USA - A new report shows the scale of US losses during the conflict with Iran, which began in February. At least 81 US military aircraft have been lost or damaged since the beginning of the war in Iran, totaling as much as $3.3 billion, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. Some of America's most advanced warplanes are among the losses, including a damaged F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter and 12 F-15E Strike Eagle fighters that were destroyed or damaged. Three of the F-15 jets, worth more than $30 million each, were shot down in friendly fire over Kuwait on March 2, with another shot down over Iran in April. Another massive loss was at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, each estimated at $30 to $50 million. The Congressional Research Service also noted the loss of one $270 million E-3 Sentry surveillance plane... Last month, US Central Command estimated that the total cost of the war in Iran grew to $43.6 billion, a $5 billion increase from August.

USA - Council meeting in Iowa opens with Prayer to SATAN — Councilwoman objects when mayor calls for prayer to “reverse” it. The moral decay forced upon America by radical leftists has reached a terrifying new low right in the heart of the Midwest. An Iowa city council opened its regular meeting this week by standing for an invocation addressed to a “dark father,” praising the “luciferian impulse,” and closing with “Hail Satan.”

UK - The nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has fallen by up to 50 percent since the Sixties because of declining soil quality, according to a new study. The report, from researchers at Deep Science Ventures, found that humans needed to consume twice the number of vegetables to get the same level of minerals such as potassium, magnesium or copper as would have been present in their food 60 years ago. The study found that many crops had lost 20 percent to 50 percent of several key nutrients. Will Summers, a senior associate at the firm, said: “For 60 years we’ve measured food security in calories and tonnes per hectare. On those measures we’ve done remarkably well. But we’ve been quietly hollowing out what’s inside our food.” The decrease in nutrient and vitamin value is thought to be down to declining soil quality and crops being selectively bred for their ability to grow quickly, rather than there being any focus on their health benefits.

YEMEN - Saudi fighter jets struck rebel Houthi targets in an offensive to retake swathes of Yemen, including the Red Sea coast, after attacks on oil infrastructure. Turkey and Pakistan have activated a defence pact with Saudi Arabia as the kingdom and its Yemeni allies fight to seize control of the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait from Iranian-backed rebels. The countries said they would send troops after the kingdom launched an operation alongside the Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen to wrest back control of the strait, which was taken by the Houthis last month. The Yemeni government forces claimed that they had recaptured the strait, which is a vital route for commercial and oil shipments, but sources said the Houthis continue to hold out.

FRANCE - Trump claimed that the protests were not about schools, and instead were "about Islam wanting to take over a once great country!" US President Donald Trump said in a Truth post on Tuesday that mass migration and Islam were to blame for the massive protests occurring in France. "What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration," said the president. "This isn't about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!" The student protests began in September in the deprived suburbs of Paris before spreading nationwide.

VATICAN - More than 347 million children in nearly 100 countries and territories are expected to face unusually wet or dry conditions in the coming months as the 2026-2027 El Niño develops, UNICEF has warned. The climate phenomenon, marked by unusually warm waters in parts of the Pacific Ocean and associated changes in weather patterns across the globe, is forecast to become one of the strongest El Niño events on record. According to UNICEF, the resulting droughts and floods could threaten children's health, nutrition, education and access to essential services. “For children, El Niño is far more than a weather pattern,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “It can mean increased displacement, malnutrition, water shortages, and disease outbreaks.”

GERMANY - The far-right Alternative for Germany convened for the first sitting of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament on Tuesday but, a month after its landmark election win, the party still lacks a clear path to forming what would be its first state government. Despite winning the vote in the September 6 election in the eastern German state, the AfD fell three seats short of the absolute majority that candidate Ulrich Siegmund had aimed for. Siegmund said before Tuesday's sitting that he aimed to win parliamentary backing to become state premier in a first round of voting that he said would only take place in December, giving him more time to build support.

