A Sudanese minister says four Israeli warplanes have attacked a weapons production factory in the Sudanese capital city killing at least two people, Khartoum.

"Four military planes attacked the Yarmouk plant," Sudan's Minister of Information Ahmed Bilal Osman said on Wednesday. We think Israel did the bombing,” Osman said, adding that the planes had appeared to approach the site from the east. Osman's also threatened that Sudan reserves the right to retaliate. Tel Aviv has refused to comment on the incident. Israel designates eastern Sudan as a route for smuggling arms to the besieged Gaza strip through Egypt’s Sinai desert.

Reuters: Explosions, fire at arms factory in Sudan's capital

The Australian: Sudan accuses Israel of bombing, threatens to retaliate - The foreign ministry of Israel, which has long accused Khartoum of serving as a base for militants from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, refused to comment. Mr Osman said four aircraft were involved in the attack, which occurred at about midnight (2100 GMT) at the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in the south of the Sudanese capital. Evidence pointing to Israel was found among remnants of the explosives, he said.

He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry" Really? REALLY? Here's the facts, ma'am: As I reported in this week's Nation magazine cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a special partnership with the vulture fund that bought Delphi, the former GM auto parts division. The Romney vulture fund investment syndicate shipped every single UAW production job – EVERY job – to China. Just after Nation broke the story, Washington newsletter The Hill received the Romneys admission of profiteering:

"Romney's campaign did not deny that he profited from the auto bailout in an email to The Hill, but it said the the report showed the Detroit intervention was 'misguided.'"

The truth? On June 1, 2009, the Obama Administration announced that Detroit Piston's owner Tom Gores, GM and the US Treasury would buy back Delphi. The plan called for saving 15 of 29 Delphi factories in the US. Then the vulture funds pounced.

There's a blackout by the mainstream media and the US political elite on coverage of third parties, but RT covered and broadcast this year's third-party presidential debate, hosted by Larry King and featuring a panel including our own Thom Hartmann.

On Tuesday night, RT was one of only a handful of media outlets to broadcast the debate, moderated by award-winning broadcast journalist Larry King. Organized by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, candidates from the Constitution, Green, Justice and Libertarian parties sounded off on the issues facing American voters, without having to worry about towing party lines for the Democrats or Republicans. The third-party candidates' debate statements, diverse as they were, were a change of pace for the growing number of Americans who see little substantive difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Though they often disagreed, there was near unanimity on one general concept: The Democratic and Republican parties represent corporate interests, not the average American. Speaking to RT, Free and Equal Elections Foundation founder Christina Tobin said, "We’re going to shift the power back to the people, back to the origins of the Constitution, which doesn’t even mention parties or corporations." Despite having their voices and positions largely shut out of the two-party system, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson plan to continue their campaigns until Election Day. Largely ignored by the mainstream media, the candidates had few opportunities before this debate to air their positions on critical issues, and their visions for America.

The United States seeks the continuation of “an Afghanistan scenario” it created in Syria, a political analyst tells Press TV. - “We’re seeing a repeat of the scenario in Syria -- we have an Afghanistan scenario. I think they want this scenario to proceed, otherwise they would have suspended all types of aid for the Syrian insurgency,” said Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs, in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday. Ahmed also stated that the US policy makers have provided financial and political support for the insurgents to intensify the turmoil in Syria. He also criticized UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, who has called for a temporary ceasefire during the four-day Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday starting on October 26. Brahimi has no power to enforce the ceasefire plan as he was appointed by an institution that has been supporting the insurgency in Syria, Ahmed said. “The reality is you have international intelligence services that are involved heavily -- the Saudis, the Qataris, the Americans, the Turks, and others -- in this situation. These are the people who make a difference, not Lakhdar Brahimi or the United Nations.”

Another Palestinian has died, succumbing to his injuries sustained in recent airstrikes carried out by the Israeli regime on the Gaza Strip. - The victim was the fourth Palestinian killed in Israeli airstrikes against Gaza since Tuesday night. The other Palestinians injured in the airstrikes are suffering from lack of medicine due to the Israeli siege on the enclave, a Press TV correspondent said. The Tel Aviv regime’s violent assaults started after an Israeli Army officer was wounded by a bomb in the Kissufim region on Gaza’s northern border. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organization claimed responsibility for the bombing. In response to the Israeli aggression, Palestinians have fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.