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🎥 New: On this week’s episode of “The War Brief” by Drop Site News, hosts Sarmad Jawad & Murtaza Hussain break down the most critical military & foreign policy developments across the Middle East & Eastern Europe over the past week. In Yemen, Ansarallah... Full episode: youtu.be/rHH5ivv9zXQ?...

In Yemen, Ansarallah continue their rapid advances across western Yemen, moving to encircle the city of Taiz and firming up their control control over the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait. As Saudi Arabia reportedly plans a major military offensive against the group with the support of regional countries, Ansar Allah is establishing facts on the ground in their battle to control Yemen.

In Gaza, the Israeli military has continued to carry out strikes killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza—including deadly strikes targeting journalists and members of Gaza’s small Christian community. According to most recent figures, Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded at least 1,431 Palestinians killed and 5,026 wounded since the October 2025 ceasefire.

In Europe, Moscow has issued a direct warning to NATO, threatening the use of its full military arsenal—including nuclear weapons—if Western operations isolate the militarized exclave of Kaliningrad.

Meanwhile in Iraq, U.S. allies in Iraq feel betrayed by Trump's withdrawal of forces from the country, even as many ordinary Iraqis celebrate the withdrawal.

Despite President Trump’s claims that Iran has lost control of the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran demonstrated this past week that it retains the ability to strike oil shipping, hitting eight tankers in just five days.
@8Sarmad
and
@MazMHussain
discuss the battle over the strait and whether Trump’s claim holds up, as Iran also prepares contingency plans for an escalated conflict, including likely targeting of naval and aerial support bases like those on the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia.

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🫏 🇺🇸 Dems lead in 3 Repub.-held Sen. seats & are tied or w/in a point in 2 more, according to NYT/Siena polls of 5 GOP-leaning states published Oct. 3. ➤ Alaska: Mary Peltola (D) 50%, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) 43% ➤ Texas: James Talarico (D) 51%, Ken Paxton (R) 45% ➤ Ohio: Sherrod Brown (D) 49%...

🫏 🇺🇸 Democrats lead in three Republican-held Senate seats and are tied or within a point in two more, according to New York Times/Siena polls of five GOP-leaning states published Oct. 3.

➤ Alaska: Mary Peltola (D) 50%, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) 43%

➤ Texas: James Talarico (D) 51%, Ken Paxton (R) 45%

➤ Ohio: Sherrod Brown (D) 49%, Sen. Jon Husted (R) 46%

➤ Iowa: Ashley Hinson (R) 48%, Josh Turek (D) 47%

➤ Kansas: Adam Hamilton (D) 45%, Sen. Roger Marshall (R) 45%

The polls surveyed 2,946 likely voters from Sept. 21 to Oct. 1. Across the five states, 49% said they want a senator who would check President Trump, versus 27% who want one who supports him.

Separate Siena polls released the previous week showed Abdul El-Sayed (D) leading Mike Rogers (R) by 5 points in Michigan (Sept. 25) and Sen. Susan Collins (R) leading Troy Jackson (D) 49% to 46% in Maine (Sept. 24). Republicans hold a 53-47 majority, so Democrats need a net gain of four seats for control. Results in Ohio, Iowa and Kansas are within the margin of error.

InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
Senate Polling — NYT/Siena (A+)

🔵 Alaska - Peltola +7 (Flip)
🔵 Texas - Talarico +5 (Flip)
🔵 Ohio - Brown +3 (Flip)
🔵 Michigan - El-Sayed +5
⚪️ Kansas - TIED
🔴 Iowa - Hinson +1
🔴 Maine - Collins +3

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Yemen’s Ansarallah continue advance toward the last road out of southwestern Taiz overlooking the Bab-el-Mandab strait.

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@bonzerbarry
Ansarallah made a lot of progress in the southwest Taiz front. Al Turbah is getting pinched from both sides (only about 18km across now). They're also only a few kilometers away from the Al-Safiya Junction to the west. AA will soon be close to reaching the last road out of Taiz at three different points.