USA - The US has threatened to impose sanctions on Britain and other European countries over their boycott of Israeli settlements. A Trump administration official criticised countries including the UK, France and Norway for bans on goods produced in illegal settlements in the West Bank, calling such actions “anti-Semitic”. Speaking on Tuesday, Harmeet Dhillon, an assistant US attorney general, said any country engaging in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel “is going to risk – while President Trump is in power – retaliatory or corresponding sanctions”.

UK - Four in 10 British farmers fear they may be forced to leave the industry within the next decade, a report from oven-chip maker McCain has warned. In a survey of 200 farmers, 42 per cent said they had considered leaving their farms in the past year, and 40 percent said they questioned whether they would still be farming in 10 years’ time. Meanwhile, some 77 per cent warned that government policy was the biggest threat to farming’s future. Farmers are coming to the end of the poorest harvest on record, with analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit showing that UK farmers lost some three million tonnes of grain worth around £448 million.

GERMANY - The fairytale castle in the centre of Schwerin was completed in 1857. The same year, Germany was rocked by a global financial crisis. During the economic turmoil, peasants were prevented from emigrating from the city and the surrounding region, which is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The region is once again in upheaval as the epicentre of a political earthquake that threatens to topple Germany’s chancellor amid a modern cost-of-living crisis. “People used to view populism like a cold or the sniffles affecting European party democracy,” said Daniel Fiss, a rising star in the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a lakeside park with a view of the castle, a Unesco World Heritage site. The AfD election campaign manager told The Telegraph: “We have to face the question. Is populism perhaps becoming the new normal?”

GERMANY - Nationwide support for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance has collapsed to a historic low following a series of defeats in regional elections, a new poll suggests. The bloc’s popular backing stood at just 18%, its worst in German postwar history, according to a survey conducted by the INSA polling institution on behalf of Bild. The poll put the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 30%, the highest since the party was established in 2013. It remains the most popular party in Germany by a wide margin, the poll suggests. The CDU/CSU’s junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats and the Greens are polling at 14% each, with the Left Party at 10%.

UK - Donald Trump has said that a 'specific threat' prompted the United States to withdraw its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford following an alleged foiled terror plot. The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that aircraft which were being stationed at the Gloucestershire base had been 'redeployed to their home stations in the US'. It came after the arrests of six individuals over the past week in connection with a suspected terror plot targeting the base.

UK - If just the threat of an attack can lead to the withdrawal of a key strategic US military asset, it emboldens our enemies. Since the end of the Second World War, the close alliance between the UK and America has had its tangible manifestation in the presence of US bases in this country. The “special relationship” was never more obvious than in places like RAF Fairford, where the USAF kept a squadron of 12 B-1 bombers. They have now all been moved back across the Atlantic to home stations in the US following the apparent terror plot that led to the arrest of five men, since released on bail. Andy Burnham has said there were “strong indications” of Iranian involvement in the episode and a British-Iranian was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. He has also been released on bail. Iran has said any base used to attack its territory constitutes “a legitimate target”.

MIDDLE EAST - The meeting comes a day after Iranian FM Esmail Baghaei said he hoped a “rumor” that Pakistan had deployed troops to Saudi Arabia was untrue, warning that intervention would complicate the situation. Officials from Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are set to meet in Riyadh on Monday to discuss how the three countries’ new Mecca Joint Defense Agreement should respond to escalating Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, according to statements from the pact’s signatories. “As for the defense pact, the intention was, and God willing still is, that this pact not be used in a way that goes against the interests and general concerns of the Muslim ummah (collective).”

SPAIN - Pedro Sánchez is the undisputed leader of the European Left. But his time is running out. The Spanish prime minister rolled the dice on a snap election that risks bringing the hard-Right Vox into national government for the first time. The poll-leading centre-Right Partido Popular (PP) will need Vox as coalition partners if it is to take power, which will mean the most Right-wing Spanish government since Franco. It’s a nightmare scenario for Mr Sánchez, who prides himself on his progressive policies.