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Russia backs down on grain-deal standoff. Putin delivers remarks meant to “recruit,” “confuse,” and create “room for maneuver” amid setbacks in the war on Ukraine. Muted gatherings honoring the victims of Stalin and the Soviet state are an unsurprising sign of the times.

A new Schemes investigation reveals the Western components inside the Iranian combat drones that Russia is deploying in its war against Ukraine, raising questions about how Tehran obtains this technology despite sanctions.

Russia has handed a demarche to Britain's ambassador to Moscow, Deborah Bronnet, over what Moscow said was the involvement of U.K. specialists in a Ukrainian drone strike on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea last week.

The Omani authorities aim to develop a 500 MW solar project in Ibri, in northwestern Oman, where other PV facilities are located. It will be commissioned by the fourth quarter of 2026.Oman Power and Water

Less than 4 kilometers from the Russian border, the Kharkiv region town of Vovchansk was liberated during Ukraine's lightning counteroffensive in September. But the largely deserted town is under daily bombardment, with businesses boarded up and the few remaining civilians struggling to get by.

The Israeli military has confirmed that a female soldier was among the passengers on a plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Iran last week, but managed to leave the country before being identified.

The Uzbek and Kyrgyz foreign ministers have signed a number of documents on border delimitation, including an agreement on jointly managing the Kempir-Abad water reservoir, an issue that has been a hot-button issue between the two Central Asian neighbors.

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov is trying to tame nationalist forces similar to the ones that led to his rise to power and is using increasingly drastic measures to consolidate his hold over the Central Asian country in the process.

Ilan Shor is a shady businessman, convicted of fraud in connection with the biggest bank heist ever in Moldova. Now, Russia's Federal Security Service is allegedly bankrolling the Israeli-based oligarch to destabilize the former Soviet republic.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the deportation of Ukrainian citizens from Russian occupied regions in southern and southeastern Ukraine.