The European Commission hopes to curb Chinese imports in additional sectors in upcoming talks with Beijing while exploring new trade defence measures, though the move risks triggering retaliatory action from China.
Oct 23 (Reuters) - The first Russian diesel bound for the US following a surprise agreement reached between Moscow and US President Donald Trump is aboard a tanker heading for New York, ship-tracking data showed on Friday. Trump announced the deal this month as part of his efforts to bring down soaring diesel prices ahead of November 3 US mid-term elections.
Trump also waived parts of a new US sanctions law against Russia and threatened Europe with a US diesel export ban unless countries released more from their emergency reserves to help ease prices. The Malta-flagged medium-sized tanker Agioi Fanendes was loaded with 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low sulphur diesel in Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk on October 22, according to LSEG shipping data.
It is expected to arrive in the United States on November 7. The identity of the buyer and seller were not immediately known. The cargo will be the first imported by the US since former President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil and petroleum products in 2022. Trump announced on October 9 that Russia would immediately export 300,000 metric tons, or 2.25 million barrels, to the US and global markets, followed by 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter".
A Kremlin spokesperson on Friday confirmed a first ship under the deal had departed, but did not specify whether it was bound for the US market or elsewhere. "As far as I'm aware, there have already been reports from the Ministry of Energy that the first tanker has, in fact, set sail for its recipients, its buyers.
Further shipments will continue at a steady pace from here on," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on a daily conference call. The deal with the US involved Russia lifting a self-imposed ban on diesel exports. RUSSIA RESUMING GLOBAL EXPORTS Since the EU imposed a full embargo on imports of Russian oil products in February 2023 over the war in Ukraine, Russia has exported diesel mainly to Turkey and Brazil, as well as to African countries.
It also supplies Central Asia by rail. Shipping data from LSEG and Kpler published this week showed Russian diesel cargoes resuming voyages to their traditional destinations after Moscow lifted its own ban, with at least two tankers signalling trips to Turkey and Brazil. It was unclear where other tankers were destined for, with cargoes loaded in Primorsk signalling Gibraltar, the Atlantic Coast or Port-Said, LSEG data showed.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said additional US shipments would follow as companies from the two countries work out the necessary contracts. Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who also heads Russia's sovereign wealth fund, said last week that the US Treasury had asked the fund to help sort out tricky payment issues relating to the agreement.
Novak has said that Russia would be able to increase its diesel exports to its usual levels of 3-3.5 million tons per month by year-end. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Philippa Fletcher and Jason Neely) This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tanker-carrying-40-000-062736177.html
The Kremlin says that a first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States has set sail under a new import agreement
About a fifth of the 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings have come through customs, six weeks through a program designed to lower prices.
Official forecasts show country will meet energy demand by paying high prices to secure importsGreat Britain is expected to pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe this winter as its reliance on imports to ensure a steady supply is forecast to deepen.Energy system operators have said the country will have enough gas and electricity to meet demand over the coldest months – in part because of paying higher market prices than neighbouring markets to secure imports.
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The UK still imports 60% of its gas and, even with Jackdaw, its energy supply and resilience problems are not going awayAfter the overdue approval of the Jackdaw field in the North Sea, here comes a reminder that Britain still imports almost 60% of its gas and the stuff has to come from somewhere.
We’re now doing a deal with Belgium to ensure enough supply can flow through a connecting pipeline this winter should a “low-probability but high-impact stress event”, to quote the regulatory mouthful, occur.To be fair, the arrangement to maintain capacity from Belgium is a belt-and-braces measure.
The imagined events do sound genuinely stressful and may never happen. A critical piece of infrastructure, such as the two import terminals in Milford Haven to bring in liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Britain, would have to be out of action during a prolonged cold snap in which demand is very high.
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US president says Starshield military communications system is back, but declines to comment on whether he spoke to Musk on the matter. What we know on day 1,703Donald Trump has claimed that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk fully restored Ukraine’s Starlink access, restrictions on which have hampered Ukraine’s attack missions and air defence.
However, a senior European official told the Associated Press on Thursday that nothing has changed in the operation of the military-grade Starshield service. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of the system.
Trump on Thursday appeared to confirm that the service had been down, but claimed it was once again working at optimal speeds. “You know, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference,” he said. “I guess the bottom line, he put it back.”Questions over who ordered interruptions to Starshield – which plunged relations between Kyiv and Washington to a new low – have ignited a blame game within the Trump administration and its allies.
