🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Pro Southern Transitional Council protests have erupted across southern Yemen following the statement by Aidaros al-Zubaidi's, President of Yemen's UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council.

Footage from al-Mukalla, Hadhramaut region.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Pro-STC celebrations in Aden, southern Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- Cornell has suspended most Greek Life activity for the rest of the 2026-2027 academic year including charity events and parties in response to the Cornell 7 incident.

Pro free speech organizations such as FIRE have condemned the move calling it collective punishment.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Wait until you see what we do to Iran. We’re going to do a number. We’ve had it with them." - President Trump.

🇾🇪⚡️- Yemen’s Houthis/Ansarullah are developing medium-range ballistic missiles with a range of up to 1,200 miles and are receiving materials from Chinese firms to build them, according to the WSJ.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Alerts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran is determined to keep oil prices high ahead of the midterm elections, as they intensify attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Two loud explosions were heard between Riyadh and al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Overnight Starlink imposed restrictions on its terminals in Ukraine with connections dropping for speeds exceeding 60 km/h.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "Hey, Elon Musk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again? As your European customers, we are watching you," - Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "The Kremlin has read reports in the media about restrictions on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' access to Starlink. It would be better if such advanced technologies were not used for military purposes," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- President Trump is considering cutting intelligence sharing with Ukraine, with one administration official telling Semafor that "Trump is pretty pissed off. He could order it."

The idea is being discussed in the White House, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe opposing it.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump's 'energy ceasefire' was not specified, so Russia is hitting Ukrainian energy sector," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman, on why Russia has repeatedly violated Trump's energy ceasefire.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Sources tell Reuters that ARAMCO's headquarters in Dhahran, eastern Saudi Arabia, was severely damaged, with multiple floors catching fire.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Two vessels are sinking in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman following separate incidents.

GPS PRIDE (shown in the image) is sinking in the Strait of Hormuz. Conflicting accounts have emerged regarding the cause. Iranian authorities earlier claimed the vessel attempted to transit the strait without authorisation and struck a sea mine, while Reuters reports that the ship was hit by projectiles.

Meanwhile, the bulk carrier CAPE DAO is sinking in the Gulf of Oman after being struck by several Iranian projectiles.

🇺🇸⚡️- Inflation increased to 3.7% in September mainly due to gas and food price increases.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- FBI Director Kash Patel arrives in Russia to meet the FSB.