🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Two hours ago, Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen announced the Royal Saudi Naval Forces conducted an operation against al-Hudaydah Governorate, Ansarallah-controlled western Yemen.

Saudi-led coalition claims a ballistic missile launcher, storage sites containing USVs and 20 ballistic missiles, and naval mines were struck. Saudi-led coalition claims this attack thwarted an imminent Ansarallah attack towards the Red Sea, presumably to target Saudi naval interests.

🗳 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Canada (Quebec), provincial election results:

15,006/20,704 polls reporting

PQ (regionalist): 28.4%
PLQ (centre-right): 23.7%
PCQ (conservative): 21.5%
CAQ (conservative): 13.5%
QS (left|regionalist): 11.5%

📎 America Elects

🗳 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Separatists have won provincial elections in Quebec, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after Trump leaves office.

The vote is a test for Prime Minister Mark Carney's message of national unity

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20261005-quebec-votes-as-separatist-surge-poses-test-for-canada-pm

📎 AFP News Agency

🇬🇧❌🇮🇱 UK threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate is shuttered

Britain has warned Israel that it could expel 27 Israeli diplomats from the embassy in London if Israel follows through on its decision to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem, where 27 British diplomats work, according to an unsourced Ynet report on Monday.

British Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters has conveyed the message to Israeli officials, the report said, with London threatening to expel one Israeli diplomat for each British diplomat whose work at the consulate is terminated.

The threat would be the latest escalation in badly strained ties between Jerusalem and London. Last month, the United Kingdom announced sweeping measures targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, prompting Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to announce a series of countermeasures, including the closure of the East Jerusalem consulate within 30 days — a deadline set to take effect this Thursday.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-threatens-to-expel-27-israeli-diplomats-if-jerusalem-consulate-is-shuttered-report/

🇸🇪🗳 Migrants from Africa have learned how to win elections in Sweden

The results of the recent parliamentary elections in Sweden are being questioned. Numerous complaints have emerged alleging widespread fraud.

Incidents in the Stockholm district of Järva and in the Norrbotten region in northern Sweden have caused particular concern. In Järva, a candidate from the Left Party, Ilyas Hassan, was at the center of a scandal due to an abnormal surge in votes at his polling stations.

According to journalists from Svenska Dagbladet, pre-filled ballots were handed out to voters at the entrance to polling stations in Järva, with a checkmark next to Hassan's name.

A preliminary investigation has been launched on charges of "improper influence during voting" and "improper receipt of compensation during voting." The Left Party and Hassan himself deny the allegations, calling them "politically motivated."

Right-wing forces accuse the Left Party of practicing "clan voting" in areas with migrant populations and of treating voters as "voting cattle." This is because migrants, when moving to Sweden, continue to live in close-knit communities.

There are suspicions that the Left Party has found a way to win over tribal leaders, who in turn began supplying them with groups of voters in exchange for future benefits – government subsidies, premises, positions, or other privileges.

"There is nothing good for ordinary Swedes – this means that their country is gradually slipping away from them. Now, migrants have become the most important trump card in the electoral competition, and tomorrow they will come to power directly. Tomorrow's Sweden will be completely different," said political scientist Maxim Reva.

🔗 https://vz.ru/world/2026/10/5/1458772.html

🇪🇺 Von der Leyen warns against EU budget cuts

Commission president dismissed Germany’s calls for big savings, arguing that they would undermine EU-wide priorities.

During a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, von der Leyen said that reducing the size of the EU’s common cash pot would undermine critical EU-wide priorities such as competitiveness and energy autonomy.

“I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” von der Leyen told MEPs.

The warning comes days before the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the budget talks, is expected to put forward a budget negotiating document with new figures.

Germany and its allies in Northern Europe have pressured Dublin to make cuts worth hundreds of billions of euros across the board.

But 17 EU countries from Southern and Eastern Europe — led by Italy and Romania — are pushing in the opposite direction. They asked to preserve farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts, known as cohesion policy, in a joint letter last week.

📝: The war in Ukraine, the push for decarbonisation and the EU's ambition to become a player in the AI race, an endeavour which requires a whole lot of polluting industry, have taken a toll on the Union's budget.

To be able to afford all of these and the programs which generated support for the EU inside and outside of the Union such as the EU's agricultural subsidies and cohesion funds, Brussels will need to increase or introduce new taxes which will harm its prospects for regaining competitivity and prove it is the "global power" it claims to be.

The group of fiscal conservative states led by Germany who pay more to Brussels than they receive in return would prefer to cut the budgets made for agriculture and social cohesion from which states in Eastern and Southern Europe benefit the most and those funds being the engine driving up support for EU membership in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus. Without those funds, EU support in Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey would collapse overnight and anti-EU movements will spring up and gain immense traction across much of Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, countries that have been hollowed out by the industrial economies of Western Europe.

If Germany, The Netherlands, France, Austria and Scandinavia aren't willing to continue spending money on Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, then there's no reason for those countries to stay united.

So which will it be?

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-warns-against-eu-budget-cuts/