Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was sentenced to five years in prison with a suspended sentence at the end of September, will be sent to prison on October 21, BFM TV reports , citing a source. Sarkozy will be imprisoned in Santé prison, which is located in the 14th administrative district of Paris, writes Le Figaro.

The leaders of Egypt, Qatar, the United States and Turkey signed the final ceasefire agreement in Gaza at a peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13. US President Donald Trump said during the ceremony that the document "will lay out a lot of rules, regulations and a lot of other things - it's very comprehensive." More than 30 world leaders attended the summit. Among the guests is the head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas.

The Polish prosecutor's office accused two Russian citizens of spying for Russian intelligence - former Open Russia coordinator Igor Rogov and his wife Irina. This follows from a message from the prosecutor's office dated October 13. The statement from the prosecutor's office does not mention the names of the accused, only the first letter, but the media believe that we are talking about the Rogovs, detained in Poland in 2024.

He was 37 years old. He is a war correspondent. Check out his pictures On October 3, 2025, near the village of Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, French photojournalist Anthony Lallican was killed as a result of a Russian drone strike. Four more people who were with him were injured, one of them lost his leg. The journalists were heading to the location of the 4th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Anthony Lallican was 37 years old.

It has nothing to do with history START On October 10, the Start online cinema released the first episodes of “Chronicles of the Russian Revolution,” a series by Andrei Konchalovsky about the events of 1905–1924, consisting of 16 episodes. The series will also be shown on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. In terms of the scale of the plan, this work can be compared with another epic work of the author - “Sibiriyada”, but the realized project is unlikely to go down in cinema history.

These were the words he was greeted with in Israel after the release of the hostages. US President Donald Trump arrived in Israel on October 13, the day the terrorist group Hamas released Israeli hostages. Trump spoke in the Knesset during his visit.

The main thing from the investigation of the Sistema project Ramon Espinosa / AP / Scanpix / LETA Mother of Cuban Dannis Castillo, recruited into the Russian army, with a photograph of her son The Sistema project published an investigation into the recruitment of Cuban and Sri Lankan citizens into the Russian army to participate in the war with Ukraine. Journalists found out that this was done by two women from Ryazan - a travel agent and a hairdresser.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has developed a bill on attracting Russians in the reserve of the Armed Forces to carry out tasks in peacetime, RBC reports, citing a copy of the document. The government approved the initiative on October 13, a source told the publication. The authors of the bill proposed that reservists, by decision of the president, be called up for special training (in addition to the already existing training and testing training).

One thousand three hundred and twenty-eighth day. Poland has been preparing for a Russian invasion since 2014. It is now the EU's largest military power Sean Gallup/Getty Images Dragon-24 military exercise near the Polish town of Gniew, March 4, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. How do you feel about the ongoing war?

Updated . The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced Areg Shchepikhin to five years in a general regime colony, Mediazona reports . The prosecutor's office asked to sentence businessman and blogger Areg Shchepikhin to six years in prison in a general regime colony. Mediazona reported this.

If they collapse, tech companies will lose hundreds of billions of dollars—and leave nothing useful behind. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images In the fall of 2025, OpenAI entered into several large deals with technology giants, becoming the most valuable startup in the world. The company is currently valued at $500 billion.

Gold on the COMEX exchange on Monday, October 13, is trading near $4,100 per ounce, reaching a new all-time high. During trading, the price of gold reached $4,104 per ounce. At the time of writing the news, gold was trading at $4,095 per ounce (+2.39%). Bank of America analysts updated their forecast for 2026 against the backdrop of rising gold prices. Now they believe, writes Reuters, that next year gold prices could rise to $5,000 per ounce.

The human rights project “First Department” recorded a historical maximum of sentences handed down under “terrorist” articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to research by data analyst Kirill Parubets, in the first six months of 2025, military courts announced at least 597 verdicts, involving 659 people. Thus, on average, more than five sentences are passed every day under “terrorist” charges (in the first half of 2025 there were 117 working days).

Answered by Alexander Kolyandr (Carnegie Politika) Nicolas Tucat / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Euroclear Depository headquarters in Brussels, March 5, 2025 The saga of using Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine has been going on for several years and during this time it has been close to completion several times, but has encountered unexpected obstacles.

The documentary film “Parents Are Nearby” directed by Lyubov Arkus did not receive a distribution certificate in Russia. As Arcus reported on her Telegram channel on October 12, the film was also “removed from festival programs, where it was already announced and even included in the catalogs.” The refusal of film festivals to show “Parents Are Here,” Arcus says, doesn’t really upset her.