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🪖🙏Patriotism on Repeat
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir called for broader military service at a ceremony honoring fallen Commando Brigade soldiers.
The government has extended the emergency reserve call-up framework through Nov. 30, with a cap of 200,000 call-ups. Reservist advocacy groups are demanding commitments from the next government.
According to those groups, 47% of reservists have served more than 150 days since October 2023, and 20% have served more than 300. More than 320,000 children have a parent in the reserves. Half of reservists’ partners reported high anxiety, and 52% said their children’s mental health had worsened.
Since the war began, reservists have filed 1,080 complaints of dismissal over their service. One in three student reservists has considered dropping out.
The Defense Ministry’s own legal advisers warned that the government keeps adding to the reservists’ burden while failing to enforce the draft on those who evade it.
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🔥Oil Facilities Become the Front
The Saudi-led coalition told civilians on Tuesday to leave the area around the al-Sabah oil facility outside Sanaa, then struck it. Coalition warplanes also hit oil storage at Ras Isa port and in Bajil district of Hodeidah governorate, and oil facilities in Saada and Dhamar. The Houthi-run health ministry reported two dead near Ras Isa.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree had warned that any strike on Sanaa would bring retaliation against Riyadh. He told civilians to evacuate Aramco sites in Riyadh and Dhahran and King Khalid International Airport. Hours after the Sanaa strike, Houthi missiles and drones reached Aramco’s headquarters complex in Dhahran.
A Saudi energy ministry official said an Aramco administrative building was hit, causing a limited fire and no casualties. A company source told Reuters that a ballistic missile damaged the top three floors of an office tower. Aramco has not confirmed the hit.
The coalition said it intercepted three missiles and two drones aimed at Riyadh and Dhahran. Debris from two intercepted cruise missiles wounded four people in Riyadh and damaged 15 homes.
The coalition says the Yemeni depots supply Houthi missiles and drones. The Houthis call Aramco a legitimate target.
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#BabylonBurning #SaudiArabia #Yemen #Aramco
⚔️Winter Says the Right Is Eating Its Own
Ofer Winter said David Ben Zion quit Winter’s Amcha Yisrael slate after pressure reached candidates’ homes and children’s school buses.
He called the campaign against his party “despicable” and “low.”
Winter said his party would stay in the race.
“We are going all the way. We do not surrender in battle,”
🚀🙏Washington Blames the Weather
The United States told Kyiv that bad weather prevented an early warning before Russia’s Oct. 12 ballistic-missile strike on Kyiv, according to an official cited by Politico.
Five missiles hit civilian infrastructure before air-raid alerts sounded.
Ukraine normally receives launch warnings through the Battlespace Command and Control Center, which the United States runs with NATO partners.
Kyiv considers the weather explanation inadequate, and Ukrainian officials now question whether the weather was the real reason.
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🚀Trump Offers a Meeting. Kim Shows the Missile.
President Donald Trump said he may meet Kim Jong Un during his planned Asia trip. Pyongyang replied the way it prefers, with a weapons display and a missile test.
North Korea said it test-fired a tactical ballistic missile on Oct. 12 to validate an upgrade to an unspecified core component.
On Oct. 13, Kim toured the newly opened National Defense Revolution Museum with his wife, Ri Sol Ju, and their daughter, Ju Ae. The exhibition includes the Hwasong-20 ICBM, which North Korean state media say can reach the United States.
Trump treats a summit as a matter of personal chemistry. Kim treats it as a meeting between a nuclear weapons state and the country in range.
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#NorthKorea #Trump #KimJongUn #NuclearWeapons #Asia #BabylonBurning
🛬Security Turns Into a Labor Fight
Israel’s Transportation Ministry ordered foreign airlines to keep crew members from states without diplomatic relations with Israel off flights over Israeli territory. The ban includes dual citizens.
The directive reportedly covers 31 nationalities and followed the Sept. 30 flydubai incident involving an Omani co-pilot.
