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

🇳🇴🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡- "Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for phone talks with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store to discuss the prospects for a peace deal in Ukraine. The three leaders may speak as soon as today. The planned talks follow a revived effort to get peace negotiations on track, with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff visiting Putin in St. Petersburg last week. Witkoff traveled to Russia after holding talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the two Nordic leaders," - Bloomberg.

🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu has privately accepted the US-offer in forming a unity government with Gadi Eisenkot while excluding Itamar Ben-Gvir from any future coalition arrangement with Yashar, Israel Hayom reports.

🇮🇱⚡- Voter turnout for the Israeli elections at 10am local time reaches 16.68%, the highest at that hour in 45 years.

🇮🇱⚡- Moti Leitner of HaTzibur HaHaredi and Avi Maoz of Noam cast their votes. Two other right-wing parties, in addition to Ofer Winter's Amcha Israel, that are unlikely to break the 3.25% threshold, thus wasting their votes.

🇮🇱⚡- Ofer Winter has cast his vote. Meet the man who's likely killed Netanyahu's political career.

🇺🇸⚡️- Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated an autonomous drone capable of tracking a moving person through dense forests without GPS or cloud connectivity. The drone uses 3D LiDAR mapping, onboard AI, and real-time movement prediction to navigate obstacles and maintain tracking even when its target disappears behind trees. The technology has significant military applications, particularly for tracking and eliminating enemy personnel, reconnaissance, and autonomous operations in GPS-denied environments. Purdue's IDEAS Lab also holds a $1.5 million US Army research agreement to develop autonomous aerial and ground systems capable of operating in hostile terrain.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Ramaswamy campaign is now sending out fliers targeted at Democrat and Independent voters saying that Acton is "too conservative" for Ohio.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "General Zamir believed that Netanyahu’s push for action against Iran would be a miscalculation that could provoke Iran into attacking Israel." - NYT.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "In advance of Israel’s pivotal election on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new airstrike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military’s chief of staff." - NYT.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Explosions were heard in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, around 45 minutes ago, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇸🇾🇯🇴 - 5 children were killed in the Jordanian attacks on the Dara'a region, southern Syria. 8 civilians died in total.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- Harry Kane wins the 2026 Ballon d'Or.

🇧🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Flavio Bolsonaro has been asked by the Brazilian Federal Police to surrender his passports. He is currently banned from leaving Brazil.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob and The bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, William Joensen have released statements condemning the White House after pictures of them praying with President Trump were publicized without their permission for campaign purposes. The two met with Trump on Thursday for a private meeting after being invited by the White House earlier in the year to discuss abortion, supporting private religious schools, and immigration.

🇸🇾🇯🇴⚡- Jordanian airstrikes on the Dara'a region, southern Syria, in response to the al-Karak church shooting in Jordan. The Jordanian military reports targeting militant positions, while local sources report several civilian casualties. Media circulating shows the corpses of children and women following the Jordanian attacks.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has dismissed reports that Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir could be removed from his post following the elections.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The disagreements between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir extends beyond Iran and into the recent military operation in Hebron in the West Bank. According to Israeli Channel 11, the IDF had intended to announce the conclusion of the recent military operation yesterday, but Netanyahu intervened to prevent the declaration. The timing is politically significant, as the announcement would have come on the eve of the elections and could have dampened support among right-wing voters, particularly within the Otzma Yehudit constituency in the Hebron area.

🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu plans to dismiss IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir if he wins re-election, according to i24NEWS.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has offered Ansarullah (the Houthis) $1 billion during mediation with Iran to halt attacks on the Kingdom, Gulf diplomatic sources tell Israel Hayom.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron caved in to a significant amount of the French students' demands, with sizeable reforms being implemented as soon as January. Despite this, several students unions have called on to keep pressuring the government for further reforms.