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

🇾🇪 - Siege of Ta'izz: The current situation in Ta'izz, southern Yemen.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran has carried out four separate ballistic missile exercises in Isfahan, central Iran, today.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️- President Donald Trump doesn't believe that China or Russia are helping Iran at all, says those claims come from "the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics".

🇮🇱⚡- Gadi Eisenkot rules out running with the Arab coalition parties (Joint List and Ra'am) in the Israeli October 27 elections.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- France has seized the Russian shadow fleet tanker DF PEAK south of Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The vessel was operating under a false flag.

🇵🇰⚡- The Balochistan Liberation Army targeted a Pakistani Coast Guard vessel, killing 13 sailors onboard.

🇧🇬🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Two commercial vessels have been struck by drones just outside Bulgaria's water-spaces. One ship sank, the other remains disabled. Bulgaria has summoned the Russian ambassador to the country following the attacks. Neither of the vessels had originated from a Ukrainian seaport. The two vessels are AZOV CONCORD, Turkish-owned, and CHELSEA 3, Ukrainian-owned. Note, last week Russia had struck a Turkish-operated vessel within Bulgaria's territorial waters, resulting in casualties.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran has warned regional countries that its armed forces could conduct ground incursions into neighboring countries should a new war break out, people familiar with Iran's warnings tell WSJ. Iran has also warned Arab officials that Saudi oil facilities could be struck, adding to Ansarallah's already ongoing strikes against Saudi oil facilities. Iran also plans increased attacks towards U.S. forces should a new war break out, including attempting to sink U.S. Navy vessels in West Asia and kill sailors onboard.

🇺🇸 - Happy Columbus Day!

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- A major build-up of Ethiopian National Defense Forces around Bure in northern Afar, along Ethiopia's border with Eritrea. On the opposite side, Eritrea is also massing troops. No clashes have yet occurred on this axis.

🇺🇸⚡️- Cornell Faculty Senate is set to hold a no confidence vote on the University's Administration. Students and faculty have demanded the resignation of the University President and other Admin staff since the initial lawsuit by Lucy Craig was filed against Cornell.

🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- The European Union has adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia's military industrial complex, more than half of which are connected to ballistic missile production, according to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. The announcement comes as Ukrainian President Zelensky accuses Moscow of violating the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump over the weekend, following Russian strikes on a thermal power plant in Kharkiv. Kyiv says it learned about the proposed ceasefire through the media and is still awaiting details, while Moscow has not confirmed an agreement.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte died on Monday by suicide. Mitte earlier this month was at an event with Luis Moncada, another Breaking Bad star, and appeared perfectly healthy. Mitte was also engaged to his longtime girlfriend.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces continue to advance through the Jabal Sabir area, southern Ta'izz direction, southern Yemen. Clashes ongoing in northern Anbyan, Wateer, and approaching the Al-Arous peaks.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Jeddah International Airport has halted traffic again.

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🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking approval from Riyadh to join the campaign against Yemen's Ansarullah, Haaretz reports. Haaretz adds Riyadh has rejected the offers from Tel Aviv.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is frustrated and disappointed with the lack of support from the West, Bloomberg reports.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iran has struck four vessels in the past 24 hours in the Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of a massive fire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an impact by an Ansarullah ballistic missile.