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Biazita Gomes accused the commander of the Fire Department of Amazonas of lying by saying that he did not receive funds to combat fires. She stated that he received federal money and diverted it to build barracks that, according to her, do not exist. Gomes also held him responsible for people being unable to breathe, advocated for his arrest, and described him as a fanatical supporter of Bolsonaro. #Incêndios #Bombeiros #Corrupção (translated)

Camille described a method used, according to her, by protesters during clashes with the police in France in December 2018: Yellow Vests would have thrown paint bombs at the visors and shields of the police in order to blind them and hinder their maneuvers. https://t.co/MOYt05nw0G #GiletsJaunes #Manifestation #France (translated)

Karina Michelin stated that on Sunday, October 11, the Amazon was still burning and that the smoke in Manaus was affecting residents, while classes were suspended and firefighters were working at their limit. She also reported that a firefighter became ill during the firefighting efforts and had to be carried by colleagues. Michelin said that the Amazon Fire Department requested reinforcements from the federal government on September 18, including four aircraft, transportation, and vehicles. According to her, on October 1, the National Public Security Secretariat, linked to the Lula government, responded that the request could not be met at that moment. The author stated that the federal government claimed the state had waived support and cited 229 extinguished fires and another 20 still being fought. She said the aircraft began to arrive on October 10, following a wave of complaints on social media. The author compared the current mobilization with that of 2021, during the Bolsonaro government, when Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia, and Chico César participated in the song "Canção pra Amazônia," by Greenpeace. She questioned the absence of a similar mobilization in light of the situation of residents and firefighters. Michelin called Lula and the Amazonas government hypocrites and demanded explanations about who had denied or waived help and when reinforcements arrived at the fire line. She also stated that human and animal lives threatened by smoke should take precedence over political disputes. #Amazônia #Incêndios #MeioAmbiente (translated)

The author noted that Pedro Passos Coelho would give an interview to Maria João Avillez on SIC Notícias, between 9 PM and 10 PM, and argued that his governance should be reassessed in light of the financial conditions he encountered. According to the author, Portugal had already requested external assistance when Passos Coelho arrived at the Government in 2011, and the adjustment program of 78 billion euros had been negotiated before he took office. He maintained that during the legislature, exports rose from about one-third of GDP to nearly 40% in 2015, including tourism, and that the tourism sector gained strategic momentum. Regarding privatizations, he acknowledged that some operations were questionable and warranted scrutiny but argued that they allowed the collection of billions of euros, the amortization of public debt, and reduce financing needs and interest burdens. He also considered that cuts in the public sector were painful but questioned what the alternatives would have been when the State could no longer finance itself normally. The author further highlighted that Portugal completed the financial assistance program in 2014 and returned to market financing without a precautionary program, recovering, in his view, decision-making leeway. He stated that Passos Coelho was the most relevant politician of the century in Portugal for having made unpopular decisions and contributed to an economic change whose effects surpassed his Government. #Portugal #Política #Economia (translated)

Between January and September 2026, the Bombers de la Generalitat carried out 1,057 mountain rescues, a 16% increase compared to the previous year, while the Mossos d'Esquadra recorded 16 deaths, more than double than in the same period in 2025. #RescatesDeMontaña #VictimasMortales #SeguridadEnLasMontañas (translated)

Today, Russia thanked for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by launching five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporozhye. Last night confirmed once again that, in Russia, any loosening of pressure is interpreted as a signal that fighting can continue, that they can continue to drop bombs on cities. Different signals are needed. Russia must understand that it must stop the war, and for this to happen, Russia must feel its losses. Zelensky stated that during the night, 13 Ukrainian regions were attacked, damaging homes, infrastructure, and railway facilities. #Zelenski #RăzboiUcraina #Rusia (translated)

"Russia thanked for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned a Russian bombing attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, in which several civilians, including children, were killed, saying it was the way "Russia thanked for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports," following the agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. #Trump #Ucraina #Zelenski (translated)

"Russia thanks for the lifting of sanctions against diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia." The night once again showed that Russia interprets diminished pressure as a signal to continue waging war and dropping bombs on cities, wrote Zelensky. #Russland #Ukraine #Kriegsverbrechen (translated)

Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that, after the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports, Russia had hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia with five guided airstrikes. He reported that the casualties were 12, including three children, and that during the night 13 Ukrainian regions had been attacked, with damage to residential buildings, infrastructure, and railway lines. Zelensky added that, in his view, Russia interpreted any easing of pressure as a signal that it could continue the war and the bombings on cities. He argued that Moscow needed to understand the necessity of ending the conflict and to incur losses for that to happen. #Ucraina #Russia #Guerra (translated)

Julio Schneider stated that Manaus woke up covered in smoke and with the worst air quality in Brazil, according to his post, while the Civil Defense alerted the population to avoid going outside. He said that the Fire Department requested aircraft to combat the fires in Amazonas, but that the Lula government denied the request. Schneider also questioned the absence of statements from Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Nando Reis, Arnaldo Antunes, Milton Bituca, Anavitória, Exu do Blues, Céu, Criolo, Gaby Amarantos, Duda Beat, Péricles, Vitão, and Xande de Pilares, whom he associated with campaigns in defense of the Amazon. #Amazônia #Queimadas #MudançasClimáticas (translated)

Alessandro Orsini stated that Europe depended on Russia for energy supplies and described as humiliating the announcement, attributed to Donald Trump, of an agreement with Vladimir Putin for the supply of over 300,000 tons of diesel, which would lower prices. Citing the Corriere della Sera, he reported that Europe was facing winter with the lowest gas reserves in the last fifteen years and was purchasing more gas by ship from Russia than ever before. According to the data he provided, European storage was 72% full, compared to 83% a year earlier, while in Germany and the Netherlands it was below 60%. Orsini claimed that the agreement would give Putin more resources to strike Ukraine. Orsini recalled predicting that an attempt by NATO to defeat Russia on the battlefield would provoke a more intense Russian response against Ukraine and a severe economic crisis for Europe and Italy. He said that the prediction, made on February 24, 2022, had not been believed and that subsequent events had confirmed it. He also announced his participation that evening in the program *Accordi e Disaccordi* and the presentation, on October 17, at the Feltrinelli in Largo Argentina in Rome with Luca Sommi, of his book *Nato, l’espansione verso la Russia*. He described the volume as a historical reconstruction of NATO's enlargement towards Russia, from the promises to Gorbachev during the negotiations for German reunification to the war in Ukraine. The thesis of the book, he explained, connected the documentary origins of tensions between NATO and Russia to the contradiction between Article 5 and the minutes attached to the Treaty on the Final Settlement of Germany of September 12, 1990. https://t.co/2KWZ8kSEG9 #Russia #Europa #Gas (translated)

Marco Setaccioli claimed that the exchanges of courtesy between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would not stop the Ukrainian sanctions. He pointed to the fire at the oil terminal in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov, as the first consequence of the Trump-Putin agreement on diesel. He also reported that Russian-guided bombs had struck a building in Zaporizhzhia, causing at least 4 fatalities and several injuries; according to his post, at least one person might still be under the rubble. In describing the leaders, Setaccioli had used offensive expressions. #Ucraina #Russia #Sanzioni (translated)