Fires burn in central Tirana as protesters throw stones and police respond with tear gas and water cannon. Student-led demonstrations demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation enter their third day. #AlbaniaProtests #TiranaRiots #StudentDemonstrations
🇫🇷🇺🇦 “Tonight, I reiterated to President Zelensky our determination to stand by Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.” - Emmanuel Macron President of France
The skies over Moscow are clear of planes. Moscow airports will be closed and not be able to carry out their logistical and cargo functions, in addition to carrying passengers. The "special military operation" is going according to plan. (translated)
On the Iran school attack: Top Pentagon officials have expressed their intention to hold off on releasing an internal report into the attack on a school in southern Iran until after the US midterm elections at the earliest, according to people familiar.-Bloomberg
A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.
"Today alone, 52 people were injured. Throughout the day, there were Russian attacks on a store, a pharmaceutical factory, and logistics centers. It is very important that Poland helps us defend against these attacks. I thank Donald and Poland for their assistance to Ukraine." — Zelenskyj (translated)
🇫🇷🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: A very substantive meeting with President of France Emmanuel Macron. We appreciate that France is helping as much as possible to find ways to respond to Russian escalation.
Zelenskyy: “I told Trump: If you enable Starlink access inside Russia, we can quickly destroy their ballistic missile launchers. Putin would come to negotiating table, and I wouldn’t need to destroy a single energy facility. But instead, they shut down Starlink.” As they say, "from RU, with love"
Footage of a Ukrainian "Sichen" strike UAV targeting Russian facilities. Reported operational range: 1,400 km.
One distinctive feature of Trump's second term is that it's become impossible to differentiate when he's being stupid and when he's being mendacious. But on this it hardly even matters—his conduct on Ukraine in the last week alone would be grounds for impeachment in any functioning political system.
The election interference starts.
Residents have been told to avoid leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary. #IstanbulFlooding #SevereWeather #NaturalDisasters
Albanian students are rising up! 🇦🇱 Thousands are striking in Tirana to demand halved tuition fees, better university resources, and an end to corruption. Driven by systemic neglect and economic hardship, their fight for affordable education deserves global solidarity. Stand with them!
UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting: This has been a strong year for Ukraine. The front line has barely moved. The price that Putin is paying in terms of Russian casualties and the economic disaster it's inflicting on the Russian economy puts Ukraine in a strong position.
Trump promised to end Putin's war in Ukraine in a day. Instead, he has made concession after concession to Putin, getting nothing concrete in return. I now think Ukrainians would have been better off if Trump had done absolutely nothing. THREAD. 1/
A number of states have confirmed they were targeted by the mailings, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Louisiana. #SuspiciousMail #USElections #FBIInvestigation
The author of the post wrote that greater activity from President Nawrocki was needed in matters of Poland's security. He pointed out that maintaining American sanctions against Russia and advocating for a permanent presence of US troops in Poland required constant diplomatic efforts. He added that in the face of Russian aggression... https://t.co/KiyayzSs72 #Polska #Bezpieczeństwo #Dyplomacja #PL #US #RU (translated)
A search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after the latest attack in the area. #BlackSea #DroneAttack #MaritimeSecurity
Canada and the European Union are laying out concrete steps to strengthen ties around digital security, critical resources and a would-be fleet of Canadian water bombers, according to a draft joint statement ahead of a major summit at month’s end. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
