FelipeChannel

29 October 2026 00:51

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has reportedly deployed approximately 1,000 troops to Haiti after a gang ambush left four Salvadoran military personnel missing near Port-au-Prince. This is a major escalation from the initial 200 special forces deployed last week.

American C-130 aircraft helped transport the reinforcements, significantly expanding President Bukele's military operations against Haiti's powerful criminal gangs.

FelipeChannel

29 October 2026 00:31

🇧🇷🇧🇷 — Following legal advice from Marco Rubio’s team, Flávio Bolsonaro replaced the term “president-elect of Brazil” with “leader of Brazil” to strengthen the wording and language of the letter as part of a broader legal case in a dossier prepared by the United States government concerning the “fraudulent” outcome of the second round of Brazil’s elections.

FelipeChannel

29 October 2026 00:31

📝 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s front line has moved underground — and it’s changing what defense actually means in this war.

Near Kramatorsk, soldiers of the 93rd “Kholodnyi Yar” Brigade now travel between combat positions through tunnels, not just shelters to wait out shelling. Journalists have compared the growing network to a subway system: junctions, branch tunnels, multiple exits, rest stops for troops hauling heavy gear.

The shift happened because the old solutions stopped working. Anti-drone netting over roads used to buy some protection. It doesn’t anymore. So Ukrainian units found routes drones simply can’t watch — below ground.

“They’re building tunnels and underground fortifications specifically so the enemy can’t kill our soldiers with FPV drones,” said Colonel Vitaliy Sarantsev, spokesman for the 14th Army Corps. “This is genuinely important for the front today, and it’s one way of preserving personnel.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently visited one of these underground command posts — footage shows a fully built-out facility, not a dugout. Some sites go further still: truck access, parking, mess halls, sleeping quarters, even a drone-ammunition production line the troops call their “underground factory.”

The engineering has been tested. Sergiy, callsign “Marik,” commands an engineer-sapper platoon building strongpoints with corrugated steel and three layers of timber overhead.

“The guys took a direct hit from 152mm artillery. The shelter held. Then a guided bomb hit ten meters away. It held that too. Everyone survived.”

Training has moved underground as well. Odesa’s military academy built the country’s first underground training hub, designed so classes continue through air raid alerts. Troops even fly drones indoors as coursework.

What this actually means
It’s a structural answer to a battlefield that drones have made almost impossible to survive in the open. Military analyst Kostiantyn Mashovets put it plainly: tunnels let Ukrainian forces regroup, resupply, and rotate troops while staying largely invisible to the enemy, cutting off most of Russia’s tactical-level strike options before they can even be used.

Militaries have reached for underground infrastructure before whenever air power made the surface too dangerous to cross. The technology each time is different. The logic stays the same: when the sky becomes too dangerous to move through, armies stop trying, and build somewhere the enemy can’t follow.

“The battlefield is becoming more transparent and more dangerous,” said Colonel Ihor Obolenskyi of the “Khartiia” Corps. “Right now, underground, we’re more effective — both in spirit and technologically.”

Source: ArmyInform

📎 Army Media

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 21:58

JUST IN: Google $GOOGL reports $127.58 billion in revenue for Q3 2026, missing expectations.

@WatcherGuru

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28 October 2026 21:58

BREAKING: Microsoft stock, $MSFT, surges over +5% after reporting stronger than expected Q3 earnings. https://t.co/Cb06e1j3xb
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FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

🇷🇺🇪🇹⚡- Russia has delivered a batch of 12 Su-35 fighter jets to Ethiopia a year earlier than expected. Addis Ababa has stated they are also expecting the delivery of four S-400 air defense batteries soon too.

Meanwhile, Iran has been awaiting its orders of both for 12+ years.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇧🇬 Russian drones struck a vessel 21 nautical miles off Cape Shabla, Bulgaria, around 4 hours ago becoming the 9th vessel to come under attack in the Black Sea this month.

The Container Ship — CONTSHIP JET — flying under the Liberian flag was struck inside Bulgaria's EEZ. It was coming from Haifa, Israel and was headed for the Romanian port of Constanța which acts as a dual export route for both Romanian and Ukrainian goods. The crew evacuated the vessel but it hasn't sunk.

🔗 GeoInsider

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

🇫🇷 French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu offered students a package of concessions on Monday that student groups rejected immediately, vowing to keep protesting, LCP reported.