Air France complied. Its main staff union now threatens to stop flying the Israel route, calling the policy discriminatory and warning management,
“If they don’t want our colleagues, they won’t get our planes.”
💲👣France’s Rightward Swing
Marine Le Pen polls at 35 to 37 percent in first-round scenarios for France’s April 2027 presidential election, according to a Toluna Harris Interactive survey conducted Oct. 5 to 8. Jean-Luc Mélenchon follows at 17 to 18 percent, and former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe at 13 to 16 percent.
Every tested scenario puts Le Pen and Mélenchon in the runoff.
The first round is six months away, on April 18, 2027.
A Le Pen presidency would not automatically flip the European Union. But France is the bloc’s indispensable second power. A nationalist government in Paris would turn Brussels into a permanent battleground over borders, industrial policy, fiscal rules and strategic autonomy.
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👣The Right’s Draft-Dodger War, and Liberman’s Target List
At the Yedioth Ahronoth conference, Naftali Bennett attacked Shas leader Aryeh Deri over plans to steer “tens of billions” of shekels more toward the ultra-Orthodox sector. “He has no shame,” Bennett said, promising instead to move money “from draft dodgers to those who serve.”
Ofer Winter told the same conference that Netanyahu was damaging the right-wing bloc. Bezalel Smotrich says he offered Winter the top slot on a joint list and that Winter has no chance of clearing the electoral threshold alone.
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#Israel #Elections #Bennett #Netanyahu #Haredim #Iran #BabylonBurning
💲🤟🏽Golan Rejects Bennett-Eisenkot Ticket
Yair Golan said it was "time to stop trying to preserve Netanyahu's premiership" after reports that senior opposition figures were weighing a joint Bennett-Eisenkot ticket.
"There will be no unity government with Netanyahu or with those who think it worth risking the destruction of Israeli democracy,"
🙏⚔️Baku and Tehran Reopen the Security Channel
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni in Baku on Sunday. They discussed security cooperation, public order and broader ties between their ministries and state agencies.
Momeni conveyed greetings from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and briefed Aliyev on regional de-escalation talks.
Momeni also thanked Azerbaijan for humanitarian aid after earthquakes and forest fires in Iran.
Aliyev said he hoped tensions across the Middle East would be resolved through negotiations.
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#Azerbaijan #Iran #SouthCaucasus #BabylonBurning
💲⚔️Netanyahu's Imaginary Finance Ministry
At a HaDor election conference, Naftali Bennett said Benjamin Netanyahu could serve as a minister in a Bennett-led government if Netanyahu accepted Bennett's core conditions, including a state commission of inquiry into October 7, universal conscription and a constitution.
Bennett praised Netanyahu's record as finance minister in 2003, then wondered whether a man nearing 80 still had the stamina for another term.
The proposal did not survive the room.
Avigdor Liberman said,
"Come what may, we will not sit with Netanyahu."
"including as finance minister,"
"direct and personal responsibility"
"we will not sit with him under any circumstances."
🚀Evening Brief | October 11
1️⃣Russia. A drone strike damaged Yandex infrastructure and shut down the company's data center in Vladimir, Yandex said. Nobody was injured, but several services went down.
2️⃣Washington. President Donald Trump announced an immediate “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, writing that both sides had agreed and warning: “Do not break it!”
3️⃣Vatican City. Pope Leo XIV announced in St. Peter’s Square that he would undergo surgery to remove a localized lung nodule. He said doctors had detected it “at a very early stage.”
4️⃣Poland. Police detained a man accused of threatening Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Tusk praised officers for their “swift and decisive action.”
5️⃣Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines restored commercial flights to Mekelle, the capital of Tigray after a three-week suspension caused by renewed fighting. Government adviser Getachew Reda promised residents “visible change.”
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#RussiaUkraine #Poland #Ethiopia #BabylonBurning
💲🚀Liberman Shuts Netanyahu Out, Down to the Smallest Portfolio
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman called on his partners in the Zionist bloc to rule out any government with Benjamin Netanyahu.
