Day: October 14, 2026

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi strongly condemns recent attacks targeting Saudi Arabia, including King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, during a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reaffirming that Baghdad will not allow its territory to be used to threaten the Kingdom’s security.

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🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro opens the Brazilian presidential runoff with a CLEAR edge over Lula.  

Quaest has Flavio at 46% and Lula at 44%.

The margin of error is 2 points, so it is still a technical tie. Blank and null votes are at 9%.

This is the first survey after the first round, when Flávio finished ahead.

The candidates who finished behind Lula were mostly on the right.

Their voters have little reason to move to the left and a clear path to Flávio.

The runoff is October 25th, and most voters already say their choice is locked in🔥

Source: Reuters / Writer: Lucas

David Foster Wallace made the Québécois assassins in “Infinite Jest.” They search for a video so transfixing it’s said to be able to entertain  Americans, who cause the ruination of Canada, to death. I think they finally found it.acoustic julien (@arugulapiquante)Canada would have no culture without Quebec
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🚨🇮🇷 26 ship attacks in two weeks started right after Iran’s top officials flew home from the UN

Rory Johnston, the oil analyst behind Commodity Context, says Hormuz had climbed back to just over 17 million barrels a day in late September.

Flows are now down to between 11 and 14 million, and the strikes have moved out of the Gulf and into the strait itself.

He suspects the timing was no accident:

“So it would make sense for them to wait until they are back safe home to engage in this escalation.”

If Iran can switch the strait on and off around its own travel plans, who’s really running Hormuz?

@Rory_Johnston
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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇮🇷🇺🇸 Oil flow through Hormuz has dropped by as much as a third in two weeks as Iran hits ships nearly twice a day

Transits through the strait peaked at just over 17 million barrels a day in late September, and oil analyst Rory Johnston’s tracking has them back down to somewhere between 11 and 14 million after 26 confirmed attacks since September 30.

The strikes moved from the Gulf into the strait itself, the hardest pace of the war, yet traffic is still running near its wartime high because the math still works:

“If you’re making 20, $30 a barrel on shipping through the strait, you can lose a ship and you can still make money.”

The US blockade is biting too, with Iranian output under 2 million barrels a day for the first time since 2020, so both sides are bleeding and both still think they’re winning, which is exactly how wars of attrition run past the point anyone planned for.

@Rory_Johnston
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It’s hard to grapple with the evil that commits these crimes against Gaza’s defenseless civilians, day after day, year after year, with unwavering support from the world’s most powerful.Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine)Maryam Ahmed Mahmoud Ghanem lies in a hospital bed with severe burns, clutching her doll — the sole survivor after a strike killed her entire family, including her mother.
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