U.S. President Donald Trump said he is open to a three-way meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Reuters reported . “If President Xi wants to have it, I’d have it,” Trump said. He said the meeting could focus on nuclear disarmament. “We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization,” Trump told reporters. On October 19, sources told The Wall Street Journal that Putin had proposed a three-way summit with Trump and Xi to discuss Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump is not against taking part in a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “If President Xi wants to have such a meeting, I am ready,” Trump told reporters. “Not so much for the sake of discussing Ukraine, because, frankly speaking, Russia behaved quite normally in relation to Ukraine. <…> We would hold this meeting to discuss nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament ,” the US President added.

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days and fined €255 for leaving the national team's training camp due to disagreements with coach Jorge Jesus. This was announced by the disciplinary council of the Portuguese Football Federation, EFE reports . The agency notes that this is the minimum punishment provided for by the federation regulations.

A court in Kenya found Paul McKenzie, leader of the Good News International Church sect, guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult. Reuters reports this. Mackenzie preached ritual abstinence from food.

Russian forces used a drone to strike the central park in Nova Vodolaha, a town in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said Ivan Vyhivskyi, head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry. Six people were killed: a man, three women, and two girls. One girl was 11, and the other was just over a year old, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration. Another 15 people were wounded, including seven children, he said.

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Russian troops hit the central park of the village of Novaya Vodolaga in the Kharkov region with a drone, said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vygovsky. As a result, six people died: a man, three women and two girls. One of them was 11 years old, the other a little over a year old, said the head of the Kharkov regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, 15 people were injured, including seven children.

Grozny’s Akhmatovsky District Court fined St. Petersburg resident Lena Patyayeva 150,000 rubles for holding a solo picket on the third anniversary of the disappearance of her friend Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen woman, according to a post on Chechnya’s Supreme Court website. The post does not identify the person fined, but Mediazona reported that it was Patyayeva.

The character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a grocery store owner who has been absent from the series for nine years, has returned to the animated series The Simpsons. Apu reappeared in the new episode of the show, aired on October 18. He was voiced by Sunil Malhotra, an Indian-born actor who grew up in the United States and is known for his roles in the TV series Grey's Anatomy and ER. Apu, who first appeared in the very first season of The Simpsons, actually disappeared from the series in 2017.

“Imperium,” a documentary by Sergei Loznitsa, won the best film award at the British Film Institute’s 70th London Film Festival. “Imperium” consists of archival footage shot by Italian documentary filmmakers in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Loznitsa discovered the footage at the Audiovisual Archive of the Workers’ and Democratic Movement in Rome. The film opens with a parade on Red Square, then moves to other regions of the country to show everyday life and celebrations.

The U.S. and Ukrainian presidents have continued their long-distance war of words. Donald Trump wrote on social media that Volodymyr Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war.” “[W]ith all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did,” Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. The U.S.

Leger Kokpakpa / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Wagner fighters escort CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, July 17, 2023 After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, Russian authorities took control of the Wagner Group and created the Defense Ministry’s Africa Corps, which was supposed to take command of Wagner’s mercenaries in Africa.

The Russian military satellite Cosmos 2612 has come very close to ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the Finnish-American company ICEYE, according to LeoLabs, which monitors activity in space. In an October 16 statement, LeoLabs said the Russian satellite’s movement “appears to be a deliberate approach toward” ICEYE-X36. As of Friday afternoon, Cosmos 2612 was about 4.8 kilometers from ICEYE-X36, down from more than 320 kilometers a day earlier.

The Voroshilovsky Interdistrict Court in annexed Donetsk has sentenced military blogger and RT columnist Tetyana Montian to 18 months in a penal colony over calls for “extremism,” Mediazona reported.

The Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny fined St. Petersburg resident Lena Patyaeva 150 thousand rubles for a single picket on the third anniversary of the disappearance of her friend, Chechen Seda Suleymanova. This was reported on the website of the Supreme Court of the Republic. The publication does not specify who exactly was fined by the court, but Mediazona writes that we are talking specifically about Patyaeva.