"I call on my colleagues in the Zionist bloc to make it absolutely clear: come what may, we will not sit with Netanyahu,"
"In the next government, Netanyahu will not be able to serve even as minister for regional cooperation."
☪️🪖The Defense Pact Meets the Arrivals Hall
Pakistan confirmed that its forces are already deployed in Saudi Arabia under the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Pakistani troops were operating in the Kingdom in “multiple capabilities and domains.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Office says its troops will defend Saudi territory but will not cross into Yemen for offensive operations against the Houthis.
The pact’s real test is where does defending Saudi Arabia end and fighting for its preferred map of Yemen begin?
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#SaudiArabia #Pakistan #Yemen #Houthis #BabylonBurning
💥Trump Wants Zelenskyy Gone
Trump recommended that Ukraine find a new leader capable of making a deal to end the war.
The U.S. president treats another country’s sovereignty as a personnel problem, with readiness to strike a deal as the hiring requirement.
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🚀October 14: The Morning Brief
1️⃣Two senior Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran is changing its tactics against ships in the Strait of Hormuz to keep oil prices high and influence the U.S. midterm elections.
2️⃣Russian strikes hit energy facilities in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Wednesday morning. Reuters witnesses heard multiple explosions as Ukrainian air defenses responded. In Russia’s Volga River town of Balakovo, the regional governor reported that drones killed one person and damaged homes.
3️⃣Iran executed Ali-Sina Mostafavi, the judiciary’s Mizan news outlet said Wednesday. Authorities said he had been convicted of armed attacks in Kerman during the war with the United States and Israel. Mizan accused him of acting in support of exiled opposition figure Reza Pahlavi and Israel.
4️⃣China’s September exports rose 36.3% from a year earlier in dollar terms, customs data showed Wednesday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected 25.5%. Imports increased 31%, also beating forecasts. The figures put a $1 trillion trade surplus within sight, giving Beijing another month of export strength amid its trade disputes.
5️⃣China’s producer prices rose 5% year over year in September, up from 3.8% in August and above the 4.5% Reuters poll forecast. Consumer inflation reached 0.9%, below the expected 1%. Higher oil and commodity costs are pushing prices up at the factory gate faster than at the checkout.
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#NewsDigest #MiddleEast #Ukraine #China
✈️Turkey Still Wants Its F-35s
Turkish Deputy Defense Minister Alpaslan Kavaklıoğlu said Ankara is holding intensive talks with Washington to secure delivery of six F-35s it paid for but never received.
Defense Minister Yaşar Güler recently raised the issue directly with U.S. counterparts.
The six aircraft remain in U.S. storage after Washington removed Turkey from the F-35 program over Ankara’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 air-defense system. CAATSA sanctions still block delivery.
Ankara says progress is possible. Washington’s legal position is simpler. No F-35s while the S-400 problem remains.
Turkey wants fifth-generation jets without surrendering its Russian insurance policy.
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#Turkey #F35 #UnitedStates #S400 #CAATSA #BabylonBurning
🚀Evening Brief | October 13
1️⃣South Korea. The government approved a plan to move about 10,000 jobs and 44 central agencies from Seoul to Sejong between 2027 and 2031. President Lee Jae-myung’s administration is moving the machinery of state out of the capital, not just the paperwork.
2️⃣Poland. Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung told the Warsaw Security Forum that European dependence on Chinese suppliers threatens the bloc’s “freedom and sovereignty.” Taiwan is selling Europe a familiar warning. Supply chains are political control under a commercial label.
3️⃣Brussels. EU member states opened accession negotiations with Ukraine on internal-market and competitiveness rules after Hungary dropped its objection. Kyiv changed its minority-language education law. Budapest traded its veto for a concession.
4️⃣Washington. The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the Trump administration can withhold DOGE records sought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The White House calls DOGE a presidential advisory body. The watchdog says it exercised agency-level power while cutting jobs and programs.
