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Story by Tom Latchem

Vladimir Putin’s forces bombarded Ukrainian energy facilities within hours of Donald Trump’s boast that he had secured a partial ceasefire.

Trump, 80, announced Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to immediately stop attacking each other’s energy infrastructure. While providing no details of the supposed breakthrough, he declared on Truth Social that the two countries had reached an agreement. “Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” the U.S. president wrote.

Except nobody else seems to have got the memo.
The Saudi authorities said they were fending off drone and missile attacks after a weekend of confrontation with the Houthi militia in Yemen, whose patrons Iran offered to mediate.
By Erika Solomon

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen was fending off drones and cruise missiles fired toward Saudi Arabia on Monday, according to Saudi state media, the latest in a surge of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi militia that have targeted the kingdom’s airports.

There was no immediate confirmation of whether the attacks were successfully intercepted. At least 13 people were killed when the Houthi militia struck an airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday — the deadliest attack on a Persian Gulf country since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

The Saudi authorities said on Monday that operations would remain suspended at the airport in Riyadh after they reported another deadly attack on the facility on Sunday.

Fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis rapidly escalated last month when Houthi forces seized Yemen’s Red Sea coast, taking territory that sits alongside a strategic waterway for global trade and a key export route for Saudi oil. Saudi warplanes have been bombing Houthi positions in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, as its forces fight to retake the territory.
Mohammed bin Salman is now facing an economy weakened by heavy spending and miscalculations of the Houthi threat
By Summer Said and Georgi Kantchev

DUBAI—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman started the year on a high note. He had just visited the White House where he was embraced by President Trump. Even after the war with Iran kicked off, Saudi Arabia looked relatively well positioned. It could export oil through a pipeline that bypassed the blocked Strait of Hormuz.

But the Saudis’ escalating fight with Iran-backed Houthi militants in neighboring Yemen now poses new challenges to the kingdom’s security and the crown prince’s ambitious but already struggling plans to transform the country’s oil-dependent economy.
Shortly after President Donald Trump announced that the two nations would spare each other’s energy assets, Russia attacked a power station in Kharkiv.
By Steve Kopack

Oil and gas prices rose Monday after an “energy ceasefire” announced by President Donald Trump Sunday failed to gain any traction.

U.S. diesel fuel futures rose slightly in late afternoon trading, while Brent crude oil jumped 2% to almost $108 per barrel and U.S. crude oil rose more than 2% to about $94.

The price pressures continued to mount with just weeks to go before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Republicans face a steep climb to maintain their majorities in Congress, and voters across the country cite high gas prices as a key issue impacting their votes.

The average nationwide price of diesel fuel Monday was $6.26 per gallon, nearly 80% higher than it had been at the start of the year, according to AAA data.
By Andrew Macaskill

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - British Prime ​Minister Andy Burnham said Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote, although his office later ‌stated that Moscow failed to influence the result and the decision to leave the European Union was legitimate.

Burnham, who took over as Britain's leader in July and said last month that Britain could consider rejoining the European Union in the future, is the first ​British prime minister to say openly there was evidence of Russian interference in the vote.

He made ​the comment as he warned voters in France and Germany about Moscow-backed efforts to ⁠influence their politics.
Vicky Wong

The foreign secretary has summoned the Iranian ambassador to make clear that "Britain will not tolerate threats on our soil" following last month's incident at RAF Fairford.

Ed Miliband said attempts by Iran to undermine the UK's security "through its criminal networks, proxy groups and state-backed malign activity is unacceptable".

Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs the incident in Gloucestershire was "almost certainly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard", while the home secretary said the likely coordinator was a "known individual based in Iran".

Iran's ambassador to the UK, Seyed Ali Mousavi, said Tehran was not involved and was willing to cooperate with British authorities.

The Foreign Office has also sanctioned two Iranians, including the head of the regime's counterespionage operations - with both men subjected to travel bans and asset freezes.
By Lazar Berman

The United States, United Kingdom, and foreign ministers of 27 other Western states blast Iran’s “use of violent attacks, including the acts of lethal plotting, arson, sabotage, cyber-attacks, and other hybrid activities against us and our partners.”

“We recognize the United Kingdom’s attribution of Iran’s involvement in the incident at RAF Fairford on 27 September,” the joint statement says. “The UK has also concluded this event demonstrates the IRGC’s continued willingness to project hostile activity beyond its borders through covert networks and proxy actors.”

The 29 states note that the UK plot comes after a “campaign of attacks across Europe targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists, and US interests.”
Story by Sarah K. Burris

Three hours into court proceedings at the Washington, D.C., federal court, Judge Ana Reyes made it clear that she no longer has faith or trust in the U.S. government, and that includes the Department of Justice.

AlterNet has been following the proceedings in which the judge unleashed a torrent of fury on lawyers for intentionally filing a notice that they were going to chop down hundreds of historic cherry blossom trees over the holiday weekend at 4:55 p.m. on Friday ahead of the holiday weekend. Less than 24 hours later, the trees were gone.

The morning session involved the furious judge shouting at the top of her lungs. It was so startling that former CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlanesaid he'd never heard a judge so angry or shout so much at government lawyers.

One by one, the judge called in National Park Service employees and demanded that Department of the Interior officials appear in court not "as soon as possible" but immediately.

Each employee passed the buck, characterized MacFarlane. They claimed they weren't the decision-makers behind tearing down the trees so quickly and defying the court's instructions.

As she looked to next steps, the judge confessed how disappointed she was to see her faith in the federal government shaken so severely.

