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The report concerns ongoing discussions between Moscow and Washington regarding diesel trade and sanctions.
Moscow and Washington tout a diesel deal to ease sanctions and reopen fuel flows, but few details leave questions on price impacts and U.S. policy, sparking anger from Ukraine and allies.

President Trump and Iranian leaders deny the U.S. midterm elections are influencing their stances in a seven-month-old war. Persistent inflation, U.S. blockades, and indirect negotiations weigh heavily as both sides maintain hardline positions.
One year after a U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza, international peacekeepers and reconstruction remain absent while Israeli forces control 70% of the territory. Ongoing strikes have killed over 1,400 Palestinians, though increased aid has reversed famine conditions.

Cuban immigrants arrested by ICE are being deported to third countries like the Central African Republic and Eswatini with no prior notice, leaving them stranded, jobless, and separated from U.S. families.

U.S. authorities charged former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiring to torture citizens to maintain power, adding human rights abuse allegations to existing drug trafficking charges. The indictment details electric shocks, beatings, and asphyxiation, including abuse of three unnamed U.S. citizens, and notes Flores seeks release for medical treatment while imprisoned in New York.

Cilia Flores, wife of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is set to appear in a New York court as her lawyers urge a judge to grant her house arrest due to worsening heart problems and medical issues.

Former Syrian general Bassam al-Hassan is living in Lebanon under U.S. and Lebanese protection, receiving funds in exchange for intelligence on the 2012 abduction of American journalist Austin Tice, according to a joint BBC and NPR investigation.