Zelensky: “The Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children from our land, and now we see something even worseịỊi
According to the Ukrainian president, Russia has already started sending some of these children into the Russian army.
These are children who were taken from Ukraine and have grown up over the years of this war.
“This is horrible. And it must stop.”
Putin sends Ukraine’s stolen children to military training at special camps
The abducted children are sent to indoctrination centres linked to Russia’s biggest oil companies, Gazprom and Rosneft
March 27, 2026 12:39 pm (Updated 3:40 pm)
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An image shared by Yale researchers in their report showing a military event hosted at a Russian camp. A child, thought to be Ukrainian, can be seen in military fatigues shooting a pistol. (Photo: via Yale HRL)
Thousands of children abducted from their homes in Ukraine and forcibly taken to Russia during the conflict have ended up at military training camps linked to two of the country’s leading oil companies, Gazprom and Rosneft.
Now, the scale of the Russian mechanism behind the child abductions has been laid bare, with the country’s leading oil companies found to be facilitating the transportation and re-education of more than 2,000 children between 2022-2025.
The UK has sanctioned both firms as part of efforts to choke off revenues that go into funding Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Rosneft has denied all of the allegations included in Yale’s report and described the findings as “misinformation”.
In these camps, the abducted Ukrainian children are indoctrinated into a pro-Russian mindset, with some turning their backs on their families. These camps often serve as accommodation, and some provide the children with military training.
In their report, the researchers at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab said that one Gazprom subsidiary, Gazprom Transgaz Ekaterinburg, posted images and videos of children being given army training in August 2022.
“At the event, children reportedly performed military drills, hand-to-hand combat, grenade throwing, and rifle shooting,” the report stated.
At least 2,158 children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia were taken to at least six camps that were owned by Gazprom subsidiaries, sponsored by Gazprom and Rosneft subsidiaries, or their trade union organizations since 2022, the researchers found.
“This study can conclude that Gazprom and Rosneft, under the leadership of executives financially and politically tied to Putin, willingly aids the Kremlin’s agenda to engage in widescale Russification of Ukraine’s children,” they found.
Children rescued and brought back to Ukraine have been found to carry physical and mental signs of trauma, with specialist therapy required to help them recover. Some have recounted alarming experiences, including being stripped naked by their captors and physically searched.
“This study is the first public demonstration that these companies’ have integral involvement in Russia’s systematic campaign of child deportation and indoctrination,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director at the Lab.
The revelation comes after US sanctions on Russian fuel were temporarily lifted by Donald Trump to ease the energy supply crunch sparked by the US-Israel war with Iran. But the effect has been that Gazprom and Rosneft are the first known Russian Federation-affiliated companies linked to Putin’s alleged war crimes, which are now profiting from another conflict.
However on Thursday, the US said it would provide $25 million (around £18m) in new funding to identify, return, and rehabilitate Ukrainian children.
Zelenskyy says SpaceX’s Starshield restrictions have returned—disrupting Ukraine’s drone defenses
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that restrictions on its military’s use of Elon Musk’s Starshield satellite communications service have returned, disrupting its combat operations and allowing Russian drones to strike targets in the country, a month after similar restrictions triggered a diplomatic dispute involving the Ukrainian government, President Donald Trump’s administration and Musk’s company SpaceX.
White House counsel Will Scharf vowed Wednesday that the Trump administration is prepared to fight “tooth and nail” against congressional Democrats who launch what he called “inappropriate” investigations into the president and his officials.
Appearing on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, Scharf defended his warning letter to incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA), which suggested Democratic investigations into the administration could “cross the line into blatant criminality.”
“What we’ve seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress, and they’re talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes,” Scharf claimed.
“I thought it was very, very important that just at the outset we set the tone,” he continued. “If there’s going to be an investigative process here, it should be a dignified, lawful investigative process.”
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Scharf went on to accuse Democrats of reviving the “lawfare” President Donald Trump faced before returning to the White House.
“I would have hoped that the Democrats would have learned a lesson from that,” he said. “The only thing they achieved was putting President Donald J. Trump back in the White House where he belongs.”
The White House lawyer insisted “the Constitution and the law are absolutely on our side” before laying out what he considered improper uses of congressional oversight.
“They can’t investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on government officials; they can’t investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress’s power,” Scharf argued.
“We’re gonna see what happens in January, but we’re ready to fight tooth and nail here if that’s the road they want to go down,” he warned.
