A crowd clashed with police and National Guard troops in a Kyiv suburb amid allegations that men were being held and tortured in a private house. The incident highlights growing tensions over Ukraine’s controversial military recruitment practices as it strives to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The United States says it will host new Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, but analysts caution that deep divisions over a cease-fire and security guarantees make a major breakthrough unlikely.
The United States has struck Iran’s strategic Qeshm Island in a series of previously undisclosed attacks. The strike, conducted on the eve of the US midterm elections, was carried out even as President Donald Trump played down the prospect of renewed war and signals hope for a diplomatic deal.
Afghanistan has asked the US government to “act responsibly” amid reports that it plans to deport dozens of Afghans via Pakistan, possibly in the coming days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country would cease strikes on Russian oil refineries – as demanded by US President Donald Trump -- if the US would provide Kyiv with Patriot air-defense missiles.
Moscow and Kyiv traded strikes on November 1, with dozens of drones reportedly destroyed over Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region and energy infrastructure hit in four Ukrainian regions, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was unsure whether a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine was possible, while European officials told RFE/RL the top US diplomat privately expressed doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend December’s Miami G20 summit.
Evacuation of residents from the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky had been completed as Moscow and Kyiv continued to stick to the temporary cease-fire brokered by US first lady Melania Trump.
Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies are gathering in Atlanta on October 30-31 for talks expected to expose continuing divisions among Western governments over Russia's war in Ukraine.
Novaya Gazeta, the venerable investigative Russian newspaper whose reporting staff included the slain Anna Politkovskaya and at least five others who were killed or died under suspicious circumstances, announced it was shutting down.
Moscow and Kyiv say the evacuation of residents from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky was completed "without incident," as buses filled with civilians left the area for the first time in more than four years under a US-brokered truce that is set to remain in effect until November 1.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has called a national security meeting after a major cyberattack exposed personal data linked to some 750,000 people. Authorities are investigating possible foreign involvement in the attack, which may have been aided by artificial intelligence.
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