Trump has denied being involved in the decision concerning the slowdown, while US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said that decisions regarding Ukraine’s access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Musk, not the White House. Musk last week posted to X: “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government.
Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday – before Trump’s latest comments – that Starlink had not been fully restored.Russia pounded Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight, after US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin to discuss the resumption of peace talks.
Russia’s aerial attacks hit 12 regions of Ukraine, killing at least four people and wounding scores of others, including five children, Zelenskyy said on social media Thursday. Two women, aged 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine’s northeeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
Another person was killed in other strikes on Kharkiv.Downing Street has rejected the description of Putin as a “humanitarian” made by Witkoff after meeting the Russian president. When asked about the US envoy’s comments, a Downing Street spokesperson said: “We certainly do not recognise that characterisation, and President Putin has killed thousands of people, both innocent Ukrainians and his own Russian people, who he has sent to their deaths on the frontline.”
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha chided Witkoff for flattering Putin, saying on social media the latest “brutal” Russian attacks demonstrate “what Russian ‘humanism’ truly sounds like.”Nato member Denmark said on Thursday it has agreed to buy its first long-range precision missiles as it seeks to bolster its security to deter Russian aggression in Europe, drawing condemnation from Moscow.
Defence minister Jeppe Bruus said the new missile systems would boost Denmark’s capabilities and enable strikes “behind enemy lines” if attacked. “We’re in a serious and deteriorating security situation and that is why we are building up the defence and strengthening our combat power,” he said.
The Russian embassy in Copenhagen said Denmark’s missile policy aimed at confrontation with Moscow and warned of “inevitable disastrous consequences”.Romania will accelerate development of surveillance capabilities and equipment to counter mines and drones in the Black Sea after a series of drone attacks on commercial ships off its coast, its top defence council said on Thursday.
At least seven cargo ships have been hit near the coasts of Nato members Romania and Bulgaria in the past two weeks, with 30 sailors reported dead or missing.No deals should be made to buy gas from Russia as long as Moscow’s war in Ukraine continues, Finland’s prime minister Petteri Orpo said in Kyiv on Thursday.
The EU banned Russian pipeline gas under short-term contracts from 17 June, and will apply it to long-term contracts from 1 November next year. Senior Russian political and energy officials meanwhile have urged the EU to reconsider plans to ban imports of Russian LNG, arguing the bloc’s low storage levels had put Europe in a precarious position.
“I hope there is still time to reconsider these decisions,” Leonid Mikhelson, the head of Novatek, Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, told an economic forum in Istanbul on Thursday. “Europe should support its industry, in my view. There is still time.” Continue reading...
With ICE arrests and detentions at their highest levels, immigration remains a key issue for voters less than two weeks before election day. From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivotCheryl Bath, Wisconsin asks in a callout question: During covid I was surprised to learn how many foreign workers, especially from Mexico, worked in the Wisconsin farm fields.
And now, I was more surprised to learn that these workers would also be deported and not allowed to work any longer at these fields even though it was all legal with paperwork. These foreign workers paid into the federal government taxes and social security system which was a plus for U.S. social security.
I’ve been wondering how these Wisconsin farms are dealing with the absence of these workers seeing how it is harvesting time right now. Propublica had a article a year or so ago about the effects of this immigration sweep on the workers and the farms but that was still when the workers were still here.
I can’t find any follow up or information on this anywhere. I think the farmers really feel left out to deal with this on their own and no one is asking questions. Maybe you can?Maanvi: Cattle ranchers and dairy farmers have indeed been pushing for immigration reform, not only recently, but for years – because the industry relies so heavily on immigrant labor.
In September, the the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association, and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association issued a joint warning that ICE operations were threatening their industy, and would have “a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the supply chain moving”.
I recently spoke with Matt Teagarden, CEO of the Kansas Livestock Association, who said that the US cattle herd has shrunk to its lowest numbers in 75 years – and ranchers are struggling to keep up with consumer demand. Farms aren’t able to expand operations without immigrant labor – and Teagarden said that this could mean that US consumers will increasingly be eating imported beef.
He also noticed that ICE crackdowns are having a systemic impact on agriculture – it’s not only dairy or cattle industry workers who are impacted, but also farmworkers who grow the feed for cows, and immigrant workers who process the dairy and meat before it gets to grocery stores.
Two-thirds of farm workers are non-citizen immigrants. As the administration targets these workers, food producers could struggle to keep up operations, and prices are expected to increase steeply, according to a study by the thinktank Fwd.us.José: Many people caught up in the Trump administration’s dragnet are workers in the US — they pay taxes and contribute to Social Security, while receiving almost none of the benefits.
