The main thing for November 4: Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in the US midterm elections, losing control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats; Trump and Enes publicly acknowledged that the main factors of the failure were the military operation against Iran and the subsequent jump in gasoline prices; NABU and SAPO, as part of Operation Carthage, exposed a criminal organization consisting of senior officials of the SBU, the National Police and the Attorney General's Office: The defendants covered 52 fraudulent call centers, the Kimprom drug cartel, and prepared bribes against journalists; two heads of departments of the SBU were fired, a general from the intelligence service was arrested; the Supreme Court of Britain finally rejected the appeal of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, thus ending an eight-year process: the former owners are obliged to pay more than 3 billion dollars to the state-owned PrivatBank The right to forcibly recover assets worldwide; the Russian government has almost doubled tariffs on hard alcohol imports from "unfriendly" countries - from 20% to 35% (but not less than 5 euros per liter) until the end of 2027 to cover the budget deficit; React to the US election results with Brent oil prices falling below $100 a barrel; amid Tesla and SpaceX share sales, Elon Musk's daily fortune fell by more than $60 billion; In a report on enlargement, the European Commission cited Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro as integration leaders, while calling on Kyiv to accelerate legal and anti-corruption reforms to to close the negotiation chapters by the end of 2028; The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed consultations with Washington and Moscow on organizing the first tripartite meeting of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen in two weeks.

The main thing for November 4: Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in the US midterm elections, losing control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats; Trump and Enes publicly acknowledged that the main factors of the failure were the military operation against Iran and the subsequent jump in gasoline prices; NABU and SAPO, as part of Operation Carthage, exposed a criminal organization consisting of senior officials of the SBU, the National Police and the Attorney General's Office: The defendants covered 52 fraudulent call centers, the Kimprom drug cartel, and prepared bribes against journalists; two heads of departments of the SBU were fired, a general from the intelligence service was arrested; the Supreme Court of Britain finally rejected the appeal of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, thus ending an eight-year process: the former owners are obliged to pay more than 3 billion dollars to the state-owned PrivatBank The right to forcibly recover assets worldwide; the Russian government has almost doubled tariffs on hard alcohol imports from "unfriendly" countries - from 20% to 35% (but not less than 5 euros per liter) until the end of 2027 to cover the budget deficit; React to the US election results with Brent oil prices falling below $100 a barrel; amid Tesla and SpaceX share sales, Elon Musk's daily fortune fell by more than $60 billion; In a report on enlargement, the European Commission cited Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro as integration leaders, while calling on Kyiv to accelerate legal and anti-corruption reforms to to close the negotiation chapters by the end of 2028; The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed consultations with Washington and Moscow on organizing the first tripartite meeting of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen in two weeks.