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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The Pentagon has instructed CENTCOM to complete preparations to resume major combat operations against Iran, U.S. officials tell Axios.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- Despite the attacks, Middle Eastern crude exports have recovered to around pre-war levels, driven by a combination of US naval protection and a major Saudi effort to keep oil moving. Riyadh has increased exports, discounted crude to help offset record tanker costs, reopened Red Sea routes and relied on supertanker shuttles and ship-to-ship transfers near Oman. Iran is now threatening to close what it calls "illegal routes" near Oman that it says are being used to move oil to larger tankers.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 - Footage obtained by CBS News shows Iranian strikes on Camp Buehring, a US military installation in Kuwait, during the early days of the US-Iran war. Soldiers at the base reported seeing Iranian drones, and possibly even Iranian jets, striking the facility. They described the base as "completely destroyed", saying Iran "hit them very hard".

🇺🇸🇵🇸🗽⚡️- Pro Palestinian protests were held today outside of City Hall against Mayor Mamdani. Some Palestine activists believe that Mamdani has betrayed the movement. DSA activists were in attendance alongside Hamas and Hezbollah supporters.

🇺🇸⚡️- Students at Cornell University are dressing up as Marvel characters advocating for the public castration of all rapists and pedophiles. Photo credit: Michael Tracey

🇺🇸👊⚡️- GOP candidate for Colorado Governor Victor Marx says he does not regret slamming his wife into a door and would "do it again" if necessary.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Three years ago today, on October 7th, the World witnessed one of the darkest and most evil days in the history of Israel. Innocent men, women, and children were murdered, kidnapped, and subjected to unimaginable horrors at the hands of Hamas TERRORISTS. Today, we remember every innocent life taken, honor the survivors and their families, and remember the hostages who endured the unthinkable. I fought relentlessly to bring the hostages home, and reunite them with their loved ones, and I did, both the living and the dead! We will NEVER forget October 7th. We will NEVER forget the victims. And we will always stand against the forces of Terror and Evil. President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡️- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr posted this to his X account before quickly deleting it: "The Muslim Brotherhood's Qatari funded global propaganda campaign makes Joseph Goebbels look like a piker. The Genocide charge against Israel is laughable on its face but it is an effective permission structure for antisemitism which is the most reliable device by which totalitarian systems -like Islamism-engineer mass formation ,build coalitions and acquire power. Most of the westerners who parrot this charge are useful idiots deluded by this psyops campaign that hates Jews ,Christians , Israel and the USA pretty equally. Thanks for the fact check John and for your vision and steadfast courage."

🇺🇸📺⚡️- Today marks the 30th anniversary of the official launch of Fox News Channel on the airwaves. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott rang the Closing Bell yesterday at the Nasdaq site in New York to celebrate, she is surrounded by some of the remaining original hosts on the network Lauren Green, Trace Gallagher, Steve Doocy and Brit Hume alongside other longtime employees. The most powerful and influential weapon in the Murdoch media empires arsenal, the news station under the leadership of Roger Ailes became the most watched cable news network in the country and remains so to this day.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- Iran struck a tanker north of Qatar with multiple projectiles. Casualties are reported, as per UKMTO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The White House has asked the Pentagon to develop strike options against Iranian targets that could be exercised ahead of the midterms. The planning underscores just how much the President wants to reduce gas prices and demonstrate progress in the conflict before the vote," - The Atlantic.

🇾🇪 - Incredible footage shows close range combat between the PLC forces and the Ansarullah in the Jabal Habashi area, northwest Ta'izz direction, earlier today. Video was recorded by the Popular Resistance Forces.

🇺🇸🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is aware of reports of possible long-range attacks directed at Ethiopian military installations on several instances in October of this year. U.S. citizens should accordingly exercise caution and follow the advice of local authorities. U.S. citizens are advised not to travel to the Amhara Region (including Lalibela), the Tigray Region, or the Afar Region for any reason. U.S. citizens in those areas are advised to leave if it is safe to do so or shelter in place until conditions improve, monitor local media for updates, and stay in touch with their airline for notifications on operations," - The US Embassy in Ethiopia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- "I have a call scheduled today. It's Putin's birthday. I'm sure you'll celebrate it." - President Donald Trump to a journalist asking if Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin recently.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Trump Administration's pause on immigration visa appointments appears to have been internally lengthened according to Embassies' data across the world. On Aug 25th 2026, Donald Trump issued a stop to all National Visa Center applications, citing a new "global training initiative at ​all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide". This announcement came alongside new plans to tighten entry measures against applicants who held anti-Israeli stances online. Informations have been given throughout September at inconsistent rates. AP News, citing sources in early September, said the applications' interviews were to be resumed in mid-September. However, virtually no applications have moved forward since then. Applicants from various countries (Germany, France, Turkey) told Rerum Novarum that their planned interviews in late September and early October have been rescheduled or cancelled. Online forums dedicated to legal immigration have spread rumors that most Embassies were to resume interviews as soon as October 1st, but almost no applications have moved forward since then. According to new informations, the new agent training could last up to 60 days while also allowing for an earlier resuming of interviews in certain Embassies. Legal experts in the medias are dumbfounded at the lack of communications from the State Department regarding this matter. Certain Embassies are estimated to reach an all-time high backlog of consular applications. Note: the interviews are rescheduled indefinitely or cancelled, but the immigration applications themselves are simply frozen. This process is adding pressure to the consular workers without reducing the amount of legal immigration. According to data from independent websites such as TrackmyVisa, there has been no increase in self-terminated visa applications.

🇮🇷⚡- Twelve Iranian attacks on tankers were recorded in the Strait of Hormuz last week, marking the highest level of weekly activity since the US-Iran war began on 28 February.

🇫🇷⚡️- Despite being the most covered subject in all French medias for the past 7 days, rioters have lost most of the public support. According to an Elabe poll on the perception of the police response to rioters, 41% of French people believe the police repression is "fair", 34% say it is "excessive" and 24% say it is "insufficient". Only 1% gave no answers.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "All foreign military forces operating within our sovereign territory must withdraw immediately. In particular, Eritrean forces operating in Tigray must leave Ethiopian territory without delay," - Ethiopia's Ministry of Communication.

🇪🇹🇪🇷 - Eritrean Defense Forces in Idaga Hamus, Adigrat direction, northern Tigray region. Note, a lot of videos and photos circulating allegedly showing Eritrea's military in northern Tigray are old.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: AFP and DW have both confirmed that Eritrean troops have crossed the border into Ethiopia. Both outlets cite local sources and state Eritrean forces were spotted in the Adigrat area, the Tigray Defense Forces stronghold.