The offer reportedly included:

🔹 Replacing Parcoursup, France's centralized university admissions system, in 2028

🔹 15,000 new places in higher education and scholarships indexed to inflation

🔹 A cap of 28 students in 10th-grade classes from 2027

🔹 €4 billion in loans to renovate schools and €1 billion for universities

Louis Letoublon, vice president of the high school group Les Lycéens!, called the 15,000 places "bordering on mockery," and the Union étudiante gave Lecornu "0/10."

Groups were also angered that Lecornu met education influencers that morning, one of whom announced the measures on TV before the unions were received. UNEF's Manon Moret called it "scandalous," LCP reported.

Student unions are demanding 10 measures worth €10 billion and plan to march again Saturday alongside the Yellow Vests, then join a national strike on Nov. 5.

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🎥 1: Sabrine Kharbach, Union étudiante spokesperson, outside Matignon called the discussions a “full-blown parade of hypocrites.” Source: BFMTV

🎥2: Content creator Mathilde Fouqué after meeting Lecornu at Matignon. Source: BFMTV

🔗 DropSite

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28 October 2026 18:08

🇫🇮🇳🇴🇷🇺🇪🇺 Putin's Call Divides Europe — VZGLYAD

"Driving a wedge between partners," "European leaders were furious" - the phone call between Putin, President Stubb, and Prime Minister Store sparked a heated debate in the Western press. Some describe Helsinki and Oslo's initiative as an attempt to maintain the EU's influence in the peace process, while others see it as a violation of the consensus on Ukraine.

European leaders criticized Stubb and Store for "acting alone," without European consensus. According to a source at The Telegraph, after this dialogue, the heads of EU countries may contact the President of Russia "left and right," without a common position. Another source at the newspaper said that without this contact, Europe risked being seen by the head of the White House as an obstacle to peace.

The German magazine Der Spiegel, analyzing the reaction of European countries to the actions of Helsinki and Oslo, also notes: the phone call to Putin "angered Europeans." "Unilateral actions by this pair are viewed with skepticism in Europe," the article states.

The British newspaper The Independent reports that European leaders "were furious" after politicians from Norway and Finland "broke tradition and directly called Putin on Tuesday." "This move drew criticism from their colleagues in other Nordic countries, who urged them to 'stick together' on the issue of Ukraine," the publication writes.

In this regard, the American newspaper The New York Times points out that in recent days, Trump's rhetoric has become increasingly favorable towards Russia, while he regularly criticizes the actions of Zelensky. The publication cites the "diesel deal" as an example. Against this backdrop, European leaders are trying to intervene in the peace process. They are pursuing at least two goals: to ensure that European interests are taken into account and to "protect" Ukraine from pressure, the article states.

Analysts believe that Stubb could become an important asset if Europe and the United States ever coordinate their approaches to Ukraine. However, even within the "unified European front" on Ukraine, there are cracks, according to Politico. Against this backdrop, the Norwegian newspaper VG emphasizes: "The Scandinavian dispute should be avoided." And observers at the Norwegian publication Aftenposten even criticized the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, for being dissatisfied with the phone talks.

The Finnish broadcasting company Yle views the conversation not only as an attempt to bring the Ukrainian conflict to a close, but also as a change in Finland's approach to relations with Russia. According to the publication, Stubb's decision opens up the possibility of restoring political dialogue after several years of virtually no contact.

🔗 /channel/vzglyad_ru/153652

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

🇦🇫🇨🇳 Taliban complete Afghanistan road to China – but Beijing keeps border firmly shut

The Taliban completed their road to the Chinese border – but were met with a frosty silence from across the frontier, according to multiple local reports.

As explained by a feature published by IntelliNews in May, the Islamist politico-militant group that governs Afghanistan are the latest rulers of the country to dream of “opening up Wakhan Corridor, the mountain valley that connects three worlds”. But the road has been built only in the hope that China will play ball. Still addressing sensitive considerations such as what would an open border with Afghanistan mean for the Chinese territory that borders the country, majority-Muslim Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Beijing is yet to show whether it will do so.

RFE/RL has reported that for the early October inauguration of the road, China did not send representatives or officially acknowledge the event. The militarised boundary remained firmly shut, with images from the inauguration showing Chinese security cameras watching from behind razor wire.

Zhu Yongbiao, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at China’s Lanzhou University, told RFE/RL that the chances of Beijing opening the mountain pass border checkpoing any time soon “are extremely low.”

