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🇦🇷🤝🇻🇦 — Worshippers are already waiting for the gates to open at the Monument to the Spaniards for Pope Leo XIV’s historic Mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

🇦🇷🤝🇻🇦 — Crowds arrive to see Pope Leo XIV in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina

Day two of the Pontiff’s visit to Argentina, marked by a major operation.

🇭🇳🇲🇽❌🇺🇸 — Hundreds of migrants, mostly Hondurans, left the Mexican border town of Metapa de Dominguez in a caravan and walked to the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state.

📝 Migrants told Reuters they foresaw a weakening of President Trump's anti-migrant policies after the midterm elections

🇹🇷💥 — Reports on social media that an explosion took place at a steel plant in Aliağa district of 'Izmir'

According to such reports, the blast occurred in the section where oxygen cylinders are filled.

Six people are dead, eight are missing, and 13 are injured, two critically.

In a 2012 Al Jazeera article, Abdul El-Sayed - the first Muslim elected to the American Senate and his coauthor, a Harvard scholar, praised the Muslim Brotherhood’s electoral success and expressed striking optimism about Egypt’s political future following the Islamist movement’s parliamentary triumph.

At the time, the Muslim Brotherhood-led bloc had secured approximately 47% of parliamentary seats, while the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour bloc won another 24%, giving Islamist parties control of roughly 71% of the elected parliament.

Despite this overwhelming Islamist majority, El-Sayed and his coauthor described Egypt’s political transformation as looking “more promising than ever.” They further argued that the Islamist parties’ victories reflected their domestic agendas and “histories of social justice” more than popular support for their Islamist ideologies.

The distinction is crucial: El-Sayed was not simply celebrating the fall of Hosni Mubarak or the prospect of democratic elections. He was publicly expressing optimism about Egypt’s political future after the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties had already secured a commanding parliamentary majority, while framing their electoral success primarily through the lens of social justice rather than political Islam.

https://x.com/EFischberger/status/2119104716353282106

🇦🇷🤝🇻🇦 — Argentine Government officials say that a record crowd of 2.5 million people took the streets for the first papal trip to Argentina in nearly four decades.

As seen on social media, Argentines gathered for miles down the Avenida del Libertador, waving the white-and-yellow Vatican flag and pressing against security barriers for a glimpse of the pontiff at the largest event yet of the pope's 12-day South American tour, and of his 18-month tenure leading the global Catholic Church.

🇦🇷🤝🇻🇦 — In Buenos Aires, a sea of Argentines welcome Pope Leo XIV on his journey in the popemobile, before the Mass at the Monument to the Spaniards

🇫🇷❌🇮🇷 — The French Government formally accuses the Islamic Republic of Iran's IRGC Cybercorps of supermarket fridge hacking

➡️ France has accused Iran of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers.

👺 French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran.

➡️ He said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression", adding that the country would "implement sanctions at the European level against all those responsible for this attack".

➡️ The cyber-attack last month saw fridges and freezers in hundreds of supermarkets across France heated up, which spoilt fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

👺 Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said intelligence traced the attack to Shahid Kaveh, an offensive cyber unit under the IRGC’s Electronic and Cyber Center.

📝 Then last week, dozens of supermarkets across seven other European countries, including the UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia, were also impacted by a cyber-attack that targeted fridges and freezers. It is not known if the instances are linked.

📞 France has requested international arrest warrants for the unit’s head and two deputies.

🇫🇷❌🇮🇷 — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot speaking about the cyberattack that affected several hundred supermarket refrigerators in France last October:

🇷🇺 Head of Buryatia says that the number of bears in Russia skyrocketed because most hunters left to fight the war. It doesn't sound unreasonable.

🇷🇺🇮🇱 — A Russian military transport aircraft carrying a senior delegation led by Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU), landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening in an unusual visit.

The delegation held meetings with senior Israeli defense officials. The purpose of the visit and the issues discussed remain unclear.

The arrival of a Russian military aircraft in Israel comes amid heightened regional tensions and continued uncertainty over the possibility of renewed military confrontation involving the U.S., Israel and Iran.

