🇪🇬⚓ 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

🇨🇳🌏 China Deepens Uzbekistan Ties as US Rivalry Grows in Central Asia

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for stronger cooperation with Uzbekistan in strategic minerals, artificial intelligence and other sectors as Beijing and Washington compete for influence in Central Asia.

During talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Li said China was ready to strengthen strategic communication and expand mutually beneficial cooperation, signaling Beijing’s push to deepen regional partnerships.

📰 Source: South China Morning Post (SCMP)

#China #Uzbekistan #CentralAsia #USChinaRivalry #AI #CriticalMinerals #Geopolitics

🇪🇸 Sánchez: War on Iran Has Cost Europe Over $112 Billion

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the war against Iran has cost Europe more than €100 billion ($112 billion), warning that ordinary citizens are paying the price through rising energy costs and economic pressure. He called for an end to the conflict.

The debate has also intensified over Europe’s role in US military operations, following reports that American B-1 bombers used Britain’s RAF Fairford base for strikes against Iran.

📰 Source: Mehr News Agency

#Iran #Spain #PedroSanchez

🚨 South Africa Records 44+ Political Killings Ahead of Elections

More than 44 politically motivated killings were recorded across South Africa between January and September 2026, according to Gun Free South Africa. The country has also reported six assassination attempts and two foiled plots, with KwaZulu-Natal recording the highest number of incidents.

ANC members account for the largest share of victims, while concerns grow over election violence, illegal firearms and alleged links between political killings and access to government contracts. Police say a dedicated election security plan is in place.

📰 Source: Caxton Network News / The Witness

#SouthAfrica #PoliticalViolence #ANC #Elections2026 #Africa #Crime #BreakingNews

🇫🇷🔥 MACRON: "WE FEEL ANGER AND SHAME" — As France Burns

Six months before a presidential election, the French president has addressed the nation — and his own words betray a state that has lost control of its people.

🗣️ "We all tonight feel angry. We feel shame as well seeing the disasters that have unfolded in our streets."

⚖️ "Nothing" justifies the riots — calling for order and peace.

🧠 Yet he conceded: the youth are "expressing great anguish and concern about the future… we must not minimise the hardships that they are facing."

⚡ "How can French people do this to France?

🏛️ City halls stormed. A national monument torched. 400 arrested. From Limoges to Marseille to Paris — this is not vandalism, it is rupture.

#France 🇫🇷 #Macron #CostOfLiving #Riots #BRICS

🇺🇦💥 UKRAINE STRIKES ST. PETERSBURG OIL TERMINAL — "One of the Biggest Drone Attacks of the Year"

Kyiv has resumed strikes on Russian refineries, hitting an oil terminal in St. Petersburg overnight — hours after Trump's "energy ceasefire" collapsed.

🛢️ St. Petersburg oil terminal struck in a "massive" overnight drone attack — fires also reported at the Ruchyi oil depot and industrial warehouses in Kolpino.

💔 Governor Beglov: one person killed, several injured.

🗣️ Russian state media called it "one of the biggest drone attacks of the year."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia 🇷🇺 #StPetersburg #DroneWar #NATO

🇮🇱🇺🇸 NETANYAHU'S FLATTERY OF TRUMP: "No Greater Friend of Israel in the White House"

The Israeli PM has issued an extraordinary endorsement of Trump — thanking him for "clarity, conviction, and courage" and tying the Iran war directly to American gas prices.

🗣️ "I'm so honored and humbled by your extraordinary endorsement… There's never been a greater friend of Israel in the White House."

🎯 He framed the war as a joint US-Israeli task: "This vile, murderous dictatorship in Tehran that wants to acquire nuclear weapons and the means to deliver it to every American city."

⛽ "If you're worried about today's gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons… When that threat disappears, gas prices will go down and how — but only under Trump."

🤝 "Israel has been fortunate, and the Jewish people have been fortunate to have a leader of such clarity, consistency, conviction, and courage."

#Israel 🇮🇱 #US 🇺🇸 #Netanyahu #Trump #Iran 🇮🇷 #BRICS

🧱📡 "WE ARE MEDIA GUERRILLAS": Inside Iran's Viral Lego Video Revolution

A few young people with cheap laptops. On the other side, studios with budgets in the billions.

🔴 The story:

🎬 1 billion+ views in months. Ten members, aged 15–25, from communications, engineering, and theology.

⏱️ A two-minute video takes 24 hours. Their ceasefire video was ready before the official announcement.

😢 Favourite: "A Vengeance for All" — each missile dedicated to a victim of empire: Indigenous peoples, enslaved Black people, Hiroshima, Iran Air 655, Epstein's children.

