🇮🇷🇫🇷⚡️- Iran has summoned the French Ambassador to Tehran over the “violent crackdown and flagrant violations of human rights” during the ongoing student protests in Paris.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- "What is happening in France is nothing less than mass migration out of control. This is not about schools; it is about Islam trying to take control of a once-great country!" - President Donald Trump regarding the riots in France.

🇫🇷⚡️- Riots in France have barely cooled down in the past two days as over 400 high schools or teaching establishments were disturbed or outright closed. Emmanuel Macron will gather an emergency meeting tonight at the Elysée with multiple ministers.

🇫🇷⚡️- Between 50,000 and 100,000 protesters marched in Paris today in an effort to rally other causes to the movement. From images and several declarations, this initiative has failed as only youths of African descent, syndicalists and far-left immigrationnists from LFI gathered during the march.

🇫🇷⚡️- Before returning to Paris to finally address the riots, French president Emmanuel Macron oversaw the successful test launch of the new M51.3 nuclear-capable ballistic missile.

🇨🇦⚡️- During yesterday's Québec general elections, the ruling center-right party CAQ collapsed following the surge of independentists, liberals and right-wing forces.

PQ (right-wing independentists): 28% (+13.4)
PLQ (center-left liberals): 24.2% (+9.8)
PCQ (right-wing populists): 20.7% (+7.8)
CAQ (center-right federalists): 13.4% (-27.6)
QS (radical left): 12.4% (-3)
Others: 1.3%

+/- 2022

🇨🇦⚡️- "Québec deserves to be a country" - Independentist and PQ party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon during his victory speech.

🇷🇺🇪🇪🇱🇻⚡️- "According to a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the court has established a fact of legal significance: Baltic nationalists have been recognized as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. [...] Since the early 1990s, the authorities of the modern Baltic states have been pursuing a deliberate state policy of distorting the USSR's role in the Great Patriotic War and its victory over fascism. Collaborators associated with Nazi criminals and their organizations are being glorified. [...] Countering these destructive factors is fundamental to preserving historical memory, preventing the falsification of history, and protecting the national interests of the Russian Federation." - Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in an official statement.

🇾🇪⚡️- Visual confirmation that Ansarullah has taken control of Al-Mawasit District in Ta'izz Governorate, south of Ta'izz city.

🇷🇺🇫🇮⚡️- "Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West. Last week it emerged that some 20 Finnish MPs had reported mysterious break-ins at their homes, with one politician finding feces left behind in his lavatory." - The Telegraph in an article describing a new phase of the Russian "operational psychology" strategy.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- The US Embassy in Moscow has issued a health alert over the pneumonic plague 'outbreak' from the Irkutsk biolab.

🇷🇺⚡- The 60+ staff from the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk, Russia, have been released after a three-day quarantine, with all testing negative on twice-daily swabs.

Russian local outlet, The People of Baikal, reports normal work resumed at the biolab.

🇺🇸⚡️- The bar being sued by Lucy Craig in the Cornell 7 incident is claiming that Craig never drank at their establishment.

🇺🇸⚡️- “The execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will take place at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, December 3rd, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT.” - Acting Secretary of the Army Adam R. Telle.

🇺🇸⚡️- The execution of Nidal Hassan will be the first time the US military has performed an execution since 1961, when Private First Class John Bennett was hanged for rape and attempted murder while stationed in Austria.

This will also be the first time a firing squad has been used since the execution of Private Eddie Slovik in 1945 for desertion.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Three years ago today, Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, alongside other aligned Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organizations in the Gaza Strip, launched a military infiltration and attack on the Israel, codenamed "Operation al-Aqsa Flood." The subsequent Israeli reprisal and response resulted in the still-ongoing and largely unresolved Gaza war, which has resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe and genocide of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Beyond the conflict specifically confined to Gaza and the surrounding envelope, the October 7th attack and Israel's regional response to the attack has permanently changed the Middle East.

The occurrence of October 7th has directly or indirectly precipitated the collapse of Israel's normalization of relations with multiple Arab states (most notably Saudi Arabia), the two wars fought in Lebanon against Hezbollah and other aligned militias in 2024 and 2026, the collapse and overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, the destabilization of freedom of navigation in the Red Sea at the hands of Ansarullah, three separate open confrontations with Iran in April 2024, October 2024, and June 2025, as well as - most notably - the ongoing Third Gulf War involving the United States and the entire Middle East itself.

As we have deeply covered over the last three years, the Middle East has been permanently and irrevocably changed. And, unfortunate as it is, the region will continue to destabilize and grow more and more unpredictable as the war drags on.

The beginning of Rerum Novarum's coverage of the October 7th attacks can be found here.

🇸🇾🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Syria is discussing joining the war against Ansarullah in Yemen, multiple sources tell Asharq News.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Saudi Arabia today.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- To commemorate the October 7th attack, the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel published an AI video addressing the "Israel commits genocide" discourse using LEGO characters on their official X account.