Lawfare senior editor Molly Roberts was among those in the courtroom to hear Judge Reyes close the day with a lecture directed at President Donald Trump's administration.
Story by Harry Thompson

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has torn into Donald Trump for his sanctions-busting deal to buy diesel from Russia.

The 80-year-old president announced last week a deal to buy millions of barrels of diesel from Vladimir Putin’s Russia in a bid to bring down prices before midterm elections on Nov. 3.

But in an editorial published Sunday titled “Trump’s Diesel Insult to Lindsey Graham,” the Journal’s Editorial Board said the amounts involved would be too small to affect global prices and any money raised would simply fund Putin’s aggression against Ukraine.

“Thirty-six million barrels of Russian diesel won’t move prices much. The world consumed 28 million barrels of diesel and other distillates daily in 2025, according to OPIS, which is part of Dow Jones Energy,” the Journal wrote in its op-ed.

“What the deal will do is directly finance Mr. Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine.”
Frank Yemi

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says allegations of corruption surrounding President Donald Trump and his administration are finally registering with voters, pointing to new polling suggesting the issue could become a significant problem for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

“The cesspit of corruption that is Donald Trump’s presidency is finally getting the attention it deserves,” Krugman wrote Monday on Substack. “It’s about time.”

Krugman, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, said controversies involving Trump, his family, and senior administration officials had previously struggled to gain prominence because wars, tariffs, inflation and other major issues competed for voters' attention.

He wrote that there are increasing indications the problem of corruption is finally reaching the general public.

Krugman cited a recent poll by The Economist and YouGov as evidence. That survey showed that 84 percent of Americans think that most or many of those who run the government are corrupt. Thirty percent said Republicans are more corrupt than Democrats, 22 percent said Democrats are more corrupt, and an additional 37 percent believed the level of corruption is the same for both parties.
Story by David Edwards

Supporters of the White House barely showed up in replies to its latest post about election fraud, as critics claimed its “bots” vanished after drones hit a Russian data center.

“Under President Trump, criminals who disrupt the integrity of America’s elections will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the White House wrote on X Monday.

The post shared a Justice Department announcement of charges against 16 people accused of illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and related election crimes.

A Raw Story review of the 176 most relevant replies Monday found that 138 opposed or mocked the White House. Only 19 backed it, and 19 more could not be classified.
Story by Sanjana Karant

The Trump administration continued to air taxpayer-funded propaganda ads on television Monday morning despite a federal judge’s temporary orderthe night before blocking the government from running the campaign-style videos, according to advertising data from AdImpact.

After a coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging the ads – arguing they constitute taxpayer-funded “propaganda” – the Department of Homeland Security said in a Saturday court filing that the ads wouldn’t continue past Sunday. President Donald Trump had also said campaign funds would be used to pay for future ads.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

On Monday, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump denounced the Republican's economic policies for increasing America's national debt — and an economist who advised a budget-balancing Democratic president agreed with him.

"This isn’t apocalyptic," posted Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump's communications director in 2017, on X. "It’s just math. 10-year treasury at 6 percent. $40 trillion in debt. Do the math. That’s $2.4 trillion in annual interest payments. Larger than the entire Social Security disbursement."

He added, "You cannot sustain that."

Scaramucci then urged Americans to go back to the tax rates in effect during President Bill Clinton's presidency, speculating that deficit spending could be reduced by trillions if they did so.

"No Republican is going to do that," Scaramucci said. "Trump isn’t going to do that. And when Trump leaves office, he will be personally responsible for 42 percent of all the national debt in American history."

AlterNet spoke with one of the architects of President Bill Clinton's economic policies, his Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs Dr. Robert J. Shapiro. He played a critical role in developing the programs that balanced the budget and allowed Clinton to preside over four budget surpluses during his administration.
Story by Ellie Cook

Bulgaria has requested NATO help as it investigates the latest in a series of drone attacks on commercial shipping close to its Black Sea shoreline, which looks out onto a major battleground for Russian and Ukrainian unmanned vehicles.

Drones struck two cargo ships near the NATO member’s coastline overnight, sinking one vessel, officials said on Tuesday.

Officials said six crew members were rescued from the Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity, which sank about 17 miles east of Krapets, a village near Bulgaria’s border with Romania. Another 10 people are thought to be still missing.

Another ship, identified as the Maltese-flagged Chelsea-3, broadcast a distress signal at 1:30 a.m. local time roughly 18 miles east of the seaside town of Byala, south of Krapets, officials said.

Bulgarian lawmakers said the ship is owned by Ukraine and was carrying seven Ukrainian citizens and eight Azerbaijani nationals.

Tracking data shows the Chelsea-3 left the northeastern Turkish city of Giresun on Saturday, bound for Moldova’s Giurgiulești port. The HS Dignity departed from Algeria on October 5 and was scheduled to arrive in Romania on Thursday. All crew members were rescued, and three drones were found either on the deck or onboard the Chelsea-3, authorities in Sofia said. Five crew members received medical treatment.
Opinion by Edith Olmsted

Is Elon Musk using SpaceX to kneecap Starlink access in Ukraine on behalf of President Donald Trump?

A Ukrainian military official claimed Wednesday that Musk’s SpaceX had interrupted functioning of the country’s military-grade Starlink terminals, Reuters reported. Presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian defense forces “did not receive warning about this limitation, and this led to the disruption of several missions.”

The disruption comes just days after Trump publicly criticized Ukraine for continuing to attack Russian oil refineries in the wake of the U.S. lifting sanctions on the sale of Russian oil, and called for the removal of  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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