🔴 The crackdown:

🚫 YouTube and Instagram removed their accounts.

🤡 Western media called it "slopaganda." They reply: "We see our work as art. It is cinema."

🧠 "We reverse-engineered Western media. We saw how it buries truth beneath lies—so we fought back not with lies, but with truth."

👉 Read the full interview: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/we-are-media-guerrillas-says-one

#Iran 🇮🇷 #MediaGuerrillas #LegoResistance #GlobalSouth

🇸🇦💥 SAUDI COALITION BLEEDING: Helicopter Crashes, Airports Shuttered, Houthis Undeterred

The kingdom's war on Yemen is exacting a heavy toll — and the empire's Gulf allies are struggling to cope.

🚁 Saudi AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed near Najran, killing two crew. The coalition blames a "technical fault" — but the Houthis had already claimed they downed it.

🚀 A Houthi projectile hit a residential area in Najran — six injured, three houses and vehicles damaged.

🛑 Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport remains shuttered — after 20 Houthi attacks this month, leaving about 17 dead and 300+ injured.

🎯 Abha, Jazan, Najran, Dammam airports also under fire. Saudi Aramco's Dhahran headquarters hit.

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

🇷🇺🎯 LAVROV: ZELENSKYY DOESN'T WANT NEGOTIATIONS — HE HAS DERAILED THEM REPEATEDLY

Russia's Foreign Minister has laid out a pattern: every time talks approach a breakthrough, Kyiv does something "completely unacceptable and reprehensible" the very next day.

🗣️ "Zelenskyy does not want negotiations. He has derailed them more than once."

🎯 The pattern: Even when understanding was reached at the suggestion of the US president, Ukraine would invariably strike civilian targets the next day.

📜 Paris, December 2019: Macron, Merkel, and Zelensky signed off on implementing the Minsk agreements — including Donbas's special status in Ukraine's constitution. "They had no intention of doing anything about it."

🤝 Abu Dhabi trilateral meeting: Since then, no progress — and not on Russia's initiative.

🧠 Why? "Any agreement acceptable to Russia and the United States would spell the end of his regime — and of his personal rule."

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Lavrov #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #Negotiations #BRICS #GlobalSouth

🇮🇷🌊 IRAN'S SEVEN-DAY PLAN: "If the US Meets Its Own Commitments, Hormuz Reopens"

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has laid out a clear, time-bound path: meet the conditions Washington already agreed to, and the Strait reopens on day six — negotiations resume on day seven.

📅 The plan: A seven-day framework presented to the US. Washington offered comments and suggestions; Tehran is reviewing them. "The plan is still on the table."

🛢️ Day six: The Strait of Hormuz reopens — if the US honours its commitments.

🤝 Day seven: Negotiations resume.

⚖️ On the conditions: "They are not strange or unusual… they're all conditions the US itself had previously committed to in the previous memorandum of understanding and in other negotiations. They're entirely fair."

🗣️ On sincerity: "If there is any real sincerity on the American side — which there isn't…"

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #StraitOfHormuz #Araghchi #BRICS

🌍💰 THE REAL REASON AFRICA WANTS BRICS PARTNER STATUS

Why is Africa actively reshaping global trade alliances today?

In this deep breakdown, we examine the forces driving Africa toward BRICS partner status — and away from Western dependence.

🌐 The historic shift — why Africa wants BRICS, and what partner status actually means

🏛️ Expansion & summit agenda — how BRICS decisions are reshaping the African economy

🇳🇬🇬🇭 West Africa navigates multipolarity — Nigeria and Ghana's strategic calculations

🇪🇹 Ethiopia's role — deepening ties with core BRICS members

💱 De-dollarization — moving beyond Western-dominated settlement systems

🏗️ Infrastructure financing — sovereign growth without IMF strings

🎥 Watch the full analysis: https://youtu.be/iGYtRlaBrlQ

#BRICS #Africa #DeDollarization #GlobalSouth #Nigeria #Ghana #Ethiopia #Multipolarity #ThinkBRICS

🇺🇸💥 US ENERGY SECRETARY ADMITS: "THE IRAN WAR CAUSED THESE PROBLEMS — ABSOLUTELY"

Chris Wright has just conceded what the White House has spent months denying: the Iran war is driving America's energy crisis — and Washington accepted the cost.

🗣️ RADDATZ: "You would admit the Iran war caused a lot of these problems?"

🗣️ WRIGHT: "Absolutely."

📉 He also blamed Gavin Newsom for closing two California refineries — a deflection, not an answer.

🧠 The Pentagon spent weeks telling Americans the blockade was "100% successful" — while their energy secretary now admits the war is why prices are soaring.