His remarks came after Garcia rejected the White House’s warning, accusing Trump of attempting to intimidate Congress ahead of Democrats taking control of bothchambers in January.
“We are a co-equal branch of government and will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President’s lawyers,” Garcia declared.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig also dismissed the administration’s suggestion that Democrats’ threats of investigations could constitute criminal conduct.
“No, this is not anything even remotely close to a crime,” Honig said Wednesday.
Meet Will Scharf, Trump’s New White House Counsel Who Shares an Interesting History With the President
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Scharf served as a personal lawyer to Trump during the election interference case
Scharf, who hails from New York and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2011, has served as a federal prosecutor and a clerk for two federal judges.
When announcing Scharf’s new appointment, Trump acknowledged that the conservative lawyer had also previously represented him in “numerous cases, including at the Supreme Court.” Scharf was Trump’s personal lawyer from 2023 to 2025, as Trump faced a series of criminal and civil cases in-between his two stints in the White House.
Scharf was part of the team that put forth arguments to the Supreme Court in 2024 over whether Presidents should have immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in Office.
Scharf celebrated the ruling, calling it a “tremendous win for the Constitution” and for Trump, in a statement to the Kansas City Star. He said it had been an “honor” to represent Trump in the matter.
Scharf made an unsuccessful bid for Missouri Attorney General in 2024
After serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri from 2020 to 2022, Scharf launched a bid for the Republican candidacy of Missouri’s Attorney General, going up against the incumbent Andrew Bailey in 2024.
Pointing towards the work he carried out as a federal prosecutor assigned to the Violent Crimes Unit as well as his “instrumental” role in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Justices, Scharf honed in on his D.C. experience as he mounted his campaign.
“I’ve put hardened criminals in prison, and I’ve put constitutional conservatives on the Supreme Court. I’m ready to fight back against the woke left and out-of-control federal government to defend our rights and liberty,” read a statement from Scharf in a campaign prospectus.
In a campaign ad, Scharf claimed that then-President Biden and his legal team were “wrecking” the American legal system and “doing everything they can to stop President Trump and the MAGA agenda.” Scharf said it was time for a Missouri Attorney General “who will return fire” as he pretended to fire a grenade launcher at boxes of depicted legal documents and evidence against Trump.
In a candidate survey, Scharf said that “fighting for President Trump” was one of the three things he wanted voters to remember about his goals for office, should he be elected.
Scharf lost the Republican primary to Bailey, receiving just 37% of the vote.
Scharf was pivotal in securing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans
Trump appointed Scharf as the at-large commissioner to the National Capital Planning Commission in July 2025.
The President appointed several members of his Administration to the Commission as he sought overview of the renovations to the Federal Reserve building under former Fed chair Jerome Powell.
In the position, Scharf has played a pivotal role in bringing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans to life.
Trump has faced widespread criticism for demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make room for the grand ballroom design.
Scharf defended the project in April, insisting “the only constant in the history of the White House is that practically every change, every modification, every addition, and indeed every feature that we now celebrate as an iconic aspect of the White House was roundly and viciously condemned in its day.”
“Any argument that relies on the idea that the White House is unchangeable or should be unchangeable flies in the face of the very history of the structure such critics claim they are trying to protect,” he added.
Despite the Commission’s arguments, the construction of the $400 million ballroom—a space Trump insists is essential for security purposes—continues to face legal challenges.
A federal appeals court on Aug. 7 ruled that the construction of the ballroom could not continue without congressional authorization. Trump has said he intends to appeal the matter to the Supreme Court.
Denver Riggleman reminds us of the text he uncovered from Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows on January 5th, 2021. See Riggleman’s book ‘The Breach’.
Jim Jordan sent this text to Mark Meadows on January 5th, 2021 at 11:27PM. This text was a “copy paste” from a document draft authored by Joseph Schmitz, the former Inspector General of the Department of Defense. Read that again.
Here it is. Again, sent at 11:27PM on January 5th, 2021.
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. No legislative act, wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916). Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.”
This was criminally underreported and I flagged this as absolutely key to understand how deep this went. “Coup-like movements.” It’s as important as the Ginni and Clarence Thomas participation. Also, ignored except by the counterterrorism specialist who understood it. Like me.
I would know. I’m that guy. It’s in my book. It’s in public record. It’s validated. It’s my team.
A former DoD IG worked with a congressman to overthrow a free and fair election. Treasonous. That congressman was Jim Jordan.