5️⃣Spain. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited the Muslim cemetery where most of the more than 100 migrants killed in July’s mass crossing from Morocco were buried. The royal visit placed the Spanish crown at the border where Madrid’s migration arrangement with Rabat broke down in public.
6️⃣Markets. Global stocks fell as chipmakers led a technology selloff, while investors moved into government bonds. Oil eased as traders balanced continuing Saudi supply risks against expectations of additional Russian diesel reaching world markets.
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#SouthKorea #Taiwan #Ukraine #DOGE #Europe #BabylonBurning
🪖China’s Pressure Map
China has announced live-fire drills from Oct. 12 through 17 across five zones in the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. Beijing issued no-sail warnings, but none of the declared zones lies in or near Taiwan’s territorial waters.
The closest is off Zhejiang, about 159 nautical miles from the island.
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo said Taipei believes the operations are coastal-artillery exercises and is monitoring them closely.
China calls the drills routine training aimed at “Taiwan independence” and outside interference.
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#China #Taiwan #APEC #IndoPacific #Geopolitics #BabylonBurning
Morning Brief | October 13
1️⃣Bulgaria. Two commercial vessels were hit by drones, and one sank, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said. The second ship was damaged but remained afloat. The Black Sea is turning from a trade corridor into an uninsured firing range.
2️⃣Ukraine. Russia struck a ship delivering military and dual-use cargo to Ukraine’s Mykolaiv port, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Kremlin is shifting its target list toward logistics, where one hit can tax the entire supply chain.
3️⃣Tokyo. Japan’s wholesale prices rose 6.8% in September from a year earlier, while yen-denominated import prices jumped 24.5%. Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda told parliament that underlying inflation has “come quite close” to the 2% target.
4️⃣Tokyo. A Bank of Japan survey found that 88.6% of Japanese households expect prices to rise over the next year, and 86.5% expect higher prices five years out. Inflation expectations have become entrenched.
5️⃣New York. Polymarket is seeking new financing at a valuation of about $20 billion, Bloomberg reported. The company is turning elections, wars and government decisions into a financial business.
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#BlackSea #Ukraine #Japan #Inflation #Polymarket #BabylonBurning
❄️☃️The Refrigerator Attack
Overnight, hackers drove temperatures in network-connected refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets up to 50°C (122°F). The attack spoiled food stocks and triggered fires in stores operated by Carrefour, Intermarché, Coopérative U, Monoprix and others.
Paris prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into what they called a “large-scale” cyberattack. Carrefour said 80 stores were hit, while its roughly 5,920 other French stores remained operational.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ordered France’s cyber agency, ANSSI, to investigate. Authorities reportedly identified a vulnerability in software supplied by Danish refrigeration firm Danfoss, though attribution of the attack has not been established.
Across the border, Dutch retail giant Ahold Delhaize took systems offline after detecting a network security incident. Its Albert Heijn chain suspended online deliveries, while disruptions to logistics and electronic price systems began to hit stores.
The supermarket is a networked industrial system. Compromise the software, and dinner becomes a fire-safety incident.
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#France #Cybersecurity #FoodSecurity #Europe #BabylonBurning
🚀Evening Brief | October 12
1️⃣Texas. EnergyX announced a binding 10-year agreement requiring Trafigura to purchase 100,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium from projects in Texas and Chile. The contract is worth roughly $2 billion at current prices. Trafigura said the deal would build “secure, diversified supply chains.”
2️⃣Poland. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Alexus Grynkewich publicly unveiled his response doctrine for an attack on alliance territory. NATO would “block, blunt and break” the assault, he said, then destroy “anything and everything” supporting and controlling the attacking force.
3️⃣Russia. The Kremlin rejected Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request for a 60-day ceasefire to hold Ukrainian elections. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin would suspend Russian strikes only on election day. Moscow offers Kyiv enough peace to count ballots, then reserves the remaining calendar for war.
