The Japanese Parliament has approved the candidacy of Shigeru Ishiba for the post of Prime Minister of the country, reports the Associated Press. Earlier, on September 27, he was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It is planned that Ishiba will announce the composition of the new cabinet today, October 1, and also call parliamentary elections for October 27.

The news The Insider October 1, 2024 The Israeli forces made short sorties to Lebanon since the beginning of the war in the gas sector, having carried out a total of more than 70 such operations. The representative Daniel Hagari reported this on October 1, the day after the army officially began a ground invasion to the south of Lebanon.

Azerbaijani human rights activist, political emigrant and critic of Ilham Aliyev’s regime Vidadi Iskenderli died in a hospital in Mulhouse in France. On September 29, three unknown men entered his house and stabbed him multiple times. This was reported by the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty with reference to the brother of the murdered Oktay Iskenderli. Oktay claims his brother was stabbed at least 24 times. He was able to resist and call the police.

Cover photo: National Crime Agency (UK) RU The U.S. Department of the Treasury , the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) have imposed sanctions on seven Russians and two Russian companies allegedly linked to the hacker group Evil Corp, according to a joint trilateral investigation by the three countries. The group’s leader, Maksim Yakubets, was indicted in the U.S.

The news The Insider October 1, 2024 In today's report: Russian troops finally occupied the city of Ugledar, but the collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in this area is not expected The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to recapture in the Kursk region in almost two months of fighting no more than 21% of the lost territory The Russian command uses in the Pokrovsky direction the "agent-combat" and "raid" groups Soldier Yegor Guzenko complains of "shell

According to the decision of the Ivanovo Regional Court, a native of Vichuga, 31-year-old Yuri Kolganov, will spend 12 years in a maximum security penal colony. He was found guilty of treason. According to the investigation, Kolganov made two transfers in cryptocurrency to the account of the Freedom of Russia legion fighting within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the total amount was slightly more than 3 thousand rubles. He is alleged to have transferred money in December 2022 and January 2023.

The news The Insider October 1, 2024 Russian programmers, dismissed by ABBYY IT companies, completed the development of a new version of the flagship product Vantage 3.0 . As one of the dismissed employees of the Hungarian office of the company told The Insider, the product will remain without the support of developers at the stage of identifying shortcomings after the first sales. “Integration and testing occurred, but the main part of the development ended.

A court in Hamburg banned the dissemination of information that Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov was bribing judges at the International Fencing Federation (FIE), which was previously alleged on the German television channel ARD. The message from the billionaire's press service is reported by Interfax.

The Astra publication published a fragment from the decision to initiate the first known criminal case regarding the execution of seven Russian military personnel by their own command. Information from there confirms the investigation of the Ukrainian publication Suspilne, published this summer.

The Russian government has sent federal media recommendations on how to cover some key aspects of the draft budget for 2025, The Bell writes , citing its sources. They pay special attention to the topic of tax increases, which are recommended either not to be covered at all, or to be done in a positive way. Such a “manual,” as The Bell reports, was sent to the editors of federal publications by the press secretary of the Russian government, Boris Belyakov.

Antifacked Lukashenko said that Ukraine accuses him of intentions to seize the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But Ukraine did not make such statements The Insider 1 October 2024 Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting with the General Director of Magate Rafael Grossy, said that Ukraine accuses him of his intention to capture the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: “We are reasonable people and do not rush to different adventures.

The Israel Defense Forces officially announced the launch of a “limited and localized” ground operation against Hezbollah terrorists in the border areas of southern Lebanon, the IDF press service reports . The entire operation is called “Northern Arrows”.

In Jaffa, unknown persons opened fire on passers-by. According to The Times of Israel, six people were killed and nine were injured. The terrorists got off the tram and started shooting at the waiting passengers, writes the Voice of Israel Telegram channel. Israeli police called the incident a terrorist attack. According to The Jerusalem Post, Israeli police shot and killed two of the terrorists who opened fire.

During January–August 2024, China’s share in the total settlements of sellers of Russian marketplaces decreased by 16.7% compared to the same period last year. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to a joint study by Modulbank and Wildberries. The reason for the decline is the increase in the verification period for payments from Russia by Chinese banks, fearing US sanctions.

Students and schoolchildren from several regions of Russia began to be forcibly registered in the patriotic organization “Movement of the First”. This is reported by SotaVision. The organization was created in 2022 to educate children and youth “on the basis of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” and assumed voluntary participation.