Category World News

On Tuesday, October 7, 2025, how things are going:

Fighting

• On Monday afternoon, “two rounds of shelling struck less than a mile” [less than a mile] from Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, according to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• The plant has been using emergency diesel generators for almost two weeks now that it has lost its external power source, according to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who issued the warning. Russia and Ukraine have claimed responsibility for recent attacks near the nuclear power station.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Feodosia oil terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea on Monday night, sparking a “large-scale fire,” according to a post on Telegram from the country’s general staff.
• According to Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, a Russian attack has reportedly slammed the roof of a Sumy perinatal center, causing it to catch fire. Before the attack, Yermak noted that the children, patients, and employees had been moved to a bomb shelter.
• In a post on Telegram, the region’s governor Oleh Syniehubov claimed two people were killed and five others were hurt by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
• One person was killed and three others were injured in the Kherson region of Ukraine, according to regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin, who had launched drone attacks, air strikes, and artillery shelling.
• In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian governor Ivan Fedorov wrote that a Russian attack in the Zaporizhia region had claimed the lives of one person and injured eleven people.
• According to Russian governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the country’s state-run TASS news agency, two people were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack in the Belgorod region.
• One person was killed by a Ukrainian drone attack in Luhansk, according to a post on Telegram from the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk.

Regional security

There is no reason for Russia to be at fault for recent drone sightings across Europe, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who described the “whole story” as “really quite strange, to say the least.”
• After German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently claimed he assumed Russia was the source of the reported drone flights, Peskov added that “many politicians in Europe are now inclined to blame Russia for everything” and that they do so “unreasonably, indiscriminately.”
• The Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipeline must remain in custody for another 40 days, according to his attorney.

diplomacy and politics

• The Finnish government announced on Monday that President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo will meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington DC on Thursday and Friday.

military assistance

The US President responded to a question posed by Ukrainian journalists asking for long-range Tomahawk missiles from Trump: “I would ask some questions. I’m not trying to make that war worse.
• Vladimir Putin’s video, which claimed the sale of Tomahawk missiles would end any progress made in Moscow’s relationship with Washington, was released the day after Trump made his comments.
• After populists who have pledged to end the scheme won a recent election in his country, Czech President Petr Pavel urged political parties to keep funding Ukraine.
• According to Pavel, “If we were to reduce or even end this support, we would primarily harm ourselves, but ending it would also have a negative impact on Ukraine, where many more would lose their lives.”

Just after its sponsors began to pressure the company to change its name, the move was made public on Monday.

The team, which is based in Israel and is owned by the Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, has received a lot of negative press due to Israel’s war against Gaza, which has resulted in the killing of more than 67, 000 Palestinians by Israel, and which international experts have labeled as a genocide.

Despite the destruction of the Palestinian enclave, where famine has spread, Adams has previously claimed that Israel has “miracled” in its fighting in Gaza and elsewhere.

Due to the organization’s involvement in the prestigious three-week cycling competition, protesters last month disrupted several Vuelta stages in Spain.

Midway through the race, the team removed its full name from its jerseys due to public pressure. Later, when pro-Palestinian demonstrators broke into a portion of the course in Madrid, the Vuelta had to be abandoned.

Israel-Premier Tech was then forbaded from Saturday’s Giro dell’Emilia race because of concerns for the safety of the crowd. Following the protests in Spain, Israel-Premier Tech was then expelled from the competition.

The team stated on Monday that it was changing its name in response to a “steadfast commitment to our riders, staff, and valued partners” when it explained its decision to rebrand.

This step is crucial to ensuring the team’s future, according to the statement, which states that “progress frequently necessitates sacrifice.”

Additionally, the statement stated that the team’s owner, Adams, would no longer be speaking up. He will instead concentrate on running for president of Israel’s World Jewish Congress, according to the statement.

The multinational corporation with which Premier Tech co-sponsors the team from Canada had last month expressed its desire for change.

The situation on the global stage, which has significantly changed since our entry on the World Tour in 2017, is something that “we are sensitive and attentive to,” it said.

The team will adopt a new identity and brand image, and we anticipate that the name will change to something else, excluding the word “Israel.”

The equipment provider, Factor, also warned that its involvement would end unless there was “a change of flag.”

According to data from the International Trade Commission, the US issued approximately 313, 138 student visas in August, which is a 19.1% decrease from August 2024, when studies typically begin at US universities.

The decline was 44.5 percent during that time for Indian students, who account for the majority of foreign students studying in the US. Students from China received fewer visas, though at a lower rate.

Iran’s student visas for Iranians dropped by 86 percent in a number of Muslim-majority nations. The proportion of foreign students who are currently enrolled in US universities is not representative of the overall number, many of whom are still on visas.

The Trump administration is using funding to put mounting political pressure on US universities as it pursues a restrictive immigration policy.

In response to US law violations, participation in protests, or in some cases, criticism of Israel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked thousands of student visas. The targeting has occurred in conjunction with pro-Israel organizations that monitor and monitor university students engaged in pro-Palestine activism.

In order to pass stricter control over student social media profiles, Rubio also imposed a temporary suspension on all student visa processing in June.

Those vetting applications were instructed to look for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States.”

However, the administration’s message to some nations hasn’t always been consistent.

Trump announced to reporters in August that he planned to accept 600, 000 Chinese students as his plan to study there after initially vowing to restrict access to a sizable portion of Chinese students.

The number of Chinese students studying in the US is now twice that high.