly."

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #Trump #IranWar #BRICS

🇪🇺💸 EU ADMITS €70 BILLION UKRAINE GAP – While Energy Costs Explode

The EU's own leaders just laid bare the contradictions: Costa demands more pressure on Russia, while von der Leyen admits a €70 billion financing hole, a €106 billion energy bill, and no answer for either.

1️⃣ The €70 billion hole – EU has a €70 billion financing gap for Ukraine in 2027, separate from the €90 billion loan already approved. Von der Leyen: "I could not foresee how 2027 would look."

2️⃣ 80% of the burden – The EU and member states account for 80% of external aid to Ukraine. "We urgently need other partners to step in."

3️⃣ The energy bill – Imported fossil fuel costs have risen by €106 billion — "without a single molecule of energy in addition." Gas up 140%, diesel doubled.

#EU 🇪🇺 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia 🇷🇺 #EnergyCrisis #BRICS

🇸🇦💥 SAUDI-LED COALITION CLAIMS INTERCEPTIONS AND STRIKES ON HOUTHI LAUNCH PLATFORMS

The official spokesperson for the Coalition Forces has released footage of what it describes as interceptor air force operations against cruise missiles and drones — and offensive operations to destroy ballistic missile launch platforms belonging to Ansar Allah.

🎯 Interception of cruise missiles and drones targeting coalition assets.

💥 Offensive operations to destroy ballistic missile launch platforms.

🛡️ The Houthis are still firing. After years of war and billions in Western weapons, Ansar Allah continues to launch missiles and drones — and claims to have hypersonic systems and heavier warheads still unused.

#Yemen 🇾🇪 #Houthis #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 #UAE 🇦🇪 #BRICS

🇫🇷🇧🇪 ISRAELI SETTLERS BEAT FRENCH MAYOR & ATTACK EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS – "Jewish Terrorism Under Government Auspices"

A 78-year-old French mayor was kicked and beaten with iron bars by masked Israeli settlers while joining Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank. European diplomats were attacked in the same convoy. And Netanyahu called it a "smear."

🚗 A convoy of European diplomats — including France's and Belgium's top representatives in Jerusalem and Polish diplomats — was attacked by masked settlers in the Christian village of Taybeh.

👴 Mayor Bernard Baudoux (78) was kicked, hit with iron bars, and insulted with defamatory comments about France — while wearing his tricolour sash.

📸 One day earlier: An American photographer for The Washington Post, Heidi Levine, was beaten — left with broken vertebrae. Earlier this month, an AFP photographer had several ribs fractured.

#Palestine 🇵🇸 #Israel 🇮🇱 #WestBank #SettlerViolence #OliveHarvest #BRICS

🇺🇦💥 ZELENSKYY: "THE DIESEL DEAL IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP" — Warns Sanctions Will Keep Falling

Ukraine's president has warned that Washington's lifting of sanctions on Russia is not an isolated concession — it is the beginning of a broader collapse of the Western pressure campaign.

🛢️ On the diesel deal: "Unfortunately, the lifting of sanctions will continue. I believe the diesel deal is the first step. This won't stop Putin — on the contrary, he feels joy and happiness that he has such support."

🤝 Negotiators may meet this week — Umeyrov spoke with Kushner; a format is being arranged. Zelenskyy is ready to meet personally.

🗣️ "We support dialogue… but you cannot achieve peace by limiting Ukraine's responses — and certainly not by lifting sanctions."

🏦 On frozen assets: Warns Russia will try to reclaim them "through one partner or another." Says the situation is "under Europe's control — safe for now."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #US 🇺🇸 #Russia 🇷🇺 #Sanctions #Starlink #BRICS

🇫🇷🔥 LIMOGES CITY HALL BURNS: France's Social Contract Cracks Open

A historic monument, "largely lost." The campanile has collapsed, two-thirds of the façade is gone, and the roof has caved in on the floors below. Over half a million protesters took to the streets nationwide — and the empire's core is burning from within.

🏛️ Limoges city hall — a listed monument inaugurated in 1883, designed by a Versailles architect — was torched. The prefect calls it a "patrimonial catastrophe" and a "deliberate act."

🗣️ Mayor Guillaume Guérin: "This isn't stupidity, it's hatred — hatred of the flag, of institutions, of anyone who embodies authority."

🏙️ Marseille, Lille, and Limoges city halls stormed. A bust of Marianne — symbol of the Republic — knocked down. A tourist office set ablaze in Lyon. Stores looted in Paris.

👮 400 arrests. Interior Ministry puts turnout at 550,000; organisers say 800,000.

#France 🇫🇷 #Limoges #CostOfLiving #Protests #BRICS

🇫🇷 France Yellow Vest Protests: 1,200 Detained

French authorities reported that 1,200 people were detained and 150 police officers and gendarmes injured during nationwide protests over rising living costs, fuel prices and education spending. One demonstrator also died in Paris, according to police.

Source: Anadolu Agency

#France #YellowVestProtests #Paris #Protests

🛰️⚠️ Russia Could Gain Real-Time Drone Control Through ‘Rassvet’ Satellite Network

Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov claims Russia could begin controlling its Geran kamikaze drones and Banderol cruise missiles in real time within six months using the ‘Rassvet’ satellite network.

He warned that full satellite coverage could significantly weaken Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities. However, this remains a Ukrainian official’s assessment, and the reported future capability has not yet been independently confirmed.

📰 Source: The Associated Press (AP), cited in the report

#Russia #Ukraine #Rassvet #DroneWarfare

🇪🇬⚓ Egypt Unlikely to Join Saudi Arabia’s Military Response Immediately

Egypt is unlikely to provide immediate military support to Saudi Arabia, even if its parliament approves an intervention, security expert Talha Abdulrazaq told Al Jazeera. He said Saudi Arabia would likely turn first to Pakistan and Türkiye under its defence partnerships.

Instead, Egypt could focus on Red Sea operations alongside the Saudi Navy to disrupt Houthi supply routes. Attacks on shipping have also hit Egypt’s economy, with official data showing the country lost around $7 billion in Suez Canal revenue in 2023–2024.

📰 Source: Al Jazeera

#Egypt #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #Türkiye #RedSea #Houthis #MiddleEast #Geopolitics