The EU locked in its sanctions on Russia for an unprecedented three years this week, and paid for it by letting two of the country's richest men off the list. Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were delisted at the insistence of Slovakia, France, and Luxembourg, DW reported.

France pushed to remove Usmanov, a Kremlin-linked metals and telecoms magnate, as part of a secret deal to free prisoners held in Azerbaijan, and Luxembourg pushed to remove Fridman, who is pursuing the country for about $16 billion in arbitration over the losses his sanctions caused, the Financial Times reported.

Kyiv's reaction was immediate and furious

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the decision shameful and unjustified and urged EU states to impose their own national sanctions on the pair.

"In Moscow, they celebrate, because they got what they wanted: a sense of impunity, humiliation of the European Union, and division among Europeans," he wrote on X.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who raised the issue with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in New York, called the delisting "suicidal and counterproductive."

"Wars end with resolve and strength, not concessions to the aggressor's cronies," he said, thanking von der Leyen for agreeing to work on adding more Russian names to the lists.

At the same time, he stated that he "is grateful to Ursula for her willingness to work on adding more Russian individuals to the EU sanctions lists."

The step was a bargain of durability for names. Rather than roll the sanctions over for the usual six months, the EU previously extended them to 22 September 2029, keeping some 2,600 Russians and companies, including President Vladimir Putin, frozen out for three years, after weeks of deadlock that at one point nearly let the whole regime lapse.

The deal came only after the bloc pushed its deadline back a week to buy time, and its Irish presidency called the result a difficult compromise.

Carnival spokesperson confirms onboard cameras captured male passenger going overboard on way from Mexico

A 56-year-old man is missing after he reportedly jumped off a Carnival cruise ship on Saturday.

A Carnival spokesperson confirmed in a statement that cameras on the ship captured a male passenger going overboard the Panorama, according to several news reports.

US officials have begun to buy back wind leases as president seek to block renewables in favor of fossil fuels

Democratic attorneys general from California and New York have sued the Trump administration over its plans to buy back offshore wind leases as Donald Trump seeks to discourage the expansion of wind energy in favor of fossil fuels.

California attorney general Rob Bonta said he was suing over removal of a project off his state’s coast planned by Chicago-based Invenergy. The Trump administration said in June it was buying back the company’s US offshore wind leases for four wind projects on the east and west coasts.

Le joueur vedette aurait signé une prolongation de contrat de deux ans d'une valeur de 115 millions $ US.

Il s’agit d’un rare terrain d’entente entre le RCLALQ et la CORPIQ en vue des élections.

Gone was any shred of US idealism. It was a spectacle of raw power – a power that is likely to only diminish in the years ahead

Expectations were low for Donald Trump’s address to the UN on Tuesday, and yet somehow it was even worse than expected. He does not perform well in formal settings, like chambers of government, preferring a blingier room, like Mar-a-Lago, or an outdoor rally. For years, he has made no secret of his hostility to the UN, and the very principles of international order that define it.

In recent years, that hostility has deepened into something more like a full-on assault, with frequent attacks on the International Criminal Court (perhaps out of fear that he will someday be indicted), on the UN’s climate agenda, and on Unesco (which the US decided to withdraw from in July 2025).

L'annonce vise à « préserver la possibilité d'une solution à deux États », selon le premier ministre canadien.

Amid show’s major overhaul by Bari Weiss, Sunday’s episode draws third-smallest audience for a second episode in the past 25 years

60 Minutes’ blockbuster interview with Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, failed to provide a major ratings boost for the Sunday show, according to audience figures released Tuesday.

Sunday night’s episode of the newsmagazine show drew an average of 6.77m total viewers, the third-smallest audience in the past 25 years for the second episode of a season, adding to a disappointing debut for Bari Weiss, who, as CBS editor-in-chief, rewired the show, firing several high-profile correspondents in the run-up to the new season.

Russia has destroyed a Ukrainian toilet-paper maker's warehouse for the second time. According to Snow Panda, an everyday brand of toilet paper, paper towels, and wipes, a Russian strike on 22 September again leveled its warehouse complex. This time, its workers came through unhurt, the company said.

The strike is a small piece of a systematic campaign against Ukraine's civilian economy. Russia has destroyed more than two-fifths of the country's modern warehouse space, some 2.1 million square meters, hitting the depots of retailers, food companies, drugmakers, and couriers far from the front.

Snow Panda makes nothing military, only household paper goods, and it has now been struck twice, in a pattern where rebuilt or dispersed storage becomes the next target.

A second strike levels the warehouse

"On 22 September, as a result of a Russian strike, our warehouse complex was completely destroyed for the second time," the company said.

It provided no further detail on the damage or losses, but emphasized the outcome that mattered most to it.

"The most important thing is that the people are alive and unharmed," its press service said.

July's missile hit the main hub

The first blow came on 1 July, when a Russian missile struck the Snow Panda plant in Odesa Oblast and wounded people there. The company called it its most important hub, the point from which its goods and those of other brands were shipped across the country.

"Now we are assessing the scale of the destruction and making the first decisions to save our life's work," it declared after that strike.

Russia targets the civilian economy

Snow Panda's losses fit what Ukraine has faced all summer, as Russia turns drones and missiles on the warehouses, distribution centers, and railways that keep the country supplied. The target list has run from a toy retailer's depot near Kyiv to food, medicine, and parcel warehouses across the country.

Retailers, grocery chains, and pharmaceutical distributors have all been hit, often more than once, pushing companies to scatter their stock into smaller sites that then draw the next strike.

Mardi, le président américain a de nouveau défendu la guerre en Iran devant l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU.

The park is the most highly visited and strong winds make trash problem worse, with gusts blowing away items

Hold on to your hats – Yellowstone national park staffers have removed a record-setting 20,100 pieces of trash from hydrothermal areas around the geyser-filled park so far this year

The most commonly found items include 280 hats, 54 camera lens caps, 47 hair ties, 42 pencils, 36 pairs of sunglasses, 20 hotel key cards and 17 baby pacifiers.

The US will carry a proposal to Russia to halt strikes on Ukraine's energy systems amid talks over the so-called "energy ceasefire" ahead of the cold season. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he and US President Donald Trump discussed the energy truce at the UN, and that Washington made no unilateral demands of Kyiv, agreeing only to pass the mutual offer to Moscow, his office said.

The outcome eases the worry that shadowed the earlier round, when Trump blamed Ukraine's strikes for record US diesel prices above $6 a gallon and pressed Kyiv to stop hitting Russian refineries, CNBC reported.

Zelenskyy offers a mutual halt

"We talked about an energy truce for us. If they do not want us to attack oil-refining capacities, then let them not touch our energy system, our water supply," he said.

The US side, he continues, would relay the offer to Russia. The two presidents met in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on 22 September.

Air defense stays unresolved

At the same time, no agreement was announced on launching production of Patriot interceptor missiles in Ukraine, the only ones that can intercept Russia's ballistic missiles.

According to the president, his adviser, Pavlo Palisa, spoke with representatives of Raytheon, the Patriot interceptor producer. Zelenskyy added that Ukraine had asked Trump to help accelerate the process.

“We need the licenses to prepare for Patriot production. Raytheon is ready, and I asked President Trump to help with this. He responded positively,” the president said.

Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine plans to launch the project within the next year to 18 months, emphasizing that “this is work for the long term, for the future.”

The two leaders also discussed other bilateral and multilateral issues, including a winter air defense package for Ukraine, but no specific details or concrete agreements were announced.

L'auteur canado-haïtien se défend dans une entrevue accordée au quotidien français Libération.