What started out as a routine FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv quickly devolved into a nightmare near Jordan, as the Boeing 737, carrying 180 souls, plunged 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds — wild enough to rip its tail rudder.
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IRAN
We flagged yesterday the degree to which the Middle East’s oil exports have now bounced back to 80%+ of their pre-war average, but the plot has now thickened further: Iran’s own exports out of Hormuz are now near zero. (OilPrice.com)
UNITED KINGDOM
PM Burnham now says there are “strong indications” Iran played a part in Sunday’s strange security incident near a Fairford airbase, used by US heavy bombers against Iran. (CNBC)
BRAZIL
Brazil’s ‘Abin’ intelligence agency has reportedly briefed French and German diplomats that both Russia and the US (!) are actively attempting to interfere in Brazil’s high-stakes, neck-and-neck elections this Sunday. (Reuters)
CHILE
JPMorgan’s commodities desk has issued a blunt warning that the world’s copper supply now faces a “triple threat” via “diesel availability in South America, El Niño weather risks, and Chilean strike potential.” (GoldFix)
CHINA
China’s military has opened a new logistics and support base at an airport in Laos, insisting it’s a jointly-run facility that’s “not directed against any third party”. (The Diplomat)
SOMALIA
Heavy urban fighting and mortar fire has erupted across southern Somalia’s heartland city of Baidoa, as Somali federal forces try to hold the city against fighters loyal to an ousted regional leader — Mogadishu claims local Islamist group Al-Shabaab has joined the assault on Baidoa. (Al Jazeera)
RUSSIA
NATO has condemned Moscow’s latest “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric” after a Kremlin non-paper threatened to use its “entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons” against NATO if it ever blockades Putin’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad (an idea that emerged via British media). (Japan Times)
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