🇸🇦⚔️🇾🇪 The Royal Saudi Air Force took a page out of the Israeli Air Force's playbook in Lebanon and Iran and carried out a double tap airstrike in the village of Al-Shariyah, Sana'a Governorate killing a number of civilians and first-responders.

The 2nd strike was recorded by the Al Masirah TV station right as first-responders were searching for the injured in the village.

Local sources report 25 civilians and first-responders killed including children and 30 more injured.

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🇺🇸✡️ The Republican Party hundreds of thousand of dollars for Laura Loomer to post on X/Twitter

The right-wing activist Laura Loomer has been paid by private clients to make political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is a business practice of one of the Trump administration’s most influential online firebrands.

The allegations were made by Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and three other people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Two of the three people said they had paid Loomer directly to post political messages on her X account, where she has 1.9 million followers. The third said they had overseen clients who paid her to post on the account. The three spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Bank transaction emails and a wire transfer statement reviewed by The Washington Post appear to show four payments totaling more than $60,000 sent to Loomer and a Florida-based company registered in her name, King Breaker Media, since May of last year.

The documents do not specify the purpose of the payments, but two people familiar with the arrangements said they were for political posts.

Loomer, one of Trump’s best-known online acolytes, denied to The Post that she is paid to post on social media. She instead described herself as a journalist and activist and disputed the idea that she is an influencer paid to promote any political cause.

The new claims about Loomer’s influence business could add fuel to a growing debate about the little-regulated industry of political messaging on social media, where influencers on both sides of the aisle have operated in a legal gray area between advocacy and advertising.

Bruesewitz first posted his allegations on X on Thursday. Many of the details about Loomer’s alleged online influence operation have not been previously reported.

Bruesewitz said in an interview with The Post that he had paid Loomer for tweets last year. He said the money had been sent through his political consulting firm, X Strategies, for posts related to policy issues. He declined to specify what clients.

Despite brokering these deals himself, he believes that they should require clearer disclosures and have “gotten out of hand.”

Loomer disputed Bruesewitz’s account and said that his firm contacted her last year offering to pay her for research.

“He paid me to make a one-page research document for him, and then he wanted me to distribute the information. And that’s what I did,” Loomer said. Asked where she was expected to distribute the research, she said, “Either X or maybe an article.”

Two of the people said that Loomer charges $3,000 to $5,000 per tweet, and sometimes more.

Loomer said she does not have set pricing for consulting work. “I certainly don’t charge $5,000 for a tweet,” she said.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/11/07/trump-ally-laura-loomer-paid-thousands-political-tweets-people-familiar-say/

🇺🇸 President Trump asks UFC CEO Dana White to be the next White House Press Secretary.

Trump also asks Dana White to bring various UFC fighters with him to “defend us against the Lunatic Left.”

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🇮🇱 Israeli President Isaac Herzog announces he will task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government after securing the backing of 67 lawmakers, compared with 46 for Netanyahu. Eisenkot will formally receive the mandate on Sunday at 5 p.m., with 28 days to form a government.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Central Command announces conducting airstrikes against the M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman as it attempted to depart regional waters without CENTCOM's authorization after visiting an Iranian port. Airstrikes were conducted against the stern, disabling the ship.

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👨‍💻 🇺🇸 📈 YouTube is now the most-watched TV distributor in America, and it’s pulling away, per WSJ.

YouTube’s share of all US TV viewing time has climbed to about 14%, up from roughly 9% at the end of 2023, per Nielsen data charted by The Wall Street Journal.

That puts it ahead of every traditional media giant, including Disney, NBCUniversal and Fox, and well ahead of Netflix at about 8%.

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🌐🇺🇦 NATO faces €7B shortfall on military aid pledge to Ukraine

NATO’s 32 member countries agreed in July to provide €70 billion in military aid to Ukraine in 2026 and an equivalent sum in 2027.

But the alliance now faces a shortfall of around €7 billion, with less than two months until the end of the year, according to three alliance diplomats, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak freely. It is unclear where exactly the current gap is coming from, but it is likely to hamper Ukraine’s ability to buy vital equipment to fend off Russian missiles and drones this winter.

The shortfall comes ahead of an alliance meeting on Nov. 17 where European capitals are expected to examine ways to boost funding and increase the transfer of critical weapons to Ukraine. While new NATO funding pledges are still expected, it’s possible that allies may fail to meet this year’s target, the diplomats said.

A NATO official speaking on behalf of the organization said that “allies continue to provide essential military support to Ukraine” to fulfill the pledge and “are working to ensure that Ukraine has the support it needs now and into the future.”
The target combines bilateral contributions throughout the year and €30 billion drawn from the EU’s €90 billion loan to Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has also asked allies to dig deep for more money. “With winter coming, and with Russia’s aggression unrelenting, allies need to do more, especially in support of air defense,” he said during a recent visit to Tallinn.
The missing cash underscores the growing difficulties faced by allied governments in continuing to finance Ukraine. The U.S., once the main giver, has stopped almost all new aid since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

That has left European countries as Ukraine’s key supporters. But many capitals face growing fiscal strains while countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Nordic nations — which have historically provided outsized contributions — have repeatedly called on others to give more.

