🇮🇱🇦🇪 Iran was the main topic of Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret visit to the United Arab Emirates

Benjamin Netanyahu spent about six hours in the United Arab Emirates and met with the country’s president, Mohammed bin Zayed. According to sources cited by the “Jerusalem Post”, Iran was the particular focus of their talks.

The visit took place on Sunday and was initially kept secret. Netanyahu and bin Zayed had spoken by phone several times before the meeting. The Israeli side had already been pressing strongly for a face-to-face meeting before the elections. The United Arab Emirates initially made no public comment on the trip.

Against the backdrop of negotiations between Washington and Tehran, Israel is coordinating its Iran policy in parallel with one of the most important states in the Persian Gulf.

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🇩🇪 BioNTech to close three facilities in Germany

The company has announced the closure of its production sites in Marburg, Idar-Oberstein and Tübingen. The company had spent several months trying to find buyers, but the talks failed due to the difficult investment and market conditions. Around 1,800 people currently work at the three sites.

The closures will take place in stages: The site in Tübingen will cease operations at the end of 2027, the one in Marburg at the beginning of 2028, and the one in Idar-Oberstein at the end of 2028. In the first six months of the current year, BioNTech recorded a net loss of around €1.35 billion.


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🇮🇱 The Mossad has revealed new details of the operation involving Hezbollah’s exploding pagers

The Israeli military censor has approved the publication of previously classified details of the Mossad’s 2024 operation involving Hezbollah’s exploding communications devices. The new information is revealed in the film “Paging Hezbollah.” The operation was prepared over the course of several years, during which the Israeli intelligence service infiltrated Hezbollah’s supply chain directly—from the development of the devices to their marketing and delivery to the organization.

The previously secret part of the story is particularly interesting. According to it, one of Hezbollah’s members became suspicious and began checking the pagers—after which Israel liquidated him. Iran then sent a special X-ray device to inspect the devices for explosives. However, this too was destroyed by Israel. The strike was disguised in such a way that the actual objective of the operation remained unknown.

The new details show that the operation went far beyond the detonation of the pagers themselves. The Mossad had to control the supply chain for years and separately thwart attempts by Hezbollah and Iran to uncover the tampering with the devices.

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🇩🇪 Germany is preparing to wage war in space as well

Today, Mission-K 2026 begins in Germany, a meeting of representatives of the Bundeswehr, as well as defense and aerospace companies. Participants include the Bundeswehr Space Command, ArianeGroup, Airbus Defence and Space, STARK Defence, and German space startups. The focus is no longer solely on satellite communications: Participants will develop mechanisms for the active defense of German infrastructure in space, as well as protected satellites and mobile control systems in the event of the destruction of terrestrial centers.

The Bundeswehr is going even further. In 2027, Germany plans to launch four experimental military satellites into orbit. Among other things, these are intended to be used to test attacks on foreign satellites. The Defense Ministry is considering the creation of its own offensive space capabilities.


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The United States has approved the construction of the country’s first commercial small modular reactor. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a corresponding statement.

The reactor will be built in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee by the Tennessee Valley Authority with the commission’s permission. It will be a 300 MW nuclear reactor designed by GE Vernova Hitachi.

📋 The capacity of small modular reactors is approximately one-third higher than that of traditional nuclear facilities. According to TVA, the technology was developed using factory-manufactured components, passive safety features, and lower land and water requirements.

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The Supreme Court has allowed Trump to resume deporting migrants to “third” countries, Reuters reports.

The ruling will allow the administration to “get rid of” migrants by sending them not “back,” but to countries with which an agreement has been reached, the agency specifies.

According to tallies by human rights groups, more than 25,000 migrants have been deported to 29 countries since last year, with the vast majority sent to Mexico.

The administration carried out deportations from third countries to politically unstable South Sudan, as well as to Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, and the Central African Republic.

“A bad day both for criminal illegal aliens and for activists in the open-borders movement,” wrote James Percival, chief legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

❗️On August 22, it was reported that the United States would pay Liberia $5 million to accept migrants deported from the U.S.

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The U.S. Navy has ordered a fighter from Boeing for $20 billion.

The new sixth-generation carrier-based F/A-XX fighter is expected eventually to replace the F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet fighters, as well as the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, in the fleet.

Experts estimate that the program’s total cost could eventually reach hundreds of billions of dollars. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Michael Duffy believes that the use of the F/A-XX will give the U.S. military significant advantages.

