🇺🇸🇧🇷❗️ — United States Embassy in Brasilia and American consulates in Brazil immediately suspends consular services in Brazil due to imminent security risks!

🇦🇺🇧🇷❗️ — The Embassy of Australia, a key American ally and member of the Five Eyes alliance, also announces closure due to security concerns

In the publication, the diplomatic representation in Brasília states that the decision was made after the United States (US) issued a security alert advising citizens to avoid US diplomatic facilities for security reasons.

🏴‍☠️❌🇧🇷❗️ — The São Paulo Civil Police intelligence service identified plans by the PCC narcoterrorist organization to carry out terrorist actions against security personnel in major cities across the state of São Paulo!

🇬🇧🇧🇷❗️ — The British government issued a travel alert for Brazil over security reasons regarding the elections in Brazil.

🇨🇦🇧🇷⚠️ — The Government of Canada issued travel warnings for Brazil

🇧🇷⚖️⚖️❗️ — Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino defends the legitimacy of judicial interference decisions during elections, citing as precedents the Bush v. Gore case in the US in 2000, and nullification of Silvio Santos' candidacy in 1989

🇨🇮🇧🇷⚠️ — The Embassy of Ireland in Brazil issues travel alerts for Brazil and will keep its diplomatic missions closed until October 25.

🇺🇸🇺🇸❗️🇧🇷 — URGENT: The FBI is monitoring possible plans for ATTACKS against the United States Embassy and consulates in Brazil on the eve of the elections.

➡️ American diplomatic personnel report receiving threats related to the electoral period.

🌟 Sources say that the FBI identified, including on the dark web, possible plans involving U.S. diplomatic facilities in the country.

💬 The information was reportedly shared with allied governments, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

🇧🇷😎 — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had his electronic ankle monitor replaced while under house arrest and, according to people close to him, warned that “changes will come, and many will hide to escape justice.”

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️ — Reporter: On Brazil's elections, are you going to support Bolsonaro?

Trump: We're looking at the whole thing. We're watching that election very closely.

🇧🇷👮🇺🇸 — URGENT: Federal Police (PF) conducts operation against two suspects accused of planning an action against the U.S. Embassy

5️⃣ Two search and seizure warrants were executed in São Paulo and in the area surrounding the Federal District. Agents seized cellphones and computers belonging to the suspects.

👨‍⚖️ The actions were authorized by a first-instance judge in the Federal District (DF).

Source: @Armillary

🇧🇷🤡🇺🇸 — Brazilian government knew about the closure of the U.S. Embassy in advance and ordered an investigation into the threats

🇧🇷 Top officials in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's (PT) government were already working with U.S. authorities to contain a possible “threat” before the U.S. announcement.

🇧🇴❗️ — Bolivia's vicepresident Edmand Lara says that his life is in danger and he expects to be arrested on trumped-up charges as the Bolivian government of Rodrigo Paz continues to make arrests in what appears to be a US-backed takeover of Bolivia's judiciary.

🇧🇴 Rodrigo Paz believes that the country's judiciary is surrounded by people allied with criminals and terrorists, and he also suspects that organized crime has a plan to corrupt its decision-making power.

🇫🇷🗳 French presidential campaign rattled by a week of chaos

French schools are getting torched. The far right’s brightest star is fighting for his political life after being accused of antisemitic remarks. And economic indicators are flashing bright red to warn of a potential sovereign debt disaster in the country.

The crises that have rocked France in recent days are exacerbating partisan cleavages in the country’s increasingly no-holds-barred presidential campaign.

If there are political winners, it’s not immediately clear who they are. Establishment candidates and moderate voices are still struggling to seize the narrative from far-right presidential front-runner Marine Le Pen and her surging far-left challenger Jean-Luc Mélenchon — both of whom want to fundamentally reshape France and its relationship with Europe.

A survey by pollster Odoxa this week found that the French disapprove of the government’s handling of the student school protests, but they also disapprove of Mélenchon and his far-left party France Unbowed’s involvement.

Mélenchon’s allies have joined demonstrators outside schools, saying they were there to show support and protect minors from confrontations with police. But the government and France Unbowed’s political opponents accuse them of fanning the flames of violence — allegations they deny.

“There’s a battle over the narrative” between the political extremes, a Socialist Party adviser said.

Whatever the case, the week’s crises are showing just how nasty the campaign can get with two populist candidates unafraid to stoke partisan divisions leading the polls.

The French government has tried to get a grip on the unravelling protests, holding a crisis meeting Thursday and meeting youth representatives on Friday.

Le Pen, however, blamed agitators for stirring up violence at the protests and accused France Unbowed of “giving a helping hand” to “agents of chaos and insurrection.”

For her National Rally party, the crisis is a useful opportunity to try to convince voters that her party is the best choice for those concerned with public safety.

All of this comes just hours after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s minority government introduced a 2027 budget with €43 billion worth of savings designed to reassure markets fretting about France’s massive debt and a stubbornly high budget deficit.

But without a parliamentary majority, getting lawmakers to agree to painful cuts will be tough, even if the specter of a potential financial crisis is starting to loom large.

Borrowing cost have reached their highest levels since 2008 and the spread between French 10-year bonds and German ones — an indicator that measures investors’ appetite to hold French debt over more traditionally stable German debt — shot above 150 basis points on Friday, a level not seen in years.

One lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron’s party Renaissance said he doesn’t see how the presidential hopefuls from the political center — former PMs Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal — will be spared the fallout.

“Every minute spent on the budget is a minute spent staring at our incapacity to get ourselves out of the mess,” the MP said.

Meanwhile, Mélenchon has called for his party officials to join more protests planned next Tuesday and protect pupils against alleged police violence. That could propel him to center stage, but it could also backfire if he is seen as taking part in the unrest.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/maxi-merde-french-presidential-campaign-rattled-by-a-week-of-chaos/

🇸🇦 🇾🇪 🇾🇪 Saudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokehold

More than 100,000 Yemeni troops could ⁠be mobilized in the offensive, depending on the scale, the officials all said.

Riyadh has concluded it cannot enter new Yemeni peace negotiations with the Houthis while the ​militants remain in control of Bab el-Mandeb, giving them significant global leverage, the Western diplomats and Gulf official said.

The six people with knowledge of the Saudi preparations couldn't give a precise timing for the launch of the offensive, with their estimates ranging from within a week to until after the US midterm elections in early November.

Pakistan has deployed between 30,000 and 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to help defend the kingdom's land borders and help with drone and missile interceptions, according to the second Pakistani official, who said the troops arrived ​in waves beginning last year but also after the recent escalation. Islamabad hasn't made any decision to send troops into Yemen in a fighting capacity, the official said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/saudis-plan-assault-houthis-break-red-sea-chokehold-2026-10-02/

🔼 🇺🇸 💵 Trump says higher US inflation will "pay off" US debt "very rapidly" in response to total US debt rising above $40 trillion.

"I know I'm the best in the world... you can pay off the debt through other means. But the one thing that you can do is pay it off through growth, and we've never had growth like this," Trump said.

US Treasury yields hit a new high of the day after the statement.

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