INTERVIEW: EU must ‘continue to uphold science’, says head of drug agency

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Shrapnel from an artillery shell hits California police patrol vehicle in US military live fire show. The Marine Corps -- which had previously insisted there was no safety risk despite the live fire display over an active freeway -- has launched an investigation into the incident u.afp.com/SsQf

This in FT this morning 👇

It will only get worse over time…

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

I’m quoted in this @wsj.com profile of Ron Dermer. “When every election in the U.S. is basically a coin toss, for a state like Israel that is so heavily reliant on its alliance with the U.S. to have bet on one party is an incredibly risky thing to do,” said Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis

I am fascinated by how viruses evolve - and not just since #SARSCoV2 has shown us at the global stage how consequential virus evolution can be for us. In my new story in @science.org I got to explore how researchers are probing deeper into the past with old RNA virus genome. So a 🧪 thread…

News Analysis: After President Trump's phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Trump appeared to express doubts about supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons.

US President Donald Trump is unlikely to approve the sale of the long-range weapons to Nato allies for onward delivery to Kyiv, US and Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/d5fe... via @financialtimes.com

Chukotka, Russia. No one bombed it. it's just how it it is.

And now NextStrain as well. Next up, will GISAID start charging open-source community tools to have access? That would completely shaft users who contributed to GISAID, where we never agreed to that and assumed GISAID would be good custodians of the data we contributed. They're not.

New from last night: F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou is personally briefing customers about the China-linked hackers who were in the company’s network for at least 12 months

There's really only two file formats

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - China brings shipping battle to US capital market reut.rs/4opOsVv

NEW: A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Denmark sent its biggest-ever business delegation to Kyiv, pledging billion-euro investment guarantees and new defense tech partnerships to help Ukraine rebuild and fight back.

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today. on.ft.com/3KOUh07 Key para.

Venezuela closes Norway embassy after Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Denmark urges ‘tough’ response to China’s rare earth restrictions

Fascinating report on the Dutch government seizure of control over chipmaker Nexperia, under a Cold War-era 1952 law that had never been used before. Court will not say what exact actions precipitated exclusion of Chinese “Wingtech” owner Zhang Xuezheng. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

lol they're doing the thing again

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

1/5 China spent years quietly building influence in Europe through trade, technology, propaganda, and diplomacy. It worked for China. But backing Russia’s war in Ukraine was a strategic mistake. Europe is now rethinking its relationship with Beijing

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution. A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power. Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social 🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Better graph:

Poland has almost doubled the size of its military and boosted military spending to nearly 5% as Russia has grown more assertive.

Imagine a capital that faced the world rather than the Brandenburg forests, a free city of citizens rather than former subjects of some king or duke (Frankfurt used to be like that, too!). Sigh.

Hamas begins trickling back onto the streets. 'The officer claimed that Hamas’s redeployment extends through much of the Strip, in all areas vacated by Israeli forces, “even in places close to the soldiers themselves.”' www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-reappe...

A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

New Combined Air Operations Centre Opened by NATO in Norway CAOC Bodø was officially opened on Oct. 10, 2025, joining CAOC Uedem, Germany, and CAOC Torrejón, Spain as NATO’s third active Combined Air Operations Centre. Story: theaviationist.com/2025/10/11/n...

What a different country Germany would be if #Hamburg were its capital.

If you talk about solidarity, but won’t act in solidarity with democratic EU states with an aggressive imperialist doing this on their border, and actively lecture them about them taking steps to defend themselves, you’re just freeloading on geographical luck to give yourself a sense of superiority.

What EU states like Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium remember, and which Ireland only escaped by luck and geography, is they were all neutral in WW2 - right up until they were invaded. The Baltic states are more patient with the lecturing ignorance of some Irish politicians than we deserve.

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Hamas reasserts control and settles scores in Gaza Strip on.ft.com/490LAcZ

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.** reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Nobel director: Alleged leak in connection with Nobel Peace Prize probably espionage www.nrk.no/nyheter/nobe...

The moment strike hit "expensive Russian EW gear" in Belgorod region.

A reminder that October is the month for annual nuclear exercises, both Russian and NATOs. On schedule = good. This is normal and does not directly reflect tensions. Don't buy into fear mongering. When Grom gets postponed, that's the time to get suspicious.

Latvia has ordered 841 Russian citizens to leave by October 13 after failing to meet new immigration rules. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Latvia tightened its laws, those who remain without compliance face loss of services. Around 2,600 have already left voluntarily.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

People will have different reasons for believing London is the best city in the world. This is Tristram Hunt’s: on.ft.com/4q5g4AF

A powerful explosion ripped through a Tennessee ammunition plant on Friday, killing and injuring multiple people, the authorities said. The extent of the damage was not clear, but the blast appeared to have leveled part of the facility and left behind a fiery spread of debris. nyti.ms/4oih5Uz

My guess is the Qatari’s threatened to close al Udeid since we didn’t protect them from the Israeli strike, and this is a placatory move. We already train the Singapore Air Force at Mountain Home.

María Corina Machado’s Nobel prize will be widely welcomed by those committed to democracy and human rights in Latin America, where autocracies have lately advanced econ.st/4h2zvWJ Illustration: Getty Images / The Economist

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Sweden to invest $370 million in anti-drone systems reut.rs/3KJBtPM