The process to gain asylum or remain in the US can be long and arduous — oftentimes, as undocumented people go through the process, they will receive work permits, Social Security numbers and, in certain states, driver’s licenses. Now, many people with those legal work permits have been arrested by federal immigration officials and sit in detention centers, waiting for their immigration cases to proceed.
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India’s edible oil demand continues to grow, supported by population growth, urbanization and changing diets. Imports may reach 17 million tonnes in the next oil year starting November as production of soybean and other oilseeds remains uncertain.
US Senate candidates Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Republican Mike Rogers shake hands after the debate on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at WXYZ Channel 7 in Southfield, Michigan. - Robin Buckson/Pool/AP Michigan and Kansas held some of the final major Senate debates of the 2026 midterm elections on Wednesday night.
And they were a study in contrasts. The Michigan Senate debate between Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers was bitterly personal and ferociously contested — as befits a contest that could decide the chamber’s majority. Each candidate had a simple task. El-Sayed, the former executive director of the Detroit Health Department, needed to pin Rogers, a former congressman, to the deeply unpopular President Donald Trump and his economy — and to assuage questions from moderates about his politics.
Rogers is trying to win in a state currently run by Democrats while dragging Trump’s historically low approval ratings behind him. His only hope is to disqualify El-Sayed as an acceptable senator in the eyes of voters. The debate in Kansas was a little more genial, with less focus on Trump and plenty of focus on whether Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton would be too allied with the political left — from which he repeatedly sought to distance himself — to unseat GOP Sen.
Roger Marshall. And Marshall, much more than Rogers, made a point of overtly appealing to Trump’s voters. Here are takeaways from the two crucial debates: Fierce debate over El-Sayed’s loyalty Rogers raised an extraordinary question: Is El-Sayed, a Muslim who was born in Michigan, really loyal to the United States? The charge came against a backdrop of searing false claims by Trump that the Democrat is a “jihadist.”
Rogers claimed El-Sayed — who would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate — was bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group founded in Egypt, and that he had donors who supported Iran-backed extremist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. “If you are going to go to the United States Senate, we need to know: Are you for America or are you for these terrorist groups overseas?” Rogers asked.
“You can grin and you can smile and you can talk real pretty, but I’m going to tell you what: That is a risk to our national security.” El-Sayed, who has repudiated the Brotherhood, accused his opponent of a “shameful” attack. “To bring into question my commitment to the Constitution is really beneath you.
I am proud of America. I’m proud to be an American. I’m proud of our Constitution that guarantees all of us the right to pray as we choose to pray,” he said. unknown content item - ‘Pattern of deception’ vs. ‘MAGA bingo’ Rogers also sought to play into the conceit that El-Sayed, as a progressive, is too far to the left of Michigan’s electorate, and he tried to reopen splits that were exposed between rival factions during the Democratic primary.
He claimed that El-Sayed was “aligned” with the Democratic Socialists of America and wants “bigger government and more taxes.” El-Sayed describes himself as a capitalist and is not a member of the DSA, but he is supported by several members of the group, including New York Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who campaigned with him through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last week. Rogers also tore at Democratic divides by appealing to disaffected supporters of El-Sayed’s defeated primary opponent. “You’re a Haley Stevens voter, and you came out of this, and you said, ‘Man, I just can’t do it.
He’s too extreme’ … well, guess what, you have a home with us,” Rogers said in his closing statement. Ultimately, Rogers’ attacks on El-Sayed’s loyalties were aimed at advancing a broader argument — that the Democrat simply couldn’t be trusted — and one that implied, as Trump has, that he is not a fully authentic American.
“There is, again, that whole pattern of deception,” Rogers said of El-Sayed’s claim to be in favor of strong border enforcement, using a refrain to which he frequently returned. Pushing back on El-Sayed’s denials that he wants to defund the police, Rogers claimed, “This guy has got new, false information about every 30 seconds.”
El-Sayed countered multiple times that it was Rogers who was being untruthful and said he was playing a classic game of distraction practiced by Trump. He repeatedly said people should be playing “MAGA bingo” at home as they ticked off Rogers’ pre-planned buzzwords. But he warned: “When you are winning MAGA bingo, we are all losing.”
The Trump factor Rogers, like every Republican candidate in the midterm elections, needs a way to separate himself from Trump’s most unpopular policies without alienating the president’s supporters, who must show up in vast numbers for him to win. He started with a complex pivot — admitting that the Michigan economy was in rough shape and that people were “hurting” but arguing that if Democrats got control of the Senate they’d make it even worse.
