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President Trump, let's keep going. Have you spoken with Putin yet? Have you spoken with Vladimir Putin yet about.
I have a call set up. Today is his birthday. Today is Vladimir Putin's birthday. I'm sure you're going to celebrate it. Are you going to celebrate his birthday? No, I have a call set up. Election integrity before the midterms. Election integrity before the midterms.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱 — Hezbollah Receives $200 Million Cash Infusion from Iran to Aid Displaced Base Amid Tightened Sanctions, — THE JERUSALEM POST.
➡️ Hezbollah received $200 million in cash from Iran last month to assist Lebanese displaced by the recent conflict with Israel, marking the first significant aid from the group to its supporters. According to two sources with direct knowledge of the transfer, the funds arrived despite a tightening U.S. economic chokehold on Iran and escalating challenges in moving capital to its Lebanese ally. Intermediaries facilitating the movement charged a 20% risk fee—four times the normal rate—while a Hezbollah official confirmed an amount had been secured and distribution plans would be announced shortly without detailing the source.
➡️ The group intends to use the capital to disburse an initial $3,000 per family, prioritizing roughly 50,000 households whose villages have been destroyed or remain inaccessible under Israeli occupation. While the U.S. Treasury reported that Iran previously transferred $1 billion to Hezbollah in the first ten months of 2025, sources indicated that moving funds has grown intensely difficult as financial companies in Iraq, Dubai, and Turkey face mounting regulatory pressure. Despite these hurdles, sources noted the group continues paying its fighters and families of those killed in combat.
➡️ The financial transfer unfolds against a backdrop of severe devastation and heavy casualties since Hezbollah entered the regional war on March 2. Lebanese health ministry data records over 4,300 deaths, while Prime Minister Nawaf Salam estimated reconstruction costs from conflicts since 2024 could exceed $27 billion. Although Tehran has historically maintained funding despite domestic economic hardship and U.S. sanctions—including broken promises of increased backing following a collapsed interim oil deal in July—analysts emphasize that money remains the group's critical "oxygen" for maintaining local influence.
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🚨🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Clashes broke out between the Lebanese Army and a group of smugglers in the Lebanese-side border area of Jurd Arsal during an attempt to smuggle goods from Syria into Lebanon; no injuries were reported, and the army detained one Lebanese citizen involved in the smuggling, according to a military source cited by LBCI.
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⚡️🇫🇷 — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot:
We see it again these days with the events in our high schools. Pro-Russian accounts see in them the end of our democracy, des comptes pro-israéliens the consequences of the recognition of Palestine, des comptes pro-iraniens go so far as to compare these mobilizations to the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement.
In short, they all seek to impose their interpretive framework on our public debate and to tell what is happening chez nous, à notre place, dans notre langue.
⚡️🇫🇷 — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot:
Listen to what is being said in Moscow: Europe is supposedly at war and losing its moral values, despite the reality of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Listen to what is being said across the Atlantic in MAGA spheres: Europe is supposedly a decadent, backward, totalitarian civilization. The reality is different, as each of us knows.
And despite this, by dint of being repeated, amplified, and multiplied, these narratives can end up reaching us and sowing doubt in our minds.
Let us refuse this dominant narrative that others want to impose on us, to push us to fundamentally question our democratic model, to merge it into theirs, and finally to lead us to doubt ourselves.
⚡️🇾🇪🇸🇦 — More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since renewed fighting broke out in recent weeks, with the UN's International Organization for Migration describing the crisis as alarming and warning that funding to help those in need is running out, according to Reuters.
IOM data released Wednesday shows 201,217 displaced people, or 33,776 households — nearly all of them having fled since September 1. The figure surged from 76,000 in mid-September to over 145,000 by the end of the month, and now stands above 200,000.
Ta'iz is the hardest-hit governorate with 114,708 displaced people, 57% of the total. Lahj follows with 42,264, Aden with 20,814, Abyan with 9,030, and Al Hodeidah with 8,244. Displacement now spans 10 governorates, and more than 3,700 people have fled by sea to Djibouti.
IOM Director General Amy Pope said: "People are running for their lives and finding nowhere safe to go. They need a roof, food and safety today. Our teams are on the ground, but the funding is not. I am asking donors to act now, because every day of delay costs lives. Yemen must not become a forgotten crisis."
The UN World Food Programme said Friday that three in four families in parts of Yemen were going hungry from the "absolutely devastating" impact of the fighting. The escalation between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces is the most serious since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks in 2022, with the Houthis seizing Yemen's entire Red Sea coast last month from government forces.
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⚡️🇮🇱 — The IDF responded to a Reuters post showing Gaza City on the October 7 anniversary, writing: "Seems like you've conveniently forgotten how we got here, here's a little reminder."
