Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran suffered extensive damage in Tuesday’s attack, with fire spreading across several floors.

Operations continued normally, with employees working remotely and some functions shifted abroad.

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry described the fire as limited.

Source: Reuters

Russia's Medvedev:

The green louse is outraged at the US cutting off military intel. Without it, it goes blind, panics, and runs around.

What did it expect? If you’re rude to your sponsors, they get angry. Trump isn’t Scholz. He doesn’t like being a liver sausage or bloodsucking bug bites.

Italian PM Meloni on the Russian diesel deal:

The outcome of this decision is doubtful, while the risks are clear: legitimizing Moscow while its bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, financing its war, and weakening sanctions.

These elements contradict what Western countries, including the United States, have done so far to push Putin to the negotiating table.

Italian PM Meloni:

Support for Ukraine is not an alternative to peace. It is what makes peace possible.

Because if the aggressor can aim for the surrender of its adversary, what need does it have to negotiate?

If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, as many hope and propose, we would not have peace.

We would be discussing the occupation of a European nation and the return of Soviet-style imperialism that Europe experienced for half a century.

An AfD youth wing board member resigned after posting a map on German Unity Day showing Germany with expanded borders including Alsace-Lorraine, parts of Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Italy.

Luca Maurice Strauf captioned it:

German Unity means one Germany that unites the entire German people in one state — calling October 3rd a “milestone victory” toward that goal.

He deleted the post but then doubled down, calling for “courage for truth” and saying Germans needed to be “taught to walk upright again.”

The AfD federal board pressured him to quit, with MP Torben Braga calling the post “unbelievably stupid.”

He officially resigned citing “personal reasons.”

Source: FAZ

Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex data centers (Oct 8–11) have crippled Russia’s biggest tech company, with services still unstable six days later.

Facilities in Sasovo and Vladimir were fully knocked offline, while Kaluga was partially hit — together taking down 80+ cloud services at peak and disrupting everyday apps millions of Russians depend on.

Yandex Pay, Maps, Taxi, Navigator, and the Alice AI assistant remain glitchy or unavailable across multiple regions as of today.

Yandex Cloud is in emergency mode with compute, databases, Kubernetes, and AI services degraded or offline.

The company waived fees through October and told customers to use backup options.

Yandex says user money and data are safe but acknowledges prolonged access issues.

The Vladimir facility alone was a 50 MW site designed for ~2,880 server racks.

Physical repairs could take weeks to months depending on damage to servers, power, and cooling systems.

Türkiye unveiled Arı Kovanı (Beehive) at the Ateş Serbest-2026 exercise — a retractable-roof sentry shelter that rapidly deploys kamikaze FPV drones from a protected, fixed position.

The monoblock booth features a mechanical opening roof and a rotary launch mechanism carrying 30 Gözükara FPV/loitering munitions on a 10-shelf conveyor system.

Shelves can be quickly refilled by the operator as they empty.

The concept allows rapid vertical deployment of low-cost precision-strike drones for base defense or perimeter security without exposing operators — essentially an automated drone dispenser disguised as a guard booth.

Israeli President Herzog is visiting Azerbaijan today, with a meeting with President Aliyev expected.

The agenda covers regional peace, bilateral ties, and economic cooperation.

Azerbaijan and Israel share deep strategic links.

Herzog last visited Baku in May 2023, and the two leaders met in Davos in January 2026.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

We are living under this dictatorship of shareholders, with the Macron regime acting as an accelerator, and now we find ourselves on the edge of the abyss, according to them.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

There can be no French crisis without a European crisis.

If, by misfortune, someone caused France to stumble, all of Europe would pay, starting with our German friends and neighbors.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

German wage levels are incompatible with international competition, particularly with the Chinese.

Germany needs a social shock, and it is in the process of giving itself one by borrowing, particularly to revive its own economy through the arms industry.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Europe is under fire from the United States of America, which is doing everything it can to impoverish it, dominate it, strangle it, turn it into a vassal and colonize it, whether digitally or otherwise.

We understand that such arguments may be ridiculed from the outset, since the Americans are also supposed to be our friends.

But there is enough reality behind them to deserve at least a serious discussion.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

It is necessary to make financial capital contribute, because it is the one that has benefited fully, all the time, in every possible form.

Wage reductions, income reductions, tax privileges of every kind, right up to this day and even now.

Financial capital has benefited, and it is financial capital that must pay.

Marine Le Pen told the Financial Times she would end French financial aid to Ukraine within six months of becoming president, oppose Ukraine’s EU membership and reconsider EU sanctions on Russia.

She argued that France could no longer afford such support and criticized Europe’s energy confrontation with Moscow.

Italian PM Meloni:

I always find this tendency in foreign policy a little difficult to understand: the idea that we must have allies and that, once those allies are defined, we must blindly follow everything they do.

If we are allies of the United States, we must essentially do everything the United States tells us.

If we are in Europe, or if we are pro-European, we must agree with everything Europe says.

Within Europe, we should supposedly agree with France and Germany. So if we undertake initiatives with Germany, we must do everything Germany wants.

That is not how I understand foreign policy.

Italian PM Meloni on Russia:

Putin is provoking Europe because he needs to divert attention from how the conflict is going on the battlefield, from the war in Ukraine.

He is looking for a new enemy, and that new enemy could be Europe.

Of course, we must remain alert, monitor the situation and do everything we are already doing.

But I am not in favor of giving Putin that advantage.

I believe that, particularly at this moment, we must demonstrate a cool head.

A Singapore-flagged container ship, GFS Pride, sank near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile.

GFS Pride is the second ship confirmed sunk since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28.

Source: Reuters

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NATO's Rutte:

Sometimes people think I'm against the European military.

I'm not against it, but not in addition to all the national militaries, because then it gets too complex.

And again, I think for sovereignty reasons it will not happen. And from the command and control structure we have in NATO, it is not necessary to have it.

NATO's Rutte:

Don't forget, for the defense of the United States, NATO is also crucial.

We defend the United States from these Russian nuclear submarines ending up at the shores of the United States.

We make sure that the transatlantic is safe, the Euro-Atlantic area is safe, that the High North is safe, that Europe is safe, all in the interest of the United States.