The Trump administration is developing a plan to quickly build housing complexes for Palestinians in Israeli-controlled areas of the war-torn Gaza Strip. This is reported by The New York Times, citing 20 American, European and Israeli officials familiar with plans for the restoration of Gaza. The complexes, which US officials call "alternative secure communities", will be concentrated in the eastern Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli control since a truce took effect in October.

Leonid Fedun, co-founder of Lukoil, sold his stake in the Russian company back to it, Reuters writes , citing three sources. According to the agency, Fedun sold his share to Lukoil at the beginning of 2025. Reuters notes that Fedun's share was worth about $7 billion, but it is unknown how much he received as a result of the deal. Lukoil declined to comment. In August, the board of directors of Lukoil decided to redeem 76 million quasi-treasury shares, the company reported in a press release .

A court in Hamburg ordered a group of climate activists from the Last Generation movement to pay €403 thousand to Lufthansa in damages. As Bild reports , having studied the court decision, if the activists - a total of 10 people - do not pay compensation, they face up to two years in prison. On July 13, 2023, activists from the “Last Generation” stormed the territory of Hamburg Airport and completely paralyzed its work, blocking the runways.

India's oil imports from Russia will reach their highest level in five months in November. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Kpler data. Such indicators were achieved because oil refining companies managed to secure supplies before the deadline promised by the United States to terminate transactions with Russian oil producers subject to sanctions arrived.

The Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against Shakhlar Novruzov for the confiscation of Tuapse Sea Commercial Port LLC (TMCP) belonging to him. According to Kommersant, the Prosecutor General’s Office claims that Novruzov is a member of an “ethnic Azerbaijani criminal group” and his structures were used to smuggle food products that do not meet safety and phytosanitary standards.

A Lithuanian court has sentenced an 18-year-old Ukrainian man to three years and four months in prison for an arson attack carried out against an IKEA store in Vilnius last year. The independent Russian-language outlet Mediazona reported the verdict, citing its correspondent in the courtroom. Prosecutors cited by AFP said Danylo Bardadym acted “in the interests of a foreign military service” and that Russia had been “aware” of his plans.

Montenegro will abolish the visa-free regime for Russians in September 2026 in preparation for EU membership. As explained at the Montenegrin Embassy in Moscow, the country must bring its visa policy in line with EU standards by the end of the third quarter of 2026, this also applies to the timing of the introduction of visas for Russians.

The NIS (Oil Industry of Serbia) oil refinery in Pancevo, Serbia, near Belgrade, has begun preparing to shut down due to US sanctions. This was announced by the company itself, which is more than half owned by structures of the Russian Gazprom. The plant’s installations have been switched to “warm circulation” mode - that is, the capacity maintains the volume of raw materials that is necessary in order not to completely stop production.

As a result of a drone attack on Taganrog and the Neklinovsky district of the Rostov region on the night of November 25, three people were killed. Rostov Governor Yuri Slyusar wrote about this in his Telegram channel. “According to operational services at 7 am, as a result of the night attack, a paint shop, a warehouse, a number of social facilities, 4 apartment buildings, 12 private residential buildings, 4 cars were damaged,” the governor wrote .

The Taliban, which rules Afghanistan, has blamed Pakistan for the deaths of nine children and a woman in an overnight airstrike in Afghanistan. Reuters reports this.

The Russian government is discussing measures to support Russian Railways, which has accumulated a debt of 4 trillion rubles, Reuters reports , citing two sources familiar with the situation. As noted, the company faced a decline in revenue amid a slowing war economy, and the cost of debt servicing rose due to record interest rates. Among the measures being discussed are increasing freight tariffs, increasing subsidies, cutting taxes or using funds from the National Welfare Fund.

Created with US support as an alternative to UNRWA structures, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) announced the cessation of its work. NBC News reports . The foundation itself claims that after the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, the need for its activities was no longer necessary: “We have successfully accomplished our mission of showing that there is a better way to deliver aid to the people of Gaza,” said GHF Director John Acree.

South Korean Kim Nok-wan, 33, was sentenced to life in prison for creating an online network of blackmailers who sexually exploited or abused 261 people over four years, the Associated Press reports . The victims included more than a dozen minors whom Kim raped or beat. He was arrested in January.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to meet with US President Donald Trump "as soon as possible" - perhaps around Thanksgiving - to agree on a joint US-Ukrainian plan to end the war. The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, stated this in an interview with Axios. According to him, American and Ukrainian officials generally agreed on most points of the plan, which was significantly changed from the original 28-point American proposal.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University and Ohio State University have found that content personalization algorithms—such as those that tailor YouTube videos or social media posts—can seriously harm people's ability to learn new things. The experiment showed: when an algorithm selects information “for a specific person,” it begins to study the world one-sidedly, but at the same time feels like an expert even in those areas about which it knows almost nothing.