🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | October 05, 2026

• Yemen's Ansar Allah encircles Taiz, repels Saudi F-15s — Forces seized al-Turbah and cut the Taiz–Aden road at several points, completing the siege of the city, and drove off two Saudi F-15 formations with domestically built surface-to-air missiles. Sanaa counted 106 Saudi air and missile strikes in 24 hours.

• Saudi Petroline ablaze again — Satellite imagery showed a roughly 50 km smoke column and four thermal anomalies over the East–West pipeline, the kingdom's only crude export route that bypasses Hormuz.

• US submits new Hormuz proposals — Parliament speaker Ghalibaf said Washington sent fresh ideas via intermediaries but the strait stays shut until seven Islamabad-memorandum conditions are met; Russia's Ulyanov countered that "real negotiations have not started yet." US Energy Secretary Wright claimed Hormuz supply keeps rising.

• Iran's oil minister resigns — Pezeshkian accepted Paknejad's resignation after previously refusing it, naming state oil company chief Hamid Bovard caretaker amid the oil-export and currency crisis.

• Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro tops 50% in early count — Partial results put him at 50–51% to Lula's roughly 41%, with the gap narrowing as counting proceeded; Michelle and Carlos Bolsonaro won Senate seats, and the electoral court said no concrete foreign interference was detected.

• Russia strikes Ukrainian supply ships and a Kiev bridge — Geran-4 drones hit four vessels carrying military supplies at Chornomorsk port; a drone attack fully closed Kiev's North Bridge over the Dnieper, a key troop-logistics route.

• Merz signals readiness for talks with Putin from Kiev — AfD's Weidel slammed him for marking German unity day in Kiev amid the country's worst energy crisis; thousands marched in Paris against aid for Ukraine.

• France to shut 400–500 schools Monday — After spreading student protests, the education minister said 24 lycées have been burned or ransacked and 78 education staff injured since the blockade began.

• Trump creates 'Superintelligence Force' — The new federal office will keep the US ahead in AI under DNI Jay Clayton; RFK Jr says he may run for president in 2028.

• Hormuz discount war deepens — Iraq delivered 2 million barrels by tanker outside the strait for the first time in decades, offering $20+/barrel discounts against Kuwait and Qatar's $35; OPEC+ left November quotas unchanged.

• Horn of Africa realigns — Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia issued the Alamein declaration rejecting foreign interference; Somalia's president offered Ethiopia use of two or three ports under a sovereignty-respecting deal.

• Balkan and Baltic votes — Dodik's party won Republika Srpska races and he thanked Putin; Latvia's governing list took 35.3%; Moldova summoned Russia's envoy over new drone intrusions.

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