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Israeli airstrike overnight on Sat. hit a residential apartment in western... ...“Today, the blood of Christians and Muslims is mixed together in one scene," said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's Civ. Def., in footage shared by @translatingpal.bsky.social. His full message translated below ⬇️

Israeli airstrike overnight on Saturday hit a residential apartment in western Gaza City, killing five Palestinians, four of them women.

Among them were Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Maysaa, members of Gaza's Christian community, along with Dr. Yasmin Al-Bobo, her mother Hloum, and a young man, Bilal Khalil Odeh.

“Today, the blood of Christians and Muslims is mixed together in one scene," said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defense, in footage shared by
@translatingpal
. His full message translated below ⬇️

Translating Falasteen (Palestine)
@translatingpal
"Today, the blood of Christians and Muslims is mixed together in one scene," said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence, after an Israeli occupation airstrike before dawn on Saturday hit an inhabited apartment in the Al-Asala building in western Gaza City, killing five Palestinians, four of them women. Among them were Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Maysaa, members of Gaza's Christian community, along with Dr. Yasmin Al-Bobo, her mother Hloum, and a young man, Bilal Khalil Odeh.

Mary and Maysaa were buried from the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius, the same church the Israeli occupation army bombed in October 2023, killing 18 displaced people sheltering inside. Basal said he still remembers his crews pulling bodies from its rubble. Speaking at the funeral, he called the strike a crime and said no one has the right to hold a death sentence over any civilian in Gaza. The killings come a year into a ceasefire the Israeli occupation has never stopped violating. At least 30 Palestinian Christians have been killed in Gaza since the genocide began.

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🇪🇹Tigray's regional gov't announced it is temporarily relocating out of the capital, Mekelle, citing advancing fighting & the threat of bombardment by what it called the "genocidal regime" of Ethiopia's fed'l gov't. The move comes after fed'l forces retook Mekelle's airport from Tigrayan fighters...

🇪🇹 Tigray's regional government announced it is temporarily relocating out of the capital, Mekelle, citing advancing fighting and the threat of bombardment by what it called the "genocidal regime" of Ethiopia's federal government.

The move comes after federal forces retook Mekelle's airport from Tigrayan fighters, residents told the AP earlier.

Martin Plaut
@martinplaut
Statement from the TPLF:
“Since the fighting that was waged ten days ago from various fronts against us has moved from the Southern Zone and approached in the direction of Mekelle, taking into account the blanket bombardment that this genocidal regime can inflict on our people and city using the pretext of fighting and to create a condition that would enable our army to destroy the enemy, it has been decided for the Tigray government to be temporarily moved out of Mekelle and operate from somewhere else.”

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🇪🇹 The 2022 Pretoria deal that ended the Tigray war left its promises unmet, fmr. CIA analyst & NSC Africa dir. Cameron Hudson told Drop Site. The deal excluded Eritrea, which "committed some of the worst crimes of that war," Hudson said. Once it... 🔗Watch the full interview on YouTube. Link below.

🇪🇹 The 2022 Pretoria deal that ended the Tigray war left its promises unmet, former CIA analyst and NSC Africa director Cameron Hudson told Drop Site.

The deal excluded Eritrea, which "committed some of the worst crimes of that war," Hudson said. Once it was signed, "we all went our separate ways," and accountability, state reform and credible elections were "largely ignored."

The same grievances drive the new war, he said, but the Tigrayans have "nationalized" it through a seven-group alliance seeking to topple PM Abiy Ahmed.

🔗 Watch the full interview on YouTube. Link below.

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President Trump (on Truth Social): “TAKE THE WIN, TOM. JUST TAKE THE WIN! YOU NEED IT, AND SO DOES OUR BELOVED REPUBLICAN PARTY.”

amanda moore 🐢
@noturtlesoup17
Trump has replied.

Tom Cotton

@SenTomCotton
No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.

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🎥WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest US war crimes since Vietnam. @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah (X: @SayahTweets) spent 2 months speaking w/ survivors. This is their story.

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💢 Israeli attacks killed 8 Palestinians, including 4 women, across Gaza on Sat., Felesteen reports. 🔹 An Israeli airstrike on the ground floor of the al-Asala building near Haidar Abdel Shafi Roundabout in western Gaza City killed 5 people before dawn: Mary Hafez Abu Dawood & her daughter Maysa...