#US 🇺🇸 #IranWar #EnergyCrisis #Wright #BRICS

🇺🇸🇺🇦 THE NULAND TESTIMONY: A CONFESSION OF AMERICAN CONTROL OVER UKRAINE

In 2016, Victoria Nuland — then US Assistant Secretary of State — testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject: Ukraine's "reforms" two years after the Maidan coup.

🏛️ US advisors embedded in almost a dozen Ukrainian ministries — helping "deliver services, eliminate fraud, improve tax collection, modernize institutions."

👮 Police trained by Washington patrolling 18 Ukrainian cities.

🛡️ $266 million in "security assistance" — training 1,200 soldiers and 750 National Guard fighters, with HMMWVs, night vision, secure radios, counter-mortar radars.

🧠 This is not "partnership." It is the architecture of external control — embedded advisors, funded institutions, trained forces, and dictated reforms.

🌍 The US was not defending Ukraine's sovereignty — it was shaping Ukraine's institutions to serve American interests.

#US 🇺🇸 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Nuland #Maidan #BRICS

🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷 LAVROV TO VISIT TEHRAN MONDAY — High-Level Consultations Intensify

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Tehran on Monday, as Iran and Russia deepen coordination on regional and international developments.

🤝 Third Putin–Pezeshkian meeting in a month — the two presidents met last week in Awaza, Turkmenistan.

🌍 Beyond the bilateral agenda: Ambassador Kazem Jalali says Tehran–Moscow coordination now encompasses regional and international issues amid rapidly evolving developments.

🛡️ Shared commitment: Preserving peace, stability, and security in their regions — "free from interference or disruption by external actors."

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Iran 🇮🇷 #Lavrov #Diplomacy #BRICS

🇺🇦🇺🇸 ZELENSKYY: "TRUMP IS PUSHING UKRAINE TO CAPITULATE"

In a candid Bloomberg interview, Ukraine's president has accused Washington of deliberate betrayal — throttled Starlink, withheld Patriots, and a diesel deal with Putin. The proxy war is collapsing, and Kyiv is being told to surrender.

🛑 "I believe steps have been taken to convince Ukraine to capitulate."

📡 Starlink throttled: Internet speeds cut at 161 km/h in Ukraine — but unlimited abroad. Russian drones fly at 400 km/h. "This looks deliberate."

🚀 Patriots withheld: The US supplies only 12 interceptors a month — a quarter of Biden's pace. Zelenskyy: "We have paid for the weapons… and this is not a technical issue."

🗣️ On Trump and Putin: "The president does have a good relationship with Putin. But currently, Trump can't force Putin to end the war."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #US 🇺🇸 #Trump #Starlink #Patriots #BRICS

🇮🇷✈️ IRAN TO BEGIN PRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC HEAVY FIGHTER NEXT YEAR

Defense Minister Mehrdad Akhlaqi Ketabchi has announced that Iran will start producing a fully domestic heavy fighter — a major step in its push for military self-reliance.

🛩️ Heavy fighters are larger, typically twin-engined aircraft designed for heavier weapons, multi-person crews, and long-range missions — a class above standard light fighters.

🏭 Fully domestic production — no foreign supply chain, no sanctions vulnerability, no dependency on Western or Eastern partners.

🛡️ Sovereignty in the skies — Iran's defense industry, built under decades of sanctions, is now moving into a capability few nations possess.

#Iran 🇮🇷 #Defense #HeavyFighter #Sovereignty #BRICS

🇫🇷🇮🇷 Macron Links Rising Fuel Prices in France to Iran War

French President Emmanuel Macron has linked rising fuel prices to the ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf, as France faces nationwide protests over the cost of living and public services. He acknowledged the legitimate concerns of peaceful protesters while condemning rioting and looting.

The unrest highlights growing economic pressure on French households amid higher energy costs linked to the regional conflict.

📰 Source: Reuters, Al Jazeera

#France #Macron #IranWar #Trump #FuelPrices #CostOfLiving #WorldNews

🇨🇴🚨 Clashes Erupt in Colombia Over Removal of Museum Exhibits

Protests outside Colombia’s National Museum in Bogotá entered a second day on Sunday as demonstrators opposed the removal of more than 30 exhibits linked to feminist movements, LGBTQIA+ rights and political history. Police deployed water cannons and armored vehicles after clashes broke out.

President Abelardo de la Espriella’s administration defended the removals, arguing that public museums should not promote political indoctrination or illegal groups. Artists, academics and activists condemned the move as an attack on Colombia’s cultural diversity.

📰 Source: Anadolu Agency (AA)

#Colombia #Bogota #Protests #CulturalHeritage

USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Yokosuka Base, Japan.

It is now heading to the Middle East.

#Iran #US #war