Russia
- yesterday
WHO says cause of Russian lab worker's death still unknown, no plague case found
Russia told the WHO that no plague case has been recorded after a worker at an Irkutsk research institute died in early October. The agency says the cause of death is still unknown and has asked for more clinical and laboratory data.
- yesterday
SPD leaders push to expel Gerhard Schröder after his visit to Putin's birthday
Robin Mesarosch and Sebastian Roloff, the SPD chiefs of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, back excluding the former chancellor, while Greens co-chair Franziska Brantner demands new proceedings. The SPD Upper Palatinate district has adopted a motion calling for the same step.
- 2d ago
Trump asks US Supreme Court to revive dismissed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
Trump filed the petition on Friday, 9 October, after a federal judge dismissed the suit and ordered him and one of his lawyers to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions. The filing asks the court to revisit a case alleging a conspiracy linked to the 2016 election.
- 2d ago
Russian glide bombs kill at least 20 in Zaporizhzhia as Zelensky links attack to US diesel deal
Russian guided bombs hit a five-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia early on Saturday, and Ukraine's emergency service now reports 20 dead, including three children. Large-scale power outages hit Kyiv the same day.
- 2d ago
Ukrainian drones shut Moscow airports on Friday, forcing Putin's government jets to circle
Four Russian government aircraft returning from Turkmenistan were forced to circle Moscow on Friday, while the Moscow region governor reported two deaths and nine injuries from the drone attack.
- 2d ago
Ukraine charges 14-year-old girl over soldier's killing on Russian FSB orders
Ukrainian police say the 14-year-old from Rivne poisoned a 27-year-old soldier with methadone-laced alcohol in January and strangled him during a video call with her Russian handler, who worked for the FSB.
- 2d ago
Trump calls for new Ukrainian president over Russian diesel deal dispute
Trump announced a Russian diesel supply deal with Vladimir Putin on Friday, then said on Saturday that Ukraine should choose a new president. Zelensky called the easing of sanctions a sign of weakness, and the Financial Times reported that Washington threatened to halt intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
- 2d ago
Yesilgöz calls Russia 'our enemy', Russian embassy demands the Dutch cabinet clarify
Defence Minister Dilan Yesilgöz said in a Thursday budget debate that Russia is no longer just an aggressor but the Netherlands' enemy. On Friday she called Russia 'our biggest security threat', while Prime Minister Rob Jetten embraced her word choice.
- 3d ago
Slovakia restores military attaché ties with Russia, sending two officers to Moscow
Bratislava has resumed military attaché contacts with Moscow after four years, sending two Slovak officers to Moscow while a Russian naval officer heads to the Slovak capital. The opposition warns of espionage and calls the decision a very bad one.
- 3d ago
EU removes Panama and Vietnam from its tax haven blacklist, citing transparency progress
The decision was taken by EU finance ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg, ten years after the Panama Papers leak. Panama had been listed since 2020 and Vietnam since February 2026.
- 3d ago
Klitschko says Kyiv in survival mode as Russian strikes hit bridges and power grid
Mayor Vitali Klitschko told AFP that Russian strikes have destroyed bridges and key infrastructure, and suggested that residents with family outside Kyiv consider leaving for the winter.
- 3d ago
Montenegro detains Rybar blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk and orders five Russians expelled
Zvinchuk was held in the coastal town of Risan with his wife and other Russian nationals, and Montenegro's interior ministry ordered all five expelled on national security grounds.
- 3d ago
OpenAI bans Russian and Iranian ChatGPT propaganda networks targeting Ukraine
The Russian operation used ChatGPT to write internal reports and run a fake Latin American think tank, while the Iranian one planted almost 100 articles under fake Western journalist bylines.
- 3d ago
European Parliament rejects legitimacy of Russia's new State Duma and calls for sanctions
The resolution, passed 482 to 41 with 39 abstentions, asks EU states to cut official contact with the Duma and says the 18-20 September vote was neither free nor fair.
- 3d ago
Poles divided on Nawrocki meeting Putin at Miami G20 summit, 63.5% say he should not
Marco Rubio says Vladimir Putin has also been invited to the 14-15 December G20 summit in Miami, where Poland will be represented by President Karol Nawrocki. An IBRiS poll for Rzeczpospolita found 63.5% of respondents think the two should not meet.
- 3d ago
EU gas storage at 72% on 1 October, with winter supply depending on LNG imports
ENTSOG says the EU can meet winter gas demand, but storage stands at 72% and could fall well below 30% if LNG deliveries stay limited.
- 3d ago
Lithuania to ask EU for ban on Russian grain transit and oligarch sanctions
Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said on Thursday that Lithuania will push for an EU ban on Russian grain transit. Lithuania is also tightening checks on grain origin, and Estonia has banned such transit since 1 October.
- 3d ago
Ryanair's O'Leary sees no jet fuel shortage in Europe until summer 2027, but prices stay high
Michael O'Leary said on Thursday that Europe should not run short of aviation fuel this winter or until summer 2027, barring unforeseen events, while jet fuel now costs 50% more than Brent crude.
- 3d ago
Putin pledges Russian help to end Iran war at Turkmenistan talks with Pezeshkian
Vladimir Putin told Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday 8 October that Russia is ready to do everything possible to help resolve the conflict with the United States and Israel. The talks took place in Avaza, Turkmenistan, on the sidelines of a Commonwealth of Independent States summit.
- 3d ago
Ukraine's drone and AI push runs into a shortage of troops at the front
Ukraine is adding AI-guided interceptors, ground robots and autonomous gun positions to its drone war, while some front-line units are at half strength. A deputy commander in the Pokrovsk area says his battalion barely holds its sector.
