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In the UK, Pakistani Labour MP Tahir Ali has been formally warned by the party’s Chief Whip after explicitly asking in Parliament, “Is it not about time that military action was taken against Israel as well?” He reinforced the position the following day in a social-media post calling for Britain to “consider equivalent action,” before deleting it and issuing a cringe apology by blatantly lying: “In Parliament on Monday, I wrongly gave the impression that I support the use of military force against Israel. Those are not my views.”

🚨 BREAKING | RUSSIA STRIKES UKRAINE 🇷🇺 Russia launched a major overnight missile & drone attack on Ukraine on Sept 16–17, targeting areas including Kyiv, Odesa & Zaporizhzhia. 🇺🇦 Ukraine says 157 drones and multiple missiles were launched, with most aerial targets intercepted or suppressed. #Russia #Ukraine #BreakingNews #UkraineWar @geosight

🇪🇺🤖💸 Europe’s Auto Industry Is Taking Its Economy Down With It Volkswagen has agreed to eliminate 100,000 jobs in total. Four German plants face uncertain futures, and the group can build roughly 500,000 more vehicles than it sells. Europe’s largest carmaker is shrinking on a scale it has never attempted in 89 years. The rest of the industry looks little healthier. European vehicle production has fallen 20–25% since its 2017 peak. Supplier ZF plans to cut up to 14,000 German jobs. BMW’s operating profit is at its lowest since the pandemic. Mercedes-Benz, Renault and Stellantis are all cutting costs. That weakness does not stay inside the car companies. The sector accounts for around €1T of GDP and supports 13M jobs. A vehicle plant buys steel, glass, plastics, chemicals, chips, machinery and transport services. Its workers support shops, restaurants and local housing markets. Its profits fund research, investment and tax revenue. Germany feels each lost shift all the way down the supply chain. The factory orders fewer gearboxes and seats. The foundry casts fewer parts. The toolmaker loses a contract, the railway carries fewer finished cars and the town collects less tax. Spread that across several manufacturers and industrial output, exports and household spending all take a hit. Europe has made the squeeze worse with its own costs. Electricity for energy-intensive industry in the EU averaged more than twice the US level and over 50% above China’s in 2025. That lands heavily on the foundries, glassworks, metal processors and chemical plants supplying each vehicle. The shift to electric cars was also badly timed. Manufacturers had to keep spending on combustion models while pouring billions into batteries and new platforms. Charging networks and purchase incentives developed unevenly, and many buyers found the new cars too expensive. Factories built for higher volumes were left underused. Chinese competition has exposed these problems. Chinese brands now hold more than 9% of the EU market, while US tariffs squeeze European exports from the other side. Import duties may buy local manufacturers time, but they cannot fill an idle plant or make its next car affordable. An empty Volkswagen production line means less work at the foundry, the glass plant, the toolmaker, the freight depot and the dealership. Multiply that across Europe, and a crisis in carmaking becomes a crisis for the economy built around it. @NewRulesGeo❗Follow us on X

Netanyahu on Iran: The desire to destroy the State of Israel by Iran and its proxies has not disappeared. It has simply weakened. The ability to carry this out has essentially been severely damaged. We have done our duty, but there is still more work to complete, and we will complete it. We will eliminate Hamas. We will also first defeat the regime in Iran. We will bring it down; it will fall. We will also deal with Hezbollah, and it too will fall.

‼️🇺🇸🇵🇰⚡️🇮🇳| U.S. drone firm Powerus has signed a MoU with the Pakistan Army that includes an initial drone-related order, co-founder Brett Velicovich told Reuters

Trump: I'm a high IQ person.

🚨🇷🇺🇪🇺 Russia’s representative Yulia Zhdanova claimed that NATO plans to escalate its confrontation with Russia into a “hot phase” by 2029–2030. She linked European infrastructure upgrades, military mobility and a “military Schengen” to preparations for a long-term confrontation with Russia. NATO, however, publicly describes its preparations as aimed at deterrence and defence, with officials warning that Russia could potentially be capable of attacking NATO territory within several years.

US House passes a Russia sanctions bill giving Donald Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the top five buyers of Russian oil or gas, including India and China. The bill passed 262–159 and now goes to Trump’s desk for signature

‼️🇺🇸| U.S. Federal Reserve raises rates by 25 BPS for the first time in years as inflation continues to surge, and expects one more 25 BPS hike later this year.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 Houthi published images and video of the downed Saudi Arabian F15 fighter jet in Marib province.

JD Vance to voters:

Give us another chance, or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years.

Netanyahu:

We will revoke the citizenship of those who defame IDF soldiers, and we will hit them financially.

Anthropic CEO Amodei's handpicked AI watchdog has deep ties to woke Effective Altruism movement — It’s a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronoun and promote “Effective Altruism,” that believe all the world’s problems can be solved with tech - NY Post

😌🤪 Remember Pokémon Go? For nine years it got kids and parents outside, phones in hand, chasing creatures on real streets. Players filmed streets, parks, and yards – about 30 billion scans were collected through the game. What players didn't know was where that data would end up. ➡️ @geopolitics_prime traced the chain. The scans helped train a system that finds a location from what a camera sees when GPS fails. Drones can use exactly that kind of navigation. In 2025 the game was sold. The mapping tech stayed — and was handed to a US defense contractor working on Ukraine's drone program. 👉 Read the full breakdown here

🚨 BREAKING 🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi Ministry of Defense says the F-15 shot down by the Houthis was carrying pilgrims heading to the Holy Kaaba.

‼️🇨🇦🇪🇺| European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she wants Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member.” Speaking during her annual State of the Union address, attended by Canadian PM Carney, von der Leyen said: “I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the EU.”

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷| The U.S. Navy is considering buying warships from Japan and South Korea to quickly expand its fleet and counter China’s naval buildup.

Options include Japan’s Mogami-class frigates and South Korean-built vessels as Washington works to rebuild its own shipbuilding capacity. Source: Nikkei Asia

‼️🇸🇦🇺🇸🇾🇪| Houthis told US officials in an Oman meeting that they won't attack American vessels, Israeli ships, or commercial vessels — only Saudi ones. This is a notable shift. Since after the May 2025 ceasefire the Houthis explicitly excluded Israel and kept targeting Israeli-linked shipping. The meeting included sanctioned Houthi official Mohammad Abdulsalam and Abdelmalik al-Ajri. Source: Reuters

🚨 UPDATE 🇬🇧🇸🇦🇾🇪 UK to send military advisers to Saudi Arabia amid intensified Houthi attacks. Saudi Arabia sought UK help after Trump rejected a request for US strikes. London is considering further support, including offensive operations. Houthi attacks forced the closure of Jeddah airport, while Iraq-based proxies shut the East-West oil pipeline, affecting 4% of global oil supply.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says “the world is right to be afraid” of AI dangers.