⚡ BREAKING: IDF calls up two reserve brigades for operational missions in northen Israel

‘The Israeli Army is ready for ground maneuvers as conflict enters new phase,’ the IDF’s Northern Command chief said Wednesday. (Maariv)

A declaration of war?

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💬 Erdogan: ‘Hamas is a resistance group that endeavors to protect its territory’

“We are against terrorists. I am one of the leaders who knows Hamas well.

I have never called Hamas a terrorist organisation. I do not look at Hamas as a terrorist organisation,” Erdogan noted to NBC.

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🤡 NEW: Biden “disinvites” Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze to UN reception - over "anti-democratic actions, critical rhetoric” toward US and the West (Reuters)

Talk about a hissy fit. 😂

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🇺🇳🇺🇸 Joe’s greatest hits at the UN

… of course he got lost on stage.

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❌ Israeli media calls for all of Lebanon - every single village - to be destroyed by the IDF…

Perfectly normal behaviour for the “rules-based” West.

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🤮 Ireland scraps controversial hate speech laws attacked by Elon Musk

The Irish govt has shelved contentious provisions in its hate crimes bill after accusations they would have a chilling effect on free speech and an Irish senate revolt over the definition of gender.

Critics had suggested legislation could have been used to jail opponents of transgender women using female changing rooms or toilets.

Helen McEntee, the Irish justice minister, had previously blamed “deliberate misinformation and distortion, including from fringe commentators and US-based social media personalities,” for the controversy.

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👨‍💻 BREAKING: Hacking Campaign - Linked to Beijing - Targets US Internet Providers in “Pursuit of Sensitive Data” - WSJ

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💲 US Manufacturing Slumps to 15-Month Low as Inflation Reaccelerates

America’s manufacturing sector saw its sharpest contraction in over a year in September, even as overall business activity growth remained robust, data showed.

The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI slumped to 47.0 in September, down from August’s 47.9 and the lowest in 15 months.

Index readings below 50 represent a contraction in activity.

The US falls deeper into recession territory.

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❌ PUTIN: Moscow reserves right to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Russia - including if the enemy poses a critical threat to Russia’s sovereignty with conventional weapons

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😳 NEW: Trump on Threats from Iran:

“If I were the president, I would inform in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens.”

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😐 Von der Leyen budgets €149K to pay medieval history professor for farming report - Politico

The European Commission president allocated a salary 64% higher than the top rate set aside for advisers to pay the medieval history professor.

Von der Leyen bumped up the salary rate for the academic to nearly €1,000 per day for a landmark agriculture study.

To be fair, who better to write a report on the future of EU agriculture than an expert in medieval history? 😂

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❌ Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Smotrich rejects proposal for 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon - calls for the “crushing” of Hezbollah

“The campaign in the north should end with a single result: crushing Hezbollah and elimination of its ability to harm the residents of the north,” Bezalel Smotrich said on X.

Adding that the ceasefire proposed by the US and its allies would give Hezbollah time to “reorganize.”

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