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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Just hours after the US-Russia diesel deal, Ukraine launched a massive attack on the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Terminal in the Rostov region, southwest Russia. The facility can still be seen burning this morning.

🇺🇸⚡️- The ATF has announced it will end enforcement of the NFA regarding short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and suppressors. This is following the Department of Justice’s decision not to appeal the NRA's federal court victory in Jensen v. ATF.

🇺🇸🇳🇿🇨🇩⚡️- Former U.S. Green Beret and UFC fighter Tim Kennedy was wounded last month while working as a private military contractor for Vectus Global, according to Reuters. Kennedy and other forces working with Vectus Global were reportedly ambushed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, with the attack leaving at least 20 people dead or wounded. One source working for Congo's government told Reuters that Rwandan forces backing the M23 rebels may have been responsible. Former New Zealand Special Air Service operator Justin Conaglen was reportedly among those killed.

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🇺🇸⚡️- Numerous accounts on X are falsely claiming that President Trump has suspended H-1B visas, a claim that has been parroted across the platform in an apparent effort to drum up enthusiasm ahead of the midterms. In reality, the Department of Labor has only temporarily halted PERM green card processing for eight specific companies under investigation. H-1B visas have not been suspended.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Visual confirmation of the Aramco facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, engulfed in flames following an Ansarullah missile attack.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: President Trump announces a diesel deal with Russia after speaking directly with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. According to Trump, Russia will “immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel.”

🇵🇦⚡️- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck southern Panama near these coordinates: 7.599°N 80.757°W.

🇺🇸⚡️- Political commentator Katie Zacharia has reportedly been chosen as the next White House press secretary.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Confirmation of an oil tanker struck by the IRGC Navy near Fujairah, UAE. Oil is leaking from the vessel.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Yemeni and Saudi official media claim the PLC have captured Mayun Island in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb. The reports have not been confirmed. Earlier today, PLC troops launched another attempt at trying to recapture areas of the southwest coast of Yemen from the Ansarullah. Footage shows Saudi airstrikes on the al-Omari heights, Dhubab area. Rerum Novarum's map shows the approximate situation in the Mocha-Aden direction.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopian forces advancing north along the A2 highway record multiple destroyed Tigray Defence Forces heavy vehicles and other military equipment.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia will not agree to any ceasefire with the Ansarullah until the PLC recaptures all lost territory in Yemen, AFP reports.

🇳🇴🇿🇦⚡- South African Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize of 2026.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "Ethiopia confirms in a message to the International Security Council that it no longer has any option but to defend itself in the face of Eritrea," - Sky News Arabia.

🇪🇹 - The current situation in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia: Mekele direction: Ethiopian National Defense Forces, ENDF, have advanced north of Mekele and have captured everything from Wukro to Idago Hamus. Less than 48 hours ago, Eritrean troops were seen patrolling Idago Hamus. The Mekele direction has ended, and the Adigrat direction has begun. ENDF are less than 15kim from Adigrat, the most important city and major stronghold of the TDF. Hawzen direction: TDF have withdrawn from Hawzen and everything south of the large town. ENDF have not yet entered the area, and therefore it is shown unmarked on Rerum Novarum's map. Samre direction: Samre, Hatami, Agerba, and the entire Dekera heights have fallen to the ENDF following a TDF withdrawal. Adi Dairo direction: ENDF forces continued to advance north of River Tekeze (shown in blue on Rerum Novarum's map), and have captured the city of Shire and its airport. It seems that the TDF have abandoned the rest of the Tigray region (the borders of which are marked in black on the map) and are repositioning along the Adigrat - Aksum - Sheraro line of defense (shown as a purple line on the map).

🇪🇹⚡- Over the past 24 hours, the Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, have withdrawn from most positions in northern Tigray, falling back to what appears to be their final defensive line stretching from Adigrat through Adwa and Aksum to Adi Dairo.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The pilot of the U.S. F-15E fighter jet shot down in early April 2026 told U.S. intelligence officials that drones had swarmed in a “jellyfish formation” while flying over Iran, moments before being shot down, similar to the formation seen in the video above. Rerum Novarum can confidently state that the footage shown depicts the testing of Iran’s Jaljaleh anti-aircraft mine system.

🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation of Iran’s IRGC testing aerial mines that are launched and detonate in midair, theoretically to prevent helicopters and other aircraft from deploying troops.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- OpenAI says Russian and Iranian influence operations used ChatGPT to place regime-friendly content in U.S. and international news outlets.