📋 The Pentagon’s drive to purchase fighters from Boeing seems short-sighted given that the corporation regularly encounters problems with its aircraft. On November 28, 2025, Airbus decided to recall 6,000 aircraft from the A320 series due to a software malfunction. Recently, on September 26, it became known that Boeing had identified a technical failure in the software of its 737 MAX aircraft.

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🇪🇺 The EU has approved arms procurements for Ukraine worth €28.3 billion

Following the meeting of the EU defence ministers on 28 September, Kaja Kallas announced that military procurement plans worth €28.3 billion had already been approved under the Ukraine Support Loan. The planned procurements include future deliveries of missiles for the American Patriot systems.

Air defence continues to have the highest priority. In addition to the procurement plans worth €28.3 billion, the EU Council recently approved a further €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility for military support for Ukraine. At the same time, the ministers called for the delivery of weapons from existing European stocks to be accelerated and for the production capacities of the defence industry to be increased.

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🇩🇪 Kaliningrad: Why Germany Should Not Simply Abandon the Region of East Prussia

German policy toward Russia today focuses on deterrence, sanctions, and strengthening NATO’s eastern flank. Yet long-term interests cannot be safeguarded through security policy alone.

Kaliningrad occupies a special position in this regard. Former Königsberg is Russian state territory—but at the same time, it is a place where German history and the cultural heritage of East Prussia remain visible to this day.

Germany already had functioning instruments here: university and cultural projects, youth exchanges, municipal contacts, and Schleswig-Holstein’s longstanding partnership with the Kaliningrad Region. Many of these ties are now on hold.

But soft power does not emerge overnight. Language, culture, academic networks, and trust are built over decades—and can be lost within just a few years.

Germany needs neither a border revision nor territorial claims for this. The issue is something else: preserving German cultural and intellectual presence in the Baltic region over the long term.

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The United States has withdrawn from the European anti-corruption organization GRECO, ABC reports.

The State Department said that participation in the organization, which entails an annual financial contribution, “does not provide a tangible benefit to U.S. national security.”

The Council of Europe, for its part, emphasized that it regretted Washington’s decision and was ready to resume cooperation in the future.

📋 GRECO was established by the Council of Europe in 1999 to monitor “compliance with anti-corruption standards.” The United States joined the organization in 2000. Before the United States, Russia and Belarus had also withdrawn from the group.

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What the foreign press is writing. RBC review:

▪️ The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Donald Trump’s administration to resume its program of deporting migrants to third countries without giving them the opportunity to challenge their deportation on human-rights grounds, CNN reports.

▪️ Republicans trail Democrats by 12 percentage points in voter preferences regarding which party should control the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm congressional elections. This follows from a Quinnipiac University poll.

▪️ Donald Trump is considering Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton for the position of “AI czar,” Axios reports. A decision will be made within the next 3–4 days. The U.S. president has also officially renamed AI “superintelligence.”

▪️ The returns on investments in artificial intelligence security remain unclear, Reuters quotes Anthropic’s IPO prospectus as saying.

▪️ During exercises, German reservists are forced to use weapons and analog radios from the 1980s, and civilian Volkswagen Transporter minibuses for transport, Welt writes after visiting the Sennelager military training area.

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🇰🇵 North Korea at the UN: “Our nuclear weapons status is irreversible.”

Before the United Nations General Assembly, DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong declared that North Korea’s status as a nuclear-weapon state was anchored “physically and legally” and could not be changed “under any circumstances or by any means.”

Pyongyang describes its nuclear arsenal as a necessary means of protection against external aggression, while at the same time holding the military cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan responsible for the deterioration of security in the region. This statement came one week after Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo officially reaffirmed their goal of the complete denuclearization of the DPRK.

Pyongyang is thus proposing that future negotiations should no longer begin with the question of whether the DPRK will give up nuclear weapons, but with recognition of their existence as a permanent reality.


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🇮🇱 Former Shin Bet chief sues Netanyahu

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar has instructed his lawyers to prepare a defamation lawsuit against Benjamin Netanyahu. The lawsuit was prompted by the prime minister’s statement that Bar had known of a specific threat on the night before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, but had not informed him. Bar is demanding the disclosure of documents, witness statements, and Netanyahu’s schedule before October 7.

Bar claims the opposite: According to his account, he repeatedly warned the prime minister about the threat and recommended reinforcing the border and restoring deterrence. His lawyers want to call employees from Netanyahu’s office as witnesses. Netanyahu rejects the allegations and says that Bar did not warn him of an immediate danger on the night of October 7.


