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🇪🇹🇪🇷 - The current situation in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia: Sheraro direction: After several days of stalemate, the Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, has broken through at Mai Tsebri. This appears to have been the Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, main defensive line in the area, with TDF positions now beginning to crumble. ENDF forces have not only crossed the Tekeze River, shown in blue on the map, but also captured Adi Gebru, bringing them within 30 km of Shire. Mekele direction: ENDF forces were forced to withdraw from Wukro, while all attempts to advance towards Hawzen have failed. TDF units, particularly the TPLF's Army 13 and 30, are conducting constant counterattacks in the area. Overnight, several frontline reports claimed that Eritrean Defense Forces, EDF, had crossed the international border. This morning, locals in several towns reported sightings of Eritrean troops. All reported sightings are marked on the map with blue crosses. Note, these reports remain unconfirmed. Map key: • Red - Ethiopian National Defense Force. • Green - Tigray Defense Forces. • Purple - Alleged Eritrean Defense Forces control since 2022.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Initial reports, Eritrean forces have likely crossed the Ethiopian-Eritrean international border overnight, and are moving towards the frontline positions alongside the Tigray Defense Forces in northern Tigray.

🇾🇪 - The Siege of Ta'izz: Ansarullah forces continued to advance on multiple fronts, most notably capturing the Jabal Habashi peak, although PLC forces retain control of the mountain's south-eastern sector. After 24 hours of fighting over Qadas, Ansarullah captured the entire area. Saudi airstrikes on Qadas late last night followed the takeover, which confirmed its fall to the Sana'a forces. PLC forces remain in al-Athbarah, north of Qadas, where clashes erupted last night and continue to this moment. Ansarullah forces have also seized the large town of al-Misrakh, south of Ta'izz. Reports claiming Ansarullah has secured complete control south of Ta'izz are false. PLC-aligned cells, primarily the Popular Resistance Forces, PRF, remain active in several locations. PRF fighters remain besieged north of al-A'lum, while clashes with Ansarullah forces continued overnight in Hadad. Ta'izz's Popular Committees are typically affiliated with the al-Islah Party (allegedly Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood chapter) and have repeatedly clashed with the UAE-backed National Resistance Forces, NRF, over control of Ta'izz in the past. This rivalry, which was mainly over PRF's opposition to Tareq Salah, has fuelled persistent claims by UAE-affiliated media that al-Islah forces are "withdrawing from Ta'izz" or "handing territory to Ansarullah", claims that remain unsubstantiated.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- To commemorate the October 7th attack, the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel published an AI video addressing the "Israel commits genocide" discourse using LEGO characters on their official X account.

🇸🇾🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Syria is discussing joining the war against Ansarullah in Yemen, multiple sources tell Asharq News. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Saudi Arabia today.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Three years ago today, Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, alongside other aligned Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organizations in the Gaza Strip, launched a military infiltration and attack on the Israel, codenamed "Operation al-Aqsa Flood." The subsequent Israeli reprisal and response resulted in the still-ongoing and largely unresolved Gaza war, which has resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe and genocide of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank. Beyond the conflict specifically confined to Gaza and the surrounding envelope, the October 7th attack and Israel's regional response to the attack has permanently changed the Middle East. The occurrence of October 7th has directly or indirectly precipitated the collapse of Israel's normalization of relations with multiple Arab states (most notably Saudi Arabia), the two wars fought in Lebanon against Hezbollah and other aligned militias in 2024 and 2026, the collapse and overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, the destabilization of freedom of navigation in the Red Sea at the hands of Ansarullah, three separate open confrontations with Iran in April 2024, October 2024, and June 2025, as well as - most notably - the ongoing Third Gulf War involving the United States and the entire Middle East itself. As we have deeply covered over the last three years, the Middle East has been permanently and irrevocably changed. And, unfortunate as it is, the region will continue to destabilize and grow more and more unpredictable as the war drags on. The beginning of Rerum Novarum's coverage of the October 7th attacks can be found here.

🇺🇸⚡️- The execution of Nidal Hassan will be the first time the US military has performed an execution since 1961, when Private First Class John Bennett was hanged for rape and attempted murder while stationed in Austria. This will also be the first time a firing squad has been used since the execution of Private Eddie Slovik in 1945 for desertion.

🇺🇸⚡️- “The execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will take place at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, December 3rd, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT.” - Acting Secretary of the Army Adam R. Telle.

🇺🇸⚡️- The bar being sued by Lucy Craig in the Cornell 7 incident is claiming that Craig never drank at their establishment.

🇷🇺⚡- The 60+ staff from the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk, Russia, have been released after a three-day quarantine, with all testing negative on twice-daily swabs. Russian local outlet, The People of Baikal, reports normal work resumed at the biolab.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- The US Embassy in Moscow has issued a health alert over the pneumonic plague 'outbreak' from the Irkutsk biolab.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️ — Explosion heard in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Sirik, Iran.

🇷🇺🇫🇮⚡️- "Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West. Last week it emerged that some 20 Finnish MPs had reported mysterious break-ins at their homes, with one politician finding feces left behind in his lavatory." - The Telegraph in an article describing a new phase of the Russian "operational psychology" strategy.

🇾🇪⚡️- Visual confirmation that Ansarullah has taken control of Al-Mawasit District in Ta'izz Governorate, south of Ta'izz city.

🇷🇺🇪🇪🇱🇻⚡️- "According to a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the court has established a fact of legal significance: Baltic nationalists have been recognized as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. [...] Since the early 1990s, the authorities of the modern Baltic states have been pursuing a deliberate state policy of distorting the USSR's role in the Great Patriotic War and its victory over fascism. Collaborators associated with Nazi criminals and their organizations are being glorified. [...] Countering these destructive factors is fundamental to preserving historical memory, preventing the falsification of history, and protecting the national interests of the Russian Federation." - Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in an official statement.

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🇨🇦⚡️- "Québec deserves to be a country" - Independentist and PQ party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon during his victory speech.

🇨🇦⚡️- During yesterday's Québec general elections, the ruling center-right party CAQ collapsed following the surge of independentists, liberals and right-wing forces. PQ (right-wing independentists): 28% (+13.4) PLQ (center-left liberals): 24.2% (+9.8) PCQ (right-wing populists): 20.7% (+7.8) CAQ (center-right federalists): 13.4% (-27.6) QS (radical left): 12.4% (-3) Others: 1.3% +/- 2022

🇫🇷⚡️- Before returning to Paris to finally address the riots, French president Emmanuel Macron oversaw the successful test launch of the new M51.3 nuclear-capable ballistic missile.

🇫🇷⚡️- Between 50,000 and 100,000 protesters marched in Paris today in an effort to rally other causes to the movement. From images and several declarations, this initiative has failed as only youths of African descent, syndicalists and far-left immigrationnists from LFI gathered during the march.