“Afghanistan's economy is very small and its value to China is negligible,” Zhu reportedly said, adding: “Meanwhile, the financial costs and security risks associated with opening the route would be substantial.” Afghanistan’s main exports to China are pine nuts, dried apricots and gemstones.

The Wakhan Corridor is a narrow, protruding strip of land in northeastern Afghanistan, sandwiched between China, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

The 350-kilometre (217-mile) mountain valley is nestled high in the Pamir Mountains in the province of Badakhshan. The width of this rugged strip of land dividing Tajikistan from Pakistan is just 13 km (eight miles) in places. Likely once trodden by luminaries including Alexander the Great and Marco Polo, its potential is fascinating.

If the high valley was made generally accessible and developed for modern trade flows, it would serve as a fabulous, even stupendous, link between Central, South and East Asia. Landlocked Central Asia would finally gain a clear road into Pakistan and thus the access to the ocean sought for so long by the region, Pakistani commerce would enjoy a short path into Central Asia and Afghanistan would have a direct trade passage into China. It would also become a route to the world’s second largest economy likely favoured by Iran.

In opening up corridors for international trade, in this part of the world, China’s chosen path has diverged from Wakhan, instead concentrating on the utility provided by the $62bn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). It stretches from Kashgar in Xinjiang, across the Karakoram mountain range on China’s border with Pakistan and through to the Pakistani strategic deep-water port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.

In Beijing’s thinking, Afghanistan and Central Asia should enjoy access to CPEC infrastructure via link-through routes opened up on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, but this concept runs counter to the ambitions of the Taliban to conduct trade with China through Afghanistan’s own sole border with its giant neighbour at the end of the Wakhan Corridor.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/taliban-complete-afghanistan-road-to-china-but-beijing-keeps-border-firmly-shut-479103/

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 14:33

🇪🇸⚡️ — At least 64 people have been killed and 80 injured, including 50 seriously, after two high-speed trains collided near Urda in Spain's Toledo province earlier today, El País reports.

An AVE high-speed train struck an Iryo train that had stopped on the tracks, sending two Iryo carriages and one AVE carriage down an embankment. More than 540 passengers were aboard the two trains.

Spanish government sources have attributed the collision to suspected human error at Madrid's Atocha control center.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 14:23

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 33 major US companies now oppose having their stocks tokenized on OKX and ICE's planned exchange:

• IBM
• Dell
• Intel
• IonQ
• AMD
• Intuit
• Oracle
• Adobe
• Verizon
• Sandisk
• Moderna
• Alphabet
• AppLovin
• Microsoft
• JPMorgan
• Broadcom
• Caterpillar
• Coca-Cola
• Qualcomm
• Rocket Lab
• CoreWeave
• Wells Fargo
• McDonald's
• Arm Holdings
• Cisco Systems
• Applied Digital
• Western Digital
• Goldman Sachs
• Applied Materials
• Cerebras Systems
• Marvell Technology
• UnitedHealth Group
• Applied Optoelectronics

@WatcherGuru

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 05:16

🇶🇦🇮🇷 Qatar says Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed

Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed, mediator Qatar ​said on Tuesday, after a delegation from ‌the Gulf Arab country visited Tehran earlier this week in an effort to de-escalate regional tensions in coordination with ​the United States.

A spokesperson for the Qatari ​Foreign Ministry told a press briefing that Iran ⁠should stop threats against Arab Gulf states ​and open the Strait of Hormuz to show good ​intentions.

Qatar, along with Pakistan, has been mediating between Washington and Tehran in an effort to end the US-Israeli war on Iran ​that has disrupted global shipping and oil ​supplies, and spilled over across other parts of the Middle East.

📝 Representatives of Gulf Arab monarchies, Pakistan and Turkey going to Tehran to discuss regional security is a major political victory by Iran who is now considered by its neighbours strong and important enough to get consulted on regional security matters.

War is a continuation of politics by other means. Even if Iran suffered more material damage than it inflicted on its enemies, it is the sole country that achieved its political objectives in the 40 Day War those being: kicking out the U.S. from its bases in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, forcing the U.S Navy out of the Persian Gulf, gaining control of the Hormuz Strait and being recognised by the other Middle Eastern countries as a significant if not the most powerful actor in the region.

