Russia
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Last updated: October 2026
Libya's oilfield, hostage to a valve — Magna Bureau
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
NewsThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsThe first handshake in four years — Magna Bureau
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power — Magna Bureau
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North — Magna Bureau
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next…
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota — Magna Bureau
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day. But the real negotiation is the 2027 quota architecture, and whether spare capacity
NewsEvacuating the gap: NATO drills its first civilian flight
Iron Defender 25 moved civilians out of the Suwałki corridor for the first time — 10,500 troops, 700 vehicles, and a quiet message to Moscow about NATO's…
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more — Magna Bureau
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy… — Magna Bureau
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving… — Magna Bureau
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh… — Magna Bureau
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow… — Magna Bureau
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and… — Magna Bureau
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret — Magna Bureau
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Kore
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian… — Magna Bureau
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant… — Magna Bureau
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and dec
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command — Magna Bureau
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning t
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace'… — Magna Bureau
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the g