How much political space remains when even an authorized rally by the Kremlin's own parliamentary opposition crosses a line merely by asking for fair elections and freedom for political prisoners?Moscow police detained around 60 people Sunday at an authorized Communist Party rally commemorating the victims of Russia’s 1993 constitutional crisis. The rally had been expected to be a memorial. It became something else.
When Leavitt left, Trump wrote this on Truth Social: “Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections.” Fox News has just given that voice a microphone.
Karoline Leavitt left the White House at the end of August, saying she had reached a point where she could not give her two young children the attention she wanted while carrying the demands of the press secretary's job. President Donald Trump said he understood, and announced that she would remain one of his top outside advisers and an influential Republican voice. Six weeks later, the next stop is Fox News.
What has happened in Russia's Irkutsk region is a serious public-health incident involving a suspected plague infection. It is not yet a confirmed plague outbreak
A 28-year-old laboratory worker in Siberia is dead. Nearly 200 people have been placed under medical observation. Several hospitals have introduced quarantine measures, masks have appeared at a major industrial plant, Russia's top public-health official has travelled to the region, and governments in Washington and Brussels are watching the situation. It sounds like the beginning of another pandemic story. But it is not — at least not on the evidence available today.
Brazil has finished the first round of its presidential election, but the political story has only become more interesting. Flávio Bolsonaro finished first with 47.03% of the valid vote, while President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received 45.16%. Neither reached the required majority, so the two will face each other again on Oct. 25. Yet, there is another number worth watching: the votes that did not go to either of them. Brazil had 12 registered presidential candidacies. Augusto Cury, Renan Santos, Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema were among the candidates outside the runoff, and their supporters now represent a substantial political constituency.
By Eric SchmittReporting from WashingtonOct. 4, 2026 Updated 6:34 p.m. ET
The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, two U.S. officials said on Sunday.
The most dangerous moment of the Iran war may not be when either side believes it can win. It may be when one side begins to believe it can no longer afford to lose
There is something profoundly dangerous happening in the Iran war, and it has little to do with the daily math of who has destroyed more missiles, aircraft, or military installations. The United States is preparing to put a third aircraft carrier strike group into the region, accompanied by thousands of additional troops. The deployment is being planned as the Trump administration considers its next move after or even before the November midterm elections. U.S. officials describe it as a way to give the president more military options. In Washington, that may be called flexibility. In Tehran, it must look like the battlefield is about to become considerably larger.
Simon Andriesz spent years trying to make people listen. When he finally found the documents he was searching for, he also uncovered something considerably more consequential. Now, at 57, he is dead, and the circumstances surrounding his death remain less clear than the coincidence itself.There is a particular kind of story that begins not with a gunshot, but with a document and a name hidden in a database. An email that should not have existed and a question that refuses to go away. Simon Andriesz was a British former banker and whistleblower who spent years trying to make institutions listen to his allegations about his former employer, BGC, and its then-chief executive, Howard Lutnick. In 2026, he discovered something of far greater significance; a 2018 email exchange between Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein concerning Adfin, a digital advertising startup in which Epstein and Cantor Fitzgerald had invested. The BBC investigated Andriesz’s discovery and broadcast his story in July. Now Andriesz is dead, aged 57.
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. The incident occurred at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk, according to Russian state media TASS.
Canadian rock and blues singer Sass Jordan, a Juno Award winner whose career spanned more than four decades, died peacefully on Oct 2, surrounded by family. She was 65Jordan’s family announced her death, remembering the singer as “an inimitable force of nature” and “an irreplaceable being of light and joy.”
As Israel prepares to mark three years since the October 7 attacks and with less than a month to go to parliamentary elections, one topic is dominating the electoral agenda. Media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by the United Arab Emirates before the attacks have put his alleged responsibility back in the spotlight. “Did he know?” is the question on everyone’s lips.
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Playwright James Graham on an economist who asked the right questions in bad times — and why he matters so much todayJames GrahamPublished OCT 2, 2026You can read the original article here
There are many different ways to measure how well a country is doing.
Some plump unimaginatively for gross domestic product (GDP), or perhaps you prefer gross national income (GNI). Maybe it’s “wellbeing” as defined and diagnosed by the OECD, or the habitability of your environment through the Global Liveability Index. Is it more what human rights are enshrined in law, or average longevity instead? Gold medals, or gold reserves?
The United States of Broken Promises is starting to look like a developing economy in the Balkans. Trump just offered $90 for Medicare, $500 for some folks, $1,776 for troops only, and $5,000 for everyone if his party takes the House and Senate in the midterms. But what Americans really need is a system that doesn’t require an election trick to make life affordable — and a social program that makes relief checks unnecessary. Only Bernie can deliver that.
Ο Sandro Castro, εγγονός του Φιντέλ και influencer, ο οποίος διαχειρίζεται αρκετά νυχτερινά κέντρα στην Αβάνα, δέχθηκε πριν από λίγες ημέρες μια ερώτηση στο Instagram, την οποία είδαν περισσότεροι από 165.000 ακόλουθοί του. «Πότε θα έρθει η αλλαγή στην Κούβα;» Ο νεαρός Κάστρο ανάρτησε μια φωτογραφία του με μια κουβανική σημαία ριγμένη στους ώμους του, κοιτάζοντας από μακριά τον ρημαγμένο ορίζοντα της Αβάνας. «Η Κούβα ήδη αλλάζει, δεν το έχετε καταλάβει;» απάντησε. Πράγματι, η χώρα που υπήρχε τον Ιανουάριο δεν είναι η ίδια εννέα μήνες αργότερα: οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι εξακολουθούν να βλέπουν τη ζωή να περνά μέσα σε ελλείψεις και πολύωρες διακοπές ρεύματος, όμως μια νέα ιδιωτική τάξη αναλαμβάνει ρόλους που κάποτε ανήκαν στο κράτος — προμηθεύοντας φαρμακεία, εισάγοντας και διανέμοντας ντίζελ και εξασφαλίζοντας την πώληση τροφίμων.
Although it announced a change in January, Washington has simply made the country economically more dependent. Cubans continue to survive amid blackouts and shortages, but a new private class is taking on roles that used to belong to the stateCarla Gloria ColoméNew York - OCT 02, 2026 - 05:13 CDTEL PAÍS
Sandro Castro, Fidel’s influencer grandson who runs several Havana nightclubs, was asked a question on Instagram a few days ago that was seen by his more than 165,000 followers. “When will change come to Cuba?” The young Castro posted a photo of himself with a Cuban flag draped over his back while gazing at Havana’s cracked skyline from afar: “Cuba is already changing, or haven’t you noticed?” he replied. Certainly, the country that existed in January is not the same nine months later: most people still watch life slip away amid shortages and long power outages, but a new private class is taking on roles that used to belong to the state — supplying pharmacies, importing and distributing diesel, and ensuring food sales.
October 3, 2026By Yiannis DamellosAI is a sponge for human knowledge. Before we teach it to facilitate our existence, perhaps we should learn to control our greed and restrain ourselves from antagonism and profit-making.
There is something almost wonderfully human about the great artificial-intelligence race. We have built machines that may one day exceed our ability to reason, and before they have even reached that point, their creators are already fighting among themselves over money, power, safety and the future of the species. What kind of example do we set for the Super Intelligence?