November 10th, 2026
Jim Jordan OSU Scandal Explained as Representative Elected Minority Leader
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Nov 10, 2026 at 07:18 PM EST
Republicans elected Ohio U.S. Representative Jim Jordan on Tuesday to lead their House conference when the party enters the minority next year, bringing renewed attention to allegations from 2018 that Jordan knew about sexual misconduct by Ohio State University team doctor Richard Strauss while the GOP lawmaker served as assistant wrestling coach.
An independent university-commissioned investigation found Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male student-athletes and other students during his years at the school. Jordan has consistently denied knowing of sexual abuse while he coached at Ohio State.
His spokesman at the time, Russell Dye, said in 2025 that “Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it.”
Survivors of Dr. Richard Strauss say Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan knew about the sexual abuse the student-athletes suffered, according to HBO’s new documentary, “Surviving Ohio State.”
Jordan declined to be interviewed for the documentary, but his name is frequently brought up by former Ohio State wrestlers and a referee. The documentary came out last month. Over the years, Jordan has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of the abuse.
“To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie,” former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie said in the documentary.
Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male victims between 1979 and 1996 during his time as a physician for Ohio State’s Athletics Department and at the university’s Student Health Center, according to an independent investigation commissioned by Ohio State University.
Strauss retired from Ohio State University in 1998 and died by suicide in 2005 when he was 67. Jordan was an Ohio State assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.
“Chairman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it,” said Russell Dye, spokesperson for Jordan.
At one point in the documentary, Ritchie said Jordan claimed, “If (Strauss) ever did that to me, I’d snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood.”
In the documentary, wrestling referee Fred Feeney shared his experience with Strauss sexually assaulting him in the shower after a wrestling match.
He said he told then Ohio State Wrestling Coach Russ Hellickson and Jordan that Strauss was masturbating beside Feeney in the shower.
“Jim Jordan looked at me straight in my face and said, ‘It’s Strauss. You know what he does,’” Feeney said in the documentary.
Jordan turned to politics after coaching — serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000 and the Ohio State Senate from 2001 to 2006 before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents Ohio’s 4th Congressional District. He is up for reelection next year.
Former Ohio State wrestler Mike Schyck said he thought Jordan would help the Strauss abuse survivors.
“Jim Jordan is a pit bull,” Schyck said in the documentary. “And so I figured why in the hell wouldn’t this guy step up for us?”
An extract from West Point historian, Terrence Goggin, Substack Nov 10th 2026
Miller’s new post is the second most powerful job in Washington. Why? Because Richard Nixon allowed his aide H.R. “Bob” Haldeman to create the office of Chief of Staff (COS) to consolidate Presidential power in a single aide to direct not only the White House staff but the Executive Branch as a whole to see that the President’s decisions and intention were carried out. Every Administration since then has kept the model.
Anyone who wished to see or talk to the President would have to go through the COS. Subsequent Administrations have continued to use the Haldeman staffing system which gave the White House staff the ability to tell cabinet secretaries and other officials “the President wants this to happen”. This enables the President through his COS to circumvent the legal chain of command, diluting the power of cabinet secretaries and “improve efficiency”. It also gives the COS power to implement his own agenda by interpreting the President’s intent broadly.
Miller should study Bob Haldeman. In early 1973 Haldeman was called by the Senate to testify under oath and did not claim Executive Privilege nor did he take the 5th. He testified in blatant defense of the Administration and Nixon personally. He denied all wrong doing and specifically denied participating in the Watergate coverup. He was contradicted by other witnesses and the White House tape recordings. Haldeman was eventually fired after the testimony. He was indicted and after a jury trial, spent years in prison for his actions, loyal to the President to the last. An interesting tip for Miller, Haldeman had called Nixon before Nixon resigned as President to request a pardon. Nixon refused to take his call.
Ukrainian officials said Russia dropped multiple bombs in an attack targeting a school where aid was being distributed to residents in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhya region, on November 2.
Russia hit a town in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region with at least 10 bombs in a “double-tap” strike on November 2, killing at least 31 people in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy describedas “a vile, terrorist strike” that targeted a school where humanitarian aid was being distributed to residents.
Zelenskyy said the settlement of Komyshuvakha, which lies between the city of Zaporizhzhya and the front line in the southeastern region, had been hit by bombs several times since morning.
“After the first aerial bomb strike, there was a double-tap strike with nine more bombs, specifically targeting the shelter where people were taking cover,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X that included footage of smoking ruins. He said rescuers were continuing to search for people.