💢 Israeli attacks killed eight Palestinians, including four women, across Gaza on Saturday, Felesteen reports.

🔹 An Israeli airstrike on the ground floor of the al-Asala building near Haidar Abdel Shafi Roundabout in western Gaza City killed five people before dawn: Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Maysa, both Christians; an elderly woman, Hallum al-Bubu, and her daughter, academic Dr. Yasmin al-Bubu; and Bilal Odeh

🔹 An Israeli drone strike near Abbas al-Kilani Roundabout in Beit Lahia killed Mahmoud Ibrahim Alyan, 35

🔹 Zain al-Din Hamdan died of wounds from an Israeli quadcopter drone attack days earlier in Nuseirat

🔹 Mohammed Talaat Aql of Jabalia camp died of wounds from Israeli gunfire days earlier in Deir al-Balah

🔹Several others were wounded in an Israeli strike near Ibad al-Rahman School in northern Gaza City and a drone strike on a home in Beit Lahia.

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🚨🎥 “We will finally give them the most basic human right: to honor them and lay them to rest.” Hundreds gathered in Gaza City on Thursday for the mass funeral of 105 Palestinians killed on Oct. 25, 2023, when Israeli forces dropped at least 20 bombs on the Al-Taj residential block & surrounding...

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⭕️🇵🇸“This is his baby bottle. This is his toy. And that is his shroud. I want to ask the world: What threat did this pose to Israel?” Nearly 3 years after the Israeli massacre at the Al-Taj residential block in Gaza City, families gathered Thu. to bury 105 Palestinians whose remains were recovered...

⭕️🇵🇸 “This is his baby bottle. This is his toy. And that is his shroud. I want to ask the world: What threat did this pose to Israel?”

Nearly three years after the Israeli massacre at the Al-Taj residential block in Gaza City, families gathered Thursday to bury 105 Palestinians whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble.

Standing amid the ruins, journalist Mahmoud Haniyeh, whose wife, journalist Doaa Sharaf, and their one-year-old son Obaida were killed in the Israeli attack, held up the child’s belongings.

“I am not talking about numbers,” Haniyeh told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed. “There was a neighborhood here, alive with its people. There was a lawyer here, an engineer, a doctor, and a nurse. We are talking about an entire life that Israel obliterated in seconds.”

Haniyeh said his family had spent three years in “an open house of mourning” while waiting for their remains to be recovered. “This grief has not healed. This wound has not healed. This mourning has not ended.”

For Haniyeh, the recovery of his wife and son underscored how many families across Gaza are still waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be recovered from beneath the rubble.

“There are 10,000 martyrs whose families are waiting for this moment,” he said. “How long will it take us to reach 10,000?”

🎥 Mohamed Ahmed

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Drop Site contributor Ali Younes, a Jordanian-American journalist, was detained by Jordanian intel. in Aug. over a repost of an article questioning US aid to Jordan. He was later charged w/ undermining nat'l security, sedition, & hate crimes under Jordan's Cybercrime Law, & barred from leaving...

Drop Site contributor Ali Younes, a Jordanian-American journalist, was detained by Jordanian intelligence in August over a repost of an article questioning U.S. aid to Jordan. He was later charged with undermining national security, sedition, and hate crimes under Jordan's Cybercrime Law, and barred from leaving the country for a month.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen called the Jordanian government, after which Younes was allowed to leave the country, and Jordan told Van Hollen the charges had been dropped.

Younes, however, was never informed of this, and it turns out that claim contradicted what Jordan had told him.
Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Van Hollen for any updates, and what he makes of Jordan contradicting its own account.

Andreone also asked about the Senate's failure to pass Van Hollen's resolution demanding accountability for Americans killed in the occupied West Bank.

The resolution failed 47-53. Sen. John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote against it, while Sen. Rand Paul was the only Republican who crossed over to vote in favor.

