Russia/Ukraine War
Ukraine is littered with landmines on a scale last seen in Vietnam. How can they be removed?
Faced with deadlier threats, demining groups are coming up with new ways of working using drones and AICrouched over on her hands and knees in a field of weeds, Olena Kabanova is …
Slovakia delays connecting fourth power unit of Mochovce NPP to grid — agency
TASR reported that the decision was made following an unusual reaction during technical tests
Trump unlikely to impose sanctions soon under law tightening restrictions against Moscow
A Democratic Senate aide told Politico that the administration is showing no signs of readiness through Treasury, State and Commerce department channels
Trump predicts new Great Depression for US if Democrats win November elections
The US president also promised $5,000 to each American if the Republicans win
OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executive conference room
OpenAI engineer has been arrested over alleged bugging of executive meeting room Read Full Article at RT.com
Libya could become reliable supplier of oil, gas again — envoy
Ali Juma Hassan Fadil added that it requires modernizing facilities and creating a more predictable contractual and legal environment for investors
Saudi national arrested for installing audio recording device at OpenAI office
Abdulrahman Alfozan was employed as an engineer by the company in July 2025, the US Department of Justice said
Libya moves past war stage, threat of new crisis remains — envoy
Ambassador to Iran Ali Juma Hassan Fadil says that a final political and institutional settlement has not yet been reached
Trump ‘betrayed Ukraine’ – US senators
US senators accuse Trump of betraying Ukraine with the Russia diesel deal Read Full Article at RT.com
Number of UAVs downed while approaching Moscow since start of day reaches 75
Emergency services’ specialists are working at the sites where debris fell, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported
CIA was aware of plans of Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, did not oppose it — journalist
Oliver Schrom, who co-authored a book dedicated to the attack, said that the organizers turned to their American contacts when making the decision to blow up the pipelines
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy decries ‘absolutely unjust’ lack of warning from allies after Kyiv plant strike
Donald Trump has denied intelligence sharing with Ukraine had stopped, while demanding that Kyiv halts strikes on Russian refineries. What we know on day 1,694A Russian ballistic …
Number of drones downed while approaching Moscow since start of day reaches 30
Emergency services’ specialists are working at the sites where debris fell, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported
Russia to convene Arria-formula meeting on human rights violations in Ukraine on Oct. 14
The format suggests the participation of all members of the UN Security Council
Who is Sofya Rozenfeld, the internationally renowned Russian ornithologist sentenced to three and a half years for donating to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation?
Sofya Rozenfeld has spent her life studying Arctic birds: traveling to Russia’s Far North on expeditions, following flocks of geese in a seaplane, and fighting to protect rare spe…
Ukrainian army attacks DPR settlements eight times in 24 hours, wounding two people
Strikes damaged a truck and one civil infrastructure facility
The true story behind Moscow’s new big-budget racing movie: How Imperial Russia’s first Monte Carlo Rally team crossed Europe in 1912 without a windshield
On October 8, Ilya Malanin’s film “Bitva motorov” (“Battle of the Motors”) opened in Russian theaters. Starring Yura Borisov and Ivan Yankovsky, it tells the story of a Russian te…
The Washington Post: U.S. and Europe are developing a new plan to end the Russia–Ukraine war, offering incentives and security arrangements in exchange for a ceasefire along the current front line
The U.S. and Europe are gradually working toward a joint proposal for a broad peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, built around financial benefits and security guarantees for bo…
Over 30 planes bound for Moscow diverted to other cities
In particular, 19 aircraft bound for Vnukovo landed in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Pskov, and Istanbul
MI5 chief warns against exaggerating ‘Russian influence’ on Brexit
MI5 chief Ken McCallum has warned against exaggerating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum Read Full Article at RT.com
Organizers of Kanye West’s canceled St. Petersburg concerts say prosecutors found no evidence of fraud
Prosecutors found no evidence of fraud in a review of Say Agency, which was organizing rapper Kanye West’s concerts in St. Petersburg.
How to avoid military conscription and pressure to sign an army contract in Russia
In September 2022, Grigory Sverdlin, the former director of Nochlezhka, an organization that helps homeless people, launched Idite Lesom (“Get Lost”). The project helps Russians a…
Schools in Azerbaijan are barring girls who wear hijabs from class. Some of their male classmates are refusing to attend in solidarity.
In late September, Azerbaijan approved new school uniform rules, including a ban on “items inconsistent with the principle of secularism.” Inspections soon began at schools, and g…
‘Alice is still chugging along, though she’s showing clear signs of a personality breakdown’: Meduza readers describe how attacks on Yandex data centers are changing their work and daily lives
After repeated Russian attacks on data centers in Ukraine, Ukrainian forces began striking Yandex’s data centers. From October 8 to 11, Ukrainian drones reached three of the compa…