Four of the dead were police officers and two were rescue workers, the State Emergency Service said in a Telegram post. It said five people remain hospitalized.
The regional military head said on November 3 that nearly 50 people were still missing following the attack.
“The Russians could not have been unaware that every week, local residents who had remained in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian aid at that very location. And this is further proof that Russia wants no de-escalation and no real justice,” Zelenskyy said.
Israel causing immense suffering during flooding but UN tents not reaching the people and infrastructure is non-existent. Children dying exposed to many health threats.
Humanitarian Situation Report: Heavy Rains in the Gaza Strip | 8 November 2026
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A rescue team and other Palestinians next to what remains of a war-damaged building that collapsed when heavy rains hit Gaza city on 7 November 2026. Photo by OCHA
Key Highlights
Heavy rains hit the Gaza Strip from the evening of 6 November 2026 through the weekend, causing widespread flooding, the collapse of damaged buildings, damage to shelters, humanitarian facilities and learning spaces, and disruptions to essential services. An infant reportedly drowned and several people were reportedly killed when a sand dune collapsed on their tents.
Humanitarian partners mobilized immediately to assess people’s needs, distribute emergency supplies and otherwise support those affected. Nevertheless, humanitarian stocks of tents, tarpaulins, blankets and clothes inside Gaza are virtually exhausted.
By 8 November, humanitarian partners received appeals from over 26,000 households whose shelters or other belongings were damaged, with the overall impact believed to be greater. Partners have assessed the needs of 1,877 households, and provided support to 422 households, including with non-food items, at 29 displacement sites.
Over 150,000 tents purchased by humanitarian partners and Member States are outside Gaza ready to be dispatched. This includes about 117,000 tents from the Egyptian Relief Committee alone in Al-Arish.
Humanitarian funding and Israeli approvals are urgently needed so that enough supplies and machinery can be brought into Gaza, including vacuum trucks, mobile dewatering pumps, engine oil, hoses and heavy machinery.
Overview
Heavy rain and strong winds hit the Gaza Strip from 6 November through the weekend, causing floods affecting thousands of people. It damaged displacement sites, shelters and humanitarian facilities, and disrupted services across all five governorates. Most Palestinians in Gaza remain displaced, and an estimated 65 per cent live in tents or makeshift shelters – that is 1.4 million people. Following the start of the storm, humanitarian partners reported being overwhelmed by the high number of appeals for support.
According to the Site Management Cluster (SMC), since the beginning of the heavy rain until midnight 7 November, about 268 weather-related alerts had been recorded affecting over 26,000 households. An estimated 600 households are thought to have been displaced once again due to the storm. According to SMC, over 6,000 family shelters have reportedly been destroyed and 17,400 otherwise damaged. Additionally, 66 latrines have reportedly been destroyed and 618 damaged. SMC reported that over 3,900 households are reported to have no shelters currently. Site Management partners report that more than 20,000 households across 222 sites, severely affected by the heavy rain, need shelter and non-food items support (tarpaulins, shelter repair materials, bedding, tents and clothing). Beyond that, 26 sites need latrine rehabilitation, 32 need drainage and engineering support, 37 need lighting support and 156 need sandbagging support, and more than 10,000 households report needing cash assistance. These figures are preliminary and are subject to assessments and verification.
Mine Action partners highlighted the potential risks associated with flooding, as explosive ordnance may become exposed, buried under surface or debris, or displaced to previously unaffected areas. This creates additional dangers for civilians and humanitarian personnel, including those involved in debris removal.
The floods exacerbated existing structural and environmental risks, including unsafe buildings and unstable sandy areas with at least 4,000 high-risk buildings identified by partners so far. Three partial or full building collapses were reported, with no casualties. An infant reportedly drowned at a displacement site. At Al Berka Reservoir, west of Deir Al Balah, a sandy hill collapsed onto tents, killing five displaced people, including three children and two women, and injuring one, according to Civil Defense who responded to the incidents.