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FL Dem. Sen. nominee Angie Nixon says DSCC Chair Kristen Gillibrand held a fundraiser for her today. Nixon added that she spoke w/ Sen. Dem. leader Chuck Schumer, who she said is “fully supportive of our race.” “We are excited about a potential investment here in the state of Florida. So things...

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon says DSCC Chair Kristen Gillibrand held a fundraiser for her today.

Nixon added that she spoke with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who she said is “fully supportive of our race.”

“We are excited about a potential investment here in the state of Florida. So things are moving in the right direction.” https://x.com/AaronParnas/status/2105762942549684513/video/1

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☢️🌿Pres. Trump: “These unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world, they unloaded every single bomb, went right down air chutes into this, uh, drug factories, really. Uh that’s what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs but they were doing the...

☢️🌿 President Trump: “These unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world, they unloaded every single bomb, went right down air chutes into this, uh, drug factories, really. Uh that’s what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. These drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard." https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2105841492564623696/video/1

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🛢️Oil exports from the Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman have reached a 7-day avg of around 20M barrels/day, roughly double the early Aug. amount, w/ Strait of Hormuz transits driving the rebound, according to Kpler data. The 7-day avg of regional exports climbed from about 10 to 12M barrels per day in...

🛢️ Oil exports from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman have reached a 7-day average of around 20 million barrels per day, roughly double the early August amount, with Strait of Hormuz transits driving the rebound, according to Kpler data.

The 7-day average of regional exports climbed from about 10 to 12 million barrels per day in early August to a peak of roughly 22 million in late September.

Daily volumes briefly topped 27 million around Sept. 19. Kpler's preliminary data shows the pace easing in the final days of the month, though recent figures are typically revised upward as cargoes are confirmed.

➤ Saudi Arabia: 6.46 million, up 4 million from August
➤ UAE: 3.56 million, up 558,000
➤ Iran: zero, down from 1.7 million a year ago

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🎥 WATCH: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on Feb. 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab. At least 156 people were killed that... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmK...

🎥 WATCH: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab. At least 156 people were killed that morning at Shajareh Tayyebeh school—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers.

It will go down in history as one of the gravest war crimes committed by the U.S. government since Vietnam.

Drop Site News conducted a two-month investigation into the strike, speaking with survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day. This is their story.

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⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst US war crimes since Vietnam. Drop... Story by @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...

⚡️NEW from
@DropSiteNews
: Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.

Story by
@jeremyscahill
,
@MazMHussain
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💢 At least 164 people have been killed and 645 injured in Yemen b/w Sep. 19 and 26, according to the WHO. Since Aug. 6, WHO has documented 838 deaths among 4,481 total casualties. Fighting b/w Yemen’s Ansarallah and the Saudi forces and allied coalition have also displaced more than 180,000 people.

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Shireen Al-Adeimi
@shireen818
Please know that this media framing of Yemeni civilians killed by Saudi & its allies isn't new.

From the start of the war in 2015:

@AJEnglish
DAY ONE (3/26/15): "Houthi-run health ministry"

@Reuters
Day 4: "Houthi-controlled health ministry"

This is propaganda, not reporting.

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President Trump: "As soon as this war ends, inflation is gonna be eradicated totally. But nobody talks about that.” Video: @atrupar.com via X (@atrupar) x.com/atrupar/stat...

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⭕️ President Trump on Truth Social: “Axios just released a story that ‘Trump’ offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING!” “They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY!”

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-IRAN NEGOTIATIONS LATEST 🔸Pres. Trump said Mon. his team spoke w/ mediators working to end the war w/ Iran, but offered no details. "We're going to win. As far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other. It's going to go pretty quickly," he told reporters in the Oval Office...

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-IRAN NEGOTIATIONS LATEST

🔸President Trump said Monday his team spoke with mediators working to end the war with Iran, but offered no details. "We're going to win. As far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other. It's going to go pretty quickly," he told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that more strikes before the midterms were also "possible."

🔸 Hours later, Trump denied an Axios report, citing a US official, that he was willing to offer Iran sanctions relief and frozen funds for "concrete progress on nuclear." "I offered them NOTHING!" he wrote, calling the story a "HOAX."

