U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright:

Diesel’s mostly been affected by the Russia-Ukraine war and also by China’s decision not to export diesel or gasoline into the marketplace.

And of course, we’re living with two refineries that were recently closed — large refineries in California that Governor Gavin Newsom forced the closure of.

Trump:

Trump posts about Obama and Nixon, claiming Obama was more corrupt than Nixon.

Trump:

This Man is Our National Security.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

There are questions in the European Union and among many partner countries outside Europe concerning the stability of Germany’s federal government.

Some people in Germany itself perhaps do not understand what it would mean if the federal government could no longer fulfill its responsibilities.

The consequences would be enormous — for the economy, foreign policy and domestic policy. These things cannot be separated from one another. They are indivisible.

Trump:

President Trump gets YOUNGER.

Trump:

The Kennedy Center is crumbling, and a great danger to anyone who walks inside.

It’s been this way for years, and will only get worse unless the Radical Left Judge, with his Trump Hating lawyer wife, allows me to do what must be done!

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

Germany’s approach towards mobility of talent has actually profoundly changed, at least insofar as India is concerned.

We see today, in many areas, Indians present, working, welcomed, accepted in Germany.

Many of the practices which we associate with the United States are actually now seeping into European corporate thinking — that they are scouting talent from other countries, they are open to bringing talent from other countries.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

On the Iran issue, first of all, I do want to make a very clear distinction.

India was a country which did not sign the NPT and which reserved its rights. Iran was a country which signed the NPT.

So the situation is very, very different.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

You get these reports: well, energy flows were very good today, or last week it was almost the same as what it was.

But the fact is, energy markets are deeply unsettled. The price of energy tells you really what the sentiment is and what the market expectation is.

You can’t have oil at above 100 and pretend that things are near normal. They are not.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

I use the word "emerging and middle powers" not because I like the word, but because that was the term given to me.

Maybe I should escape from that category and go higher than that.

After all, my self-perception of myself is: I am a 7,000-year-old civilizational power.

I would look around the world and say, okay, there are very few others who would qualify under that criterion.

Green Party members in England and Wales voted 1,022 to 813 to adopt a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism and backing a single democratic Palestinian state across historic Palestine.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

The landscape today is primarily marked by a radical repositioning of the United States — a repositioning which is a posture of choice, and where, in a way, it has deliberately become a lonely power.

Kristen Welker: Do you see what is happening in Gaza as a genocide?

Rahm Emanuel: If you’re going to use that term, we have to have a conversation about Sudan. We have to have a conversation about Ukraine.

You are politicizing a term that has huge and historic moral obligations.

UKMTO said a tanker reported multiple explosions close to the vessel about 60 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, Yemen.

The crew is safe, with no environmental impact reported.

A researcher at Russia’s Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, Siberia, has died after contracting pneumonia of “unknown” cause following a suspected laboratory accident.

The head of neighboring Buryatia said the 28-year-old woman may have died from plague, while health authorities said the situation remains stable and close contacts have tested negative.

Source: CNN

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar barred UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel.

The U.S. has withdrawn all 12 B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in the UK following security concerns over a suspected Iran-linked terror plot targeting the base.

U.S. officials believe a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recruited UK nationals to target the bombers and kill personnel, though some British officials have questioned how sophisticated the plot was.

RAF Fairford had been used as a hub for launching U.S. bomber strikes in Iran. The B-1s have now returned to their home stations in the U.S. and remain available for global missions.

Source: WSJ

The White House is monitoring a suspected plague case in Russia’s Irkutsk region after a 28-year-old anti-plague institute worker died following a laboratory accident.

Daria Shipilova broke a test tube containing the pneumonic plague pathogen on Sept. 25, was hospitalized with severe pneumonia on Sept. 29 and died between Oct. 1–2.

Authorities quarantined several medical facilities and placed nearly 200 contacts under observation. So far, all have tested negative and shown no symptoms.

Source: Axios

Flavio Bolsonaro has 50.51% of the vote in Brazil’s presidential election, while Lula has 41.08%, with 6.00% of expected ballots counted.