Peralta is a leader of the Spanish neo-Nazi organization Bastión Frontal. The press has dubbed her the “muse of the Falangists” — a reference to the Spanish far-right movement that sprang up in the 1930s. Peralta defends Hitler and has repeatedly displayed Nazi symbols in public. For this, she has been permanently banned from entering Germany, where she once attempted to bring in a copy of Mein Kampf and a flag bearing a swastika.

Evgenia Lomakova attending a court hearing via video link On Oct. 16, the Moscow City Court upheld a six-year prison sentence against 20-year-old Yevgenia Lomakova, who was previously convicted of attempting to distribute narcotics.

The Council of the European Union has agreed on a position on the draft regulation on the phase-out of imports of Russian natural gas. As reported in the organization's press release, the document provides for a legally binding phased ban on the supply of both pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia, with a complete ban from January 1, 2028.

Available in English Very long sanctions The US imposed its first sanctions on Iran shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The reason was the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran and the long-term holding of its employees hostage. But other Western countries were in no hurry to join this process. Only in the 2000s, when Iran was suspected of developing nuclear weapons, did Europe decide to join in the pressure on it.

In Bolivia, 58-year-old senator and Christian Democratic Party candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira won the second round of the presidential election, ending two decades of leftist rule in the country. According to the electoral commission's calculations, Rodrigo Paz Pereira received about 55% of the votes and has an "indisputable advantage." Speaking at a rally in La Paz, the winner said: “Today Bolivia can be confident that this will be the government that will bring solutions.

In December 2024, police carried out 12 arrests and 13 searches in multiple Italian cities, seizing Nazi symbols and firearms from the suspects. The neo-Nazis had conducted propaganda through a network of Telegram channels and coordinated in private chats, where they had been plotting , among other things, an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Meloni herself has stated that there is no place in her party for those nostalgic for the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.

An attack by Ukrainian drones on the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant (GPP) in Russia led to the fact that Kazakhstan was forced to reduce production at the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field by 25–30%. This was reported by Reuters, citing two industry sources. According to them, production on October 20 decreased to 25-28 thousand tons, while the usual level is 35-35.5 thousand tons.

The Republika Srpska Parliament on Saturday appointed Ana Trisic Babic as acting President of the Republika Srpska, thereby formally recognizing the end of Milorad Dodik's mandate, Danas reports . The decision came after the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), of which Republika Srpska is part, sentenced Dodik to a year in prison in February and banned him from holding public office for six years for failing to comply with decisions of the High Representative .

Generative artificial intelligence has begun to eliminate jobs for young professionals in the United States, a study by Harvard University graduate students Seyed Hosseini and Guy Lichtinger showed. Companies that are actively integrating AI into their processes saw a 7.7% greater reduction in junior hiring in the six quarters following the release of ChatGPT 3.5 than firms not using the technology. However, hiring for senior positions remained at the same level.

It can be said without exaggeration that there is no democratic tradition in Syria, there are no visible and influential political forces (after the dispersal of the National Progressive Front that followed the fall of the Assad regime) and - perhaps most importantly - there are no clear rules by which parties should form, exist and compete for seats in parliament.

An international team of researchers has found that the Great Oxygen Event—the period when Earth's atmosphere first became saturated with oxygen, about 2.4–2.06 billion years ago—was directly linked to fluctuations in phosphorus levels in ancient oceans. By studying carbonate rocks from four continents, the scientists found synchronous changes in phosphorus content and carbon isotopic composition in marine sediments of that time.

The German Foreign Ministry has announced the recall of its ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer. “For many months, the Georgian leadership has been agitating against the EU and also German Amb. Fischer personally. [The Foreign Ministry of Germany] has therefore decided to recall Amb. Fischer for consultations on how to proceed.

The Israeli army said it had resumed a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after a series of strikes against Hamas targets. “In accordance with the directive of the political leadership and following a series of major strikes in response to Hamas violations, the IDF has resumed measures to enforce the ceasefire,” the army said in a statement issued on the evening of October 19.

One video targets the new interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, claiming that during his tenure as Paris police prefect from 2022 to 2025 he allowed African, Middle Eastern, and Ukrainian migrants who committed crimes against French citizens to evade punishment.

Aishat Baymuradova, who went missing on October 15 in Yerevan, was found dead, Armenian police report . This was confirmed by The Insider and Baymuradova’s acquaintances. The girl, with the help of human rights activists, fled Russia from domestic violence. The circumstances of the death are unknown and are being investigated, police said.