🇮🇷⚡️ — The UKMTO reports that the IRGC struck a tanker with two unidentified projectiles approximately 50 nautical miles north of Qatar yesterday.

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🇩🇪⚡️ — German bishops have announced plans to adopt more inclusive and gender-neutral language in religious services.

They also intend to move away from traditionally masculine depictions of God.

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🇪🇺⚡️ — A wave of bomb threats targeting passenger planes has swept across Europe.

It is already known that six aircraft were forced to make emergency landings due to reports of bombs on board.

According to European media reports, all the incidents occurred on the morning of November 5th. Three planes landed in Bulgaria, another landed at Brussels Airport. A Finnair flight from Helsinki to Rome landed in the Italian capital, and an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to a military base in France.

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🇺🇸⚠️ Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Ambitions Outrun US Factories

The Pentagon is putting roughly $1.1B into “Drone Dominance,” a program to expand US production of cheap attack drones through competitive trials and bulk orders, aiming to buy about 250,000 by the end of 2027. Meanwhile, Russia is estimated to be targeting production of 7.3M small attack drones in 2026, according to Bloomberg’s October 31 report.

“We’re starting from basically zero,” says Travis Metz, acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit. America knows how to build military drones. The trouble is turning out small, disposable attack drones in quantities suited to a war where replacements are needed every day.

Russia offers an uncomfortable comparison. Russia plans to produce 7.3M small attack drones by the end of 2026. That remains an estimate of planned output, and the American figure covers one purchasing program rather than the entire industry.

Still, the arithmetic is hard to dress up. If that Russian estimate holds, average monthly output would top 600,000 drones. In less than two weeks, Russian factories would match the entire purchase target Metz outlined through the end of 2027.

Drone Dominance is meant to fix this through four rounds of competition, with orders rewarding companies that pass testing and deliver on time. Publishing prices and quantities in advance gives manufacturers a reason to expand. A successful demonstration alone will not keep soldiers supplied.

The second round makes that distinction concrete. Entrants must deliver 120 drones to prove they can manufacture them before advancing to operational trials. Requirements include attacks on trenches, buildings and targets up to 20 km away, despite radio jamming and disrupted satellite navigation.

Then comes the parts bill. Chinese components help make small drones cheap, but restrictions on their use push American manufacturers toward costlier alternatives. Bloomberg’s reporting describes suppliers paying a premium for compliant parts. The Pentagon wants low prices, rapid expansion and less dependence on China, all at once.

Russia’s production advantage makes this an industrial race America cannot win with a bigger check alone. Disposable weapons need dependable parts, repeat orders and factories that replace losses without waiting for the next procurement round. Until those pieces work together, “Drone Dominance” remains a more convincing program name than a description of US manufacturing.

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🇮🇷🇪🇺⚡️ — Iran rejects EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas's accusations of Iranian interference in the conflict involving Yemen's Houthis.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei accuses the EU of complicity in human rights abuses through sanctions and the economic blockade of Yemen.

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🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡️ — Turkey says a soldier was killed by gunfire from the Iranian side of the border on October 31, according to the Turkish Defense Ministry.

Ankara and Tehran have launched separate investigations and held an on-site meeting on November 3 to determine how the shooting occurred.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) operations:

• A strike on the temporary deployment site of a unit of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade in the settlement of Dymytrovo using a FAB-3000 glide bomb equipped with a UMPK guidance kit.

• A strike on an electrical substation near the settlement of Sumy using four FAB-500 glide bombs equipped with UMPK guidance kits.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are planning to hold a vote on the issue of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's resignation, CNN reports, citing sources.

Many Republicans and their supporters, concerned about the defeat in the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3rd, have blamed Hegseth. According to the television channel, behind closed doors, they claim that he was the one who convinced U.S. President Donald Trump to launch a military operation against Iran without considering how to end it or how to deal with the inevitable political consequences.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — President Donald Trump Via Truth Social:

“The vote totals for the Fake Dan Sullivan, plus the other “slug” that the Dems put on the Ballot, should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan, and the Election is over - He easily wins.
There is no other fair solution!”

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine's President Zelensky:

The Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children from our land, and now we see something even worse.

Russia has already started sending some of these children—children they stole from us who have grown up during this war, grown up over these years—into the Russian army.

This is horrible, and it must stop.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. Secretary of State Rubio may resign as part of preparations for running in the 2028 presidential election, according to a report by the British newspaper The Independent, citing sources.

According to the publication, Rubio needs to distance himself from the policies of the Trump administration, including the conflict in Iran. The newspaper suggested that this would increase his chances in a potential contest with Vance.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️— Thousands of U.S. military personnel, more than 10 warships, and bases across the Middle East and United States are on standby for potential large-scale operations against Iran if President Trump gives the order, according to The New York Times.

U.S. and Israeli forces have drawn up plans for a short, intense campaign targeting Iranian energy infrastructure, nuclear sites, missile and drone stockpiles.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Melania Trump presented personal messages to both Zelenskyy and Putin during a ceremony at the White House.

"A ceasefire in Oleski would not have been possible without the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. Their cooperation sets an important precedent for promoting peace throughout the region," the First Lady of the United States said in her speech.

Meanwhile, members of the Ukrainian delegation, Arakhamia and Lubinets, presented her with the Order of Princess Olga.

It is worth noting that the meeting was also attended by Putin's special representative, Kirill Dmitriev, and the Russian Ombudsman, Lantratova.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A complete blackout in Kiev tonight.

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🇮🇶🇺🇸⚡️ — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi tells U.S. President Donald Trump that Iraq will not allow its territory to be used as a launchpad for attacks against neighboring countries.

During a phone call on Thursday, the two leaders stressed the need for diplomacy, de-escalation, and preventing the regional conflict from spreading, while agreeing to maintain close communication and coordination.

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