President Donald Trump has been ordered to answer questions under oath by 11th December in his $10 billion defamation action against the BBC, after the broadcaster complained that the American president was delaying evidence-gathering.

US Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett issued the order at a hearing in Miami on Thursday, 22nd October. The judge warned that non-compliance could result in sanctions, potentially including the dismissal of the lawsuit, unless the discovery schedule is formally extended.

The dispute concerns a BBC documentary that edited together passages of a speech Trump delivered on 6th January 2021, ahead of the assault on the US Capitol. The broadcaster acknowledged that the presentation created a misleading impression of continuity but disputes Trump’s claim that it is legally liable for defamation.

Trump’s lawyers cancelled an earlier deposition scheduled for 16 October, citing presidential responsibilities. The BBC’s legal representatives challenged the delay, maintaining that the plaintiff’s testimony is essential to assessing the allegations and the damages sought.

The developments are detailed in the latest reporting and official material, against the background of EU Today’s earlier coverage.

A dispute over the editing

The broadcaster faces questions about its editorial judgment, but the court must separately decide whether the legal elements of the president’s claim are established. A misleading edit does not automatically determine the outcome of a defamation case, particularly where questions of publication, harm and applicable American law are disputed.

The amount sought, $10 billion, is a claim made by Trump’s side and not a judicial assessment of damage. Evidence-gathering may examine the effect of the programme, how it was distributed and whether it caused measurable reputational or economic harm.

The BBC has already apologised for the edit. It is contesting legal liability, leaving the litigation centred on both the programme’s presentation and the extent of any injury attributable to it.

What the judge ordered

The court permitted a video recording of the deposition, restricted to use by legal representatives. It also ordered production of figures relating to membership applications and fees at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, material the BBC believes could help it evaluate the claim for damages.

Lawyers have also disputed whether former special counsel Jack Smith should testify. The Justice Department must consider authorisation for that testimony, adding a further procedural complication.

The discovery period is currently due to close on 18 December. The judge’s intervention therefore leaves little time for the parties to complete outstanding exchanges if the existing timetable remains unchanged.

Wider implications

The case places the conduct of a British public-service broadcaster before an American court at a moment of intense political scrutiny of news organisations. Its outcome may influence the BBC’s legal costs and editorial procedures, although any broader precedent will depend on the issues eventually decided.

Trump’s position as a sitting president creates scheduling difficulties, but it does not remove the usual evidential obligations assumed by a person bringing civil proceedings. The immediate question is whether he will comply with the December deadline or seek further relief from the court.

Neither the deposition order nor the BBC’s apology resolves the merits of the lawsuit. Those questions remain for later proceedings.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Donald Trump is travelling to Florida today to speak at another rally as midterm election day races nearer.

The president will stump for gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds. Whether Donalds regards this as helpful remains to be seen after he removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name during the race for governor.

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Byron Donalds removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name – will his ploy prove successful in a tight governor’s race?

It took Byron Donalds, addressing a wildly supportive crowd at a rally in Florida’s bluest county, some time to list those he blamed for any “affordability” issues they might be experiencing.

Joe Biden, and the radical policies of the Democrats, were at fault, the Republican nominee for Florida governor insisted in his stump speech at Broward county’s Green Glades West ranch, even though neither has wielded power in Washington for almost two years.

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More than four million Latinos have turned 18 since the last midterm elections in 2022 and will be able to vote for the first time in the midterms on November 3. For years, Latino advocacy groups have pointed to the community’s growing political potential, noting that every 30 seconds, a Latino comes of age in the United States.

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Trump’s latest tactic to champion Republicans at midterm rallies? Assessing men’s bodies in meticulous detail

Speaking at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, earlier this month, to support the Republican senator Jon Husted, Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks.

Trump said he had recently learned that Husted played football at university. The president, 80, said this had prompted him to conduct a physical assessment of Husted.

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In October 2023, as the initial shock of Hamas’s attack was giving way to the realization that it had been the greatest security failure in Israel’s seven decades of statehood, few believed that Benjamin Netanyahu would still be prime minister three years later. Fewer still thought that a country used to broad coalitions and early elections — having gone to the polls on average every 2.4 years between 1996 and the last election in 2022 — would complete a full parliamentary term this time. And fewer still imagined both things happening at once: that after four years of controversy and war, Netanyahu would enter the final stretch of the election campaign, with Israelis due to vote on Tuesday, less popular and less supported than before, yet still with a realistic chance of remaining in power. “I will not surrender,” reads one campaign poster bearing his image.

