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Berlin airport temporarily halts flights over suspicious drone sighting
Planes from at least four different European cities were diverted to nearby airports, including Hamburg airport, amid the temporary halt.
Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Court sentences former tax chief to 6 years in prison
Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) sentenced Roman Nasirov, the former head of the country's State Fiscal Service, to six years in prison over charges stemming from his involvement in a gas extraction scandal linked to a former parliamentarian, the Anti-Corruption Action Center announced on Oct. 31.
Friday, October 31
Trump says Orban requested exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil but hasn’t been granted one
While most EU member states have largely phased out Russian fossil-fuel imports since 2022, Hungary and Slovakia have continued to receive pipeline deliveries.
Silence from Ukraine's allies after 'politically motivated' arrest of former top energy official
The arrest and detention of a former top energy official in Ukraine this week is an alarming new episode of democratic backsliding, Ukraine's civil society and lawmakers say — the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on individuals and institutions. Volodymyr Kudyrtskyi, formerly head of Ukraine’s state grid operator Ukrenergo, was arrested on Oct. 28 in western Ukraine and accused of hiding from pre-trial investigation, his lawyers told the Kyiv Independent. The accusations aga
Ukraine war latest: 170,000 Russian troops deployed in Pokrovsk sector, Zelensky says
Hi, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,346 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: About 170,000 Russian troops are deployed in the Pokrovsk sector in eastern Donetsk Oblast to aiming capture the semi-surrounded city, President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on Oct. 31. "All their forces are there," Zelensky told journalists in a briefing, as cited by Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. "There are Russians in Pokrovsk. Our guys are destroying them, d
Venezuela reportedly requests missiles, radars from Russia amid US tensions
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has a close relationship with Moscow, bolstered by their shared animosity toward the West.
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"The Ukrainian military continues to demonstrate that no enemy rear is safe," the Navy added on Telegram.