This was a long way from Trump’s argument that Americans are living through an economic “golden age.” Rogers walked a fine line on tariffs, arguing that some were working to bring jobs home from Mexico and China, but that the trade war with Canada — a huge issue in Michigan’s border-state economy — was not well thought through.
Rogers argued that Democratic control of Congress would cause higher taxes and higher costs, including for gasoline. El-Sayed had an easier task given huge public dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the economy; he claimed Rogers and the president stood “hip to hip.” He said that voters should send him to the Senate to ensure “money is going to be spent on you and your kids, rather than dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids.”
He narrowed in on Rogers’ biggest vulnerability after the Republican said all his opponent did was say “Donald Trump” over and over again. El-Sayed countered by blaming the president’s decision to go to war with Iran for making the cost of living worse. “Yes, I am going to blame Donald Trump because this is Donald Trump’s economy.
We are living in it,” El-Sayed said. “We are paying more for gas, more for groceries, defunding the Department of Education.” “We need to turn the page on Donald Trump, but that means we need to stand up to Donald Trump.” Kansas debate was more about Schumer than Trump Several states away, another Democratic Senate candidate was taking a very different approach.
In red Kansas — a state Trump carried by 16 points — the name of the game for Hamilton was less about tying his opponent to Trump than assuring he’d be a candidate from the political middle. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, right, and Democratic nominee for U.S.
Senate Adam Hamilton participate in a debate at WDAF TV in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21. - Charlie Riedel/Pool/AP In fact, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer earned more mentions than Trump, as Marshall repeatedly sought to pitch Hamilton as enabling and supporting the New York Democrat’s agenda.
When asked how he differed from the Democratic Party, Hamilton said former President Joe Biden’s border policies were a “disaster” and that he’s “not somebody who favors the Socialist Party.” He said he didn’t support Medicare for All or the Green New Deal, though he liked “parts” of the latter.
“We’ve heard Chuck Schumer mentioned, I don’t know, 50 times? … Maybe 20 times so far,” Hamilton said. “I find that interesting. I’ve already said I wouldn’t support Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader if the Democrats [were] to control the Senate.” On the other side, Marshall distanced himself from Trump far less than Rogers has in Michigan.
In fact, Marshall mostly bear-hugged Trump. When asked about Trump being unpopular even in Kansas, Marshall turned his response into an appeal to Trump supporters. “I’ve had multiple times when I’ve objected to the president before, but I do want to emphasize: We need the Trump voters to come out,” Marshall said.
“And that would be my appeal tonight to people: If you want the Trump agenda to continue, if you want secure borders, if you want a strong military, if you want lower taxes … you need to come out, because we delivered on those things.”
He also said later in the debate that Trump’s “tariffs are working.” When pressed again in his differences with Trump, he said he disagreed with ICE’s tactics in southwest Kansas — which many local Republicans recently objected to — and Trump’s plan to import beef.
ICE was the big issue — and it got a little personal The ICE issue made for some of the most interesting portions of the debate, with Hamilton clearly seeking to turn it to his advantage. Marshall pitched the topic as an example of his ability to get Trump and his administration on the phone when he disagrees with something that’s happening.
“The first thing I did when I saw what was going on in southwest Kansas (with ICE raids), I picked up the phone, called (Homeland Security) Secretary Markwayne Mullin and said, ‘Hey, I don’t think this is quite right. What’s going on?’” Marshall said. Marshall also signaled that there could be a broader conversation about immigration reform now that the border is more secure.
He noted he has delivered many babies to undocumented parents. Hamilton pounced on that remark to cast the deportations that are currently taking place as heartless. “With all of those undocumented children that you delivered, did you also call ICE and ask them to be taken away?” Hamilton said.
“What did you do with these people? You had compassion for them in delivering these children, but then you support quotas.” He said when he was in Hutchinson, Kansas, “There was a preschool teacher arrested in front of her children. That’s just not OK. We militarized and politicized ICE as opposed to them doing the important job they’re supposed to do, and that is protecting Americans from dangerous, dangerous people.”
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Imported ADAS test dummies may not accurately represent Indian pedestrians and road users. The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) is now working on locally made alternatives, with research into materials, body measurements and design at the heart of the project.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday paid an unannounced visit to Riyadh in a bid to underscore French support for the kingdom amid intensified attacks by Houthi rebels and an attempt to ease tensions at home by securing oil and diesel imports.