Un homme suspecté d'être en lien avec un projet de tentative d'assassinat contre le Premier ministre et le ministre de la Défense a été arrêté en Pologne, a annoncé dimanche Donald Tusk.
Analysts say fuel will take weeks to ship and quantity is too small to affect prices, while full deal is unlikely to be met given damage to Russian refineries
Donald Trump’s deal with Vladimir Putin to temporarily lift sanctions on US imports of Russian diesel will have little “meaningful” effect on motorists and businesses in the US and overseas, energy and foreign policy analysts have predicted.
The US president infuriated Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he announced the deal on Friday, writing on Truth Social that the agreement with his Russia counterpart to supply millions of tonnes of diesel was essential to reduce fuel prices in the US, which have soared after his decision to go to war against Iran.
Selon le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky, la Russie a mené des frappes sur des installations énergétiques en Ukraine juste "après" l'annonce surprise du président américain sur un cessez-le-feu selon lui conclu entre entre Kiev et Moscou.
Retour sur les temps forts de l'actualité de la semaine écoulée et sur ses images les plus marquantes : les blocus et manifestations de lycéens et étudiants en France, la spationaute Sophie Adenot de retour sur Terre après huit mois passés à bord de la Station spatiale internationale, ou encore les commémorations du 7-Octobre, trois ans après les attaques du Hamas en Israël.
Russia is expanding efforts to target European defense industry leaders as part of a broader campaign of sabotage and hybrid operations aimed at weakening support for Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on 11 October, citing officials from five European intelligence agencies.
The warnings come amid a wider increase in Russia-linked sabotage and other covert operations targeting European defense companies and critical infrastructure. Moscow is expanding its so-called hybrid warfare campaign against European countries as they continue to support Ukraine, using covert networks, intimidation, and suspected sabotage to undermine security and deter further assistance to Kyiv.
The FT reported that assassinations of civilian targets in Europe, once considered "taboo" even within Russian intelligence services, are becoming an increasingly prominent part of the Kremlin’s plans.
Russian operatives target defense industry leaders
European intelligence officials told the FT that Russian operatives are targeting chief executives and senior employees at defense companies, including smaller firms manufacturing drones and drone components.
The campaign comes as Russia seeks to undermine European backing for Ukraine amid a battlefield stalemate and mounting pressure on the Russian economy.
The warnings have prompted defense companies to strengthen security around senior executives. Some have increased personal protection, while others have relocated production sites in response to suspected Russian threats, according to the FT.
Germany's domestic intelligence service, the BfV, has stepped up contact with employees and management at German defense companies and recommended that some use privately contracted close-protection teams, an agency official told the newspaper.
BfV chief Sinan Selen warned German lawmakers that Russia was deliberately planning acts of violence against individuals through state or state-controlled actors. He said the operations were evolving in their targets, methods, and use of organized crime networks.
Russia adapts its methods to carry out attacks
According to the intelligence officials cited by the FT, Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, has adapted its methods by working more closely with criminal groups and dividing surveillance, logistics, planning, and execution among different operatives.
Officials said some plots had been disrupted, while other cases involved surveillance of targets at home and at work.
The campaign's intended effect extends beyond any individual attack. One European intelligence official told the FT that the threat is psychological, designed to make people reconsider doing business with Ukraine.
Although some Russian operations remain amateurish and have been detected early, the resulting uncertainty forces companies to devote more resources to security. Smaller firms, which may have fewer resources to protect their personnel and facilities, could be particularly vulnerable.
Plot against Rheinmetall CEO raised alarm in 2024
European defense executives have been on heightened alert since 2024, when US and German intelligence agencies uncovered a Russian plot against Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger, a prominent advocate of supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Papperger has said he now receives round-the-clock protection from private security personnel and police.
The FT reported that European intelligence agencies now view threats against defense industry leaders as part of a broader effort to disrupt the production and supply of weapons to Ukraine, rather than isolated plots against individual executives.
Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky s'est dit prêt dimanche à suspendre les attaques contre les raffineries de pétrole russes si Moscou cessait ses propres frappes contre les infrastructures énergétiques ukrainiennes. Dans une interview accordée à la chaîne américaine ABC, il a également répondu à Donald Trump que c'était aux Ukrainiens de "choisir tel ou tel dirigeant".
Le pape Léon XIV a annoncé dimanche qu'il allait se faire opérer "dans les prochains jours" d'un nodule "circonscrit au poumon" et ayant été détecté "à un stade très précoce".
