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2026-10-13
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A cyberattack hit refrigeration systems in hundreds of stores run by French supermarket chains Intermarché and Coopérative U
Intermarché puts the count at 150 to 200 of its stores and Coopérative U at nearly 100, the two chains said on Monday; the Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation, Euronews reports.
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Since October 1st, any person the US Treasury determines operates in Iran's automotive or rail sectors is subject to sanctions
Bradley T. Smith, who heads the Treasury office that runs US sanctions, signed the determination, which applies a January 2020 order on sanctions against additional sectors of Iran's economy to these two.
Poland says two Turkish citizens were detained in Germany over last month's fire at a Starlink station
Poland's special services minister alleges Russia was behind the fire, and Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, called it an act of hybrid warfare, meaning sabotage kept below the threshold of open war, Deutsche Welle reports.
Bulgaria says drones struck a Malta-flagged cargo ship off its Black Sea coast and that a second ship was struck and sank
Bulgaria's prime minister, Rumen Radev, said three aerial drones hit the Malta-flagged, Ukraine-owned ship, that its 15 crew were rescued, and that a second ship was struck and sank.
France has detained the tanker DF Peak in the Indian Ocean, a ship Russia's state shipping company Sovcomflot once owned as the NS Captain
Meduza, an independent Russian outlet, calls it a shadow-fleet tanker, a ship used to move Russian oil around sanctions, and says the French navy stopped it on suspicion of a false flag and illicit fuel carriage.
Beijing says Chinese leader Xi Jinping's September state visit to the US produced eight outcomes, including a $30 billion reciprocal tariff cut
Xinhua, China's state news agency, wrote the list, which the commerce ministry reprinted on September 26th; it gives no detail on what the $30 billion covers.
Joseph Kabila, the Democratic Republic of Congo's former president, will lead a new political-military movement to replace AFC/M23, the rebel alliance in eastern Congo
The new movement, the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, was announced on Monday in Goma, in eastern Congo, with Africanews quoting coalition adviser Claude Ibalanky saying its mission is to end "tyranny" by any means necessary, force included.
Prosecutors in Mexico's Morelos state released an alleged criminal-group leader hours after detaining him, once his group seized three of their agents
Infobae reports the state prosecutor's office detained the man known as 'El Güero Gym', described as a regionally influential figure tied to the group called Pueblos Unidos, then released him on Monday night, after road blockades around Totolapan in central Mexico and the seizure of three of its agents.
China has sanctioned Paraguay's information and communication technologies minister Gustavo Villate and Belize's foreign minister Francis Fonseca over their Taiwan ties and what it calls false claims of Chinese cyberattacks
The sanctions freeze the two ministers' assets in China, bar them from transacting with Chinese organizations and individuals, and bar their entry to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, EFE reports via Infobae.
An EU Council working group meets on October 14th to discuss visas for Russians valid in only one Schengen country
The Bell, a Russian business news outlet, reports the talks rest on an unpublished report from the Irish presidency, the member state chairing the Council, with the proposal for Schengen, the EU's passport-free travel zone, not yet public.
China's central bank has approved Visa to start setting up a bank-card clearing business in the country
Caixin reports the People's Bank of China gave the approval on October 13th, following the US-China trade talks, and that Visa has a year to finish preparing and must then apply again before it can open.
Yandex Pay has partly resumed transfers and payments after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers
Meduza reports the strikes hit three of Yandex's six data centers and that Yandex's fintech head Dmitry Pirogov says the service is still running unstably.