The military attached graphic footage showing southern Israel during the October 7 attack, accompanied by a warning label.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio targets Iran’s ruling clerics over resource allocation:
«The Iranian economy is about to reach a place that few countries in the world have been in terms of how bad it’s going to get. And it’s all the fault of the radical Shia clerics that make the decisions in that country.
[…] Every dollar and every penny that that regime gets, they don’t spend it on roads or bridges or helping improve the lives of the Iranian people. They spend that money on Hezbollah, and Hamas, and militias that fire rockets out of Iraq, and the Houthis.
That’s who they spend their money on. They should have spent their money on their people, and instead they spend their money on terrorism and on weapons.»
⚡️🇺🇸 — U.S. Central Command:
A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II takes off from the flight deck of USS Boxer (LHD 4) as the ship sails in the Middle East.
🇮🇱❌🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇾🇪🇮🇷 — The Israeli military has released data marking the events of October 7.
Rockets and missiles fired toward Israel:
31,000+ total
20,000 from Lebanon
10,200 from the Gaza Strip
1,200 from Iran
90 from Yemen
50 from Syria
100,000 across various fronts
65,000 in the Gaza Strip
28,000 in Lebanon and Syria
4,500 in Iran
80 in Yemen
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Russian Ministry of Defense:
Russian Air Force crews dropped FAB-500 and FAB-3000 aerial bombs on temporary enemy positions in the settlements of Krasny Molochar in the Donetsk People's Republic and Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region.
🚨🇾🇪🇾🇪 — The PLC military spokesperson, sharing operational footage, asserted that under the ongoing “Dawn of Yemen” operation, the armed forces were targeting Houthi militia movements, supply lines and military positions, while reiterating: “Safety for civilians, and amnesty and safe return for those who lay down their arms and stop fighting.”
He added that “the battle to restore the state continues, our forces are advancing, and the opportunity remains for those who choose their homeland before it is too late,” according to an official statement.
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🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Yemeni Military Media posted drone-captured footage showing strikes by Shawaz FPV loitering munitions against PLC troop concentrations and vehicles across multiple fronts on October 6.
➡️ The "Shawaz" (شواظ) is a commercial-derived quadcopter weaponized with an RPG-7 type anti-armor warhead for low-altitude terminal dives. In the shown sequences, the drones appear to be standard radio-guided variants.
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⚡️🇨🇳🇮🇷 — Chinese independent refiners — the smaller, mostly private “teapot” refineries concentrated in Shandong — increased purchases of Iraqi and Qatari crude for October–November delivery as Iranian supplies declined and Gulf exports through the Strait of Hormuz recovered. Traders said at least 12 million barrels were bought from Mercuria, Totsa and Trafigura, with one estimate at 15–20 million, at $12–$20/bbl premiums to ICE Brent on a delivered basis. Most cargoes were Iraqi Basra Medium and Basra Heavy, medium- and heavy-sour crude grades, bought by Hongrun Petrochemical, Qicheng Petrochemical, Qirun Petrochemical, Hualong and Chambroad; Hongrun and Shenchi also bought 3 million barrels of Qatar’s Al-Shaheen, another medium-sour grade, for early-November delivery. — Reuters
➡️ The shift reflects a substitution in feedstock rather than a normalisation of Iranian supply. China’s Iranian crude imports fell nearly 50% year-on-year in September to 590,000 b/d, while Kpler recorded 45 million barrels of Iranian crude in floating storage outside the blockade zone, down from 100 million in late July; its data also showed no Iranian crude exports in September. Iraqi crude has consequently become a key replacement reference for the independent refiners because of its prompt availability and relatively low cost. The $12–$20/bbl differential is a cargo premium over ICE Brent, the principal international crude-pricing benchmark.
➡️ The replacement carries a cost: Shandong refinery utilisation fell to about 55% at end-September from nearly 60% at the beginning of the month, while Horizon Insights estimated losses of 250–500 yuan ($37–$75) per tonne, versus profits of about 500 yuan/ton earlier in September. This indicates that recovering physical Gulf flows are not yet restoring pre-disruption refining economics, as higher crude acquisition costs and China’s fuel-price caps continue to compress margins.
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⚡️🇺🇸 — U.S President Trump:
There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I did, I settled eight wars, and I've stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world because Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Circulating field documentation [1-2] corroborates that the previously documented operational encirclement has transitioned into the establishment of Houthi ground control inside At-Turbah urban center, with reported withdrawal of pro-Saudi PLC forces.
Parallel field reports indicate the consolidation of Houthi territorial control over the Al-Silw district following the capitulation of previous PLC defensive buffers.