The Civil Defense reported on 7 November that dozens of displacement sites, tents, and even entire residential areas, were flooded, with water levels reaching 1.5 metres in some locations. Its emergency rooms received 2,166 distress calls, including from families whose homes were already damaged by hostilities. Rescue teams, working with municipalities and others, were able to respond to 218 calls, but given the volume of the calls, most callers were only provided with guidance. The Civil Defense calls for the entry of winter rescue equipment, machinery, plastic sheeting, tents, and prefabricated mobile shelters for displaced people. The Gaza Municipality received 251 incident notifications and 84 distress calls on 6 and 7 November, covering rainwater pooling and rising water levels in streets and displacement sites. It cited major challenges, including extensive damage to stormwater drainage networks and infrastructure, a shortage of pumping equipment and heavy machinery, and difficult access to some sites.
According to the WASH Cluster, shortages of vacuum trucks, mobile dewatering pumps, engine oil and hoses continue to limit the WASH response capacity. At Sheikh Radwan Lagoon, heavy water inflows are overwhelming pumping capacity, while stormwater mixed with sewage from damaged networks poses public health risks.
According to the Education Cluster, heavy rain and flooding affected at least 55 learning spaces serving about 55,000 children. Twenty of the learning spaces were damaged, with learning activities suspended. At the other affected spaces, attendance has fallen significantly, to as low as 3 per cent. Poor light and power supply challenges add to the disruption. Moreover, seven service points addressing gender-based violence were destroyed due to the heavy rain. One partner reported 200 affected families across two sites for persons with disabilities. Families with disabilities, women and girls, and unaccompanied children face heightened risk.
Due to the heavy rain, on 7 November, at least eight community kitchens temporarily cut production by 50 per cent (about 25,000 fewer meals). On 8 November, production returned to normal, with maintenance and assessments continuing at some. A kitchen in Gaza city producing about 1,000 meals daily closed on 7 November because of disrupted power supply and difficulty lighting cooking fires; it resumed operations on 8 November. Flooding, waterlogging and damage to already fragile roads delayed meal deliveries and food stock dispatch to kitchens, and some locations were hard to reach, putting partner staff at risk. The weather also worsened the condition of a partner’s vehicles, that already faced shortages of engine oil and spare parts, so 7,250 planned meals could not be delivered to 10 shelters on 7 November; deliveries were back to normal on 8 November, and other delayed distributions were completed as conditions improved. Some partners’ warehouses were affected, and agricultural land rehabilitation through cash-for-work was suspended because workers could not reach the sites.
Health facilities also suffered leaks and flooding. UK-Med facilities and Nasser Medical Complex had water entering several departments, and the basement of Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital housing the pediatric department, pharmacy and radiology, flooded. Two clinics (An Nakheel and Al Yasmin) were damaged by flooding and wind, and two medical points (At Tuffah and Bir 19) lost tents and roofing. Services were also disrupted. One Health Cluster partner suspended all sexual and reproductive health services, fixed and mobile, and another suspended its mobile clinics. A third partner suspended its seven mobile teams for a day before resuming. Médecins du Monde recorded a 54 per cent drop in consultations, as flooded roads delayed staff movement. Partners report more cold exposure, weather-related illness and psychosocial distress, and expect higher caseloads once attendance recovers. Existing medicine shortages (antipyretics, antibiotics, antiemetics, antidiarrheals) are worsening. Surveillance is being strengthened for acute watery diarrhea, respiratory infections, skin infections and acute jaundice syndrome.
The humanitarian community had spent months preparing for the rainy season, knowing that living conditions in Gaza leave hundreds of thousands of people highly vulnerable to severe weather. Many people are living in worn-out tents and makeshift shelters that provide little protection from heavy rain and strong winds, including many in low-lying areas prone to flooding. Others remain in damaged buildings at risk of collapse. As part of the preparedness efforts, more than 150,000 tents, 300,000 tarpaulins and 500,000 blankets were outside Gaza ready for dispatch. However, humanitarian efforts to prepare were constrained by Israeli restrictions on the entry of supplies and equipment and funding shortfalls, limiting the stocks available inside Gaza when the rains began. Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to large parts of Gaza also leave people with fewer options to voluntarily relocate to safer areas less prone to flooding.
As of 8 November 2026, humanitarian partners need – as a matter of urgent priority – more Israeli approvals to bring into Gaza critical supplies including shelter items, engine oil, spare parts, and heavy machinery, and more funding.
Site Management: Partners installed 50,000 sandbags to prevent displacement sites from being flooded; overall since September, they have installed more than 135,000 sandbags. Desludging of cesspits is under way by partners at displacement sites in Al-Mawasi (Khan Younis), with 30 per cent of the targeted sites completed. They also distributed winter clothes to 3,364 households, including 8,432 children, across 19 sites in Khan Younis and Deir Al Balah, and blankets to 896 households across six sites in Gaza city and North Gaza.