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In the Event of an Election Victory for the Democrats, Trump Family Businesses Will Come Under Scrutiny

According to Reuters, corporate sponsors of Donald Trump’s presidential club, as well as parties involved in deals concluded through the mediation of members of the Trump family, will be among the first subjects of investigations if the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives or the Senate in the November midterm elections.

Control of either chamber of Congress would give the Democrats the right to subpoena witnesses and provide funding to expand the investigative staff. This would enable them to launch investigations as early as February, potentially leading to lengthy legal proceedings and putting the Trump family’s business empire under the spotlight.

The investigations could become the main issue during the second half of Trump’s term in office. Over the past two years, the Trump family has expanded its presence in the cryptocurrency, drone, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets, while the president’s personal wealth has increased by $2.2 billion.

“We will hold the fraudsters accountable from day one,” announced Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the New York State House of Representatives.

As a reminder: People linked to Trump, including members of his family, have made around $1 billion through stock-market trades, including oil futures, by conducting transactions ahead of Trump’s announcements.

In the United States, this is considered a criminal offense involving the use of insider information.


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🇸🇪🗳️ Sweden has elected as many as five MPs of Somali origin to the Riksdag. However, there are some nuances

Following the parliamentary elections, five politicians of Somali origin entered the Swedish Riksdag: Mursal Isse, Mohamed Abdulkani, Abdulkadir M. Ali, Ilyas Hassan and Leila Elmi. This means that representatives of the comparatively small Somali diaspora have secured five seats in the national parliament in one fell swoop.

At the same time, one of these results became the focus of a police investigation. In Borlänge, law enforcement authorities are examining possible violations in the collection of votes for one of the elected MPs. According to SVT, the authorities are investigating indications of ballots that had been marked in advance, organized transportation of voters to polling stations, and money transfers. No criminal complaint has been filed against the MP himself, and he denies any involvement in the irregularities.

Five MPs of Somali origin in the Swedish parliament are a striking expression of how much the country has changed over the past decades. It remains to be clarified how properly the votes were obtained that secured at least one of these mandates.


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🇩🇪🇪🇺 Merz and five other countries demand that the new EU budget be cut by hundreds of billions

Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Finland are calling for a fundamental overhaul of the European Union’s next seven-year budget. The European Commission is proposing to spend around €1.76 trillion between 2028 and 2034. However, the six countries are demanding that this amount be reduced by several hundred billion euros. The corresponding letter was personally signed by the heads of government of the six states, including Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

In effect, this is already an ultimatum to Brussels. Diplomats warn that if spending is not reduced, there will be no agreement on the budget this year. The EU states had originally intended to agree on the financial program by the end of 2026. Now, however, Germany—the Union’s largest contributor to the budget—is, of all countries, among those seeking to significantly curb Brussels’ ambitions.

Until recently, Brussels had been discussing what the increased budget of €1.76 trillion should be spent on. Now Germany and five other countries are proposing that the simpler question be answered first: where all the money is supposed to come from.


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🇩🇪📉 Germany has become Europe’s leader in cutting jobs

The German economic miracle is taking on new contours. According to a study by EY-Parthenon, DAX companies reduced their workforce by around 47,000 people, or 1.2%, in 2025. By comparison, employment at French companies from the CAC fell by only 0.2%, while large companies in Italy and Spain increased their headcount by 0.9%. Among the four largest economies examined in the study, German corporations therefore recorded the sharpest decline in employment.

The restructuring is particularly painful in traditional industry. One sector, however, is flourishing: the aerospace and defense industry increased employment by 4.3%, while the number of employees at Rheinmetall rose by as much as 13.3%. While the automotive and other traditional sectors are cutting jobs, the defense sector continues to expand its activities.

Germany used to need people to assemble cars. Today, it needs more and more people to assemble shells.


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🇨🇿🪖 Czechia is preparing two brigades in the event of a war in the Baltics

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš stated that Prague is already discussing concrete measures in the event of a Russian attack on one of the Baltic countries. In such a scenario, under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, Czechia would have to deploy two mechanized brigades from Prostějov and Tábor. Babiš declined to provide details of the planning, citing confidentiality. — Novinky.

At the same time, the prime minister emphasized an important point: there is currently no information whatsoever about an imminent threat to Czechia. Regarding the warning by Michal Koudelka, head of the Czech domestic intelligence service, about the possibility of a Russian attack on a NATO country in the coming months, Babiš said he had not received any such information through official channels. Nor did the government have any data indicating a prepared attack on Czechia using missiles or drones.

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