POV: You're in Crimea, sitting on a deck chair to end the evening:

Judging by the "success" of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the situation in DR Congo, or the border between Cambodia and Thailand, Trump is not yet good at negotiating peace agreements.

From what we have seen so far, Driscoll is far more incompetent than Witkoff. Moscow believes that Putin will easily convince Driscoll and his team to remove all points from Trump's plan that are embarrassing for Russia.

“Trump also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “be stopped” and “is not looking for more war.” Putin, Trump added, is “taking punishment.” 😑

Trump said he “wants” Ukraine to accept a sweeping U.S. deal to end the war with Russia by November 27, giving Kyiv less than a week to decide.

Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon. Images are the first indication that Israel has used such munitions in nearly 20 years.

Summers’ departure from OpenAI’s board followed revelations of his communications with the Jeffrey #Epstein.

“In the north of the French capital, migrants have set up a makeshift camp. Many are from Darfur and fled a region torn by fighting between the Khartoum army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries.”

A critical report by the ICDS on disinformation and information operations. I believe it will be of interest to anyone interested in the topic. I will share just one fact: Russia is investing $1.8 billion in propaganda in 2024, while the EU is investing around $25 million to counter it.

An extremely important moment for post-Assad Syria.

So many poor people live on Earth that Bezos and Co. don’t feel comfortable making decisions for the common good and are looking to space more and more often. Poor planets.

The important question here is - what's next? Evidence suggests the Russian secret services appear to have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend, a Polish government spokesman said.

Inside the building of Suspilne (National Public Radio and Television Company of Ukraine) in Dnipro, following the nighttime attack. Russian forces attacked the city with 35 Shahed drones. As a result of the strike, the branches of Suspilne Dnipro and Ukrainian Radio Dnipro were damaged.

Ahmed Ghorab, a Gazan computer scientist who once taught artificial intelligence at UCAS, escaped the war to Slovakia through a student foundation — but his wife and four children remain trapped in Gaza.

Forged media, impersonated journalists, and coordinated online networks drove a nuclear hoax targeting Armenia @dfrlab.bsky.social

As Brussels praises Albania’s “unprecedented progress” toward pending EU membership, investigators warn that the Albanian mafia now controls major ports, launders hundreds of millions through shell companies, and rivals the power of Italy’s ’Ndrangheta.

Somali authorities and the international community have repeatedly failed to protect thousands of people from drought-affected communities in southern Somalia.

The Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City, home to a third of Vietnam's population, face rising seas and the toll of decades of resource overuse, leaving much of the delta vulnerable to submersion.

Sky News' Data and Forensics team research proved that the X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Colombia’s booming webcam industry, now worth approximately €1.73 billion a year, fuels a global market hosted by platforms in the U.S. and Europe. Behind the screens, women in cities like Cúcuta are being raped and forced to perform on camera to repay debts or hand over wages to studio owners.

Malawi is facing one of its worst hunger crises, affecting millions of people. Approximately 75% of Malawians live below the World Bank's poverty line of $ 1.90 per day.

No border control for the rich. A sanctioned Iranian tycoon accused by the U.K. government of funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) owns a 33.7 million pounds mansion—worth about $52.8 million.

At least 10 confirmed deaths in an overnight fire in a senior’s home in the northeast Bosnian city of Tuzla. Sadly, the death toll appears expected to rise. A horrific tragedy. My heart is with those still coming to grips with the scale of this disaster tonight. www.klix.ba/vijesti/crna...

An Israeli attack on Hezbollah is expected in Lebanon.

Syria’s National Commission for Transitional Justice is discussing with Rwanda ways to strengthen cooperation in transitional justice to support Syria’s transitional justice process and to entrench concepts of national reconciliation and civil peace.

Another gruesome episode of the Sudanese history. A massacre - one of many - of civilians, including hundreds of patients at a local hospital in El-Fasher.

“Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.”

Hidden behind shell companies, Russia acquired advanced Western technologies to build a secret underwater network designed to protect its nuclear weapons in the Arctic. The incident raises questions about Europe's ability to prevent the export of sensitive technologies to Moscow.

Russia will not agree to a ceasefire "until the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine are resolved," said Segrei Lavrov. I.e., the very existence of Ukraine as a state.

“I saw a handicapped woman on the ground who physically couldn’t get up, and they shot her repeatedly with pepper balls to the point that, by the time we could get her back to a safe place, we had to call an ambulance for her.”

A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi) “Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds”: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Big Alcohol has lobbied intensely against the Irish government’s plans to introduce cigarette-style health warning labels on alcohol. Alcohol producers feared that the Irish proposal would inspire other EU countries to introduce similar labels.

The radical right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has fired its head of parliamentary security after it was discovered that he had been convicted of menacing two Syrian children with a gun.

Interview for the Spanish publication El Confidencial about the drone wall that is being discussed and is expected to be built in Europe. The eastern borders are being militarized, and it was time for the EU to realize the realities.

I didn't expect much, but even by these low standards, the foreign press coverage of the first elections in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime is abysmal.

China’s infowar in the Philippines. Reuters is shedding light on a 2021 campaign by a Chinese company that created fake social-media accounts to push narratives as Beijing’s naval forces ramped up efforts against the archipelagic nation—and worked to drive a wedge between Manila and Washington.

Apache reported that the European Investment Fund committed €21.2 million in 2020 to a venture fund that invests in Paragon Solutions, an Israeli spyware company co-founded by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Mediapart has identified at least nine former members or candidates of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party implicated in far-right terrorism cases, including a trial concerning the Islamophobic group Action des Forces Opérationnelles (AFO).

Despite sanctions, Russian timber is reaching Europe. @vsquare.bsky.social found that birch plywood is being rebranded and rerouted through Kazakhstan and Georgia, then sold on EU markets.

A joint investigation by the OCCRP, iStories, All Eyes On Wagner, Slidstvo.Info, and the Belarusian Investigative Center found that the Oleinikova family, owners of a trendy tapas bar in Barcelona, is under investigation for smuggling EU-sanctioned chemicals to Russia.

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) expired on Tuesday. For 25 years, the trade pact offered many African countries duty-free access to the U.S. market. Its termination could impact more than a million jobs across the continent.

“I won’t do it again,” Putin responded to accusations against Russia of launching drones into EU airspace.

Recorded Future uncovers new details of a CopyCop operation (widely known as Storm-1516). Since March, the network has launched more than 200 fake websites (totalling over 300 domains).

ISD reveals how a Czech-language community of 70 accounts on X systematically spreads Kremlin-aligned messages ahead of the parliamentary elections.

A suspected scam network operating out of Serbia duped an estimated 70,000 people worldwide into making bogus investments, profiting €250 million in the process. The transnational scheme involved a former Premier League team sponsor and a convicted money launderer.

Read this text carefully. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

Europe’s favourite farmed fish, such as salmon and sea bass, are carnivorous and most are fed fishmeal made from other species through complex and opaque global supply chains. For instance, Senegalese sardinella is a staple fish for local communities.