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A novembre Russia e Ucraina faranno un nuovo tentativo per arrivare a un accordo di pace. Dopo i colloqui indiretti favoriti dalla mediazione degli Stati Uniti ma poi naufragati, un nuovo round si terrà, come ipotizzato nei giorni scorsi, ad Abu Dhabi, negli Emirati Arabi Uniti. Ad annunciarlo è stato il portavoce del Cremlino, Dmitry Peskov, con la Russia che si è dichiarata pronta a riprendere i colloqui di pace, in stallo dall’inizio dell’anno, dopo un incontro avvenuto mercoledì tra il presidente russo Vladimir Putin e Steve Witkoff, inviato speciale di Donald Trump. Anche il presidente ucraino Volodymyr Zelensky si era espresso a favore.

L’Europa, come dall’inizio del conflitto, viene esclusa dai tavoli dei negoziati, pur essendo rimasto, dopo il disimpegno di Trump, il principale sostenitore dell’Ucraina. In quasi 5 anni di guerra non ha ancora nominato un suo mediatore da proporre in sede di negoziati, tema sul quale governi e famiglie politiche si sono già scontrate. Adesso, secondo il Daily Telegraph, nella shortlist dei cinque papabili figurerebbe anche quello della presidente del Consiglio, Giorgia Meloni. Insieme a lei, tra i candidati ci sono, si legge, il presidente finlandese Alexander Stubb, quello ceco Petr Pavel, la premier danese Mette Frederiksen e il premier norvegese Jonas Gahr Store.

Nomi che, però, rischiano di essere respinti in blocco da Mosca. Per due motivi. Il primo, il Cremlino non ha intenzione di accogliere al tavolo un ulteriore soggetto determinato a difendere i diritti e gli interessi dell’Ucraina, rafforzando così anche la posizione di Zelensky. Il secondo, quattro di questi nomi sono esponenti delle istituzioni di Paesi Ue che la Russia considera soggetti attivi nel conflitto, dato che forniscono aiuti militari ed economici all’esercito ucraino, e quindi incandidabili per il ruolo di mediatore. Diversa la posizione del premier norvegese che, comunque, rimane capo dell’esecutivo di un Paese Nato.

Un portavoce della Commissione Ue ha intanto fatto sapere, nel corso del consueto midday briefing, che l’Unione sta “lavorando costantemente affinché l’Ucraina si trovi, innanzitutto, in una posizione di forza e affinché si raggiunga una pace giusta e duratura. Attualmente ci aspettiamo che si terranno dei colloqui a livello multilaterale con alti funzionari. L’Ue sarà presente a questi colloqui che si terranno nel prossimo futuro. Il formato dovrebbe essere simile a quello dei precedenti colloqui, ad esempio quelli di Miami“.

L'articolo A novembre negoziati tra Russia e Ucraina ad Abu Dhabi. Gli Stati Uniti saranno mediatori proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk had restored Ukraine’s Starshield speeds, but the restrictions remained in place on 23 October, according to Ukrainian officials.

The cap, in place since 14 October, has disrupted interceptor drone missions against jet-powered Shaheds flying above 400 km/h for more than a week. On 16 October, Trump told reporters that, from what he understood, nothing had changed with the service. His latest claim that Musk restored it appears to acknowledge the restriction, even as he denies ordering it.

Ukraine says restrictions remain

“At the moment, there is no confirmation that the restrictions have been lifted,” a Defense Ministry official told LIGA.net on the morning of 23 October. The official said connections continued to drop at above 161 km/h.

Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov wrote on Telegram on 23 October that no lifting had been recorded. He said occasional operation above the limit could result from SpaceX algorithms or usage conditions.

A day earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had promised to return with information in “48 plus hours,” according to his remarks to reporters in Kyiv. A Ukrainian official separately told The Kyiv Independent that reports of restored speeds were “all false.”

A senior European official told the Associated Press that the cap remained at about 160 km/h and that Ukraine had no clear explanation of who ordered it or why.

Conflicting reports of a lift

Trump said Musk had restored the speeds but declined to clarify whether he had contacted him.

