🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡️ — A Russian Ministry of Defense aircraft has landed at Ben Gurion Airport – the purpose of the visit remains unknown.
The Tu‑154M aircraft belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense, with registration number RA‑85042, landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening at around 19:01.

According to flight‑tracking data, the plane took off from Chkalovsky air base. It belongs to the 223rd air detachment of the Russian Ministry of Defense and is under U.S. sanctions.
For now, it is not known who the passengers were or what the purpose of the visit was.

Reports about the evacuation of Russian diplomats and their families from Israel have not been confirmed. At this time, there are no sources linking this flight to an evacuation operation.

The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment, and the Russian Embassy and the Russian Foreign Ministry have so far provided no explanation for the landing.
The landing is certainly unusual, but at the moment there is no confirmation that this was a diplomatic evacuation.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️ — Jared Kushner said he and US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff would meet with European officials ahead of the talks in Abu Dhabi.

Kushner added that a long-term settlement of the Ukraine conflict would require direct contacts between Russia and US European allies on security issues.

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🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ — Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Yahya Saree reports that Saudi warplanes unleashed 103 airstrikes across Yemen over the past 24 hours, pounding civilian sites in Marib, Saada, Hodeidah, Taiz, Lahij, and Al-Jawf.

The aerial campaign involved F-15 and Typhoon jets launching from Khamis Mushait and Taif bases, leaving multiple civilians dead and injured.

This brings the total number of Saudi-led coalition strikes since the escalation began to 4,563.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf:

“Israelis are working overtime to drag the US into an endless war with Iran, a quagmire that no president, now or in the future, Republican or Democrat, could escape.

Unless Washington drops the “Israel First” mindset, America and its allies are headed straight for a dark age.”

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🇷🇴🇲🇩 Moldova opened a power line to Romania perhaps at the worst possible moment

Romania has been in the midst of an energy crisis for the last 2 years, consistently ranking either first or among the top 3 EU countries with the highest energy prices according to Eurostat data.

2026 was the worst year so far due to a combination of poor weather causing a historic drought in the Danube basin leading to reduced energy production on the Iron Gates I and II hydroelectric power plans shared with Serbia and the shutdown of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant as the plant relies on the Danube to cool down the nuclear fuel but due to the drought the water level couldn't reach the facility anymore.

Prior to the drought, the prices were consistently high due to the Romanian government's commitment to fulfilling the EU net-neutral zero carbon emissions directives (also partly motivated by hundreds of millions of EURs worth of EU funds) which led to the shut down of its coal power plants with a transition planned to natural gas. The power plants running on natural gas suffered delays during construction but are about to become operational in the coming months right when the EU natural gas market is surpassing the record prices it set in the 2022 energy crisis caused by the US-Israeli war with Iran.

In terms of renewable energy, the Romanian government left private investors build wind and solar farms but as the program wasn't managed by the state, these farms were built with little to no stocking capacity meaning that the surplus energy generated in sunny or windy days couldn't be stored for later use.

Prior to the construction of the 400 kV Vulcănești-Chișinău power line, Moldova relied almost exclusively on the electric energy produced by the natural gas operated, Moldavskaya GRES in the city of Dnestrovsc (Dnestrovsk) under separatist Transnistrian control who was supplied with Russian gas at below-market prices. Russian gas is still reaching the city through the TurkStream pipeline and the energy is far cheaper than what Romania/EU offers.

Until Romania fixes its energy market by building electric batteries to store excess energy produced by renewable sources, leaders in Chișinău will continue to be incentivised to rely on Transnistria for their needs or beg the EU to help them subsidise energy prices for Moldovan consumers.

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🇺🇸⚡️ House leadership faces a hard deadline of two legislative days to act on Thomas Massie’s privileged impeachment resolution against War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Procedurally, the House is limited to three moves: a direct floor vote, tabling the resolution to kill it, or referring it to committee to effectively bury it.

A floor vote could come as early as November 10–12, depending on the legislative schedule.

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🇺🇸⚡️The House of Representatives requires only a simple majority to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

However, even if the articles of impeachment proposed by Thomas Massie are passed, this action would not result in his automatic removal from office.

The matter would proceed to the Senate for a trial, where conviction would necessitate a two-thirds majority, equivalent to 67 votes out of 100 senators.

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🇺🇸⚡️ Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, Democrats/Independents hold 47. A trial before January 2027 would occur under Republican control, making a Hegseth conviction difficult.

Projected Democratic control in January (~54 seats) still falls short of the 67 votes needed for conviction.

Even with Democratic control, 11–13 Republican votes would be required to reach the two-thirds threshold.

Hegseth’s removal is highly unlikely, even if the House approves Massie’s impeachment articles.

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