➡️ Taiz Encirclement Vectors & Al-Misrakh Spearhead: Leveraging breakthroughs in At-Turbah and Al-Silw, Houthi vanguard units are accelerating their northern offensive. Preliminary field updates report a large-scale assault targeting Jabal Habashi to the west, alongside continued Houthi advances toward Al-Misrakh and Al-Nawazil, tightening the operational siege around Taiz City.
➡️ PLC Counter-Operations: Conversely, PLC media documentation tracks active tactical resistance and containment vectors:
- Inland Friction Points: Nation's Shield units have engaged Houthi concentrations via drone strikes in Al-Bayrin (Al-Ma'afir) [3] and rocket artillery in Al-Kadaha [4], attempting to disrupt Houthi lines of march toward Al-Misrakh and Jabal Habashi.
- Air Interdiction: Coalition airstrikes target Jabal Mutran (Qadas/Al-Mawasit axis) to disrupt newly established Houthi rear-guards.
⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 — A senior Iranian official involved in indirect talks with Washington said on Wednesday that U.S. “requests and ideas” on Iran’s nuclear programme conflict with Tehran’s demands for ending the war, responding to VP JD Vance’s call for a “meaningful” reduction in Iran’s enrichment capacity. The official said no nuclear negotiations have yet taken place and Washington must first meet Iran’s conditions, including lifting the blockade of Iranian ports, before the nuclear issue can be addressed — Reuters.
➡️ The official said Tehran’s right to uranium enrichment remains a red line on which Iran “will not show flexibility” but that enrichment details could be discussed later, suggesting negotiability over parameters while maintaining the underlying right as non-negotiable.
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🚨🇾🇪🇾🇪 — Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed that forces had repelled Saudi-backed mobilizations attempting to advance toward their positions east of Al Jawf Governorate, inflicted losses, and targeted all concentrations with ballistic missiles and drones. He further claimed that opposing forces made no advance, with dozens reportedly killed or wounded and several vehicles destroyed, per an operational statement.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷 — IRGC commander-in-chief’s adviser Sardar Naqdi said the Strait of Hormuz “is closed” and that Iranian armed forces have “full control” over it, adding that the closure would continue until Iran’s “legitimate demands” are met. He assessed that oil smuggling through the strait is negligible and does not mean it is open to such activity, while some actors use small vessels to smuggle oil and transfer it to tankers; he further said illicit actors’ limited routes through explosions and destruction of rocky passages would soon be blocked — Tasnim.
➡️ Naqdi said Iran’s limited-range weapons reflect policy rather than technical constraints, with their range determined by the authorities and Supreme Leader according to Iran’s requirements.
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⚡️🇬🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Greece's FM Giorgos Gerapetritis reiterates the strategic alignment with Israel and the U.S. on Middle East issues:
«Greece has a strategic relationship with Israel. We have already developed a complex action with Israel. [...] the 3+1 initiative, which includes Cyprus and the United States and is both energy-related and more broadly geopolitical.
Our relationship, our perception of Middle East issues with the American Secretary of State is completely shared.»
⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 — U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio rejects reports on State Department guidance regarding María Corina Machado’s return to Venezuela:
Reporter: «Mr. Secretary, will the State Department continue telling foreign governments not to facilitate María Corina Machado's return to Venezuela?»
[...]
Rubio: «Just 'cause you guys report something doesn't mean it's true. [...] The premise of your question is not true. We've never asked anyone not to let anybody else in anywhere in the world.»
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. Secretary Rubio states regarding the Strait of Hormuz:
«The Straits of Hormuz are open. There's almost as much oil flowing out now as there was before this conflict began, so they've lost complete control of the straits.»
⚡️🇺🇸🇬🇷 — U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio on U.S.-Greece security cooperation:
«Now, as part of our efforts to combat these common threats to our nations, we’re proud to announce a new memorandum of understanding establishing a joint security program to strengthen counterterrorism information sharing between our respective law enforcement agencies.
What we do not wish to see under any circumstances is that the birthplace of the West is threatened by bad decisions, by inaction, and by a failure to address challenges. And so this program is going to create stronger, more proactive law enforcement cooperation that could readily stop these threats.
All of these initiatives and more show that Greece is a true and strong and model NATO ally, a country that understands the importance of burden sharing and that is willing to work with partners to address critical threats to all member states.»
⚡️🇮🇷 — Iranian Army spokesman Mohammad Akrami Nia:
After the era of the presidency of Amir-Mousavi, Martyr Mousavi, which lasted nine months, on the directive of all the armed forces, this trend, in fact, of changing our military doctrine from defensive to offensive, took shape and moved forward with intensity.
And today in this war, we have used this doctrine; you see its examples. For instance, the American bases in Jordan were targeted by drones, and the anti-revolution bases and separatist groups were repeatedly targeted by the warplanes of the air force of the army, the army's drones, and also the drones of the army's air defense.
