🇩🇪🗳 New election poll for the next federal election, AfD is the leading party across the entirety of Germany

📝 Eugyppius: Everyone talks about CxU/AfD numbers when these new polls drop, but the real thing to notice is the steady drop in right-bloc (CDU-CSU-AfD) share, now down from 51%+ to 48%; and the growing left bloc (SPD + Greens + Linke), now approaching 40% from a previously steady 37%.

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🇮🇷⚔️🚢 The IRGC-linked Fars News Agency claims the IRGC Navy struck 19 ships in the past two days while trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz

This uptick in Iranian antiship missile attacks comes after the U.S. resumed strikes on Iranian-linked oil tankers.

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🇩🇪✡️ German anti-semitism campaigner linked to former Mossad intelligence role

Munich-based anti-semitism campaigner Guy Katz, a professor at Munich University of Applied Sciences who has become a prominent figure in Germany's political and media discourse on Israel and anti-semitism, has a background in Israeli intelligence, according to a MintPress News investigation.

Katz has founded or co-founded several organizations focused on combating anti-Semitism, including "Anti-Semitism? Not in My Name!", Dach Gegen Hass and the Munich branch of Run For Their Lives.

He has addressed the Bavarian parliament, worked with German police and universities on anti-Semitism training, and led a pro-Israel rally in Munich attended by around 30,000 people on 6 October 2024.

In October 2025, he also interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. MintPress says his alleged intelligence background has received little attention in German and international coverage of his public activities.

According to the investigation, Katz identified himself as a former Mossad agent during a 2023 lecture at the University of Nairobi, where he discussed what he described as Mossad's "art of releasing an agent."

Professional profiles have also described him as a former Israeli intelligence officer, while Katz has promoted a lecture titled "Communicating Like a Mossad Agent," which he says is based on real stories and lessons for managers.

MintPress links this background to Katz's prominent role in German campaigns against anti-Semitism and his activism against pro-Palestine protests and speech.

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🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 Sudan's army captures Sodari, extending its push across North Kordofan toward Darfur

Sudanese army troops and allied Joint Force fighters, a coalition of former Darfur rebel groups, captured the North Kordofan town of Sodari on Friday, the army said, claiming heavy losses on the Rapid Support Forces.

Sudans Post geolocated videos showing troops inside the town, which had served as the RSF's main operational base in the state, according to Sudan Tribune.

The advance caps an offensive that began in late July, when the army retook the strategic highway linking El Obeid to Khartoum, and a September 17 push the army says captured 11 more areas.

The RSF still holds parts of Sodari locality and positions west and south of El Obeid, as well as most of Darfur, its main stronghold in western Sudan.

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🇨🇭🗳 Swiss voters reject tighter neutrality rules that would have curbed NATO cooperation

All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical ​Office showed.

While Swiss neutrality has been internationally recognised since the end of the Napoleonic wars in ​1815, how the government implements it is not spelled out.

The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) has ⁠said that Switzerland's traditional position has been eroded after Bern imposed sanctions on Russia following its invasion of ​Ukraine.

The campaign had funded posters across the country urging people to vote "No war, yes to neutrality", featuring white peace ​doves, ahead of the vote.

Apart from the SVP, most parties and the Swiss government opposed the proposal, with Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis saying it would harm national security and prevent Switzerland from training with NATO.

The Green Party ​and the smaller Evangelical People's Party (EVP) expressed relief over Sunday's projections.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/swiss-vote-tightening-neutrality-rules-ending-peacetime-cooperation-with-nato-2026-09-27/

🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Latest Military Situation Map on the Taiz Front

🟡 Following the advances of Ansar Allah and the Yemeni army in the western part of the Kahbub mountains, the positions of the Yemeni forces in this sector and north of Bab al-Mandab have been consolidated.

✍️ Now most of the clashes continue in southern Taiz with the aim of cutting the Taiz-Aden road, from the left flank in the Al-Shamaytayn district of Taiz province and from the right flank on the border of the Al-Maqatira district of Lahij province and Al-Shamaytayn of Taiz.

✍️ It should be noted that AnsarAllah's positions on the right flank are closer to the Taiz-Aden road, but the geographical complexity of the region and the heights of Jabal Qala have so far prevented effective advances by the Yemeni army on this axis. During the past week, sporadic attacks were carried out from the northern heights toward this road, which were ultimately repelled by the Saudi coalition forces.

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🇬🇧🇺🇸⚡️ — A local farmer may have helped foil the suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford after discovering three suspicious white vans blocking a country road near the airbase used by the U.S. early Sunday, according to The Telegraph.

The woman said she spotted several masked men fleeing into nearby fields and trees, some heading toward the airbase. She immediately drove away, alerted police, and warned residents through a local WhatsApp group.

Five men were arrested less than 25 minutes later under the Explosives Act and subsequently on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.

She also said that security around RAF Fairford had been significantly increased in the preceding days, with heavy machinery blocking entrances and armed American personnel operating checkpoints.