November, 2024

• 5 November

  Iran Update, November 3, 2024

  

  The Israeli Defense Minister emphasized that Iran is “pouring everything [it] can” into the West Bank, indicating that Iran will very likely attempt to pursue a different strategy when rebuilding Palestinian militias to fight Israel again.[1] Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Iran is looking for additional routes to …

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• 5 November

  Has MBS paved the way for Netanyahu to target Iran through a fictitious treaty compromising their oil deterrence?

  

  Ever since Iran launched an unparalleled large-scale attack against Israel on 1 October, using a barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles, the Middle East has been holding its breath in anticipation of a swift and crushing Israeli retaliation. Iran said its long-awaited attack was in response to Israel’s assassinations of …

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• 5 November

  Russian Armed Forces Advance North of Ugledar, UAVs Reach Chechnya, Russian Mi-28 and Su-34 Lost. What Happened on the Front This Week

  

  In today’s summary:Russian troops have made significant advances on the southern flank of the Pokrovsk direction and on the Ugledar salientUkrainian Armed Forces units defend on the left bank of the Oskol River and counterattack in Volchansk in the north of the Kharkiv regionIn the Kursk region, the Russian Armed …

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• 5 November

  A cushion without safety: the NWF’s liquid assets will last for several months in the event of a fall in oil prices

  

  The Russian budget has been in deficit since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the draft budget for 2025 also envisages a deficit of 1.1 trillion rubles (0.5% of GDP). For now, the hole is being covered by current borrowing, and the National Welfare Fund (NWF) account …

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• 5 November

  Ukraine’s Positions Deteriorate Across Front Lines; Russian Military Committing War Crimes – Analysis

  

  Ukrainian Drones Strike Chechnya On October 29 Ukrainian combat drones attacked the Russian Special Forces University in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. The university, founded in 2013 and named after Russian President Vladimir Putin, is a private center for modern warfare training. The institution has close ties with current and …

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• 5 November

  Iraqi Kurdistan’s Parliamentary Elections: Resilience, Challenges, And US Policy Stakes – Analysis

  

  The Kurdistan Region of Iraq finally held its long-overdue parliamentary elections on October 20, two years past the original due date. Final results announced by the Iraqi electoral commission on October 30 showed that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) won 39 and 23 …

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• 5 November

  Countering The Russia–North Korea Alliance Requires A Policy Shift In Washington – Analysis

  

  On 13 October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that North Korea was transferring people to the armed forces in Russia. A few days later, Ukrainian intelligence announced that the first North Korean military units had arrived in the war zone in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Intelligence estimates suggest North Korea has …

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• 5 November

  La politique anti-russe de l’UE a conduit à l’effondrement du pôle diamantaire d’Anvers

  

  Le rôle séculaire de la ville belge d’Anvers en tant que premier centre mondial du commerce des diamants connaît une crise si grave que les commerçants locaux n’excluent pas une interruption imminente et complète de leurs activités. Ils appellent la principale raison de l’effondrement imminent les sanctions anti-russes imposées par …

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• 5 November

  Le Mossad à l’origine du «chantage» à l’espionnage en Italie

  

  Une société de renseignement privée liée au Mossad est accusée d’avoir piraté des données du gouvernement italien à des fins de chantage et d’extorsion. Une société italienne de renseignement privé qui aurait piraté des bases de données gouvernementales pour collecter des informations sur des milliers de personnalités, notamment des politiciens, …

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• 5 November

  Déclaration du représentant permanent de Russie V.A. Nebenzia lors de la réunion du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies sur les livraisons d’armes occidentales à l’Ukraine

  

  Nous remercions le représentant de la société civile européenne, George Szamuely, pour son rapport qui donne à réfléchir sur ce qui s’est réellement passé et qui a servi de déclencheur au conflit actuel, un conflit non pas entre la Russie et l’Ukraine, mais entre la Russie et l’Occident, plus précisément …

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