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Anosh Ahmed gave Paxton $190,000, including $25,000 days after his July 2024 indictment, five months before the two partied in 2025 on the same Dubai balcony
The White House asked US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign amid allegations she discussed toppling allied governments, secretly met Romanian politicians before their government collapsed and solicited $100,000 from a donor while lobbying the IRS on his behalf. Her lawyers deny wrongdoing.
Leaked documents reveal Deloitte Cyprus approved backdated accounts concealing $672 million in Roman Abramovich’s luxury assets. Separate offshore transfers involved over $10 billion in business assets, raising concerns about tax evasion and financial misconduct.
Russell Brand’s trial began in London on 12 October. He faces seven charges involving six women, including three counts of rape, over offences spanning 1999 to 2009. The trial is expected to last six weeks. Brand denies all charges.
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home under a Justice Department warrant, weeks before the US midterms. No charges have been filed. Omar accused Trump of weaponising federal law enforcement against political opponents following years of threats and unsubstantiated allegations.
US Federal immigration officers have been convicted of rape and accused of shootings, sexual abuse and mistreating pregnant detainees. Congressional investigators documented hundreds of abuse allegations as DHS gutted oversight and ICE hired 12,000 officers.
European intelligence agencies warn that Russian military intelligence is plotting to assassinate European arms executives supplying Ukraine. German authorities have arrested two suspected Russian operatives accused of surveilling a drone manufacturer whose founder is now under police protection.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine honoured Trump's energy ceasefire while Russia continued bombing Ukrainian energy facilities. He also linked Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres to a decline in bots spreading hate and division online.
Ukrainian drones struck three major Yandex data centres in Russia over four days, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on eight Ukrainian companies’ data centres.
As Russia prepares another winter assault on Ukraine’s power grid, Greece and Spain are withholding desperately needed Patriot missiles. Meanwhile, Trump’s war with Iran has depleted US interceptor stocks, he has suspended deliveries to Ukraine and US retains veto power over European transfers.
Oil prices fell despite sustained Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, then surged after US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Trump blamed Ukraine for rising fuel costs, despite US government data showing prices soared after the war disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
An analysis of punishment-based coercion, examining how modern and historical military campaigns target civilian infrastructure and use siege tactics as bargaining power to break an opponent's willingness to fight.
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, worth nearly $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The agreement would strengthen Russia’s war finances and undermine Ukraine’s efforts to cut off revenues funding Russia’s invasion and attacks on civilians.
Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands condemned US sanctions against the International Criminal Court, warning that they threaten its independence and the pursuit of justice. The UN, EU and human rights groups also denounced the move.
The US blacklisted the International Criminal Court on 9 October 2026, hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay was named a Nobel peace laureate.