Debris Working Group: Partners used heavy machinery to support flooded shelter and displacement sites, responding to appeals from municipalities and partners. About 40 sites were reached on 7 November, and by 8 November the number of affected sites had grown to 200, with 30 sites supported by the UN, and 21 by bilateral committees. By 7 November, a bilateral committee had completed 18 emergency sand works at sites to improve ground conditions and reduce flood risk. Before the storm, debris partners had strengthened about 130 vulnerable sites through clearance, ground levelling, drainage improvements and access route stabilization, using over 100,000 tons of debris.
Health: A partner provided tarpaulins, clothes and one tent to 16 affected people, and another partner distributed tents and rain protection materials to 298 households and winter clothes to 2,100 people. A third partner mobilized emergency contractors and deployed backup vehicles so staff could reach all six primary health care centres, kept primary health care services running and delivered 849 consultations on 7 November. A fourth partner kept all 16 of its medical points and health centres open during the rains, and its mobile teams have resumed following a suspension due to the heavy rain.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Partners are dewatering affected sites. Coastal Municipalities Water Utility crews are operating 15 dewatering pumps to remove rainwater from tents and have provided municipalities with mobile pumping units and additional vacuum trucks. About 25,000 sandbags were allocated to reinforce sites and protect shelters. UN partners cleared solid waste from stormwater inlets and drainage canals, unblocked sewage lines and stormwater drains, and used suction trucks to remove accumulated water mixed with sewage in 58 shelters. A cluster partner deployed machinery to 20 sites and distributed hygiene kits, while others provided sand, sandbags and essential repair tools, and cleared sediment and debris from 10 critical locations and rehabilitated roads at four sites using crushed sand and gravel.
Protection: One partner provided tarpaulins, clothed and one tent to 16 families in Nuseirat (Deir al Balah). Teams assessed and responded to the needs of at least 350 families with persons with disabilities at an inclusive site in Az Zawaida (Deir Al Balah). One partner helped families voluntarily relocate away from the shoreline, and another began shelter and sanitation repairs at Hayat displacement site. A partner working with persons with disabilities reported 200 affected families across two camps, and 66 families in Az Zawaida received emergency shelter kits. Before the storm, partners managing shelters for vulnerable groups had reinforced tents, improved drainage, raised ground levels and distributed winter clothing. At a site for women with cancer in Gaza city (65 households), 57 new tents, additional tarpaulins and 1,409 winter clothing items were distributed.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence: Three partners distributed their remaining stocks of tarpaulins, clothing, and tents. One partner distributed 40 tents. Another distributed 764 dignity kits over two days across Gaza and Deir Al Balah governorate. A third provided tents to families in Deir Al Balah and Gaza city and assisted three beneficiaries in North Gaza. A UN agency and another partner delivered 1,200 menstrual hygiene management kits and 200 dignity kits to the Joint Response Mechanism. One partner opened an emergency safe space for women and girls at its office to keep mental health and psychosocial support and case management going, and the Jabalya safe space was repaired after wind damage and reopened.
** Double asterisks indicate that a figure, sentence, or section has been rectified, added, or retracted after the initial publication of this update.
Exclusive: Full text of the Mecca defence pact signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
The agreement commits the three countries to mutual defence, military assistance, intelligence sharing and defence industry cooperation, barring withdrawal for the first 10 years
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud leave after a committee meeting of the Mecca defence pact in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 5 October 2026 (Turkish Foreign Ministry/handout via Reuters)
According to a report published on Sunday, two Syrian officials told AP that the Syrian government had already taken the decision to join the Makkah agreement but had not publicly disclosed the move.
However, a regional official said discussions on Syria’s potential inclusion in the defence arrangement were still ongoing.
“If Syria joins the Mecca Agreement, there will be a war between Israel and Turkey”
November 6th, 2026 16:07
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Reuters, EPA
If Syria joins the Mecca Agreement, Israel’s war with Turkey will begin. This assumption was made on the Israeli TV channel Channel 12.
The main logic of the statement is as follows: if Syria joins the “Mecca Defense Alliance”, which includes Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, then Israeli strikes on Syria can be projected through the mechanism of collective defense on Turkey and even be considered as a declaration of war on Turkey.▼ читать продолжение новости ▼
Earlier, on October 31, 2026, the deputy head of the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that Syria was considering joining the Mecca Alliance.
