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Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
Sweden to send Patriot air defence systems to Poland in December
Sweden will send Patriot air defence systems to Poland in December, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said, according to Interfax. The systems are to protect the NATO logistics hub in Rzeszów, through which Western military …
Macron convenes emergency meeting over French student protests
French President Emmanuel Macron convened an emergency meeting with ministers on the evening of 6 October over nationwide student protests, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and education minister Édouard Geffroy taking part. The protes…
Russia drops “fake army news” case against hospice founder Moniava
Russia's Investigative Committee has closed the criminal case against Lida Moniava, founder of the Dom s Mayakom children's hospice and charity fund, for lack of corpus delicti, her lawyer and support group said on 6 October. She had been c…
Lavrov arrives in Turkmenistan for CIS foreign ministers meeting
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkmenistan on 6 October to take part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers, according to RIA Novosti, TASS and Interfax. Interfax reported the ministerial meeting is schedul…
United Russia deputy Yeliferova becomes first of new Duma convocation to give up seat
Irina Yeliferova, a United Russia deputy in the new State Duma, has filed a statement to resign early, citing a move to another job. A draft resolution has been registered in the Duma database and her statement is due to be considered at a …
Kremlin: Putin-Xi meeting at APEC confirmed; Putin-Trump-Xi idea not yet worked out
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said practical preparation for a possible meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the APEC summit has not begun, though he called the idea interesting and said all three leaders know of it. U…
Tanker catches fire in Black Sea near Sochi; Sirius beaches closed
A tanker caught fire in the Black Sea near Sochi, according to Russian state and business outlets. The head of the Sirius federal territory administration, Dmitry Plishkin, said its beaches would be temporarily closed and that water and air…
Putin to visit Turkmenistan on Oct 8–9 for CIS summit, Caspian ecological talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Turkmenistan on October 8–9, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said. He will attend a CIS heads-of-state meeting and the Caspian Ecological Summit in the Avaza tourist zone near Tur…
Russia says drones hit tanker carrying fuel for Ukrainian army in Yuzhny port
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces struck a tanker in the port of Yuzhny in Ukraine's Odesa region with drones on 6 October, saying the vessel was delivering fuel and lubricants intended for Ukraine's armed forces. The ministry said …
Katz says IDF told to prepare for possible conflict with Palestinian Authority
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the army has been instructed to prepare for a possible conflict with Palestinian National Authority forces in the West Bank, describing a planned campaign as “short and powerful”. Katz said the scen…
Vitol CEO says Western countries have exhausted available oil stocks
Russell Hardy, CEO of Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London that Western countries have exhausted the oil stocks available to them. He said the oil products market remains very de…
Putin and Sobyanin open Moscow electric battery cluster with two gigafactories
President Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev took part in opening the Moscow electric battery cluster in the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone on Tuesday, ahead of Moscow Industry Day. Offi…
FIS grants neutral status to Russian skier Savely Korostelev
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has granted neutral status to Russian skier Savely Korostelev, and also to coaches Danil Akimov and Egor Nemtinov, according to Russian state news agencies. Kommersant reported that 38 at…
Putin to meet Iran's Pezeshkian on October 9 in Turkmenistan
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said President Vladimir Putin will hold a bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on October 9 in Turkmenistan, after the other events of Putin's trip. Ushakov said the two leaders would discuss …
European Commission proposes ending national vetoes on EU sanctions and enlargement
The European Commission has proposed widening the use of qualified majority voting in EU decision-making, so that a single member state can no longer block decisions on sanctions, enlargement and the fight against tax evasion. EU enlargemen…
France suspends lycée lessons as high-school protests hit 1,800 schools
Protests by high-school students in France on Tuesday affected around 1,800 lycées, according to RIA Novosti, while AFP, cited by TASS, reported that classes were suspended in nearly 900 senior schools — about a quarter of the country's tot…
Moscow court orders in absentia arrest of journalist Andrei Loshak in terrorism case
A Moscow court on 29 September ordered the in absentia arrest of journalist and documentary filmmaker Andrei Loshak in a case of justifying terrorism, according to court records and state agencies. He has also been placed on a wanted list, …
Truck collision collapses pedestrian overpass in Tatarstan, two injured
An elevated pedestrian crossing over the Kazan–Shemordan road in Tatarstan partially collapsed after a truck struck a load-bearing structure, according to the republic's emergencies ministry. Two people — the driver and a passenger of the t…
Hong Kong imports of Russian gold hit record as flows shift to China
Hong Kong's imports of Russian gold reached a record 112.7 tonnes from January to July 2026, CNBC reported, exceeding the whole of the previous year and many times the 2021 level. Russian gold accounted for almost 15% of Hong Kong's non-mon…