The US Federal Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit (San Francisco, California) suspended the decision of the trial court, which ordered the State Department to hold a green card draw. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a three-judge panel ruled that the law firm whose application led to the previous decision did not have sufficient legal grounds to participate in the case.

The Novaya Gazeta publication announced its closure. A statement entitled “We were killed” appeared on her website. Until now, the editorial office occupied a building on Potapovsky Lane in the center of Moscow, but the day before it received an eviction notice . “We were killed. On November 9, we will turn off the lights in our house where we have lived for 30 years, turn off the servers and leave. There is no more newspaper.

Binance has suspended all transactions as it investigates the cyber attack. The crypto exchange announced this on its Twitter, promising to cover all losses of users. “Looks like a Binance hack,” company founder and co-owner Changpeng Zhao said on Twitter. He also assured that user funds are safe. According to the latest data reported by Binance, the total loss is about $6.3 billion. If the amount is confirmed, this will be the largest crypto theft in history.

The governor of the Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, confirmed the attack of Ukrainian drones on the region. At the Samara airport, the arrival and departure of aircraft was temporarily limited. There is no official data yet on the extent of damage to the enterprise. Ukrainian monitoring channels claim that at least 11 fires have broken out on the territory of the refinery. There is no independent confirmation of this assessment yet.

Pentagon representatives appealed to the Baltic countries with a request to refrain from harsh public statements against Russia. This was reported by Reuters, citing three European and one American sources. According to them, harsh statements about the threat posed by the Russian Federation undermine the security of the continent.

At least 69 people were killed and 58 injured after two high-speed trains collided in Spain. As El País found out , shortly before the disaster, dispatchers at Madrid's Atocha station ordered the wrong safety protocol and allowed one of the trains to continue moving without additional speed restrictions. The disaster occurred on the morning of October 28 near the city of Urda in the Castile-La Mancha region.

Quantum computers are expected to outperform classical computers dramatically on tasks such as cracking encryption. Existing quantum computers, however, are not yet “cryptographically relevant” — meaning they remain far from being able to break the standard encryption algorithms in use at the present time.

Former deputy chairman of the Murmansk Regional Duma Gennady Stepakhno was charged with high treason. According to the FSB, the 76-year-old politician, who opposed the war in Ukraine, handed over documents to Ukrainian military intelligence about the activities of the regional government and engineering facilities in the region. Stepakhno was detained on October 9, but the essence of the charges became known only now.

A significant part of the final declaration is devoted to international politics. Russia and African states agreed to oppose the blocking and seizure of sovereign assets, as well as political and economic pressure on independent states. The parties intend to coordinate positions on sanctions against African countries in the UN Security Council. The summit participants also agreed to counteract attempts to “rewrite and falsify history” and impose alien historical narratives.

The Russian Ministry of Transport plans to launch regular delivery of food, medicine, parcels and documents by drones in five regions of the country. The pilot project is designed until the end of 2027, the department reported . At the same time, Russian regions are subject to almost daily attacks by Ukrainian drones, due to which the authorities limit the use of airspace and suspend the operation of airports.

The plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Thursday elected General Zhang Shengmin to the Politburo. Besides him, only Xi Jinping himself remained in the Central Military Council (CMC), the highest leadership body of the army. Associated Press reports . In addition, the plenum participants adopted a resolution on strengthening self-government, discipline and the fight against corruption in the party.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre demanded that the British newspaper Financial Times remove an article that talked about a telephone conversation that he and Finnish President Alexander Stubb had with Vladimir Putin. According to the Norwegian publication VG, Støre said that the content of the conversation was conveyed incorrectly. The FT refused to remove the note. The conversation between Støre, Stubb and Putin took place on October 27.

The Investigative Committee and the FSB reported on the detention of teenagers who were allegedly recruited by the Ukrainian special services to carry out sabotage in Russia through the dating bot “Daivinchik”. The FSB Public Relations Center (PSC) reported that 56 people have been detained since last summer. The Investigative Committee's report mentions four cases: two from the Leningrad region, one from St. Petersburg, one from Vladivostok. Three of the defendants were minors.

Lithuanian law enforcement agencies have established a connection between the arson attacks on Starlink satellite network equipment in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Poland. According to investigators, the attacks in Lithuania and Bulgaria were carried out by the same two men, and the perpetrators of the arson in Poland are connected to them. The Lithuanian criminal police reported this on October 29.

Former employees and business partners of billionaire Roman Abramovich created a network of paid centers “Consul Prime”, through which Russians abroad receive priority registration at Russian consulates. At the same time, citizens who try to sign up on their own have to wait months for an appointment.