🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 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.

🔗 Sudan Post

🇨🇭🗳 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.

🔗 IWN

🇬🇧🇺🇸⚡️ — 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.

🇷🇸 Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, resigned.

He is expected to run for prime-minister in the October snap elections he called earlier this year.

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⛽️ 🇬🇧 🚗 The UK is now preparing to ration diesel and petrol and could impose a nationwide 50mph speed limit, with government contingency plans now on the table as pump prices hit a record, per the Express.

It comes as UK diesel broke its 2022 record yesterday at 199.11p a litre (£1.99).

The plans include a maximum purchase scheme limiting how much fuel drivers can buy per visit and restricting selling hours, priority filling stations for emergency services, directed bulk deliveries to utilities and public transport, prioritised diesel for food and health supply chains, and government allocation of crude and imported products.

The UK had 42 days of diesel left as of July, the lowest of any developed nation apart from Australia.

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