4️⃣United Kingdom. Britain sanctioned IRGC counterintelligence official Ruhollah Bazghandi and alleged criminal-network facilitator Shahram Tamarzadeh Jakki, freezing their assets and imposing travel bans. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband summoned Iran’s ambassador after London attributed the RAF Fairford plot to the IRGC.
5️⃣Ankara. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey will send the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to parliament for ratification in the coming days. The pact was signed in August. Ankara now moves it from summit theater into domestic law.
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#NATO #Turkey #Iran #Russia #Ukraine #CriticalMinerals #BabylonBurning
🤟🏽Unity Comes With a Threat
Israel's politicians are negotiating the meaning of the vote before it is cast. President Isaac Herzog wants to prevent repeat elections. Yair Lapid fears votes to remove Netanyahu will end up keeping him in office.
In an interview aired Oct. 12, Herzog promised to do everything he could to secure a stable government. He declined to endorse a particular coalition.
Lapid warned against another "fake 'unity' government" and urged opposition parties to rule out joining Netanyahu.
Benny Gantz supplied the sales pitch for unity.
"If a unity government is not formed in the coming elections, and the two sides don't work together, they will bring upon us the next October 7,"
🫵🏻Beijing Puts Taiwan's Allies on Notice
China sanctioned Gustavo Villate, Paraguay's minister of information and communication technologies, and Francis Fonseca, Belize's foreign minister, over their countries' diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Beijing froze any assets they hold in China, barred them from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau, and banned Chinese entities and individuals from doing business or cooperating with them.
The penalty targets two ministers personally. They come from two of Taiwan's 12 remaining formal diplomatic partners.
Beijing calibrated it to make continued recognition of Taipei politically expensive. It stops short of forcing an immediate rupture.
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#China #Taiwan #Paraguay #Belize #BabylonBurning
🚀💲🛢Saudi Arabia’s Interceptor Bill
Saudi officials told The Wall Street Journal that the Kingdom is running low on air-defense interceptors. Riyadh has reportedly shifted missile-defense batteries across the country to cover energy infrastructure, airports, royal sites, and the movements of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
That is the pressure point. Every cheap Houthi launch forces Saudi Arabia to spend scarce, high-value interceptors and decide which strategic asset gets cover.
UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash called for an urgent revival of Gulf security and defense coordination, saying attacks on Saudi Arabia undermine the security of every Gulf state.
The Gulf states are discovering that a missile shield is only as collective as the interceptor stockpile behind it.
#SaudiArabia #Yemen #Houthis #Gulf #Energy #BabylonBurning
🚀Morning Brief | October 12
Morning Brief | October 12
1️⃣North Korea fired several ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the Sea of Japan. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch involved several types of missiles, with at least one flying more than 900 kilometers. Japan said the weapons fell outside its exclusive economic zone. The launch followed Seoul's October 8 test of a hypersonic vehicle and came amid heightened border tension after a landmine incident.
2️⃣Israel's Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit arrested Kfar Saba Mayor Rafi Saar, his wife and 15 others after a yearlong undercover investigation into alleged municipal corruption. Police detained seven more suspects, searched homes and offices, and seized cash, records and electronic devices.
3️⃣Saudi-led coalition forces shot down a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi movement toward Khamis Mushait, a southwestern Saudi city near major military facilities. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki announced the interception, and Saudi authorities reported no casualties or damage.
4️⃣Hong Kong and Guangdong opened the rebuilt Huanggang Port on the Shenzhen border, which will operate around the clock for passengers and vehicles. The crossing uses a "one location, dual inspections" system, bringing mainland Chinese and Hong Kong checks into a single clearance process. Officials said more than 5,000 passengers and nearly 1,000 vehicles passed through during its first two hours.
5️⃣German Labor Minister and Social Democratic Party co-chair Bärbel Bas resigned from both positions after the death of her stepdaughter. Bas said she needed time to mourn, while party colleagues said political attacks had intensified during her bereavement. Her exit removes a senior figure from Chancellor Friedrich Merz's already fragile coalition during a period of poor polling and internal friction.
