🇺🇸⚡️- Former GOP House Speaker and gay pedophile Dennis Hastert has passed away at age 84.

Hastert was sentenced to 16 months in prison for financial offenses related to sexual relations with underaged boys in 2016.

🇪🇸- Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has called a snap election in response to public protests over housing policy over the last few days.

His Government had also given amnesty to over a million new immigrants before the Moroccan migrant invasion of Ceuta earlier this year caused international outrage to defend Spanish territory and deport the migrants back home.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: A Pakistani national was killed in an Ansarullah drone strike earlier today in central Yemen.

The PLC-backed 1st Brigade Emergency Forces says an alleged Pakistani aid truck was struck by an Ansarullah drone. The vehicle was reportedly driven by a Pakistani national who, for reasons that remain unclear, was operating directly on the front lines in Ma’rib.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has given Israel the green light to strike Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, according to Israeli media.

🇪🇹⚡- The Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, has encountered its first stiff resistance from the Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, in the current phase of the conflict.

For the past 24 hours, ENDF forces have repeatedly attempted to capture Mai Tsebri, Sheraro direction in the northwestern Tigray, without success. The town is strategically vital for the TDF, as the B30 Highway provides the only likely route for a military crossing of the Tekeze River (shown in blue on the map), which currently stands between the ENDF and the Sheraro region.

Map key:
- Green: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Red: Ethiopian National Defense Forces.

🇷🇺⚡- Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have followed Kazakhstan in tightening health checks at their borders in response to the Irkutsk laboratory plague outbreak.

Several regions across Russia have also introduced additional precautions, with Moscow imposing temporary mandatory health checks on all passengers arriving from Irkutsk.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An Iranian projectile struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire in the engine room, UKMTO reports.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- The US military detected 378 drone incursions across the southern border in just 30 days as Mexican cartels increasingly use drones to surveil American forces and facilitate smuggling operations.

The Army is now using the border to test radars, interceptor drones and autonomous weapons against the threat. The military has already shot down 11 cartel drones with lasers since deploying the systems in August.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia’s partners, Turkey and Pakistan, have agreed to provide military assistance under the Mecca Agreement. The nature and scope of the assistance have not been disclosed.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- China's state-backed LOGINK maritime data platform has suffered a major international collapse after years of US pressure aimed at preventing Beijing from gaining access to global shipping data.

Its international partnerships have stalled, its website has gone dark and its Chinese operations hub appears abandoned. Washington had warned that LOGINK could give Beijing visibility into global cargo flows, including potentially sensitive military shipments. Roughly 80% of world trade moves by sea, making the unraveling of LOGINK a significant loss for China’s ambitions to shape the systems behind global maritime trade.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah, speaking from Mocha, southwestern Yemen, confirms that PLC forces have not entered the city and that it remains under Ansarullah control, contrary to false reports by PLC-aligned media.

🇹🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A note indicating the presence of explosives was discovered on AJET 4180, a passenger flight en route from Ankara to Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The aircraft has landed at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport, where all 136 passengers and seven crew members have been evacuated.

Security units are currently searching the aircraft for potential explosives.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are always open to direct talks with Iran." - President Donald Trump.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Three Saudi military personnel have died along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border in the past 24 hours.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Multiple Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡- A US MH-60R Seahawk was squawking in the emergency transponder before losing all altitude and likely crashing in the Red Sea. The incident occurred just off the coast of Yanbu.