🇾🇪⚡- Presidential Leadership Council forces (the Tihamah Brigades) report shooting down an Ansarullah drone that was attempting to double-tap the Saudi-managed commercial vessel that had been struck in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb earlier today, killing 3-5 crew members, including at least two Pakistanis.

🇾🇪⚡- An unsuccessful assassination attempt on a senior commander of the Shabwah Emergency Forces, pro Presidential Leadership Council forces, in Shabwah, central Yemen.

🇱🇾⚡- For the third time in less than 24 hours, unidentified one-way drones have struck the Zawiya oil refinery, west of Tripoli, northwest Libya.

Much of the Zawiya area is controlled by the local and anti-Dbeibeh al-Far militia, which recently clashed with GNU's al-Silaa (103rd) Battalion.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen revealed that Israeli intelligence operatives had visited Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility on multiple occasions to gain a detailed understanding of the site.

🇩🇪⚡- Drone sightings over Hannover International Airport causing a temporary suspension of air traffic at the German airport.

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡- ZEIT reports that video footage shows the first drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport striking the wing of the parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport before failing to detonate and falling to the ground.

Investigators are treating the incident as a "deliberate attack" rather than a "warning or intimidation attempt."

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇱🇹⚡- Investigators discovered an antenna near Leipzig/Halle Airport that was used to boost control signals and guide the explosive-laden drone towards the parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft.

The drone was equipped with an extended-life battery and was operated via a cellular network, allowing it to be controlled remotely from virtually anywhere in the world.

DNA samples on the drone trace it back to Lithuania.

🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- After a 17-year break, Venezuela and Israel have restored relations.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Urich, has denied that Egypt was one of the two Middle Eastern countries mentioned in a recent bombshell intelligence leak. The leaked report alleged that one regional state had advised another to pursue a policy of false peace with Israel in order to lower Tel Aviv's guard while simultaneously preparing for a future large-scale confrontation.

The controversy has intensified after members of Netanyahu's opposition accused the Prime Minister's Office of deliberately leaking the sensitive intelligence. Although Urich firmly rejected claims that Egypt was one of the countries involved, his response indirectly suggested that the intelligence assessment is authentic and real.

Source: Israeli Channel 11 and Ynet.

As Rerum Novarum initially stated, our assessment remains: Turkey is likely the country to have asked Saudi Arabia to pursue false normalization with Israel, while preparing for a future confrontation.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Vivek Ramaswamy’s position in the Ohio governor’s race has deteriorated sharply since March, with Amy Acton now leading him 55% to 47% on Polymarket.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- After posting a video on social media of harvesting her eggs with her paunchy physique on display, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been confirmed to have broken up with her fiancée, Riley Roberts.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- DSA candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, Francesca Hong, is severely underperforming in the Democratic primary and is currently losing to establishment-backed David Crowley.

Hong has been lambasted for her previous social media posts in which she called to abolish Thanksgiving, as she claims it is a bastion of White supremacy, in addition to various attacks against White Americans in general.

🇺🇸🫏⚡- BREAKING: In a shocking and humiliating upset, Democrat David Crowley has defeated the DSA candidate Francesca Hong in the Democratic primary in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial race. He will face Tom Tiffany in the general election.

According to the polls, Hong maintained a 20% lead over her Democratic opponents before the primary election. To note, DSA candidates' polling appears heavily skewed in their favor, with election nights reflecting much less of an appetite for their politics or personalities, as seen with Hong and Abdulrahman Mohammed El-Sayed in Michigan.

🇸🇦🇹🇷🇪🇬⚡- Saudi Arabia opposed Egypt joining the Mecca Agreement defense pact, despite Turkey publicly insisting Cairo should become a member, the Middle East Eye reports.

🇾🇪⚡- Explosion at al-Rayyan International Airport in al-Mukalla, capital of the Hadhramaut region of eastern Yemen.

🇸🇩⚡- Large-scale Rapid Support Forces drone attack across Sudan. Targets include Omdurman, Khartoum, Atbara, al-Damir, and El-Obeid.

Footage shows Sudanese Armed Forces downing one of the RSF drones over El-Obeid.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Large-scale Russian drone attack ongoing against Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Numerous explosions have been heard over the city as air defenses attempt to confront incoming threats.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇺🇦⚡- Turkey has confirmed that it has requested U.S. approval to transfer to Ukraine what could become one of the largest ammunition packages delivered to Kiev to date, including thousands of cluster munitions.

The package will contain:
- 70 M39 ATACMS ballistic missiles.
- 2,524 M26 rockets,
- 47,000 M509A1 203mm artillery shells.