🔸 Despite his public rejection of Iran's seven-day plan, the US has not formally rejected it, three officials told the AP. Mediators are drafting a deal to reopen Hormuz, lift the US blockade, and then remove sanctions. One official told the AP the US is seeking nuclear concessions, including access for inspectors, which Axios has also reported.

🔸 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met a Qatari mediator in New York on Monday. "They had some ideas, and we held discussions that they will also raise with the US side," he told state news agency IRNA, adding he hoped for Washington's final response by Tuesday. He flew back to Tehran rather than wait: "The Qataris know how to reach us whenever they have the response."
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🌽 Iowa Sen. candidate Ashley Hinson reaches new levels of Iran war incoherence: 🔹At a press conference in Iowa this weekend, Rep. Ashley Hinson said she texted House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to call the House back into session for a "resolution to end the war" w/ Iran, but not another war...

🌽 Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson reaches new levels of Iran war incoherence:

🔹At a press conference in Iowa this weekend, Rep. Ashley Hinson said she texted House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to call the House back into session for a "resolution to end the war" with Iran, but not another war powers resolution, which she has voted against four times.

🔹"We don't need another resolution on the House floor," Hinson said. "We need a resolution to end the war as quickly as possible and the president can do that."

🔹 Hinson joined Trump in the Oval Office on Monday as he announced a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa. 🎥👇
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2104644363112644783/video/1

Acyn
@Acyn
Iowa Voter: Hinson all of a sudden portraying herself as the person who's always opposed the war and who wants all these good things. But you check her votes and she doesn't.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrapped up her upstate NY tour in Syracuse on Mon., meeting Mayor Sharon Owens & local Dem. & WFP members on how to get infrequent voters to the polls, per CNY Central. The swing also took her to Buffalo & Ithaca, where she held a packed "Students vs. Billionaires"...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrapped up her upstate New York tour in Syracuse on Monday, meeting Mayor Sharon Owens and local Democratic and Working Families Party members on how to get infrequent voters to the polls, per CNY Central.

The swing also took her to Buffalo and Ithaca, where she held a packed "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall at Cornell, and campaigned with battleground Rep. Josh Riley.

New York "has become increasingly relevant to whether we have a majority or not in the House," she told The New York Times. The tour has also fueled speculation about a 2028 Senate or Presidential run. "I love Syracuse," the Bronx native told reporters.

progupdates
@progupdates
AOC in Syracuse with a message to discouraged voters:

"We’re going to turn this around, but it’s going to take a lot of work—all of us banding together and turning out higher numbers than we have"

(🎥 IG/pace.reports)

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🇵🇸 Palestinian-American journalist & Drop Site contributor Naqaa Hamed has been freed on bail after 13 days in Israeli detention. She was arrested Sep. 15 at a checkpoint near Bethlehem while returning from a reporting assignment on settler violence. An Israeli military court released her on 8,000...

🇵🇸 Palestinian-American journalist and Drop Site contributor Naqaa Hamed has been freed on bail after 13 days in Israeli detention. She was arrested September 15 at a checkpoint near Bethlehem while returning from a reporting assignment on settler violence. An Israeli military court released her on 8,000 shekels bail, her lawyer told AFP.

The Committee to Protect Journalists had previously condemned the "unsubstantiated espionage allegations" against her. Israel still holds 36 Palestinian journalists, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society reports.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2104561464711471356/video/1

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Pres elections in Brazil will take place this Sun. w/ Flavio Bolsonaro (son of imprisoned fmr Pres. Jair Bolsonaro) in a tight race against incumbent Pres. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has received support from the US president who welcomed him in the Oval Office only days after receiving...

Presidential elections in Brazil will take place this Sunday with Flavio Bolsonaro (son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro) in a tight race against incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has received support from the U.S. president who welcomed him in the Oval Office only days after receiving Lula. He has been courting a Trump endorsement. According to reporting by The New York Times, leaked documents written by an ally of Bolsonaro suggest that people close to the candidate may have proposed giving the United States access to Brazil’s critical minerals in exchange for support.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/world/americas/brazil-election-bolsonaro-president-trump.html

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