Europe

LONDON (AP) — Powerless, humiliated, labeled a “ghost” prime minister and compared unfavorably to a head of lettuce — this is not a good week for Liz Truss.

Britain’s prime minister was scrambling to recover her grasp on power Tuesday after her economic plans were ripped up and repudiated by a Treasury chief whom she was forced to appoint to avoid meltdown on the financial markets.

Truss remains in office, for now, largely because her Conservative Party is divided over how to replace her.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders enter a crucial stretch this week to make sure runaway energy prices and short supplies don’t further tank their struggling economies and foment unrest. At the same time, they need to keep all 27 members united in their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from the crash of a Russian warplane into a Russian city rose to 15 on Tuesday, including three people who died when they jumped from a nine-story apartment building to escape a massive blaze, authorities said.

A Su-34 bomber came down Monday in the Sea of Azov port city of Yeysk after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff for a training mission, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It said both crew members bailed out safely, but the plane crashed into a residential area, igniting a huge fire as tons of fuel exploded on impact.

KIVSHARIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Nine-year-old Artem Panchenko helps his grandmother stoke a smoky fire in a makeshift outdoor kitchen beside their nearly abandoned apartment block. The light is falling fast and they need to eat before the setting sun plunges their home into cold and darkness.

Winter’s bite is coming. They can feel it in their bones as temperatures drop below freezing. And like hundreds of thousands of other Ukrainians, they are facing a season that promises to be brutal.

17 October 2022; MEMO: Former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, on Monday, warned Israel against arms deliveries to Ukraine, Anadolu News Agency reports.

In a post on Telegram, Medvedev, currently the deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, said supplying weapons to Ukraine will be "a rash step", fraught with the destruction of relations with Russia.

18 October 2022; MEMO: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the killing of dozens of Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961 was "unjustified" and that his country "will not forget the victims." Macron made his comment on Twitter on the 61st anniversary of the massacre.

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/: The goals of the partial mobilization in Moscow have been achieved in full and reservists’ visits to military offices on call-up notices are no longer required, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Monday.

"According to the information of the Moscow military commissar, the goals of the partial mobilization set pursuant to a presidential decree and mandated by the Defense Ministry have been achieved in full," the mayor wrote on his blog.

Partial mobilization call-up offices are closing at 2:00 p.m. on October 17, Sobyanin added.

BUDAPEST, October 17. /TASS/: EU foreign ministers made a decision during the meeting in Luxembourg to carry out a training mission for Ukrainian servicemen, but Hungary does not consider it a good idea and will not take part in it, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said during a press conference, streamed by the Hungarian TV.

"A decision was made today that the EU will carry out a training mission for soldier of Ukrainian army," Szijjarto said, adding that Hungary did not support this decision.

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/: Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned on Monday that it would be a mistake for Israel to supply weapons to Ukraine.

"Israel seems to have decided to supply weapons to the Kiev regime. That would be a very rash decision, for it would damage all the interstate relations between our countries," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 17. /TASS/: The foreign ministers of 27 EU countries have agreed to set up a monitoring mission to solve problems on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, the EU Council said in a statement released on Monday.

"The Council today decided to deploy up to 40 EU monitoring experts along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan with the objective of monitoring, analysing and reporting on the situation in the region," the statement said.