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Tensions are mounting in Albania’s capital, Tirana, on Saturday as opposition protesters take to the streets, burning symbolic pillows outside Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office before marching towards the Ministry of Education.

Footage shared on social media showed a major blaze at a warehouse operated by Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online retailer, which said its logistics centre had been struck. Other images showed thick smoke rising from the area of the St Petersburg Oil Terminal, while an oil refinery and depot were also reportedly hit.

Danny Boyle has criticised the erosion of truth in today’s media landscape, drawing a connection between the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire and the attention economy that dominates modern media.

Both main crude contracts sank more than 1% following the US president’s declaration, even as it sparked astonishment in Kyiv, which also said Moscow had struck multiple power plants in the country.

Poland has changed dramatically over the past three decades. Once seen as one of Europe’s poorer economies, it is now among the EU’s fastest-growing countries, and its economic weight is increasingly being felt across Europe.

More than two million commercial flights took place across the EU between June and August 2026 even as European jet fuel prices rose during the final month of the summer

Middle East crude oil exports rose in September to their highest monthly level since the Iran war began seven months ago.