Having delegates from Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey and the KSA travel to Tehran to discuss such matters was unthinkable 10 months ago. The Qatari complaint about Iran's "lack of goodwill" is out of place in the present day as Qatar, a country that opened its airspace to U.S. aircraft from which to target Iran, is in no place to make such demands, a fact which they will have to learn the hard way.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/qatar-says-iran-needs-show-good-intentions-mediation-efforts-succeed-2026-10-27/

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 02:42

Three South Korean financial firms including Bithumb report data breaches, Yonhap says — link | AI comment

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28 October 2026 01:33

💰🔎🔋 Discord Is Making Public Server Messages Searchable on Google

Starting mid-December 2026, posts in qualifying servers with 1,000-plus members will surface in Google results by default in most regions

https://www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-making-public-server-messages-searchable-on-google

https://discord.com/blog/making-content-from-discoverable-servers-easier-to-discover

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FelipeChannel

29 October 2026 00:31

🇫🇷🗳 Raphaël Glucksmann, the French center-left's candidate for French president, portrayed as a "moderate" in comparison to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI, says that as president, he will give French citizenship to 300k illegals living in France.

Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL) believes the promise to legalise 300k immigrants is Glucksmann trying to appeal to leftist voters as he is viewed as "too close to the center".

Glucksmann's main opponent is the aforementioned Mélenchon. For Glucksmann to even have a chance at entering the 2nd round, he must defeat all other opponents in the leftist camp and according to election polls, Mélenchon has a clear lead in his own camp, surpassing in popularity every other leftist politician in France.

🔗 https://www.rtl.fr/actu/politique/presidentielle-2027-raphael-glucksmann-promet-de-regulariser-300-000-sans-papiers-s-il-est-elu-le-ps-pousse-la-mesure-a-l-assemblee-7900690049

FelipeChannel

29 October 2026 00:31

🇧🇷🏴💥🏴 — ⚖️ The Workers’ Party (PT, the ruling party) has asked the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to revoke the registration of the Liberal Party (PL), Brazil’s largest opposition party.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 22:02

DarkFi 2027: The Coming Storm
Activate cyber sleeper cells. Initiate low priority targets.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 21:58

BREAKING: Alphabet stock, $GOOGL, falls over -8% after posting weaker than expected earnings. https://t.co/LuNw3LG9aN
(@TheKobeissiLetter)

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:57

🇧🇷🇺🇸🇧🇷 — Senator Flávio Bolsonaro entered the U.S. with “humanitarian” authorization to remain for one year. The plane was escorted by the U.S. Air Force upon arrival.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇶🇦 NEW: Iran has rejected the latest U.S. proposal conveyed through Qatar, which contained a 7-day plan for opening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the blockade – Reuters

According to Iran, the plan was simply a list of ‘unacceptable demands, not an offer’; the U.S. reportedly asked for Iran’s uranium to be transfered abroad upfront and for an immediate end to the Strait of Hormuz closure.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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28 October 2026 18:08

⚡️🇧🇷🇺🇸 – Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil as an Italian citizen, according to the alleged flight log from his evacuation trip, since his Brazilian passport had likely been canceled by national authorities by the time of his departure.

Bolsonaro also is confirmed to have fled yesterday with his wife and two daughters, and on board of a plane piloted by two Argentinians.

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

⚡🇮🇱🗳 – With 100% of the regular ballots counted (Excluding more or less 600.000 double envelope ballots), the Israeli Parliament is set to look like this:

Pro-Likud, Pro-Netanyahu Bloc: 53 seats
Opposition, Pro-Eisenkot Bloc: 48 seats
Arab Parties: 19 seat

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 18:08

🇨🇳🇬🇭 China’s Huayou acquires Ghana lithium project rights, assumes $66mn funding commitment

China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt has completed the acquisition of Elevra Lithium’s interests in Ghana’s Ewoyaa lithium project, assuming rights to a 22.5% interest in Atlantic Lithium’s Ghanaian lithium portfolio, including Ewoyaa, and an obligation to fund up to $66mn in outstanding development expenditure.

Under the existing project agreements, Huayou will provide up to $66mn in outstanding expenditure under a $70mn sole-funding commitment. Subject to those agreements, the funding would earn Huayou an additional 27.5% interest in Atlantic Lithium’s Ghanaian portfolio, taking its total interest to 50%. Subsequent development costs would be shared equally between the partners.

