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Hurricane Ian’s trauma will leave a lasting mark on Floridians’ mental health, experts say

Tribune News Service

Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ warning wasn’t based on new intelligence, US says

US president made most outspoken remark on threat of wartime nuclear weapons when speaking at a fundraiser on Thursday

The Guardian - US

Ukraine war: West must act now to stop Putin’s threat to world, says Zelensky

The Ukrainian president says the Kremlin has begun to ‘prepare their society’ for the use of nuclear weapons - but he does not believe Moscow is ready to use them

Evening Standard

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Biden's 'Armageddon' talk edges beyond bounds of US intel

The White House says President Joe Biden’s warnings that the world is at risk of nuclear "Armageddon” were meant to convey that no one should underestimate the extraordinary danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine

The Independent UK

Russians being prepared for nuclear war, Zelensky warns

‘It’s dangerous to even speak about it,’ warns Ukrainian president as he urges Russian citizens to rise up

The Independent UK

Finnish leader celebrated for very simple solution to Biden’s Putin question

“The thing about Finland is that when you ask a straight question you usually get a straight answer,” remarked one fan of Ms Marin

The Independent UK

If Vladimir Putin goes, who's next? Come inside the Kremlin, where the Russian leader's successor could be lurking

As Vladimir Putin's disastrous war in Ukraine stretches into an eighth month, observers are openly speculating about who could replace him if his position becomes untenable.

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Putin orders seizure of Exxon-led Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday that establishes a new operator for the Exxon Mobil Corp-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East.

Reuters

Ukraine battles Russian advance in key town of Bakhmut

Separatist forces in the war-battered Donetsk region say they have reclaimed a series of villages near Bakhmut.

Al Jazeera

Chechen armed forces assemble to honour Putin and his ally Kadyrov

Members of the security forces of Russia's Chechnya region massed in its capital, Grozny, on Friday to mark Russian President Vladimir Putin's 70th birthday and see local leader Ramzan Kadyrov honoured for supporting Ukrainian separatists.

Reuters

Are Putin’s nuclear threats really likely to lead to Armageddon?

The realities underlying the menacing vocabulary are a grey area – it is far from certain that Putin would be prepared to use nuclear weapons

The Guardian - US

Vladimir Putin gifted tractor from Belarus dictator for 70th birthday

Alexander Lukashenko told reporters he used a similar model in his garden

Evening Standard

No new intelligence behind Biden Armageddon comment -White House

The United States has no new intelligence on Russia's nuclear threats, the White House said Friday, after President Joe Biden referenced a nuclear "Armageddon" on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine faces new Russian threat from Iran-made ‘kamikaze’ drones

The Russian army has stepped up the number of attacks by Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones, aiming a dozen such devices at a town near Kyiv on Wednesday alone. While their effectiveness is limited, the drones offer a cheap alternative to missile strikes and allow Russian forces to keep up the pressure…

France 24

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Brave NHS worker who told of little children being lined up and shot in war-ravaged Ukraine is set to return

The NHS staff helped orphaned children and traumatised troops who had lost everything

Reuters

Head of Ukrainian Nobel-winning group seeks tribunal to try Putin

The head of a Ukrainian human rights group that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday called for an international tribunal to be created to try Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Analysis-Defeats in Ukraine stoke crisis for Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin is grappling with the gravest domestic crisis of his 23-year rule: an increasingly public quarrel inside the Russian elite over who is to blame for the battlefield defeats in Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Russia at weakest point in war so far; pro-war bloggers turn on Putin; and demining in Ukraine’s east

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Belarus opposition leader says Lukashenko 'weakened' by his support for Putin's war

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Vladimir Putin, is in a politically "very fragile" position due to Russia's military setbacks in Ukraine, Belarus' exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said on Friday.

The Conversation

Nobel peace prize goes to Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian human rights activists

On the 70th birthday of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Nobel prize committee recognised the work of three winners who are all battling against Putin or pro-Putin regimes.

The Guardian - UK

How Putin lost hearts and minds in eastern Ukraine

The sham referendums serve only to highlight that many once pro-Russian Ukrainians are turning their backs on Moscow, says humanitarian worker Brian Milakovsky

The Independent UK

How ‘street justice’ and retribution complicate the war in Ukraine

Collaborators with Russian forces are being brought to justice – but not always through official means, as Kim Sengupta explains from Kramatorsk

Tribune News Service

For Europe, Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ warning can’t be dismissed

European leaders said Friday that President Joe Biden’s warning about “Armageddon” and Russia’s possible use of nuclear weapons shows the seriousness of the threat from Moscow’s escalation in Ukraine.

France 24

'We're not giving up' on independence: Scottish external affairs secretary

As the Scottish government pushes on with its bid to hold a referendum on leaving the United Kingdom, with a hearing scheduled at the British Supreme Court on October 11 and 12, Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs Angus Robertson has told FRANCE 24 that his government is "not giving…

The Independent UK

Leader of Belarus gifts Putin a tractor for 70th birthday

Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an unusual gift for his 70th birthday: a tractor

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