Contents 1. Cheap oil in exchange for giving up the veto on EU decisions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said his country will not stop importing Russian oil via pipeline because he “cannot change geography,” referring to Hungary’s lack of access to the sea . Orbán claims that Budapest has no other option but to buy oil from Russia. “I can't change geography. I try to be a strong man. I can change policy, but I can't change geography.

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More than 5,000 people have fled northeastern Nigeria to neighboring Cameroon after Islamist militants Boko Haram captured the border town of Kirawa in Borno state. Residents and community leaders told Reuters on Friday. Terrorists have stepped up attacks this year on civilians and security forces in Borno state, the epicenter of the 16-year conflict linked to Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province.

Sarah Mullally has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman will hold the position in the 1,400-year history of the position. The UK authorities announced this on October 3. Mullally will become the 106th archbishop, succeeding Justin Welby, who resigned amid a scandal over a church abuse cover-up. She will be inaugurated in March 2026 at Canterbury Cathedral, following legal confirmation of her election in January at St Paul's Cathedral.

Antifake Fake by Vladimir Putin: in 2000, Russia tried to join NATO, but was refused The Insider October 3, 2025 Vladimir Putin, in his speech at a meeting of the Valdai Club, stated : “Our country, trying to eliminate the grounds for bloc confrontation and create a common security space, twice even declared its readiness to join NATO. The first time was in 1954, back in the days of the USSR, this was done then.

A court in Helsinki has ruled that Finland does not have jurisdiction to prosecute the crew of the oil tanker Eagle S, which was detained by the Finnish coast guard in December 2024 after damaging submarine cables. Reuters writes about this. The case against the captain of the Eagle S and two crew members was dropped on Friday, October 3. The Helsinki District Court found that the broken cables were outside Finnish territorial waters, the Financial Times explains .

The governor of the Vologda region, Georgy Filimonov, said that in September and August 2025, one abortion was performed in the region for medical reasons. There were no abortions in July. According to Filimonov, in September last year, 145 abortions were performed in the Vologda region. The governor added that he is “struggling with a catastrophic rate of population decline.” In February 2025, Filimonov proposed a complete ban on abortion in the region.

New French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu Politics Sergei Mikhailov October 3, 2025 In France, a nationwide strike began on October 2. Trade unions and left-wing parties are unhappy that the new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has not listened to their demands with enough respect. And they can afford it: the government, and with it the French economy, are hanging by a thread.

The Ministry of Justice added former Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova to the register of “foreign agents”. In 2022, she ran into the channel’s studio during a live broadcast with an anti-war poster, which was captured in the frame for a few seconds. Now Ovsyannikova lives abroad.

The tanker was detained on September 30 while passing through the English Channel, having previously been spotted off the coast of Denmark under a declared drone threat. At the same time, the day before, French police arrested the captain and first mate of the tanker. According to the Brest prosecutor, the captain and first mate of Boracay were accused of disobeying the orders of the French Navy ship, and also of failing to provide evidence of the ship's nationality.

Former Open Government Minister Mikhail Abyzov has been charged with new charges, TASS, Kommersant and RBC report, citing sources and documents. A new case against an official serving a 12-year sentence was opened under the article of fraud on an especially large scale, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Publications report that Abyzov has already been chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention, and investigative actions will be carried out in Moscow.

In the Irkutsk region, a court sentenced an official from the city of Tulun, Maria Mironova, who was found guilty of fraud in the distribution of housing among local residents affected by the flood in 2019. Many city officials, including the mayor of Tulun, were drawn into such fraud. Some of them have already received sentences; the cases against others continue to be investigated.

An international team of researchers has discovered that birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution use very similar learned vocal signaling to warn of parasitic birds near their nests. The discovery is the first to document animal vocalizations that combine innate and learned components, which could explain how communication systems have evolved from instinctive sounds to learned signals, including human language.

News The Insider October 3, 2025 #Military report In today's summary: In the Kharkov direction, Russian troops are trying to advance in Volchansk and in the outskirts of the city In the Liman direction, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing near Shandrigolov to the north-west of Liman In the Bakhmut direction, the use of APU wheeled and tracked vehicles becomes impossible due to Russian drones ​​In the southern Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to cut off Ukrainian

A court in Tunisia sentenced to death 56-year-old (according to other sources - he is 41 years old) worker Saber Shoushan for Facebook posts criticizing the country's President Kais Said. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Shushan’s lawyer and local human rights activists. Shushan was arrested last year.