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European Commission  

🇪🇺 Key results from this week’s European Council meeting: 
 
🇺🇦 Continued support for Ukraine 
☮️ Peace plan & humanitarian aid for Gaza 
🛡️ Stronger European defence by 2030 
🌱 A greener, more competitive economy 
🏘️ Affordable housing for all 
🧭 Coordinated migration action 
🇲🇩 Moldova moving closer to the EU 
 
Europe: safer, fairer, stronger together. 💪

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utunuttu 🇦🇽  
Aurora night

Mariehamn, Åland Islands
October 2025

#åland #aland #alandislands #ahvenanmaa #mariehamn #maarianhamina #finland #suomi #sea #seascape #waterscape #reflection #sky #auroraborealis #northernlights #chapel #building #october #autumn #smartphonephotography #samsunggalaxy
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has unveiled the first redesign of the railway’s national design in over 50 years at London Bridge station.

The timepiece was designed by WPP agency Design Bridge and Partners, and was chosen from a list of more than 100 entrants.

railway-news.com/network-rail-

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In a sign of growing integration between and its tightly controlled neighbor, strongman Vladimir announced over the weekend that Belarusians living in the Russian Federation and his own citizens living in Belarus can now participate in their local .

kyivpost.com/post/49016

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TIL that some train stations have a platform 0, e.g. (CH), (JP) and (ID). It is usually a result of constructing a new platform next to the existing platform 1, and the decision not to rename all other platforms.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform

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Today I learned  

TIL there is a thriving population of green parakeets in Rome. They originated from pets released or escaped from captivity several decades ago. Over time, the mild climate, abundance of food, and lack of predators have allowed them to establish a growing population in the city.

quodlibetroma.com/2024/10/30/t
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

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Der Postillon 📯  

Wie unhöflich! Kind schläft mitten in Gutenachtgeschichte ein der-postillon.com/2023/10/schl

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myrmepropagandist  

“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”

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will finance and construct two cross-border rail links with worth Rs 46bn ($US 541m): the 69km Kokrajhar - Gelephu line and 20km of new line from Banarhat to Samtse.
[T]he new lines [will] serve as vital trade and passenger corridors, unlocking new economic opportunities for both nations.
Both lines will be fully electrified.
railjournal.com/infrastructure

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The party of billionaire ex-premier Andrej topped the Czech general election on Saturday, October 4, with 97% of the vote counted, according to official results. His (Yes) party, campaigning on pledges of welfare and halting military aid to , scored 35.2% of the vote in the country of 10.9 million people.

lemonde.fr/en/international/ar

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Hanse Mina  

Czechs are likely to oust their centre-right government in an election on Friday and Saturday, with polls favouring populist billionaire Andrej #Babis to return to power on pledges to raise wages and lift growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.

reuters.com/world/europe/czech

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Czech

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With 98% of votes counted, the results showed that around half of Moldovans favored staying on the EU course.

The ruling pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), which has held a strong parliamentary majority since 2021, secured 49.6% of ballots, according to preliminary results.

The pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc came second, winning 24.6%.

p.dw.com/p/51Cat

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NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦  

Russia has refused meetings with Ukraine even with Trump’s participation, US Vice President JD Vance said. According to him, in recent weeks Moscow rejected both bilateral talks with Kyiv and trilateral meetings involving Trump or other US officials.

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Hanse Mina  

Russia has powered its war in Ukraine by keeping its oil flowing. Now, after more than 3½ years of conflict, the gusher is slowly starting to peter out.

wsj.com/world/russia/the-slow-

#Ukraine #Russia

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, and have agreed to revive the historic railway line. [...] Originally constructed between 1900 and 1908 under Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Hejaz railway line stretched approximately 1,750 kilometers, linking Istanbul to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, as well as Damascus and parts of Yemen.

dailysabah.com/business/econom

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has devised a plan to intervene in elections in [...]. The multi-pronged strategy was finalized in spring and coordinated directly by the . The goal is to undermine the chances of President Maia ’s Party of Action and Solidarity in the Sept. 28 vote and ultimately see her removed from power, the documents citing the internal Russian plans suggest.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Nexta  

Oil exports fell from $155 billion in early 2022 to $96 billion in early 2025.This happened not only because of sanctions, but also because of the strengthening ruble, falling global oil prices and expensive borrowing.The EU is preparing a new package of sanctions against oil companies, but Moscow has already proven its ability to circumvent the restrictions.The U.S., on the other hand, relies on economic pressure:

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High-speed electric multiple unit HT80101
Ankara, Turkey.

Photo credit: mikhail.krivyy/CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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On This Day In History  

Today in 1991, 34 years ago: the first version (0.01) of the Linux kernel is published on the Internet.

#OnThisDay

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With almost 14,000 produced units between 1960 and 1999, the ČKD Tatra T3 tram car is still the most widespread of its type in the world (2022).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3

Photo credit: Praha, Tatra T3SUCS č. 7290. Praha, Tatra T3SUCS č. 7290/CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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