The completed project transaction comes as Huayou pursues a separate acquisition of Atlantic Lithium, valued at approximately $210mn, or about $0.25 per share in cash, under an agreement announced in May. Huayou chairman and president Chen Hongliang said at the time that the deal “complements our existing battery metal mining operations in Africa”.

The proposed takeover would give Huayou control of Atlantic Lithium itself, potentially consolidating the private-sector interests in Ewoyaa currently covered by the joint-venture arrangements.

Ewoyaa is intended to become Ghana’s first commercial lithium mine, producing spodumene concentrate for further processing into lithium chemicals used in rechargeable batteries.

Ghana’s Parliament ratified the project’s mining lease in March 2026, the first lithium mining lease to be granted and ratified in the country, following the granting of environmental and mine operating permits in 2024.

Ewoyaa’s development comes as Ghana prepares restrictions on exports of unprocessed minerals by 2030. President John Dramani Mahama said on October 19 that investors seeking access to the country’s bauxite, manganese, iron and lithium would face processing obligations under a phased ban, although mineral-specific deadlines and detailed regulations have yet to be published.

Because Ewoyaa is designed to produce spodumene concentrate rather than battery-grade lithium chemicals, Huayou’s immediate commitment is to advance the existing mining project under its inherited funding obligations, rather than establish downstream lithium refining in Ghana.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/china-s-huayou-acquires-ghana-lithium-project-rights-assumes-66mn-funding-commitment-479226/

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 14:35

🇪🇸 Regarding the train accident in Spain, that line uses an LZB train protection system dating back to 1970, for which spare parts are no longer available.

My hypothesis is that the LZB failed again, trains were operating under manual control, and someone made a mistake. This is what happens when systems are allowed to deteriorate to an unimaginable degree.

This photo shows the equipment responsible for the line’s safety, dating back at least 45 years.

#info #meta
#Spain

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 14:23

JUST IN: Ripple partners with Coinbase to expand its $RLUSD crypto stablecoin across trading, payments, and institutional finance.

@WatcherGuru

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28 October 2026 14:23

JUST IN: 🇹🇭 Thailand's Supreme Court officially recognizes Bitcoin as legal property.

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FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 04:22

BREAKING: The US has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a "short, intense military campaign" after the US Midterm elections, per WSJ.

Details include:

1. There are "a growing number of indications" that the US and Israel are readying to launch a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran, WSJ reports

2. The US Military is sending an additional Patriot system to Israel

3. US forces in the region have been restocking munitions and aircraft are preparing for strikes

4. "We may do another little Epic Fury," Trump said this week

Oil prices are rising on the news.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 01:39

🔋☀️💧 Renewables' share of world electricity rises to 34% as nuclear slips to 9%

The two sources have followed very different paths since 2000, when they supplied a similar share of global power: renewables a little under 20% and nuclear about 17%, the data show. Rapid growth in solar and wind has lifted renewables since then, while nuclear's share has roughly halved. Fossil fuels still produced 57% of the world's electricity in 2025, down from more than two-thirds in the early 2010s.

Nuclear output has not shrunk. Reactors worldwide generated a record 2,702 TWh in 2025, up 35 TWh on the previous year's record, the World Nuclear Association said in September. But the amount of power from nuclear plants is about the same as two decades ago, while the world now produces far more electricity overall, so its share of the mix has fallen.

Most of last year's nuclear growth came from new reactors in China, which added 37 TWh, with France adding 12 TWh and Japan 9 TWh, while reactor closures in Belgium cut output by 7 TWh, according to Ember's Global Electricity Review 2026. Over the same year renewables generated 10,730 TWh, or 33.8% of the total, edging past coal's 33.0% to become the world's largest source of electricity for the first time.

Solar did most of the work. Solar generation rose by 636 TWh, or 30%, to 2,778 TWh in 2025, Ember said, and solar's share of global power generation reached 8.7%, nearly matching nuclear's 8.8%, according to the Energy Institute.

Nuclear construction is picking up. Eleven reactors started construction in 2025, taking capacity under construction worldwide to 82 GWe, against 423 GWe now operating, the World Nuclear Association said. Reactors ran at an average capacity factor of 83.7% last year.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/renewables-share-of-world-electricity-rises-to-34-as-nuclear-slips-to-9-478547/

FelipeChannel

28 October 2026 00:17

🇮🇱⚡️ — Channel 14: Could Israel find itself engaged in intense fighting in the coming days and weeks?

Ben-Gvir: Ultimately, sooner or later, we will have to put an end to this problem.