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#NorthKorea #Israel #SaudiArabia #China #Germany #BabylonBurning
🪖Netanyahu Demands a Criminal Case Over NAZA
Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the IDF chief of staff, the Shin Bet director and the attorney general open a criminal investigation into everyone involved in the documentary NAZA and bring them to trial.
In a Hebrew-language letter dated Oct. 11, Netanyahu called the film "a false, distorted and tendentious blood libel" that severely harms Israel's standing in the world.
The film presents testimonies from serving and former soldiers of Unit 8200 about the IDF's conduct toward civilians. The IDF Spokesperson has already issued a 17-page rebuttal.
Netanyahu wrote that those involved may have leaked top-secret information and breached the security of "a most sensitive intelligence unit."
He demanded that investigators identify everyone involved in the film and everyone who appears in it, and open a criminal case for information-security offenses, criminal defamation and harm to Israel's diplomatic and security interests.
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#Israel #Netanyahu #NAZA #BabylonBurning
💥🚀Riyadh Airport Hit Again
An unidentified projectile struck Terminal 4 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Sunday, setting it on fire.
Saudi-led coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said emergency services were responding at the site.
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority reported injuries and said it was assessing damage and conducting safety checks.
The Houthis have turned Riyadh's main airport into a recurring target, forcing Saudi Arabia to defend a civilian transport hub as if it were a forward operating base.
The kingdom sells itself as the Gulf's logistics center. The Houthis are testing whether that connectivity survives under fire.
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#SaudiArabia #Houthis #Riyadh #Aviation #BabylonBurning
🚀Morning Brief | October 11
1️⃣Nepal. Nepal’s disaster authority ordered communities along the Budhi Gandaki River to evacuate after a landslide-triggered flood swept away houses and two suspension bridges. “We have asked villagers living along the river banks downstream to evacuate and remain safe,” district official Dharmendra Kumar Mishra said.
2️⃣India. An executive magistrate released protest leader Abhijeet Dipke and colleagues Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka after 24 hours in preventive detention. Delhi Police said each posted a 50,000-rupee bond and must maintain “peace and good behaviour” for one year.
3️⃣India. India’s Foreign Ministry rejected UN criticism of mass detentions during protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal called the criticism “unwarranted” and accused the UN human-rights office of “extreme selectivity.”
4️⃣Israel. Former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit began testifying for Benjamin Netanyahu’s defense in the prime minister’s corruption trial. Netanyahu’s lawyers questioned whether Mandelblit properly authorized investigative measures, while he told the court that he had discussed his testimony with nobody connected to the case.
5️⃣Israel. The IDF resumed ground and aerial searches around Arab al-Aramshe after surveillance systems detected an unidentified object entering from Lebanon. The military said troops had found nothing unusual and issued no special instructions to civilians.
6️⃣Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported that Hurricane Simon had reached sustained winds of 155 mph while moving toward Mexico’s west-central coast. The agency warned that the Category 4 storm could bring “life-threatening flooding and mudslides,” with isolated rainfall totals reaching 30 inches.
7️⃣Syria. Syrian internal-security forces announced the arrest of former Republican Guard Brigadier General Mard Mohammad, known as the “Guardian of the Capital.” Their statement accused him of commanding Assad-era military operations in Qaboun, Jobar, Wadi Barada and other districts around Damascus.
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#Nepal #India #Syria #BabylonBurning
💀🌐Tehran Paints October 7 as Victory
A new mural appeared in Tehran's Enghelab Square to mark the anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack, which Hamas calls Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
According to Iranian television, its slogan, "More isolated by the day," refers to Israel's international isolation and to Netanyahu's appearance at the U.N.
The mural packages the anniversary of the attack as a story of Israeli diplomatic defeat.
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#Iran #Israel #BabylonBurning