🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- US military chiefs informed Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir two days ago that the White House had issued directives ahead of a possible large-scale US attack on Iran in the coming weeks.

Zamir subsequently warned Israel’s political establishment that an attack on Iran could potentially delay the Israeli general election scheduled for 27 October.

Source: Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The return of fighting with Iran is possible in the coming weeks. Despite Trump's statements on the matter, Israel is on high alert in preparation for a possible return to fighting against Iran in the near future," - Israeli Channel 14.

🇩🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Germany has left the joint Franco-German program aimed at developing a next-gen main battle tank. This announcement comes around four months after Germany killed the FCAS fighter program.

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡️- The EU is moving toward a potentially major trade confrontation with China as its trade deficit with Beijing exceeds $1 billion per day.

European lawmakers voted 454-86 in favor of tougher measures if China fails to open its markets, while the EU's top trade official begins negotiations in Beijing today.

France and Germany are pushing for stronger enforcement mechanisms, including the possible use of the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument, as Chinese exports place growing pressure on European manufacturing.

🇬🇧🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- The United Kingdom is advising against all non-essential travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇬🇷🇨🇾⚡️- Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is strongly committed to a €1.9 billion undersea power cable linking mainland Europe with Cyprus and eventually Israel.

Washington intends to use diplomatic pressure to overcome obstacles to the project, including a maritime dispute between Greece and Turkey that has delayed construction preparations.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- American tabloid outlet TMZ has obtained the full text message between one of the Cornell 7, Jonathan Newell, and Jane Doe.

In the full text, Jane Doe admits "non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal" and "anything anyone has to say about the gangbang is out of their jurisdiction."

As we have covered, Jane Doe is not a victim of drugging and gang rape, but rather accountability.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The Department of War has announced that the firing squad execution of former Major Nidal Hassan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, will be broadcasted for the public to watch.

🇺🇸⚡️- As other outlets and commentators have pointed out, every major mainstream media outlet has had this text exchange for at least a week and purposefully decided not to publish it until now.

🇧🇷⚡️- Throughout this week, key center-right parties such as the Progressive Party Union alongside right-wing forces have announced they will rally around Flavio Bolsonaro during the second turn of the Brazilian presidential elections. Augusto Cury, the candidate who reached the third place during the first turn with 2.89% of the votes, has also just announced he will support Flavio Bolsonaro.

🇺🇸⚡️- Anthropic announces new guidelines that will prohibit users from adopting "abusive or cruel behaviors" towards Claude AI models starting November 12th.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- OpenAI says Russian and Iranian influence operations used ChatGPT to place regime-friendly content in U.S. and international news outlets.

🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation of Iran’s IRGC testing aerial mines that are launched and detonate in midair, theoretically to prevent helicopters and other aircraft from deploying troops.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The pilot of the U.S. F-15E fighter jet shot down in early April 2026 told U.S. intelligence officials that drones had swarmed in a “jellyfish formation” while flying over Iran, moments before being shot down, similar to the formation seen in the video above.

Rerum Novarum can confidently state that the footage shown depicts the testing of Iran’s Jaljaleh anti-aircraft mine system.

🇪🇹⚡- Over the past 24 hours, the Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, have withdrawn from most positions in northern Tigray, falling back to what appears to be their final defensive line stretching from Adigrat through Adwa and Aksum to Adi Dairo.

🇪🇹 - The current situation in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia:

Mekele direction: Ethiopian National Defense Forces, ENDF, have advanced north of Mekele and have captured everything from Wukro to Idago Hamus. Less than 48 hours ago, Eritrean troops were seen patrolling Idago Hamus. The Mekele direction has ended, and the Adigrat direction has begun. ENDF are less than 15kim from Adigrat, the most important city and major stronghold of the TDF.

Hawzen direction: TDF have withdrawn from Hawzen and everything south of the large town. ENDF have not yet entered the area, and therefore it is shown unmarked on Rerum Novarum's map.

Samre direction: Samre, Hatami, Agerba, and the entire Dekera heights have fallen to the ENDF following a TDF withdrawal.

Adi Dairo direction: ENDF forces continued to advance north of River Tekeze (shown in blue on Rerum Novarum's map), and have captured the city of Shire and its airport.

It seems that the TDF have abandoned the rest of the Tigray region (the borders of which are marked in black on the map) and are repositioning along the Adigrat - Aksum - Sheraro line of defense (shown as a purple line on the map).