⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷 – The IRGC published footage of yet another disabled Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) drifting in the Strait of Hormuz after it reportedly struck a naval mine.

🇮🇱📊🗳 — Israel's state-owned Kan 11 channel has shared the latest poll ahead of the upcoming elections.

➡️According to the poll, Netanyahu's coalition has around 50 seats, while his opponent Gadi Eisenkot showed 52 seats, and Arab parties who are willing to join Eisenkot's coalition have 14 seats.

➡️To form a government, one needs 61 seats, meaning Netanyahu's chances of winning the elections are nearly impossible.

⚡️🇨🇩🦠 – The Ebola outbreak ravaging the DR Congo has killed almost 4,700 people, according to authorities, out of more than 9,700 cases.

Cases are mostly concentrated in the eastern parts of the DRC, but cases were recently reported in Kenya and, for the first time, Nigeria.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇺🧠 – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is inviting Cubans to form a "discrete partnership" with the CIA, saying "now is the time" to create positive change in the country.

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

⚡️🇺🇸 – Trump during one of his rallies:

The poverty rate has just reached its best level in American history.

There's less poverty, and the poverty is at its highest level. So those three things.

[Cheers and applause]

#BREAKING
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 – U.S. intelligence determined Iran has "substantially increased" its efforts to target American diplomats & officials in the Middle East and beyond, with lethal plots reaching "advanced stages," according to Axios' Barak Ravid citing a memo sent to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe by the Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 – The full article goes on to detail that U.S. officials say this intelligence is one of the reasons the U.S. is withdrawing personnel from its embassies across the Middle East.

The threat of Houthi escalation and spillover into other countries, likely the UAE, has also raised concerns.

As detailed in Clayton's letter, the DNI believes the information should be circulated to more U.S. personnel that might be at risk but are not currently authorized to know.

Neither the letter nor the article identify specific targets, countries outside the Middle East or the nature of the alleged plots.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 – The Saudi coalition said it intercepted one Houthi ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh.

Unconfirmed reports state two explosions were heard in Riyadh. There was no word of interceptions in Najran or Wadi ad-Duwasir, where alerts were also published.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 - U.S. officials have confirmed the memo first reported by Axios is real, and that U.S. agencies believe "the threat against Americans in the Middle East and several other countries is at the highest level since the start of the war in February."

The New York Times also reports Trump and top aides have been briefed constantly on "rising threats" that go beyond the Middle East, and involve U.S. officials including ambassadors.

An official told the NYT that "some material indicates Iran may have operatives in the United States", and that other potential targets are in Europe, although Iranian capabilities remain limited.