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Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces or enforced neutrality at November meeting, president says. What we know on day 1,706
A trilateral meeting between Kyiv, Washington and Moscow will take place in November aiming to restart stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “We are ready to talk. If it’s a territorial issue, it must be addressed at a leadership level. Other issues fall within the remit of the technical groups. All this can therefore be discussed in November,” the Ukrainian president said on Sunday in an interview. Zelenskyy also renewed his push for a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin, believing that Putin is the only person in Russia who can make major decisions to end the war.
Zelenskyy says that at the trilateral talks, Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces, or enforced postwar neutrality. Kyiv has long sought entry into Nato despite the reticence of some members.
Meanwhile, US warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes, critical to Ukraine’s air defences, have been fully restored, according to Zelenskyy. He told Ukraine’s TSN television channel that SpaceX’s Starshield satellite internet had been working at speeds of up to 420km/h since early on Saturday, after a meeting with the US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo. Starshield was throttled earlier in October amid diplomatic pressure on Kyiv from Washington.
The US has been trying to pressure Ukraine to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries, which it says push energy prices higher. However, Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Kyiv will only stop the strikes if Moscow stops hitting Ukraine’s power infrastructure, or if the US allows Ukraine to use of Starshield over Russia to detect launch places of its ballistic missiles, or if it supplies Ukraine with Patriot missiles.
Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia had launched nearly 2,300 drones targeting Ukrainian cities over the past week, renewing his call on western allies to speed up deliveries of interceptors. “This week alone, Russia has launched about 1,600 guided bombs, 48 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and almost 2,300 strike drones at Ukraine,” he wrote in an online post.
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its drones had struck a cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk in an overnight attack and another cargo vessel en route to the port of Odesa during the day. The ministry said the vessels were being used to supply the Ukrainian army. Russian forces also hit a logistics centre, a distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight. Reuters could not confirm the reports.
A Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Russian border city of Belgorod killed three people and injured 13, local authorities said on Sunday, while a separate drone strike later in the day killed another person. The overnight attack on Belgorod damaged 30 apartment buildings, regional governor Alexander Shuvayev said.
The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a runoff. In a surprisingly strong performance, the candidate of the pro-western reformist opposition, Andrey Gyurov, will face the incumbent leftist president, Iliana Yotova. Iotova opposes military aid to Ukraine and favours dialogue with Russia, while Gyurov has often expressed firm support for Kyiv. The vote was held amid security concerns after a series of drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea.
Continue reading...The fifth plenum comes against a backdrop of years of purges that have had some analysts wondering if the issue is corruption or a lack of loyalty
When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he pledged to stamp out corruption all through the ranks of the Communist party. More than a decade later, the pace of investigations has not slowed. Last year, China’s disciplinary authorities opened investigations into more than 1 million people, including more than 100 officials at or above ministerial or provincial level.
As Chinese Communist party (CCP) officials prepare for an important meeting this week discipline – and party loyalty – is high on the agenda. For those who try to read the tea leaves of elite Chinese politics, concern about the apparent lack of discipline is dominating CCP discussions.
Continue reading...VANCOUVER (ANP) - Shorttrackster Xandra Velzeboer heeft zondagavond bij de eerste wedstrijd in de World Tour in Vancouver goud veroverd op de 500 meter. De shorttrackster bleef de Canadese Courtney Sarault en Selma Poutsma voor.
Velzeboer is de olympisch kampioene op de 500 en 1000 meter en de regerend wereldkampioene op de 500 meter. Ze veroverde een dag eerder zilver op de 1000 meter en brons met de aflossing.
BRASÍLIA (ANP/RTR) - De linkse president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heeft de Braziliaanse presidentsverkiezingen gewonnen. Dat heeft de kiesraad zondag bekendgemaakt. Lula versloeg in de tweede ronde de radicaalrechtse senator Flávio Bolsonaro, de oudste zoon van oud-president Jair Bolsonaro, met 51,76 procent van de stemmen tegen 48,24 procent voor Bolsonaro. Lula begint daarmee aan zijn vierde ambtstermijn.
De 80-jarige Lula, voormalig metaalarbeider en vakbondsleider, was eerder president van 2003 tot 2011. Hij zat van 2018 tot 2019 gevangen wegens corruptie, maar zijn veroordelingen werden later vernietigd. In 2022 versloeg hij Jair Bolsonaro en keerde hij terug aan de macht.
Lula had tijdens de campagne te maken met onvrede over corruptieschandalen rond zijn Arbeiderspartij en de hoge kosten van levensonderhoud. Ook had hij volgens waarnemers moeite om jongeren en mensen zonder vast dienstverband te bereiken.
Flávio Bolsonaro wilde de radicaalrechtse beweging van zijn vader voortzetten. Volgens peilers hielp een onverwacht hoge opkomst Lula aan de overwinning.
Reigning World Champion Lando Norris was honest about where McLaren struggled to perform after a tough weekend at the United States Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar were left frustrated after they were held back by problems for Red Bull at the United States Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton highlighted problems with the balance of his car as he finished in fourth, while Charles Leclerc claimed another podium in Austin.
