🌍Global Intel🌏

🇮🇹⚡️- Italian Prime Minister Georgia Melonia is moving forward with a plan to ban niqabs and burqas and limit the amount of foreign students in classes.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- Donald Trump is set to meet Emmanuel Macron today.

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, should secure a record 355 seats at the Duma with 57.8% of votes at 90.5% votes counted.

Rerum Novarum will be making a very exciting announcement tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!

🇻🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has signed an oil and gas trade agreement with France's TotalEnergies. The content of the deal has not yet been disclosed.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- The Kapotnya refinery seems to have sustained heavy damage across multiple direct hits. No information regarding its operations has been published by the local authorities as of yet. An AVT-6 distillation unit is reported to have been completely destroyed in an explosion.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- "Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine." - Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on Twitter, with the attached video of successful drone hits in Russia.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- At least 186 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight around Moscow according to local authorities. An oil refinery in Moscow's region was hit alongside several other sites.

🇺🇸🏳️⚡️ — Republican Senator Ted Cruz held a “productive meeting” with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi in Washington on Friday, where the two discussed strengthening ties between Washington and Somaliland. Cruz described Somaliland as a reliable U.S. partner in counterterrorism and protecting shipping around the Horn of Africa and reiterated his support for formal U.S. recognition of Somaliland’s sovereignty.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has returned to the White House after an overnight stay at Camp David, where he reportedly looked over strike options in Yemen, according to CNN. American Embassies in the Middle East issued security alerts today due to the possibility of retaliatory strikes against them.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump will now return to the White House tonight instead of tomorrow night.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: "There is a possibility of an escalation in the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis." - U.S. State Department.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- BREAKING: US military personnel are crewing aboard US-contracted oil tankers to assist their passage through the Strait of Hormuz via the southern Omani route. One US-contracted tanker was struck by multiple Iranian projectiles earlier this week, resulting in injuries to several US personnel on board. The wounded were subsequently evacuated to a Gulf Arab state for medical treatment. It currently remains unknown whether the US is providing similar assistance to non-US-contracted ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Confirmation of Ansarullah downing a Saudi F-15 over central Yemen earlier today.

🇫🇷⚡️- French intelligence services are now assessing there is a real "risk" of Yellow Vests reappearing in France. Calls to reignite the popular protests have been numerous over the years, but rarely to such an extent. Protests have been planned for the 17th October, with no estimates on the amount of protesterd yet.

🇪🇺⚡️- Ursula von der Leyen, Leader of the European Commission, held a speech today highlighting the next step for the European Union. Rerum Novarum has prepared a brief summary on its key points. Various economical reforms are planned internally, notably for the industrial and energy sectors, in order to help the EU become less reliant on "outside actors and events". The EU will seek ways to better control its energy production and use to reduce imports. Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed Europe's commitment to fighting climate change and vowed to lay the groundwork for a continental-wide plan to fight heatwaves. The EU will not drop the AI race and will keep funding its own programs while also doubling down on security regarding AI risks. Plans have officially been announced to create a European Security Council, which would be the spearhead of a unified, or at least more cooperative, European military policy. This council will have seats offered to non-EU members such as the UK or Canada. The EU will keep funding Ukraine's effort and will move forward with new, harsher, sanctions on Russia. There are no plans to discard EU humanitarian aids to Gaza. An urgent plan will be deployed to further fix the EU's mass immigration problem. Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed her support to Spain following the Ceuta's mass immigration wave from this summer. This emergency plan will "allow certain standard procedures to be bypassed". A ban on social medias for kids under 13 is also in the works. It would be applied to all EU members. This plan will be named the Kids Act and will be presented tomorrow. Details regarding these reforms will be provided by the European Commission and European leaders in the coming weeks. According to numerous political forces, including Ursula von der Leyen herself, these next reforms are "do or die" as the European Union has faced exponentially increasing pressures for the past decades, both internally and externally.

🇪🇷🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- "The UAE is pursuing port imperialism across Africa. The UAE has port facilities everywhere in the region, and African countries have to ask why. Is it just for economics? No. We didn’t want [UAE's] DP World [in Eritrea]. We do not want any foreign power to have a hub in Eritrea. We have to ask why Israel is running to control the Horn of Africa? Why do they need a base in Somaliland? The UAE and Israel have already converged on Somaliland. [Ethiopian Prime Minister] Abiy Ahmed has a two-waters strategy like Israel. Only for him it is from the Nile River to the Red Sea [referring to Israel's expansionist policies from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River]. We decided we didn’t want their [Israeli] embassy here. We are not antagonistic to Israel, but we just decided we didn’t want any relations," - Osman Saleh, Eritrea's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Note, UAE's DP World and AD Ports have stakes in ports in Egypt, Tanzania, Somaliland, and Puntland.

🇾🇪🇪🇷 - In 2016, the UAE established a military base at Eritrea's Assab Airport (at 13.07976, 42.6385). The base was used to launch its Yemeni Southern Transitional Council project, which began on the Island of Socotra, and was used to attack Ansarullah positions within the Aden-Ta'izz-Ad Dali triangle. Later that year, Abu Dhabi requested a second 'secret' base on Eritrea's Dahlak Island, right in the middle of the Red Sea. The exact location of the base was supposed to be here: 15.75158, 39.97345. Asmara rejected the request, and its Foreign Ministry would several years later admit the UAE planned to use the 'secret' base with Israel to effectively control one of the world's most important waterways. Which indicates the UAE and Israel had strong relations well over four years before the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020. Ironically, just a year later, the UAE would begin the construction of a 'secret' military base with the assistance of Tareq Salah's forces on Yemen's Mayun Island (at 12.66661, 43.40925). The location of the base was vital, sitting right at the mouth of the Red Sea. Tareq Saleh, commander of the National Resistance Forces, was propped up by the Emirati state for one reason only, to combat al-Islah Party's influence in the Ta'izz region (which at the time, the rest of the Arab Gulf countries believed were backed by Qatar). It has long been believed that Israel had access to the Mayun Airbase, and were present at times on the island as well. Relations between Eritrea and the UAE have since cooled considerably. Asmara revoked Emirati access to its military infrastructure and later joined Sudan in suspending agreements involving UAE's port giant DP World. Years later, Abiy Ahmed would win the elections in Ethiopia, and, backed by the UAE and Israel, eyes the Assab region as Addis Ababa's gateway to the Red Sea.

🇾🇪⚡- Pro-Ansarullah tribes in the Ma'rib region have agreed to assist the al-Houthi forces in capturing Ma'rib city. The discussions lasted 24 hours in a tribal gathering that ended earlier this morning. Pro-Ansarullah tribal coalitions Bani Jabr and Bani Hashish have begun large-scale mobilization in the Ma'rib direction.