Putin will visit Turkmenistan on October 8–9, where he will attend a CIS leaders’ summit and a Caspian environmental summit, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Putin will also meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on October 9.

Canadian PM Mark Carney will visit Ankara and Istanbul from Oct. 21–23 to advance cooperation with Türkiye on trade, investment, energy and defense.

Iran summoned the French ambassador in Tehran over what it called France’s violent handling of student protests and widespread human rights violations.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry urged France to respect fundamental rights, including the right to peaceful assembly.

Protests Surge as India Deletes 130 Million Voters, Disproportionately Muslims

India’s voter revision has removed over 130 million names, with Muslims hit disproportionately, as disputed deletions fuel protests over electoral fairness.

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Sweden to Send Patriots and Troops to Protect NATO’s Ukraine Supply Hub

Around 100 Swedish personnel will deploy to Poland's Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport from December, replacing Dutch Patriot forces amid warnings of Russian drone and missile attacks.

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Kremlin Urges Public to Ignore Rumors After Plague Lab Death

Moscow welcomed Trump’s offer of assistance after a Siberian laboratory worker died of pneumonia of unknown origin, as Russian officials reported no plague among her contacts.

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Former German Spy Chief Arrested on Suspicion of Treason and Espionage

Prosecutors allege August Hanning paid a former aide for about 2,000 confidential BND documents and used classified intelligence in private consulting.

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Former BND chief August Hanning is suspected of illegally obtaining more than 2,000 classified documents and using secret information to prepare an analysis for an alleged Azerbaijani intelligence contact.

Investigators are still examining whether the analysis was actually delivered.

Hanning, arrested on suspicion of attempted treason and espionage, allegedly received the documents from his former BND office chief Manfred D., who was also arrested.

Source: DER SPIEGEL

France's Cost-of-Living Revolt: Teachers Join Student-Led Protests

Teacher unions are set to join student protests after 400 schools closed, adding pressure on a government already confronting higher fuel prices, strained finances, and budget deadlock.

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Germany’s AfD Wins First State Parliament Presidency As It Eyes Government

Tobias Rausch won Saxony-Anhalt’s parliamentary presidency with 48 votes, exceeding the AfD’s 39 seats, ahead of a December bid to elect Germany’s first AfD state premier.

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Syria spent three years tracking one mysterious radio signal through Damascus.

It led them to Israel's greatest spy, Eli Cohen.

Even after they broke into his apartment and found the transmitter, he kept insisting he was a Syrian Muslim named Kamel Amin Thabet.

Then President al-Hafiz asked him to recite Al-Fatiha.

He couldn't.

Trump Approves Firing Squad Execution for Former Army Major Who Killed 13

Pentagon says Nidal Hasan, sentenced to death for killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will face a firing squad under a plan approved by Trump.

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Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić debates a rock.

Anduril won a $2.9 billion Navy contract to build Virginia-class submarine components and is investing $3.7 billion in a new shipyard near Baltimore, creating 3,100 jobs.

It comes days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force alongside Elon Musk, raising conflict-of-interest questions the Pentagon dismissed.

Ted Cruz:

The horseshoe theory of politics is absolutely right.

Ted Cruz:

The United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court because it is used — number one, the main thing the International Criminal Court is used for is for antisemites to attack Israel.

Trump on Iran:

Iran's oil minister just quit. He said, "We have no economy, we have no oil, we have nothing."

Trump:

Tremendous amounts, millions of barrels of oil have been delivered just over the last couple of days.

We're getting it through at levels that are now even and sometimes exceeding prior to the war.