“I guess the bottom line, he put it back,” Trump said.

Meanwhile, AP reported that the Wall Street Journal said Musk had agreed to lift the restrictions. The Ukrainian drone and mapping channel Kartohraf posted on the evening of 22 October that the cap had been lifted. The Economist’s Oliver Carroll said that frontline drone commanders thought it had likely been lifted but were still testing, according to his post on X.

Who ordered the cap?

The order came from inside the White House, according to a Reuters report on 15 October. Days later, the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk ordered the slowdown. Rubio denied White House involvement, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on 20 October that the US had not ordered the restriction. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal announced an inquiry into how the service was slowed, AP reported.

Ukraine’s gains in Donetsk Oblast rely on drones the cap slows

The 3rd Army Corps’ Operation Vivaldi retook ground north of Lyman in Donetsk Oblast with drones, many of which rely on Starlink or Starshield, and those gains could erode if the cap stays.

At the same time, Radio Svoboda reported that Ukraine needs a limit of at least 450 km/h and that Germany pays for the service under a contract running until April 2027.

Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 23 that U.S. President Donald Trump had

2026 has not been a good year for Meta. On Wednesday, a judge in New Mexico ordered the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to pay a fine of about $25 billion after finding it guilty of misleading Facebook users about its data privacy policies.

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Former vice president Kamala Harris landed in the state of Mississippi on Thursday at the start of a tour to help Democratic candidates in the final stretch of the midterm campaign. The series of campaign events, which began the previous day in Nevada and will continue in the coming days in Georgia, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, also serves as a thermometer for measuring the enthusiasm of potential voters for the notion of Harris running again for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028. That would be four years after her defeat by Donald Trump following a brief and disappointing 107-day surprise run for the White House.

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O ano de 2026 poderá ficar para a história como o ano dos cisnes negros: eventos muito improváveis, mas que acabaram por concretizar-se.

A guerra dos EUA/Israel contra o Irão, poderá ser um deles, assim como os ataques do Irão aos seus vizinhos, a par da maior crise energética da história.

Mas nas últimas semanas está a formar-se mais um cisne negro, impensável em 2022 quando a Rússia está invadiu a Ucrânia: a aproximação de Washington a Moscovo, com a Ucrânia a ficar aparentemente para trás, depois dos ataques de Kiev a refinarias russas, que encostaram Vladimir Putin a um canto.

Um sinal dos tempos é que um petroleiro carregado com 40 mil toneladas de gasóleo russo está neste momento a caminho de Nova Iorque, com chegada prevista a 7 de novembro, marcando o regresso das exportações russas de gasóleo, revela a “Reuters”.

O mercado mundial de energia está neste momento apertado de gasóleo, depois dos ataques a refinarias cruciais no Médio Oriente pelo Irão e os seus aliados.

E Donald Trump tem eleições intercalares cruciais no dia 3 de novembro, que serão decisivas para os dois últimos anos do seu mandato. Se os democratas ganharem vantagem no Congresso, o líder republicano terá a vida mais difícil até ao fim.

O presidente norte-americano tem efetuado alterações numa nova lei de sanções contra a Rússia para facilitar a chegada do combustível russo aos EUA, numa tentativa de controlar os preços do ‘diesel’, esperando que o mundo receba 300 mil toneladas de gasóleo russo numa fase inicial, incluindo os EUA.

Ao mesmo tempo, tem ameaçado a Europa com a suspensão de envio de gasóleo norte-americano, se a Europa não libertar reservas estratégicas do combustível.

O Agioi Fanendes, com pavilhão de Malta, estava atracado no porto russo de Primorsk no Mar Báltico, a 22 de outubro, e vai rumar à Costa Leste dos EUA.

OS EUA levantaram sanções às exportações russas de gasóleo e anunciaram um cessar-fogo aos ataques a infraestruturas energéticas entre a Rússia e a Ucrânia.

A Rússia vai colocar no mercado 2,25 milhões de barris de gasóleo imediatamente, seguido de 500 mil toneladas e novembro, mais um milhão de toneladas.

O Kremlin estima que o país consiga aumentar as exportações de gasóleo entre 3-3,5 milhões de toneladas mensais até ao final do ano.

