"An unexplained explosion has rocked a Russian tank factory producing engines and artillery for the war in Ukraine. Footage showed a fireball engulfing the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk near the border with Kazakhstan." MS
"The Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 71 enemy attacks in the past 24 hours. On the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, the defenders continue to hold positions, inflicting fire damage on Russian troops.....the Russian army launched one missile attack, three air strikes and 13 MLRS attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces and populated areas." Ukrinform
"The Iranian public prosecutor's office has slapped a prominent newspaper with charges over the publication of a top-secret government document outlining the country's volunteer morality guards - guys who go around whacking women for not wearing hijabs and other violations of Sharia law, who are separate from (but similar to) the country's official morality police......the judiciary's Mizan news, a reformist daily newspaper, Etmad, published the "highly confidential" document - an instruction from the Interior Ministry regarding the deployment of thousands of morality guards to enforce the country's Hijab dress code for women.....the leaked documents shows deep links between the group and the ministry. Iran's morality guards came under fire last month following the death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, who fell into a coma after morality guards reportedly beat her into a coma for not wearing a hijab." ZH
"U.S. Arleigh Burke–class destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) responded to a distress call from the Israeli-linked tanker Central Park off the coast of Yemen. The Houthi gunmen successfully boarded the tanker, but the crew secured themselves in the citadel, which is a designated secure space for crew members to wait out pirates while continuing to control vital ship systems. The attackers were forced to retreat to Yemen with the Mason in pursuit. U.S. Navy personnel, aided by a Japanese destroyer, arrested the gunmen after warning shots and close helo support." MS
"Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei on Monday visited the burial site of the the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as the first stop of his visit to the United States, ahead of his meetings with U.S. officials. Milei arrived at the cemetery, located in Queens, New York, just after 9 A.M. with his entourage, where he met Rabbi Simon Jacobson, who has become somewhat of an informal advisor and mentor. Milei was visibly emotional when he met Rabbi Jacobson at the entrance of the site, and they went together to pray at the grave." Breitbart
"Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X/Twitter, traveled to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then traveled with Netanyahu to visit Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a southern town in Israel, one of the major targets of the Hamas terror attacks on October 7." Breitbart
"Almost 500,000 people in occupied Crimea have been left without electricity after a storm hit the peninsula. Natalia Pisareva, the Russian-appointed "head of the Chornomorsk district", wrote on her Telegram channel that the district has been left without water or heating." MS
