📢 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Quebec’s premier-elect is moving to ban the King’s representative from his government's swearing in ceremony - refuses to take oath to the King.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he is seeking legal advice so the lieutenant-governor does not take part in the swearing-in of MNAs.

He refuses the oath to the King, calling it a lie as his first act in the legislature.

“There is something abnormal about a foreign king coming to tell us what to do,” he said.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20261006-quebec-s-incoming-separatist-leader-wants-to-block-crown-from-swearing-in

📎 Tablesalt

📊 🇸🇪 🚷 Sweden’s Institute for Remigration (IFR) has developed a rather striking mathematical model projecting where and when migrants could outnumber native populations across Europe.

If current trends continue, Switzerland would be the first country on the list, followed by Belgium, Germany and Austria. Between 2050 and 2060, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ireland could also lose their native majorities.

The project’s authors stress that this is only a forecast — although, in their view, it is based on fairly substantial grounds.

https://demography-dashboard.eu/en/intro

📎 NEXTA

📊 🇸🇪 🚷 Sweden is only 63% Swedish.

Sweden dropped from 96.5% Swedish in 1950 to 63.8% Swedish in 2026.

In 20 years Swedes will be minority.

📎 swenstone

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — NEW: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation says Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh were struck in separate Houthi (Ansarallah) attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday.

At Abha Airport, two women of Moroccan and Algerian nationality were killed and 28 people were injured, including Saudi citizens and Bangladeshi and Filipino residents.

At King Khalid Airport, a Sudanese resident was killed, and eight others were injured, including five Saudis, two Egyptians, and one Pakistani.

GACA said both attacks caused "some property damage." Authorities are assessing the damage and safety of the airport facilities.

🌀 🇺🇸 📍 Las Vegas is officially in the cone ahead of Hurricane Rachel

📎 Bryce Shelton

🌀 🇺🇸 📍 Chicago is officially in the cone ahead of Hurricane Isaias

📎 Bryce Shelton

🗳 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The White House has asked the Pentagon to develop strike options against Iranian targets that could be exercised ahead of the midterms, according to two administration officials. -The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/10/trump-iran-strike-midterms/688910/

https://archive.ph/5Em1d

📎 Faytuks News

🇪🇹 🇪🇷 🇪🇹 Several credible reports (including AFP and DW) confirm that Eritrean forces are not only inside Ethiopia but also expanding in northern and central Tigray, digging trenches and more.

In its attempt to create strategic depth in Ethiopia, the Eritrean government is making Ethio-Eritrea war a self-fulfilling prophecy.

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2026/10/war-has-returned-tigray-time-it-may-not-stay-ethiopia

📎 Abel Abate Demissie

🇰🇷❌🇺🇦 South Korea recalled its ambassador from Ukraine after Kiev failed to issue the requested apology to the South Korean government.

The ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated however that it will keep a door open so that Kiev and Seoul may resolve this dispute in the future.

Recall that Ukraine violated a confidentiality agreement with South Korea over the repatriation of two DPRK prisoners, refused to take accountability and called the ROK ambassador a liar by denying they even signed such an agreement and refused to apologise for everything.

🔗 https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20261008180000504?section=politics/all&site=topnews02

🇫🇷🇩🇪⛽️ France and Germany say diesel promise to Trump won’t require new stock release

The G7 pledge to release a further 100 million barrels of crude oil and fuel stocks to temper rising gas prices is being reframed by Paris and Berlin as part of a previous commitment made under the IEA back in March at the outset of the 3rd Gulf War when all IEA members pledged to release 400 million barrels of crude oil and fuel.

That 400 million barrel release commitment has still not been fulfilled as IEA member states are continuing releasing barrels of crude oil and fuel.

As many have noticed at the pump, those releases had virtually no effect on gas prices.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/france-and-germany-say-diesel-promise-to-trump-wont-require-new-stock-release/