Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopian military forces, ENDF, have advanced west of Hagere Selam, and have captured Abiy Addi - Mekele direction, Tigray region.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Visual confirmation of a direct impact by Ansarullah on an airplane at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇸🇦🇮🇳⚡️- Air India has cancelled all flights to and from Riyadh until October 10.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡️- Pakistan's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has denied the New York Times report stating that the PAF conducted airstrikes against Yemen's Ansarullah.

🇩🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Lufthansa Group airlines have suspended all flights to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, until October 16. Lufthansa is the largest airline in Germany.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Ansarullah has warned all employees at Saudi oil facilities and airports to stay away, stating that these sites are targets for attacks.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Reuters reports a stationary and empty aircraft at Riyadh International Airport was hit by Yemen's Ansarullah.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Local in Riyadh report smoke plumes at Riyadh International Airport, Saudi Arabia, following the Ansarullah missile attack earlier today.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Several Saudi airstrikes against the al-Hodeidah International Airport, Ansarullah-controlled western Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Renewed explosions heard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- A senior Pakistani military official tells The New York Times that Pakistan has quietly joined Riyadh's war on the Ansarullah. Pakistani jets have been carrying out airstrikes on the al-Houthi forces positions.

🇺🇦🇰🇷⚡- BREAKING: South Korea has recalled its ambassador to Ukraine, citing a “breach of trust”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly revealed the transfer to Seoul of North Korean soldiers who had fought for Russia in Ukraine, despite South Korea expecting the transfer to remain secret. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has vowed further retaliation unless Kyiv issues a formal apology.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Several explosions were heard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an hour ago. With smoke plumes reported at multiple different points across the Saudi capital.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Several Iranian Kurdish separatist groups held a broad meeting in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel has downgraded the UK Consulate in Jerusalem to a UK Mission as well as expelling 20 diplomatic staff following London's sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇩🇪⚡️- Russian and U.S. officials, including Special Envoy Jared Kushner, have held talks about bringing a U.S. investor into the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered gas to Germany before Russia invaded Ukraine, per Reuters.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has struck an Emirati tanker off the coast of Fujairah, UAE, resulting in a massive fire. This is the second ship to be struck outside the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, seemingly as part of a new escalatory doctrine by Iran’s IRGC.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🗽⚡️- Mayor Mamdani, attending an October 7th unity vigil for victims of the Hamas invasion of Southern Israel and Gazan's in the war that followed, was shouted down by pro-Palestine activists. Chants were heard saying: “Traitor, traitor, come on out! You sold all your people out!” “We don’t care about where you’re from. You cannot talk about being Muslim anymore. You cannot weaponize being brown anymore. Identity politics can only get you so far.” Mamdani did not speak at the event.

🇺🇸🇦🇫⚡️- 25 years ago tonight, President George W. Bush announced the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, the US invasion of Afghanistan. The invasion was initially a resounding success overthrowing the Taliban regime in just 2 months and establishing a new Government. The US was able to hunt down and capture/kill 10's of thousands of terrorists avenging the September 11th attacks. However as the years went on, the goals of the mission became increasingly convoluted and wasteful, changing from counter-terrorism to women's liberation and nation building. The US did not withdraw from the country until 2021, the fallout of which resulted in the Taliban returning to power immediately.

🇺🇸⚡️- Cornell University is expecting to lose over 10% of applicants this fall.