There is “some fatigue” from the largest donors “[which] have repeatedly financed packages,” the third NATO diplomat said.

NATO’s Ukraine funding is typically channeled toward programs like the alliance’s non-lethal aid scheme, called the Comprehensive Assistance Package, as well as its Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List that has European allies buying critical U.S. weapons like Patriot interceptors for Kyiv. The shortfall includes a $1.9 billion gap in funding for unpaid PURL deliveries, two of the diplomats said.

Separately, allies remain skeptical that they will meet Rutte’s target of $15 billion for PURL this year. “I do not think that there’s a chance we will meet that,” said the same NATO diplomat cited above.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-faces-7b-euro-shortfall-military-aid-pledge-ukraine/

🇮🇹🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 Italy's Meloni says EU "all over the place" on Ukraine as US, Russia talk security

US President Donald Trump has backed a “big, beautiful” European security plan as part of the current drive to bring hostilities in Ukraine to an end, but EU leaders are not convinced. They still fear being sidelined yet again from the process, although this time round the Kremlin has signalled that Europe, but not the EU, will be invited to participate, but “not yet,” according to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov in comments to the press last week.

The multiple formats and forums are "undermining our credibility in handling one of the most complicated issues our nations are facing", the Italian prime minister wrote to European Council President Antonio Costa in a letter seen by Politico and reported on November 5. She asked for the question of how the EU speaks with one voice to go on the agenda of the informal leaders' meeting in Dublin on November 13, saying it "can no longer be postponed". Projecting "the image of a Europe that's all over the place" serves "those who want this war to continue", she wrote.

Disunity in the EU over Russia is old news, but it now costs more, because the talks have moved to the one subject that cannot be settled without Europe. The US, Russia and Ukraine meet on November 10-11 to discuss security arrangements - the make or break of any potenial agreement. Europeans hold much of what such a deal needs - the sanctions, the frozen Russian assets, most of the money and most of the work on guarantees - but they have no agreed negotiator, and their stated terms risk putting them at odds with Washington, Bloomberg reported exclusively on November 6.

European nations, or more specifically, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, want Russia to halt the war before any discussion of the Kremlin's concerns about the continent's security architecture. She also regards President Vladimir Putin's pre-war demands to roll back Nato's presence in Eastern Europe as still unacceptable. However, Putin has said repeatedly that freezing the fight before the "root causes" of the conflict are settled is a non-starter. And that means for both Putin and Zelenskiy a real and "ironclad" security deal - a term introduced by the Russians in the January 2022 talks for a no-Nato deal for Ukraine, and a phrase that Zelenskiy has adopted in the run to next week's meetings.

For Moscow the security deal is the price of stopping. Putin said on October 22 that talks should settle guarantees for Russia and the broader rules of European security, and that the aim was definitive agreements rather than "a suspension of hostilities for some short period", RT reported. "The talks will cover security issues, including security guarantees. These can only be mutual," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on November 3, calling indivisible security "a cornerstone of our position", TASS reported.

Kallas continues to hold the hardest position amongst all EU officials,  She said at a news conference in Warsaw on November 6. "Any agreement that we are not party of, we are not going to implement either," adding that "Putin does not have a veto over European security" and that "we already have European security architecture in place." 

"In short, concessions should be on the aggressor, not on the victim," she said, and any deal must stop Russia "just using a pause to rearm and reattack". Her role, as she described it, is not a broker's. "We are not the mediator. We are firmly on the Ukrainian side," she said, A News reported.

The US is working from the other end, adopting a largely Putin-friendly stance and trying to bring Zelenskiy on board. "Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment," US envoy Jared Kushner wrote on X after what he called a discussion between President Donald Trump and several European leaders.

Bankova has rejected most of the US initatives and allied itself with the Europeans on the order of business. But he is starting to int at some concessions and Zelenskiy has opened the door to discussing Russia's demands - but only once the fighting has ended and Ukraine's own protection is settled. He said in a television interview on November 5 that he wanted that protection spelled out. "What matters is that it's clear on paper," he said, AP reported. "If Russia starts (attacking) again, what will happen? Who will do what, with what means, and when?" Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after meeting Kallas that "there can be no decisions on the security of Ukraine and Europe without Ukraine and Europe", Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Territory is now being talked about more openly on the European side too. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte told Bloomberg on November 5 that a victory for either side was not "very likely". "These kinds of wars always end in a peace deal, which is often a kind of compromise," he said. Finnish President Alexander Stubb warned in March that talks could try to force Kyiv to consider territorial concessions, the Kyiv Post reported. Sybiha said in October that Zelenskiy was ready to discuss "the most difficult and sensitive issues, including the territorial question" with Putin in person.

Moscow has shifted from a flat refusal to a selective opening. In May Peskov said Europe was a party to the conflict and could not mediate. On October 29 Putin said the Nordic call was right, since some in Europe "want to establish some kind of constructive dialogue", and on October 30 Peskov said that "at some stage, yes, the involvement of Europeans will be required", though Abu Dhabi would stay three-way.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/italy-s-meloni-says-eu-all-over-the-place-on-ukraine-as-us-russia-talk-security-482791/