GLOBEALERT
The wire

Feed

Open sources, classified and cross-checked. 18,169+ stories.

ConflictOct 1Dual U.K.-Iranian national arrested over air base security incidentThe 25-year-old man was arrested in London, and police searched two properties in the U.K. capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said.CBS News
WorldOct 1Nigeria @66: Everton leads European clubs in Independence Day tributesEverton marked the occasion on Thursday with a graphic featuring several Nigerian players who have represented the club, accompanied by the message: “Happy Independence Day, Nigeria!” The post Nigeria @66: Everton leads European clubs in Independence Day tributes appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.Premium Times
PoliticsOct 1Vote Calculator | Will the housing decree go ahead? Simulate party votesCompruebe qué apoyos son necesarios en el Congreso para la votación claveEl País
PoliticsOct 1Pentagon to not invite key allies to NATO meeting next month — PoliticoThe Pentagon did not invite several key allies to a meeting of NATO countries that will take place this month in Poland, following earlier threats from Washington to compile a "list of good and bad" countries.Ukrinform [en]
PoliticsOct 1Jaw-Jaw With Belarus, Revisited Amid Ukraine WarIn 2021, Michael Kimmage wrote, “Belarus and the Ukraine Trap,” where he argued the United States should adopt a realistic diplomatic relationship with Belarus that takes into account its strategic partnership with Russia and learns from overpromises made to Ukraine. Five years later, we asked Michael to revisit his arguments. Image: President of BelarusIn your 2021 article, you named Belarus as one of the most likely places for a war to break out between Russia and the West. Belarus became a staging ground for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, yet a direct confrontation with NATWar on the Rocks
MilitaryOct 1Europe’s drone defences have a Moldova-sized gap. Can Washington plug it?A recent drone explosion near Chișinău highlights Moldova's critical vulnerabilities regarding airspace monitoring and emergency alert systems amid a sharp increase in unauthorized flights.The Hill
MilitaryOct 1'Smart Barbed Wire': Ukraine Deploys Cable-Snipping Anti-Drone DeviceUkraine is now using a fence-like device designed to snag and cut the cables of fiberoptic drones, weapons that have confounded militaries throughout the world.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 1After Belarus Prisoner Release, US Senators Call For Similar Steps In AzerbaijanIn mid-September, Belarus released 25 prisoners held in politically linked cases after the United States agreed to lift sanctions on two major Belarusian companies. Now three US senators from both major parties are calling on President Donald Trump's administration to pursue a similar approach with Azerbaijan, where rights groups say some 300 political prisoners, including journalists and activists, are behind bars.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 1Lviv court sentences Viacheslav Zinchenko to life for murder of former Ukrainian lawmaker Iryna FarionLviv’s Shevchenkivskyi District Court sentenced Dnipro resident Viacheslav Zinchenko to life in prison for murdering politician Iryna Farion.Meduza [en]
BusinessOct 1Vendor Development Programme for women entrepreneurs in VisakhapatnamThe Hindu
ConflictOct 1British-Iranian man arrested for incident around British air force baseNOS Buitenland
BusinessOct 1France meets fiscal reality with a crunchA surge in borrowing costs leaves the country on the edge of a debt spiralFinancial Times
PoliticsOct 1Putin reiterates his threat to Europe: “The point of no return can arrive unexpectedly”El País
PoliticsOct 1France rocked by student riots as hundreds arrested, violence spreads nationwideFox News World
CyberOct 1Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and ServersPolice in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec's suspectedThe Hacker News
PoliticsBreakingOct 1British police arrest UK-Iranian national over airbase incidentAl Jazeera [en]
MilitaryOct 1UK-Iranian dual national arrested in London over RAF Fairford incidentA 27-year-old man was arrested in the borough of Westminster, LondonIrish Times World
ConflictOct 1EU, Ukraine agree to accelerate €45B loan payout in 2027Kyiv is running out of money to buy weapons to defend itself.Politico Europe
PoliticsOct 1After the Ceuta crisis, the Twenty-Seven want to tighten immigration rulesDÉCRYPTAGE - Malgré une chute de 55 % des arrivées illégales en deux ans, l’Union européenne cherche à se doter de procédures d’urgence en cas d’afflux massif.Le Figaro International
BusinessOct 1Money transfers between Russia and Kazakhstan fall nearly 12-fold after EU sanctions on Zolotaya Korona payment serviceMoney transfers between Russia and at least two former Soviet republics — Kazakhstan and Georgia — fell sharply after the EU imposed sanctions on the operator of the Zolotaya Korona payment system in late July, according to data from regulators in both countries reviewed by RBC.Meduza [en]
WorldOct 1'Guilty of all charges': Man City at centre of 'biggest scandal in football history', vows to appealFrançois Picard is pleased to welcome our sports editor, James Vasina, and Andreas Evargora, sports journalist and commentator. Evargora describes the current Manchester City case as unprecedented in scale: “This is nothing of the scale that we’ve seen before.” The case brings together an explosive mix of pressures confronting modern sport like never before: the multibillion-euro business of football, the legal and regulatory mechanisms designed to govern it, and the increasingly complex relationship between sport, political power and international investment.France 24 [en]
PoliticsOct 1Fires break out at French schools as students protest nationwideThe French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.BBC World
MilitaryOct 1US NATO troop review to respect 'America first' policy, says NATO envoyThe review of troops stationed in Europe was initiated after tensions rose over some NATO countries refusing US troops access to military bases for use in the war in Iran.EuroNews [en]
ConflictBreakingOct 1Teacher doused in petrol and schools set on fire as student riots in France dramatically escalateThe Independent World