Le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sánchez a promis samedi de "renforcer" la législation sur le logement s'il obtient une majorité absolue aux élections législatives prévues le 29 novembre. La crise du logement suscite une forte mobilisation à travers l'Espagne.
Une attaque russe à Zaporijjia a fait au moins 20 morts, samedi, dont trois enfants, au lendemain de l'annonce par le président américain Donald Trump d'un accord levant les sanctions sur le diesel russe. Dans la soirée, Donald Trump a critiqué les frappes ukrainiennes sur des raffineries russes et affirmé qu'il était "temps pour l'Ukraine d'avoir un nouveau président" en raison de son incapacité selon lui à mettre fin à la guerre avec la Russie.
Des hommes embarqués de force, en pleine rue, et envoyés combattre sur le front ukrainien alors qu’ils devraient être dispensés : des vidéos montrant ce genre d’irrégularités se multiplient et attisent les tensions entre les autorités chargées de la mobilisation et certains secteurs de la société ukrainienne. Elle soulèvent aussi des questions quant au contrôle et à la mise en œuvre du recrutement militaire.
Dozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of ‘mass hysteria’? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who is responsible? And has there been a cover-up?
Shortly after 1am one night in April 2019, a CIA officer on a work trip to London was jolted awake in his hotel room by the most intense head pain he had ever experienced. His body was soaked with sweat and he felt like his eyes were spinning in their sockets. He manoeuvred his way out of bed, hoping to make it to the bathroom to vomit, but found his sense of balance had deserted him. Eventually, he fell back into a fitful, shallow sleep.
The next day, arriving at the work meeting he had travelled for, the officer found he could not remember the names of colleagues in the room, people he knew well. As the meeting got under way, he could barely follow the discussion. Initially, he chalked it up to a terrible – if rather odd – case of food poisoning. But over subsequent weeks, worrying symptoms persisted: brain fog, loss of balance and increasingly harsh tinnitus.
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
Donald Trump complained Friday about not winning the Nobel peace prize for 2026, a year in which he started a war with Iran.
At what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York, the US president devoted a long portion of his speech airing his grievances with the Nobel committee.
US president says agreement needed to lower fuel prices, but move likely to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies
Donald Trump is on a fresh collision course with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European allies after his stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel upended years of US and western pressure on the Kremlin to end its war against Ukraine.
Zelenskyy reacted furiously to Trump’s announcement of the deal with Vladimir Putin on Friday, calling it “absolutely terrible” and “not fair and not honest”.
Julia Loktev has released a new film, ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile,’ capturing the lives of Russian journalists who fled the country after the invasion of Ukraine
Counterterrorism police said the men were found inside the perimeter of R.A.F. Molesworth, a base used by the United States, raising concerns about security.
Russia’s latest attack on civilians comes after deadly missile strikes hit the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky, a site visited by UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband on a trip to the country on Thursday
The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a more aggressive approach toward its second-largest trading partner
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a classically inspired apologia for Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy on Wednesday, giving a sweeping speech to the backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens that appeared tailor-made for campaign ads if he runs for president in 2028.
In the speech, the top US diplomat drew historical parallels from the founders, philosophers and conquerers of antiquity to the modern American spirit – as well as his family’s own journey to the United States – as he called on Europe to “awaken from its long slumber” and reject a “future of atrophy and servitude and decline”.
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
Donald Trumpdistanced himself from two top advisers on Wednesday, claiming he did not have “any idea who else they work for”, after it was reported they spent the weekend assisting a pro-Russia government in the Balkans.
On Truth Social, Trump wrote that Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of his 2024 presidential campaign, and James Blair, a campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff on leave of absence, “are outside consultants” and “do not work for me other than as outside consultants”.
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.
The conference, #Disinfo2026, taking place Wednesday and Thursday, is the annual meetup of Europe’s counter-disinformation community and has drawn hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers to a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is run by an independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab.
In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’
In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’
The European Union is weighing tougher trade measures as negotiators prepare to meet Chinese officials in Beijing, with surging exports from China pressuring key industries in Europe.
People at a bar in La Cabrera, on the outskirts of Madrid, watching a televised speech on Monday in which Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced national elections.
Huge tax breaks and a weak currency sustain exports, widen the government budget deficit and complicate the country’s efforts to rebalance its economy.
Two of the world’s largest exporters of grain, locked in war for more than four years, have seen exports plunge even further over the last year. Prolonged conflict around the Black Sea threatens both economies - and those most in need, writes James C. Reynolds
The U.S. war in Iran unleashed small-scale attacks by local criminals or disenfranchised young men hired anonymously to target Jewish and American sites in Europe and North America, experts say.
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