🇫🇷⚡️- Most of the cities in France report some form of civil unrest, much like last Saturday. However, the early police response, for now, is magnitudes above last week in terms of efficiency.

🇫🇷⚡️- An unsuccessful attempt from rioters to breach a police barrage in Montpellier.

🇫🇷⚡️- Urban violence reported in Tours, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg, Caen, Brest.

🇫🇷⚡️- White nationalist groups have been reported to be active in Nancy, Brest, Caen and Lille as well.

🇫🇷⚡️- Video of the French police retaking a street in Paris.

It has rained throughout most of France for the entire day. The streets are wet and slippery in most cities, making police and rioter charges much more complicated in certain areas.

🇫🇷⚡️- The manager of a grocery retail group drew out a gun in Grenobles to prevent the looting of the store.

🇬🇧🇦🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel denied a report on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered diplomats to back Argentina’s calls for talks over the Falkland Islands in retaliation for British sanctions on West Bank settlements," - i24 News.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Elon Musk has spent nearly half a billion dollars on the U.S. midterm election, according to reporting by Bloomberg.

🇱🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Ankara negotiations between Libya’s western and eastern authorities have failed, sources revealed.

Both sides, led by Abd al-Salam al-Zubi representing the Government of National Unity and Saddam Haftar representing the eastern camp, left Turkey without reaching an agreement on several key issues," - The Libya Observer.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Ukrainian forces have struck two major Russian military-industrial facilities, targeting the Proton-Electrotex electronics plant in Oryol and the Tolyattikauchuk petrochemical plant in Togliatti.

Proton-Electrotex manufactures components for Iskander-M ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and Pantsir air-defense systems, while Tolyattikauchuk produces synthetic rubber used in solid rocket propellant. Ukraine also reports striking a Russian aircraft at the Yeysk military airfield, although the extent of the damage remains unclear.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- A U.S. LUCAS one-way drone was shot down over Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇩🇿🇳🇪🇱🇾⚡- BREAKING: Algeria’s parliament has unanimously approved the forward deployment of Algerian military forces into Niger.

The deployment expands on Algeria’s existing military presence at Air Base 101 at Niamey International Airport, established following the attempted coup on 29 August. Algerian forces are now set to deploy to key oil infrastructure sites across Niger, but more importantly to the Madama Air Base (at 21.9554711, 13.6470986), a strategically significant installation in the country’s northeast.

Once a vocal opponent of the Sahelian junta bloc, Algeria appears to have softened its stance toward Mali and Burkina Faso, while openly backing the authorities in Niamey, which included the sale of military helicopters just a few month ago.

Algiers’ shift is understood to be driven by the growing influence of Saddam Haftar and eastern Libyan factions, which Niamey accuses of supporting Tuareg separatists in northeast Niger as well as the anti-junta Patriotic Liberation Front, FPL. Certain sections of the Nigerien junta have accused the FPL of orchestrating the August 29 attacks.

Algeria has long opposed the Haftar warlords, and the deployment to Madama Air Base places Algerian forces directly on the doorstep of FPL areas of operation in northeastern Niger, while also positioning them close to the Libyan border, particularly Fezzan, a region controlled by the remnants of the infamous 128th Brigade of Haftar's Libyan National Army.

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🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- A Qatari delegation has arrived in Tehran, Iran.

🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- Protests in Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, turned violent over the past 24 hours, with demonstrators setting fire to an NHPC office and a police headquarters.

The unrest was triggered by New Delhi’s decision to move forward with the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project, SUMP, a 11,200 MW hydroelectric project that has faced strong opposition from local groups since 2009. Protestors are demanding the release of detained activists and the withdrawal of Indian security personnel from the area.

China, which claims the entirety of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its southern Tibet territory, has also strongly condemned the project.

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- President Trump makes yet another geopolitically ignorant statement and assumes the Taiwan file's importance is simply its chip industry:

"Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business."

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding a strike on Iran before Tuesday’s elections but is currently being refused by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Zamir is demanding evidence and justification for resuming the war with Iran. This is an unprecedented dispute, according to Channel 13.