A “Reuters” dá conta que gasóleo foi carregado no porto russo de Primorsk na semana passada, mas o seu destino final não é claro, com alguns dos navios destinados, para já, a Gibraltar, Port-Said ou o Atlântico.

A Rússia tem-se limitado a exportar gasóleo para o Brasil e para a Turquia, assim como para países africanos, desde que arrancou o embargo europeu aos combustíveis russos.

O petróleo sobe mais de 1% para 114 dólares esta sexta-feira.

Washington mantendrá abierto hasta el 7 de diciembre un período de consulta pública para recibir comentarios sobre las normas propuestas

 

The Kremlin confirmed Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the possibility of a trilateral face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, scheduled for November 18-19th, in Shenzhen, China.

The meeting is still in the planning stages but the American thug-in-chief an indispensable party has already agreed to attend. Few eyebrows have been raised so far because the American component is a habitual liar so what he says and what he does may not correlate. The Summit in China is a month away. But a chance to meet with two of his closest friends  and allies will not be missed by the evil clown in the White House.

The American thug’s most accommodating American accomplice and equally mendacious voice has simply repeated what he has said so often in the past: that it is necessary to speak with your adversaries, thus keeping the American people guessing. In the bizarre world of Donald J. Trump, Putin is not an adversary. Little Marco may still speak differently so as to present a view that most Americans share, but he is a quisling concerned about his own future. That for him is more important than anything else. Fear and ambition are two quite compelling factors.

Trump has characterized the trilateral meeting as intended for a discussion of the need for de-nuclearization among three of the world’s largest nuclear powers. However, this is another one of Trump’s lies. or simply a a cover-up. Putin has insisted for some time that China participate in trilateral talks about the war in Ukraine. Putin has also insisted that Ukraine not be invited to participate. This is simply another example of Trump complying with Putin’s wishes. That is what agents or surrogates do.

The Summit will result in a trade-off but not for Ukraine’s benefit. As far as Ukraine is concerned, it will be a sellout, like all previous summits involving Trump and the Russian thug Vladimir Putin. One can only consider Helsinki in 2018 or Alaska in 2025. The self-proclaimed American master of the deal has repeatedly proven himself incompetent at deal-making. Or perhaps his shameless results are intentional. There will be personal gain from yet another nefarious arrangement.The American thug is silent on this point. Little Marco will spin an excuse for this aberration as well. There will most certainly be some personal benefit for Trump and his family.

The President of Ukraine wakes up each day to a new betrayal by his American “ally,” more death and destruction of his people and land, but with his eyes wide open that Trump is the enemy. President Zelensky is astute and principled, but also a very good actor; he often plays the Biblical “Job,” yet even his patience has its limitations. A trilateral summit of thugs about ending the war in Ukraine without Ukraine is a non starter. Ukraine will not be bullied. The people of Ukraine will not allow that.

The agenda for the axis of evil meeting includes one more item. No one is considering denuclearizing. The power must be distributed between the three behemoths. Ukraine is certain to be sold off. Taiwan may be next. And Cuba may be another victim of the sphere of influence division of the world. Certainly Russia will give up any interest in destitute Cuba in order to take over rich Ukraine. For Russia Ukraine has been the prize for almost four hundred years.

The axis is mutually accommodating. Currently, Russia stayed out of Syria and Iran. It relinquishes Cuba. America purchases Russian diesel, integrates Russia into the world economy at the G20. China retrieves Taiwan, America and Russia agrees to stay out of any China-India conflict. With Ukraine Russia stands at the gates to Europe. America feels secure in its defensive posture by having encroached on Greenland’s military sovereignty. Everyone is happy except for the remaining almost two hundred countries in the world.

The biggest obstacle is Ukraine. The people of Ukraine remain committed to freedom and democracy. Each day I receive several inquiries from Ukraine: “When will this Trump nightmare end?” . The midterm elections remain a beacon of hope for Ukrainians and Americans alike. Trump will attend the November China summit as a lame duck with Congress set to begin his third impeachment. in January. Ukrainians can pray. Americans must vote. Let the hearings and investigations begin. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, the commander-in-chief is a traitor and a criminal. It will all come out. We the people have had enough!

