Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the parliamentary elections scheduled for November 28 and, in his new decree, has set September 11, 2027 as the date for both the parliamentary and presidential elections. This was announced on Saturday by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, according to a report by Euronews. The presidential office in Ramallah cited security, logistical and

On Saturday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz swept the latest compromise proposal on the European Union's long-term budget for 2028–2034 off the table with a single sentence. According to Mediafax and Politico, Merz said they are still far from a deal, that the proposed amount cannot serve as a basis for an agreement, and that the budget must also be bearable for those who shoulder the larger sha

It's not just the Democrats anymore — members of Donald Trump's own party have also turned against the deal on Russian diesel. Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, co-chair of the House's Ukraine-friendly caucus, announced on October 10 that he is introducing a bipartisan bill to ban the purchase of Russian oil in all its forms. According to a report by Radio Free Europe, he inte

Five European intelligence services have warned the leaders of European defense companies that Russia is stepping up assassination attempts against them, G4Media reported on October 11, citing the Financial Times. The companies are therefore reinforcing their executives' personal security, and in some cases are also relocating production facilities. According to the paper's sources, the Kremlin or

Poland's security services were summoned to an emergency meeting on Sunday morning after police received information about a possible assassination plot that could target Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. The announcement was made on social media by Karolina Gałecka, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior, and according to a report by TVP World and Reuter

The U.S. State Department's Office of the Inspector General has opened an internal investigation into Ambassador to Athens Kimberly Guilfoyle and the embassy she leads, triggered by Eric Deters, a longtime supporter and donor of Donald Trump. Deters claims that in 2025, just days before her Senate confirmation hearing, Guilfoyle asked him to pay off her overdue $100,000 American Express bill, prom

On Friday evening, October 9, Donald Trump announced that the United States will buy Russian diesel and that the world market will also open up to Russian fuel. The president, who thanks to God's peculiar sense of humor is once again commander-in-chief of the world's strongest army, described his hour-and-a-half phone call with Vladimir Putin, with his usual modesty, as extremely successful. Yuri

Russia would tie an energy ceasefire with Ukraine to the easing of American sanctions, and would also link the agreement to a deal on Black Sea shipping, the Kyiv Independent reported on October 9, citing American and Ukrainian officials. According to a report by Tim Zadorozhnyi and Jimmy Rushton, Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev discussed halting attacks on energy infrastructure with St

Russian attacks have caused significant damage to Ukraine's electricity grid and power transmission facilities, and restoration work is underway around the clock, Volodymyr Zelensky said on October 9, following talks with military and government officials. The president thanked the repair crews, energy companies and regional authorities for quickly organizing the work, while noting that the countr

Russian military positions, electronic warfare and reconnaissance antennas, as well as several hundred meters of barbed wire are shown in footage published by the local Telegram channel actual_energodar about the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. According to the report, published on October 9, the military equipment and positions were placed on the roofs of the reactor and turbine buildi

Four oil tanks, each with a nominal capacity of fifty thousand cubic meters, were affected by the fire that broke out after the October 8 attack on the Samara-2 pumping station, according to an assessment based on satellite imagery published by an analyst using the handle absreliable. The images released on October 9 show heat anomalies and smoke over the tank farm, and the report states that four

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, during the night of October 9, three facilities in Russia were attacked that are linked to missile launch systems, missile fuel and explosives production. Targets included the Barmin missile launch systems research institute near Dalneye Konstantinovo-5 in Nizhny Novgorod Region, the experimental plant in Redkino, Tver Region, and the center near Surovatik

Ukrainian drones attacked the refineries in Omsk and Ukhta, Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on October 9, saying that An-196 RS-type devices were deployed against Ukhta, located about 1,900 kilometers from Ukraine's state border, while the previous day's strike on Omsk was carried out using FP-6 drones, presented as a modified version of the FP-1. According to the Ukrainian president's statement, the

On the morning of October 9, Montenegrin police and the national security agency arrested Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of Rybar, one of the best-known Russian war propaganda channels, who was detained along with his wife and three colleagues in Risan, on the Bay of Kotor. Prime Minister Milojko Spajić confirmed the action and linked it to hybrid operations aimed at destabilizing Montenegro and obstru

Romania's chief prosecutor's office has indicted businessman Bogdan Peșchir, who is accused of bribing voters in connection with the financing of Călin Georgescu's 2024 presidential election TikTok campaign. Prosecutors listed 874 individual acts as part of the continuing offense, claiming that between October 13 and November 27, 2024, Peșchir distributed benefits worth more than 290,000 dollars t

Nearly two years after Romania's 2024 presidential election, the European Commission's investigation into TikTok is still ongoing, seeking to clarify whether the platform properly assessed and managed the risks threatening the electoral process. Information related to elections in other EU countries may also be used in the proceedings, and if the Digital Services Act is found to have been violated

On October 9, the European Union removed Panama and Vietnam from its blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, after the two countries took significant steps to address previously identified shortcomings. The decision by EU finance ministers nonetheless involves further scrutiny: both countries have been moved to the second annex, which lists cooperative jurisdictions that still

A drone strike hit the Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, on October 8, and the facility was completely shut down due to the damage caused. According to a Reuters report, the company has not yet been able to determine whether the damaged equipment can be repaired, while the incident has also affected the operation of several services.

Because he has managed the educational rights of the Ukrainian... [Romanian] minority extremely poorly.

The world has turned completely around in three days — or as they say, the weathercock atop the church tower is creaking, and for Dan Tanasă, in Romanian: erțcocoșul face cârț-cârț. Three days ago, after all, Botond Csoma stood before his wider (Digi24) and narrower (Transtelex) audience and said that the RMDSZ would not be part of the next government, arguing that it simply wouldn't do for them t