South Bloc Reports

Extreme poverty has declined sharply Share of population living below $3/day, (2021 PPP prices) 2015 → 2023 🇮🇳 India: 27.1% → 2.6% 🇨🇳 China: 2.9% → 0% 🇺🇸 U.S.: 1.2% → 1.2% 🇯🇵 Japan: 0.4% → 1.2% 🇬🇧 UK: 0.3% → 0.4% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.1% → 0.7% 🇫🇷 France: 0.1% → 0.1% 🌍 World: 13.4% → 10.5% 🇮🇳 India recorded the biggest decline among the countries listed: 24.5 percentage points. India’s earlier figure is for 2011; other earlier figures are for 2015. Latest available years vary by country. (World Bank) Follow: @SouthBlocReports

The sad reality of our generation is that: Improving one’s intellectual and academic capabilities, pursuing research and striving for knowledge are often portrayed as negative traits. Meanwhile, flaunting alcohol, pubs, money, automobiles and a luxurious lifestyle is increasingly showcased as a positive trend. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇱⚡SBR will be reporting the voting and elections updates once the entire voting is over around 11:30 p.m. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇱⚡SBR will be reporting the voting and elections updates once the entire voting is over around 11:30 p.m. Dollow

🇺🇸⚡America’s fertility rate has fallen 27% since 1990, dropping from 2.08 to 1.50 births per woman. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

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🇮🇱⚡Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates. She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range. The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡ U.S. conducted a strike against a vehicle driving on the Homs-Hassia road, Syria around 6 hours ago. The strike was conducted with an AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile, Hellfire R9X missiles are exclusively operated globally by the CIA and U.S. Special Operations Command forces. It was likely carried out with a MQ-9A Reaper UCAV. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡ Houthi (Ansarallah) ballistic missile attack on the al-Alam training camp in Yemen’s Shabwah province on October 19 killed at least 75 people and wounded more than 200, including Saudi Troops. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳⚡The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on October 26, accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) i.e. in-principle administrative to various capital acquisition proposals of the Defence Forces at an estimated cost of about Rs 2,12,000 crore. For the Indian Army, approval was accorded for the procurement of: High Mobility Vehicles Self-Propelled Tracked Gun System Gun Shot Response System Light Multi Role Helicopters Very Short-Range Air Defence System Platform Based Counter Unmanned Aerial System Unmanned Aerial System Brick Long Range, Surveillance UAV, Integrated Surveillance Strike System Long Range Kamikaze Drone System. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳⚡​Total Traced: 12,126 ​Total Untraced: 4,271 Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇧🇷⚡Brazilian Army Command and General Staff School is scheduled to visit BrahMos Aerospace, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Tata Advanced Systems facilities in their 14-day visit to India. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇧🇷⚡3 Reasons on why Indians must support Centre-Left Lula da Silva in Brazil instead of Right-Wing Candidate Flavio Bolsonaro: 1. Lula is the champion of BRICS in the western hemisphere. Flávio Bolsonaro openly stated he would reassess Brazil’s membership in the BRICS grouping. 2. Under Lula's leadership, Brazil continues to collaborate closely with India, Japan, and Germany the G4 alliance to push for permanent seats on the UN Security Council. Having Bolsonaro in power would bring huge obstacles for India's permanent seat on UNSC. 3. Bolsonaro administration actively challenged India at the World Trade Organisation over India’s domestic sugar subsidies, which protect millions of Indian farmers. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡U.S. Army has released new operational guidelines in response to China's military expansion, stating that it will begin operations "on the first day of the conflict" to seize battlefield dominance. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

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🇮🇱⚡Only a day left for the elections.. Still no winner and no loser Netanyahu can continue as the care-taker Prime Minister.

🇵🇰🇹🇷🇮🇷 - Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, including Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, will visit Tehran for a joint meeting. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

Right Wing leaders defeated at the recent polls: 🇨🇦 Pierre Poilievre: Apr 28, 2025 🇦🇺 Peter Dutton: May 3, 2025 🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán: Apr 12, 2026 10/25/2026 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Vučić 🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳⚡Nowadays, wars are not fought only with weapons. If you want to weaken a country, this can also be done by attacking its economy. And when India is becoming economically strong, we also need to protect our banking system from cyber thieves and cyber terrorists: PM Narendra Modi Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇱⚡Two days to Israel’s first election since Oct 7, Polls show neither Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition with a clear path to 61. Follow: @SouthBlocReports