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Prosecutors allege that the 50-year-old led a team of divers and an explosives expert who planted charges on the pipelines in 2022. His lawyers argue the pipelines were legitimate military targets and ask the court to halt the case.
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A Saudi Energy Ministry statement confirmed a limited fire at an Aramco building in Dhahran, while debris from intercepted missiles injured four people in Riyadh.
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Trump posted early on 14 October 2026 that massive oil, gas and mineral exploration in Greenland is about to start. A senior Greenlandic economy ministry official says extensive exploration is still far off.
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Overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people across Ukraine and cut power in several Kyiv districts, while Russian air defences said they repelled 180 drones aimed at the Moscow region.
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King Felipe VI closed his two-day visit to Ceuta and Melilla on Wednesday, 14 October, with a message on sovereignty and the EU border. The Melilla leg included a ceremony at the Assembly, a school visit and crowds of thousands in Plaza de España.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the Trump-Putin diesel arrangement very risky in a Senate address on Wednesday, 14 October, while German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also rejected it. Moscow dismissed her criticism, and Ukraine's energy truce remains unconfirmed.
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The White House pushed Kimberly Guilfoyle out as US ambassador to Greece after Wall Street Journal reports alleged she sought $100,000 from a Republican donor. Her lawyers say the request was a legitimate debt collection.
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Maritime security sources say the Singapore-flagged container ship GFS Pride sank after a projectile hit, and the dry-cargo ship Cape Dao is also going down near the strait.
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Ukrainian forces lost connectivity on Starlink terminals moving faster than 160 km/h, and officials say no warning was given. Whether Washington requested the limit remains unconfirmed.
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Tokyo has summoned Russia's ambassador over the detention of Yuki Imai, a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter held in Sakhalin on espionage suspicion. Japan is pressing Moscow for information and fair treatment, but officials have not yet reached him.
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A Russian jet drone struck a wholesale store in Lutsk, about 80 km from the Polish border, on 14 October. Ukrainian authorities put the death toll at six, with 12 people injured, while Kyiv reported five dead the same day.
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The US Treasury removed Jorge Rodríguez, brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez, from its sanctions list on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, without giving reasons. The step follows the January 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro and a series of earlier easing measures.
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Beijing accepted an annual export quota on Chinese hybrid cars to the EU, a deal struck in the week of 5 October. Germany now backs tougher EU action, and EU leaders take up the issue at a Brussels summit on Thursday, 15 October.
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Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed a fire at a Starlink facility near Sofia on Wednesday, 14 October, and declined to give details while the investigation runs. The incident follows an arson attack on a Starlink ground station near Warsaw on 23 September.
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The Chamber approved the majority's two resolutions ahead of the 15-16 October European Council, while opposition parties stayed united against the government but split over Ukraine and sat out the vote.
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The European Commission paid the sum from its €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan on Wednesday, 14 October, as Kyiv prepares for a fourth winter of war. A further €168.2 million went to missile and drone producers in the EU.
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Zelensky told Piers Morgan on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, that Trump's stance is painful and that he feels betrayed, though he called the matter more complicated than his own emotions. The remarks came during his visit to London.
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MS NOW reported that Kash Patel arrived on Wednesday, 14 October, for two days of talks in Moscow and St Petersburg. Neither the FBI nor the White House has confirmed the visit, and the Kremlin has released no details.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told the Senate that the US understanding on Russian diesel carries clear risks, and that the fuel price spike stems mainly from the war in Iran rather than Ukraine.
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El País revealed that Moroccan navy vessels entered Spanish waters off Ceuta during the late-July migrant surge. The opposition PP wants Pedro Sánchez to explain it to parliament, and the European Commission declined to judge the incursion.
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Rights groups say a 23-year-old accounting student held in Mashhad was sentenced to death for blasphemy, and a separate case added more than 12 years in prison.
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The Landtag adopted the AfD and BSW motion in a special session in Magdeburg on Wednesday, 14 October, as CDU, SPD, Greens and Left voted against.
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Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, becoming the tenth embassy in the city. Israel welcomed the move, while Saudi Arabia called it a violation of international law.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs on Monday, 12 October, that the suspected plot against RAF Fairford was highly likely coordinated in Iran. Seven men have been arrested and all released on bail without charge, while Iran denies any involvement and 29 countries condemned Tehran.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte made the call at a press conference in Tallinn, Estonia, as Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine before winter. Overnight Russian strikes killed at least seven people and left 600,000 without electricity.
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Former president Joseph Kabila, sentenced to death in absentia a year earlier, has been named leader of a new movement that replaces the AFC/M23 alliance in eastern Congo.
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Romania's Ministry of National Defence said a target briefly entered Romanian airspace east of Sulina on Wednesday, 14 October, before Ukrainian air defence shot it down. RO-Alert warnings went out to residents of northern Tulcea county.
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Speaking at an OECD conference on Tuesday, 13 October, Jean-Noël Barrot also warned that foreign actors are trying to destabilise France before its 2027 presidential election.
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The step came a day after all 27 member states approved it, and a few hours after Ukraine adopted a minority-education law that Hungary had demanded in return for lifting its veto.
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The Malta-flagged Chelsea 3, Ukrainian-owned, was hit by three drones about 18 nautical miles off Bulgaria's coast, and a second vessel sank in the same area, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Tuesday, 13 October. All 15 crew of the Chelsea 3 were rescued.
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Washington announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court as an institution hours after Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, was named 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Trump criticized the committee's choice.
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Defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced the formation during drone operator training at Nowy Glinnik in the Łódzkie region on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. The unit is meant to support the Polish army if a conflict breaks out.
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Iran hanged Ali-Sina Mostafavi on Wednesday, 14 October, after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for armed attacks in Kerman, judiciary-linked agency Mizan reported.
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Marine Le Pen wants to cut France's EU contribution by 11 billion euros in her first year if elected, while Bruno Retailleau seeks a negotiated rebate. Both positions come before EU leaders meet in Brussels on 15 and 16 October to discuss the seven-year budget.
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Yandex said its Vladimir facility is fully offline and running in emergency mode, while taxi, delivery and voice-assistant services are disrupted across Russia.
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The EU's foreign ministers formally approved the listings on Monday, 12 October 2026, lifting the total of people and entities sanctioned over the war in Ukraine to nearly 4,600. The move follows a US-Russia diesel arrangement that European governments criticised.
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Two strikes on King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft on Thursday killed three Saudi citizens, including a pilot. EASA extended its advisory against operating in Saudi airspace on Friday, and Lufthansa Group suspended Riyadh flights through 16 October.
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Ukraine's parliament passed a minority-language education law that Hungary set as a condition for EU talks. Ireland's Thomas Byrne said all member states agreed to open two clusters for Ukraine and Moldova, formally due on Tuesday, 13 October.
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Axios, Channel 12 and N12 report that Netanyahu and Trump discussed a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran before the midterm votes. The White House calls the report false.
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Prosecutors have not said which material was shared or with whom, while Spiegel reports Hanning had longstanding contacts with a former senior Chinese general. Allies in Europe are voicing concern over the BND's credibility.