La defensa de James, Fergie, Chambers, el millonario activista propalestino detenido el pasado julio en Ibiza y cuya extradición solicita EE UU, denuncia que el envío de su teléfono móvil a la justicia estadounidense ha vulnerado sus derechos. Sus abogados, encabezados por el exmagistrado de la Audiencia Nacional Baltasar Garzón, aseguran que fueron informados “verbalmente” del envío del dispositivo el pasado 20 de octubre en sede judicial, sin que pudieran “impugnar la entrega, proteger información confidencial o recurrir la decisión antes de que el terminal saliera del país”. Chambers, que permanece en prisión preventiva desde su detención, ha solicitado asilo en España y esa circunstancia, añaden los letrados, también ha de protegerle de cualquier riesgo frente a los presuntos agentes de la persecución política.

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A metà di un mandato presidenziale, negli Stati Uniti si svolgono le elezioni di Midterm. Sono forse meno note le dinamiche e le strategie che possono emergere in questa fase, ma in questa puntata cercheremo di capire due punti fondamentali: il ridisegno dei distretti e l'instaurazione di un governo diviso.

L'articolo L’anatomia delle Midterm americane proviene da Lavoce.info.

The tanker Agioi Fanendes is delivering the first cargo as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 9 to purchase Russian diesel.

The President could face sanctions if he fails to answer questions by the December deadline.

A Malta-flagged tanker carrying 40,000 metric tons of Russian diesel is heading towards New York following an agreement with US President Donald Trump, LSEG data showed on Friday.

Trump has made several moves hoping to bring down diesel prices ahead of November 3 US mid-term elections including waiving parts of a new sanctions law against Russia and threatening Europe with a US diesel export ban unless countries released more from their emergency reserves.

The medium-sized tanker Agioi Fanendes was loaded with 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low sulphur diesel in the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk on October 22, according to shipping data. It is expected to arrive in the United States on November 7.

Russia agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on diesel exports and supply the fuel to global markets, including the US, after theagreementreached between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump.

Trump announced on October 9 that Russia would immediately export 300,000 metric tons, or 2.25 million barrels, followed by 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter”.

Russia will be able to increase diesel exports to between 3 million tons and 3.5 million tons per month by year-end, the country’s usual export volume of the fuel, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said last week.

Last week, export diesel cargoes were loaded in the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk, but their final destinations are not clear, with most vessel are signalling Gibraltar, the Atlantic Coast or Port-Said, according to LSEG shipping data.

Since the full EU embargo on import of Russian oil products came into effect in February 2023 over the war in Ukraine, Russia has exported diesel mainly to Brazil and Turkey, as well as to an African countries.

Il segretario della Difesa (e della Guerra, così come è stato ribattezzato da Donald Trump) Pete Hegseth avrebbe voluto nel proprio nel suo studio al Pentagono uno storico mappamondo, che risale ai tempi di Eisenhower, generale a cinque stelle dell’esercito statunitense ai tempi della seconda guerra mondiale e poi presidente degli Stati Uniti dal 1953 al 1961.

Quel mappamondo è stato però danneggiato per via di un improvvido spostamento realizzato dallo stesso staff del segretario della Difesa, come ha documentato con tanto di foto il Washington Post. Al Pentagono, infatti, venivano conservati due mappamondi da terra utilizzati dal generale Eisenhower nel corso del secondo conflitto mondiale.

A colpire Hegseth sarebbe stato il valore storico di questi mappamondi e da qui sarebbe nato il desiderio di averne uno all’interno del proprio studio. In particolare il suo staff – non è chiaro se dietro una precisa richiesta del segretario della Difesa o per la volontà di un altro funzionario del suo ufficio – ha deciso di tentare di spostare il mappamondo che ha un diametro di 76 centimetri.

Per trasportare oggetti di questo tipo normalmente l’iniziativa viene affidata a dei curatori specializzati, che realizzano l’opportuno imballaggio e la documentazione necessaria per effettuare lo spostamento. Il coinvolgimento gli esperti del Centro di storia militare dell’esercito americano è stato però accantonato quando la loro attività è stata sospesa dalla parziale chiusura delle attività governative, provocata dallo stallo sulle politiche migratorie dell’amministrazione Trump.

L'articolo “Hanno perso il controllo e lo hanno lasciato cadere, si è rotto vicino all’Antartide”: danneggiato il mappamondo di Eisenhower che Pete Hegseth voleva nel suo ufficio proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.