Russian President Vladimir Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff stressed at their meeting that a diesel supply deal would serve both countries’ interests and help stabilize international fuel supply and demand, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said. Work on implementation has begun, and the US has exempted Russian diesel deliveries to international markets from sanctions until April 7, 2027.

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Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the country would send 40,000 tonnes of diesel to an undisclosed US port on Thursday, with further shipments planned under an agreement between the leaders. US envoy Steve Witkoff said several tanker deliveries were being prepared. The move comes as US diesel prices remain high, though they have eased from a month earlier.

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the first tanker carrying 40,000 tons of Russian diesel is scheduled to leave for the United States on October 22. Russia could restore diesel export volumes fully by year-end and supply other countries as well; the contract-signing process is nearing completion.

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US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on behalf of Donald Trump for lifting export controls on Russian diesel and supplying the United States and global markets. Witkoff called the decision a very important act amid an economic shock, saying farmers, truckers and people worldwide had been affected by the diesel crisis.

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the first shipment of Russian diesel to the United States is scheduled for October 22, with the contract in its final stage and further batches expected. He said Russia could restore diesel export volumes fully by the end of 2026. A temporary US license allows Russian diesel to reach global markets despite US sanctions. Volodymyr Zelensky called the deal an “investment in the war.”

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Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the first tanker, carrying 40,000 tons of Russian diesel, is scheduled to leave port for the United States on October 22. He said further shipments would follow and Russia would meet US needs within its capabilities, as agreed by the two leaders.

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Colombian authorities seized 7.6 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena. Separately, two Dutch nationals wanted by prosecutors in the Netherlands were arrested in Colombia.

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Governments and agencies urged websites to patch two critical flaws in PHP, advising organisations unable to update promptly to take systems offline. Finland shut its public government web services, while Dutch agencies and the US National Security Agency also issued shutdown advice. AI helped uncover the flaws, which Wiz described as the most severe vulnerabilities ever found by AI.

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Developers of the PHP programming language released a security fix on Wednesday after a vulnerability came to light. They urged users to apply it promptly, while some governments took websites offline as a precaution.

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Government agencies and companies worldwide shut down websites on Thursday as they hurried to guard against hacks after AI found critical flaws in PHP, a widely used programming language.

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PHP developers say patches for two critical flaws that could let hackers take remote control of websites and servers are now available, and urge users to update immediately. Authorities in several countries issued warnings and took some government sites offline; Cloudflare reported early attacks, and the Wikimedia Foundation said it was addressing the flaws.

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Government websites across Europe went offline on Wednesday as operators rushed to patch two critical flaws in PHP, one of the web’s most widely used programming languages.

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Live analysis focuses on Tesla’s third-quarter earnings.

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Police said Wednesday they are investigating to identify a suspect after a motorist was fatally shot on the upper deck of New York’s George Washington Bridge.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine supports a US proposal for negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States to hold three-way talks as soon as possible, preferably by early November. Chatham House’s Grégoire Roos said it was unclear whether Putin would meet Trump and Zelenskiy, adding that meeting Zelenskiy was the last thing Putin would be prepared to do.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled that Moscow is willing in principle to resume talks with Ukraine and the United States next month, following a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff. The proposal comes as Trump steps up pressure on Kyiv to reach a deal.

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According to Ushakov, Putin indicated that Moscow would assist efforts to reach a political and diplomatic resolution on Iran.

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Putin said on Oct. 21 that the Kremlin was ready to resume trilateral talks with the U.S. and Ukraine in mid-November. The day also saw a Russian drone attack kill at least two people and injure two in Kyiv, and a Russian Su-30 crash during training in Kaliningrad Oblast.

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The United Nations has been following developments involving talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, as well as a possible resumption of trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine consultations, Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said. He said the UN is currently monitoring the situation. Putin reportedly told Witkoff Russia is ready to resume the talks around November 10.

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The Atlantic reports that Trump wants to reach an agreement to end the Ukraine conflict at the G20 summit in Miami in December. It says he imagines standing between Putin and Zelensky as they sign a deal, even if Ukraine must be strong-armed, with the signing potentially taking place at his golf course near Miami. Trump has said someone other than Zelensky should negotiate for Ukraine.

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Apple has begun rebranding Apple Music with a new logo, updated wordmark, and sound composed by British producer Fred Again and Nest Acoustics. A promotional video shows the music-note logo and wordmark underwater, shifting in response to sound. The new look is expected to roll out across platforms this week.

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A decade ago, Elon Musk saw little reason for SpaceX and Tesla to combine, describing their ties as “really quite tenuous.” In 2026, he is openly backing the idea, saying there is “a lot of merit” in bringing the companies together.

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A day after SpaceX reported its third-quarter results, Tesla is scheduled to update investors. Elon Musk had called a SpaceX merger a “good idea.”

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Investors hoping that clarity on a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger would jolt Tesla shares out of their sluggish performance may have to wait longer.

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China has begun preparations for a possible first three-way meeting next month among the leaders of Russia, the United States and China, according to the Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide.

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As Amazon bars AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is going the other way with technology that lets agents buy on customers’ behalf, subject to spending controls and transaction approvals.

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Nigeria has reported its first Ebola case, raising fears that the epidemic, which began in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May, could become a wider regional crisis.

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Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case, making it the fourth country to report one. The patient is in isolation, and her contacts, including her Swiss national spouse, are being monitored. African health ministers are due to hold crisis talks.

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Nigeria has announced its first Ebola case after Kenya and Uganda. The patient, a woman, travelled from Uganda and was admitted to a private hospital in Abuja. The outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May and health officials have called it the fastest-spreading on record.

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Nigeria confirmed Ebola in a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja, where she is receiving care in isolation. Authorities have identified 44 close contacts and begun tracing them, while the source of her infection remains under investigation.

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Nigeria reported its first Ebola case in more than a decade on Tuesday, becoming the fourth African country—and the most populous—to be affected by an outbreak health officials have called the fastest-spreading on record.

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A drone strike on a market in the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 153 people, and the toll could rise further, a local official said. Yohana Akol, interim information minister for the Abyei Special Administrative Area, said some victims were burned to ashes and rescuers were trying to recover all the bodies.

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South Sudanese officials say Sudan’s military struck Amiet Market in disputed Abyei with drones a day earlier, killing at least 153 people, with the toll expected to rise. MSF says it is treating more than 20 wounded people. Sudan’s army has not commented; a Sudanese officer said the strike targeted fuel tankers headed to the RSF.

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for more than 43 million violations of the state’s unfair practices law. A jury had found that Meta misled consumers about protecting their data and preventing misinformation and hate speech on its platforms. The case followed revelations that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from millions of Facebook accounts.

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A jury found that Facebook parent Meta misled consumers about data privacy, prompting a judge to order the company to pay $25 billion US.

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25bn, finding that the company had spent years misleading the public about its handling of Facebook user data. The penalty is the largest ever against Meta, and the case arose from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay New Mexico a $25 billion civil penalty in a consumer deception case triggered by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The sum was described as groundbreaking.

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Bloomberg News Now’s audio report highlights Meta being ordered to pay $25 billion and Putin saying Russia is ready for peace talks.

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A judge ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading Facebook users about privacy and content moderation.

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