US intelligence believes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had relationship with Chinese spy: What we know
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US suspects Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had relationship with alleged Chinese spy
US intelligence officials believe Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman suspected of working for Beijing’s main intelligence agency, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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That is an area of concern to US officials who believe he has been involved with the alleged spy, Alice Huang, who is linked to a Singapore-based data center company, according to the New York Times.
Despite their shared surname, the pair are not related.
Who Is Alice Huang? Her Background And Megaspeed Career Alice Huang is a Chinese business executive who previously served as a managing director of Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based company that operates AI computing infrastructure.
Huang worked in China’s financial sector before becoming associated with the AI and semiconductor industries.
Her reported career includes positions at major Chinese banks and Shanghai-based Hexi Capital, an investment firm involved in semiconductor and artificial intelligence businesses.
An earlier professional biography also described Huang as a former television journalist in China. However, her reported employment in broadcasting has not been independently verified.
Huang later became associated with Megaspeed, a company that purchases advanced computing equipment and provides AI processing capacity through data centers.
Corporate records listed Huang as Megaspeed’s managing director during its first eight months of operation under the relevant business structure.
She also described herself publicly as the company’s chief executive. However, subsequent corporate filings no longer listed her as managing director.
By October 2026, Huang was no longer associated with Megaspeed, according to Jensen Huang’s public comments.
Her professional relationship with Nvidia developed through Megaspeed’s role as a customer of the US semiconductor manufacturer. Read more at: https://poptvculture.com/who-is-alice-huang/
Jensen Huang is a unique talent:
Huang’s early years
After emigrating from Taiwan at the age of five, Jen-Hsun Huang and his family spent four years in Thailand before a political crisis in the country forced his parents to send him and his older brother to live with their uncle in the United States.
Shortly after arriving, his uncle mistakenly enrolled the Huang brothers in a rural Kentucky institution that he believed was a prestigious American boarding school. It turned out to be a strict disciplinary and reform environment for troubled children, where young Jen-Hsun, who now went by Jensen, was assigned to clean bathrooms and scrub toilets.
He spent two years there, before his parents arrived and removed him. But he credits that time to instilling in him a strong work ethic.
“I was the only kid cleaning bathrooms, that was a lot of bathrooms,” he recalled in a 2022 interview on Stratechery. “I think that we learned hard work, but it never occurred to us that it was hard work, we just thought that’s what kids do.”
The family settled in Portland, Oregon, where Huang graduated high school at just 16. With a keen interest in computers, he enrolled at Oregon State University and graduated in 1984 with a degree in electrical engineering. While studying there, he met his future wife, Lori Mills, with whom he now has two children.
His first job out of college was at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he worked as a microprocessor designer for the semiconductor manufacturer. After a few years in the industry, he enrolled at Stanford University in California, where he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering at the age of 29. Now in the heart of Silicon Valley, Huang and two fellow engineers had an idea that they believed could capitalise on the growing video games market. In a Denny’s restaurant in April 1993, Nvidia was born.
The rise of Nvidia
Along with Nvidia’s two other co-founders, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, Huang set about building specialised chips that could dramatically improve computer graphics. The company’s first major product was the NV1, a graphics card that launched in September 1995. Although technologically ambitious, it was ultimately unsuccessful due to its design approach being incompatible with the direction of the wider PC market.
The first commercial success came in 1997 with the RIVA 128, but it was not until 1999 that Nvidia made a big breakthrough with the GeForce 256, which it marketed as the world’s first GPU (graphics processing unit). The technology became a fundamental component of modern computers and helped usher in a new generation of video games.
It was in the early 2000s that Huang decided to pivot away from just a computer graphics company and decided to develop GPUs for general-purpose computing. The processor could be used for a huge variety of workloads, from weather modelling to medical research, but it was artificial intelligence that would turn Nvidia into a trillion-dollar company.
A decade before the arrival of ChatGPT, which kicked off the recent AI frenzy, Nvidia’s chips were being used by researchers to train neural networks and make breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The increasingly powerful chips were at the forefront of pioneering developments in robotics, self-driving cars and data centres, making Nvidia perfectly placed for the next stage of the AI revolution.
Huang had not necessarily predicted the emergence of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, but the technology Nvidia had built made their development economically and technically possible.
Nvidia and the AI boom
Less than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Nvidia’s market value crossed the $1 trillion mark. By 2025, it became the first publicly traded company to reach a market capitalisation of $4 trillion.
