🇾🇪⚡️🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Following a week of heavy fighting in the Al Mazaq area Ansarullah managed to advance south of Al Qashimiyah into the Jabal Aghbar slopes as well as capturing the villages of Al Ghawl and Jabal al- Ayli.

➡️ To the east Houthi forces are advancing towards Al Qurayf where they have reached Ad Damdam along with capturing various small hamlets and villages along the way including Al Turayrah and Jabal Naman.

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⚡️🇨🇩🦠 – The Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo continues to spread, with over 8,067 cases reported so far and 3,901 fatalities, a terrible death rate of over 48%

The World Health Organization warned the crisis is "far from over," and the outbreak is still expected to surpass the deadliest in African history, while the U.S. announced $267 million in aid to help meet a $2 billion international funding target.

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❗️🇺🇸🇬🇧 - British police reported that no bombs were found in U.K. air base scare, only gasoline, two days after the incident.

Senior U.S. and Western officials nevertheless claim the five suspects were low-level, perhaps unwitting operatives tied to broader Iranian plans involving possible attacks against American military bases across Europe.

The Iranian Embassy in Britain dismissed any suggestion that its government was involved in any possible attack on the British base.

The men were freed on bail on Monday.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇶 – The U.S. has officially completed its withdrawal from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission.

All forces retreated to Turkey or Jordan.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸 – According to an unofficial diplomatic message seen by Reuters, the Kremlin warned NATO that isolating the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, between Poland and Lithuania, could provoke a nuclear response against the "hotheads in Europe".

The warning comes as three Russian embassies in Europe warn that NATO is escalating tensions with military drills that involve planning against Russian attacks from Kaliningrad.

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⚡️🇨🇦🇪🇺 – Canada and the EU will announce an "expansive new partnership" at the end of October during a summit in Montreal, according to a draft joint statement obtained by POLITICO.

The partnership is expected to range from "breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires", as well as strengthening supply chains and stockpiling critical resources, among others.

Both Ottawa and Brussels have drawn closer as they deal with a hostile White House, as they intend to create what Ursula von der Leyen called "a tech alliance".

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🇮🇱📞🇺🇸 – Prime Minister Netanyahu will hold a phone call with Trump later today.

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🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 – The Houthis claim Saudi Arabia conducted 51 air raids and missile strikes against Yemen in the last 24 hours.

The air raids came from aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait airbase, and the missile attacks were launched from Najran and Jizan.

Marib, Saada, Hodeidah, Taiz, and Amran were targeted.

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