The aircraft later departed Israel and headed for the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.

— The Jerusalem Post | @TheWarReporter

🇺🇸🇪🇸⚠️ — United States State Department issues travel warnings for Spain as major left-wing unions calls for strikes in Spain

📞 Travelers heading to Spain this coming week are being urged to check flight and train plans ahead of a 24-hour nationwide strike.

🔥 Spain’s two largest unions, UGT and CCOO, have called a 24-hour nationwide strike for Nov. 11 over the housing crisis, The Independent reported. The U.S. Embassy says workers across sectors, including transportation and hospitality, have been called to participate.

⚠️ Flights, trains and local transit could face disruptions, with demonstrations expected in major cities, though not all specific service interruptions have been confirmed.

A general strike is scheduled across Spain on November 11, 2026. Workers from all sectors, including hospitality and transportation, are called to strike. Public transportation will be limited to minimum services. Confirm travel plans with your train company/airline and expect delays. Demonstrations can cause last-minute closures or cancellations. Demonstrations, both planned and spontaneous, will occur throughout the country. Picket lines may be formed. Even protests, demonstrations, and gatherings intended to be peaceful can escalate quickly or have the potential to turn violent. Expect more police presence and possible road closures. Avoid demonstrations and crowds.

🤩🇪🇸❌🇪🇸🌹 — The leader of Catalan Alliance, Sílvia Orriols, explains that her party will oppose the November 11 strike because "it's driven by unions sponsored by the Spanish left-wing parties"

🔗 3CatInfo (@3CatInfo)

🇵🇸❌🇵🇸 — Palestinian opposition activists report that Hamas militias in Gaza barred engineer Ahmed Al-Talouli from working with the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing to help provide tents for displaced families during the winter storm.

🚫 They forced him to sign a pledge not to carry out any ministry-related work in Gaza. After being threatened today, he deleted his post.

➡️ The Palestinian Authority, through its Ministry of Public Works and Housing and in partnership with UNDP, launched a project to establish camps using durable fiberglass shelter units.

🔒 Yet just one day before the rainstorm, Hamas arrested the ministry’s engineers and crews, forced them to sign pledges not to work in Gaza except through Hamas, and confiscated the tents.

📝 Hamas is not only failing to help Gaza’s people face the winter storm, but it is actively preventing others from helping them.

❌ Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane)

🍏🤝🇹🇷🇹🇷 — Apple Executive Chairman, Tim Cook, announces he made a visit to the Tomb of Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" in Ankara as part of his visit to Turkey:

🇴🇲🇮🇷 — Iran has reportedly targeted radar and communications infrastructure on Oman's Didamar Island in the southern Strait of Hormuz, with footage showing a plume of smoke rising from the strategically located island.

Didamar Island hosts military-operated radar and communications equipment near a key southern shipping corridor.

Iranian state TV reported that the IRGC Navy had 'disabled the enemy's maritime navigation systems in territorial waters', without identifying the location involved.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US President Donald J. Trump on Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear ambitions:

🇺🇸🇸🇦🌹 ❌🇸🇦🇦🇪 — Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated US Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed says US should stop supporting Saudi Arabia and UAE:

📝 Saudi Arabia and the UAE just happen to be two main places, alongside Egypt, where Muslim Brotherhood is designated as terrorist organization

🇺🇸👀🏗🧱 — United States Supreme Court grants US President Donald Trump’s emergency appeal to resume construction on border wall, despite claims from environmentalists, Native Americans Rights groups and ranchers that the project will harm the area’s residents and wildlife.

Final results:
🟢 Yes: 8
🔴 No: 1

📝 SCOTUS Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to note her dissent in the latest ruling for the administration.

🇺🇸👀🏗🧱 — United States Supreme Court grants US President Donald Trump’s emergency appeal to resume construction on border wall, despite claims from environmentalists, Native Americans Rights groups and ranchers that the project will harm the area’s residents and wildlife.

Final results:
🟢 Yes: 8
🔴 No: 1

📝 SCOTUS Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to note her dissent in the latest ruling for the administration.