,Its rise has seen Huang’s personal fortune rise above $150 billion, ranking him in the top 10 of the world’s wealthiest people, while also placing him at the centre of geopolitics.
Before her marriage, Hegseth worked as a producer on short films and in television, first at WPIX and later at Fox News.[2][1] She spent much of her career producing Fox & Friends, the morning program her future husband Pete Hegseth began co-hosting in 2017.[3] When their relationship became public, she moved over to produce Watters’ World instead. Hegseth remained at Fox until 2024, eventually becoming a vice president at the network’s streaming service, Fox Nation.[4][5]
Hegseth’s visibility around her husband began before his confirmation, when she regularly accompanied him to meetings with senators on Capitol Hill. Senate staffers indicated that her presence altered the dynamic of conversations, particularly those touching on the sexual assault allegation against Hegseth, since some senators had hoped to question him on the matter privately.[7]
In March 2025, Hegseth was a guest of congressman Pete Stauber at the 2025 Donald Trump speech to a joint session of Congress.[8] Since her husband assumed his role as secretary of defense, Hegseth has served in an unofficial capacity as a frequent confidante and advisor. CNN reported in April 2025 that Hegseth had applied for a security clearance, though it remained unconfirmed whether one was ever granted. A spokesperson from the Pentagon has described her as an accomplished leader and a trusted adviser to her husband.[7][9]
Hegseth has joined at least one official bilateral meeting at the Pentagon, sitting in on a March 2025 discussion between Hegseth and the United Kingdom’s defense secretary John Healey.[10] Hegseth has played an influential role in managing her husband’s media strategy and has taken part in building out the Pentagon’s public affairs operation.[7]
Hegseth’s Wife Was Paid by Consulting Firm Whose Clients Include Lockheed Martin
Pete Hegseth is already being eyed for impeachment by the new Democratic majority in Congress.By Sharon Zhang , TruthoutPublished
November 5, 2026
Politicofirst reported on Jennifer Hegseth’s work in 2025 for top consulting firm Watchtower Strategy, which was uncovered in Pete Hegseth’s financial disclosure form for the year. The amount that she was paid is not disclosed, and it lists “consulting” as the explanation for the income. The disclosure also reports two other consulting gigs for Jennifer Hegseth, who has previously held Lockheed shares, as Military.com pointed out.
Watchtower was launched by former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy early last year and has become a major power player in D.C. In May 2025, Politico reported that the firm was doing “general consulting” work for Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed would not confirm whether or not it still works with Watchtower, and the consulting firm declined to say whether or not Jennifer Hegseth still consults with them. A spokesperson for Watchtower said that she had provided media consulting for them. Jennifer Hegseth was a longtime Fox News producer and is the daughter of a now-deceased Lockheed Martin executive.
“It should be no surprise that a public affairs firm would want to work with one of the biggest former star producers at Fox News, the nation’s preeminent conservative news outlet,” a Watchtower spokesperson said, per Politico. “Jen has assisted us in navigating conservative TV media and we appreciate her help. She has not interfaced with any clients nor does she provide any advice to Watchtower on defense matters.”
McCarthy launching public affairs firm with political allies
Former chairman Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) has launched a public affairs company with some political allies after departure from Congress.
Watch tower strategies are a “full -service public relations company” specializing in strategies, advocacy, and strategic communication. The group said in the release Tuesday.
McCarsie join Former White House Communication Assistant Cliffsims. Arthur Schwartz is the ally of Vence President Vans. Gop Allies Jeff Miller, Dan Conston, Brian O. Walsh.
“The launch of the Watch Tower Strategy will come to an extremely promising moment for Japan,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Navigating at this moment is both, and it can be both opportunities and challenges.”
“The Watch Tower team is trusted, tested, and built for success,” he continued.
McCarthy left Congress in late 2023 after being expelled from a far -right conservative lecture. He was in conflict with his conservatives on his party, and he has been working in the media since he left the house.
The group said he would be the chairman of the company.
CEO, a group, said in a release that they provided a “sound counsel” and was engaged in some of the biggest battles in Washington.
The group has argued that their companies can provide CEOs and executives with their own experience in future policies and reform discussions.
“The leadership of the tower strategy is knowing how to accomplish things after decades at the highest level of politics and the government.” “The company is built to support the client to navigate Washington’s toughest tough tasks. The highest managers have formed policy results, managed the crisis of high stakes, and complicated decisions. Regardless of whether to guide. “
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