🇺🇸📞🇮🇱❗️ — 📰 Sky News Arabia, quoting its sources:

Washington warned Israel that a strike on nuclear sites in Iran would be responded to by Tehran withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1843392179491791300

🇬🇧❌🇷🇺 Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said, as he warned the UK faces the most "complex and interconnected" threat it has ever seen.

There have also been 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022, the director general Ken McCallum said.

He said the complex mix of terror-related threats and threats from nation states meant that MI5 had "one hell of a job on its hands".

A total of 43 late-stage plots to commit "mass murder" in the UK have been foiled since 2017, he said, involving firearms and explosives.

Mr McCallum said the security service's counter-terrorism work still mostly involved Islamic extremism, followed by "extreme right-wing terrorism".

But he added there was a "dizzying range of beliefs and ideologies" MI5 had to deal with.

"The first 20 years of my career here were crammed full of terrorist threats. We now face those alongside state-backed assassination and sabotage plots, against the backdrop of a major European land war," he said.

In a briefing at MI5’s counter-terrorism operations centre in London, Mr McCallum said in the past year, the number of state-threat investigations by MI5 had increased by 48%.
He also expressed concern over the number of young people being drawn into online extremism.

About 13% of those investigated for involvement in terrorism were under 18 - a threefold increase in the last three years, he added.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8e15yr1gwo

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Joe Biden threatened to destroy British-American relations if the UK didn’t give up the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

📝 Washington DC’s century old campaign to destroy the British Empire was brought to completion with the ceding of the Chagos Islands.

🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/07/joe-biden-pushed-uk-to-surrender-chagos-islands/

🇷🇺❌🌐 — Social media platform Discord has been blocked in Russian Federation

➡️ The reason is a violation of legal requirements, Roskomnadzor (Russian communications regulator) reported.

🇺🇦❌🌐 — Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) banned Telegram for deputies and officials

➡️ Members of the Verkhovna Rada and parliamentary staff are banned from using Telegram on official and personal devices.

➡️ This decision, announced by Yaroslav Jurchyshyn, the Chairman of the Freedom of Speech Committee, follows recommendations from the National Security and Defense Council. Jurchyshyn noted that the ban follows previous incidents in which deputies’ data was leaked via the platform.

"I think that such security measures are quite logical. Unfortunately, there have already been examples of third parties obtaining data on state employees through Telegram," Yurchyshyn said.

🇺🇸💸⚖️📝 — US Supreme Court has declined to review an appeal over the ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin seized from Silk Road, allowing the United States government to sell them.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — 📰 Jerusalem Post reports that Israel will refrain from striking Iranian nuclear targets during the 1st Stage of the retaliation, but focus on military targets,

➡️ Israel is not expected to attack Iran's nuclear program but rather to focus on various kinds of military bases and intelligence sites, the Jerusalem Post has learned, following a New York Times report on the issue.

➡️ Confronted with the Times report, sources did not deny the thrust of the report, which predicted that Israel's retaliation against Iran for its massive October 1 strike on the Jewish state would fall more in the medium range of attack scenarios.

➡️ Further, the Post understands that Israel's attack on Iran - which virtually all top Israeli officials have publicly promised - will still be much more substantial than its narrower retaliation on April 19, when Iran's S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was damaged.

➡️ Despite being presented with the idea that the current context could be a once-in-50-year opportunity to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, sources indicated that attacking Iran's nuclear program would not necessarily be consistent with the "goals of the war" as set by the security cabinet.

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🇮🇷📞🇸🇦🇦🇪🇰🇼🇶🇦🇧🇭 — A senior Iranian official said that Tehran had told the Gulf states that it would be unacceptable if they allowed their airspace to be used against Iran and that any such move would lead to a reaction.

🇲🇽🌀 — The powerful and devastating Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 storm, has been battering the Yucatán Peninsula for the past two days.