SS: Despite the Brexit divide, Western Europe's Nuclear powers are working more closely together to protect themselves against threats from both Moscow and now, increasingly, Washington. France and the United Kingdom carried out a joint airborne nuclear strike exercise for the first time, with Eurofighter Typhoon jets from the Royal Air Force escorting French Rafale jets on a simulated nuclear-strike mission.

As the dust settled on Sunday's historic general election in Serbia that saw Aleksandar Vučić, the prime minister and dominant force in Serbian politics for over a decade, ousted from office along with his Serbian Progressive Party, one big question was left unanswered: who would fill his shoes? 

This question remains unanswered on Monday because the election winner, the Student List party, which morphed from a mass-protest movement into a political force potent enough to oust Vučić, did not nominate anyone as its candidate for prime minister. 

This decision perhaps reflected its organic bottom-up structure that differentiated the party from the political establishment it accused of nurturing an environment in which corruption flourished. 

So far the favorite to become the new prime minister is Ilija Srdanović. 

Russia is playing a game not only in Europe, where it continues its brutal aggression against Ukraine. The stakes of the Kremlin's policy in the Middle East are also extremely high, particularly amid the growing tensions and geopolitical shifts across the region. Speaking on World Talks, Anna Borshchevskaya, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute, explains that Russia can make it significantly harder for the United States to achieve its objectives in the region.

A first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States under a new import agreement has set sail, the Kremlin said Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said he struck a deal with President Vladimir Putin despite Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

“The first oil tanker has sailed off to customers, and regular supplies will continue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said without elaborating.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said earlier this week that the first shipment would amount to 40,000 tons of diesel, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.

Marine intelligence firm Kpler said the vessel was signaling it was headed to New York to arrive Nov. 7 and would be the first Russian diesel delivery to the United States since July 2023.

The abrupt reversal of U.S. sanctions policy on Russia over its invasion of its neighbor was seen as an attempt by Trump to address high fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections.

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