Ukraine is urging the United States to impose sanctions on several Russian entities that it says ​are helping develop Moscow’s Rassvet satellite network as a domestic alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink, its acting ambassador said.

US President Donald Trump said he has done “a very bad job” of explaining his economic record as his job approval rating ​sags under the weight of high gasoline prices ahead of the November midterm ‌elections.

Portugal’s parliament approved, in the ‌first reading, a contentious rental market overhaul aimed at speeding up evictions and ending rent controls on new leases in what the centre-right government hopes will encourage landlords to put more homes on the market.

Poland will deploy new rules of engagement to counter threats in its airspace ​from the beginning of October, Polish Defence ‌Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday during a press briefing.

France and Britain are discussing ending their “one in, one out” Channel migration deal, a French interior ministry source said, with Paris unwilling to extend a pilot scheme due to expire ‌on Thursday.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday halted the execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee, less than two hours before she was scheduled to become the ​first woman that state has put to death in more than two hundred years.

Israel is ​set to ramp up security checks on pilots flying into the country, a spokesperson for the prime minister’s office said, after it said a co-pilot ‌on a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv had stabbed the pilot and attempted to crash the plane.

More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly ​1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report the state’s attorney general ‌released.

Russia unleashed a widely anticipated air campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions in the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months.

China has vowed a “resolute ​response” to safeguard its industries if the European ‌Union goes ahead with restrictions against Chinese companies or products, according to its commerce ministry.

European countries should have shown more solidarity and offered more support to Spain after the mass arrival in Ceuta of tens of thousands of migrants, ​Spanish King Felipe VI said during a gala dinner to ‌mark a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron.

An informal poll by the United Nations Security CouncilThe first and third polls, ​held in July and September, also showed Grynspan narrowly ahead while ⁠an August poll placed Guyana’s UN ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett in the top spot.