This action was also preemptive and took away the initiative from them, and as you saw, they couldn't take any action. Before they could take any action, they were hit, they went under attack, and well, those weapons that Trump claimed we placed at the disposal of Iran's opponents, part of it belonged to these separatist and anti-revolution bases that took place in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
These operations were carried out. After that, also in this same war, during the last two weeks, we carried out this action. The American bases that were prepared for, in fact, conducting operations against us, the army there was targeted with drones, and the news of it was also published.
Meaning, we carried out preemptive operations and actions within the framework of pre-emptive war. And this war is also a legitimate war, meaning pre-emptive operations, from the standpoint of observing principles, including the principle of necessity, the principle of urgency, and the principle of proportionality, have been recognized as legitimate, and according to Article 51 of the UN Charter, legitimate defense is recognized officially, and within the framework of legitimate defense, pre-emptive operations have been carried out.
And now also, if necessary, in the future, we will resort to pre-emptive operations to keep the enemy off balance from making any aggression and exposure.
⚡️🇩🇪🇬🇧 — Royal Navy Commandos Deploy from German Submarine in Largest Alliance Drill in 15 Years, — The Telegraph
➡️ British Royal Navy elite Green Berets surfaced from the German attack submarine U36 off Cape Wrath at mainland Britain’s north-westerly point during Exercise Strike Warrior, marking the UK Commando Force's largest military workout in 15 years and the first time since the Afghanistan war that all specialist elements of the elite commando formation have operated together. The fortnight-long war games spanning Scotland, the Western Isles, the Borders, and the North Sea involve more than 2,000 staff, eight warships, and 19 aircraft across six NATO nations including the UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, Germany, and Norway.
➡️ Specialist spotters from 148 Battery Commando Forward Observation Unit (an elite Army unit attached to 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery) deployed in inflatable raiding craft to establish covert clifftop observation posts behind simulated enemy lines. Operating secretly, the team functioned as targeting nodes to coordinate live naval surface gunfire from the Portuguese warship NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida onto coastal targets, marking a complex operational milestone not achieved by the unit for nearly 30 years.
➡️ The exercise underscores a major operational shift for the UK Commando Force, moving away from large-scale amphibious landings toward small, highly dispersed units relying on NATO partners for shipping and firepower across the High North and North Atlantic. An anonymous operations officer emphasized that the drill demonstrates readiness against future threats, highlighting that warfighting is the primary focus through specialized assets delivering multi-domain fires and targeting.
➡️ The extensive war games have also integrated amphibious beach landings, boarding operations, anti-submarine warfare, drone strikes, combat resupply missions, and the construction of protected underground medical facilities to showcase allied interoperability.
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⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
Today, as a birthday “gift” to Putin, the Russian army destroyed a residential building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region. It was an ordinary five-story apartment building. Tragically, as of now, five people have been reported killed and 26 injured, including five children. There may still be people under the rubble. First responders are working nonstop at the site – doing everything possible to find every person. Russian missile strikes also damaged five apartment buildings in Dnipro and four high-rise buildings in Kremenchuk. Tragically, two people were killed and eight injured. A high-rise building in Zaporizhzhia was damaged by a drone. In Kyiv, the Russians killed two people. Two more people were killed in Oleksandriya… My condolences to all the families and loved ones of those killed. Overall, infrastructure in Kyiv and 12 regions came under attack last night.
One of the key targets was our energy infrastructure. The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively. This was one of the most vile strikes: 70 missiles in total, many of them ballistic, as well as “shaheds.” Unfortunately, only some of them were shot down. Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge. And air defense packages for us right now are a vital necessity. That is why every day we are looking for missiles for Patriot systems that can and must actually protect people’s lives here, in Ukrainian skies. Thank you to everyone who is helping us.
⚡️🇸🇦🇾🇪 — The Saudi-led coalition’s official spokesperson approximately one hour ago announced the interception of a ballistic missile fired by Houthi forces toward Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, which hosts King Khalid Air Base and lies near the Yemen border.
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🚨🇷🇺 — Reports indicate a fire broke out in the Russian city of Sochi, where an oil tanker caught fire.
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🚨🇾🇪🇸🇦 — Yahya Saree spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces:
Thanks to God, our armed forces were able to repel and drive out the Saudi enemy's reinforcements as they attempted to advance towards our forces' positions southwest of Al-Waziyah. Thanks to God, they did not make any progress, and a number of their vehicles and armored vehicles were destroyed, and dozens fell dead and wounded.
With God’s help, the gatherings that the enemy tried to reinforce in order to save what remained of its mobilizations were targeted with a number of ballistic missiles. The hits were accurate and direct thanks to God and left a number of dead and wounded.
