Europe

Protests were held in more than 260 towns, and police used tear gas in Lyon. The G7 foreign ministers’ meeting was moved from Marseille to Paris.

The Ukrainian president claims Russia has damaged every power plant in the country. He discussed joint weapons production with Portugal’s president.

CFDT, CGT, FO, Unsa and FSU are protesting against the Lecornu government's cuts. Estimates of the austerity package range from 43 to 54 billion euros.

The Commission says Serbia meets the technical benchmarks to open cluster 3 but warns of weak alignment with EU foreign policy. The report was also presented to the Student List.

The government wants to fund public broadcasting from the state budget, with about 15 percent less money than licence fees bring in. Staff and the opposition warn of a loss of independence.

Drones over airports, GPS jamming, damaged undersea cables and Russian warships escorting the "shadow fleet". With Sweden and Finland joining, the Baltic has become an allied sea, but also a space in which a single wrong move could trigger a war no one wants.

Attackers are taking over refrigeration control modules and switching them into permanent defrost. France's finance minister says the attack "touches the heart of our food security".

During a two-day cap, drones flying faster than 72 to 161 km/h lost their satellite link. Reuters says the order came from the White House, which Washington denies.

Representatives of the US, Ukraine, leading European countries and NATO meet in Brussels today. Trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US are scheduled for November 10 and 11 in Abu Dhabi.

Attacks by aerial and surface drones are hitting merchant ships in Bulgarian and Romanian waters. Romanian fighters have shot down two drones, and Bucharest proposes a joint Black Sea command.

The Polish prime minister accuses Moscow of trying to destabilise the country as Warsaw is rocked by protests over a dispute surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal.

Russia refused to extend a local humanitarian truce in occupied Oleshky. The Kremlin calls the mission a success but plans no new ones.

With 99.68 percent of votes counted, Yotova has 57.6 percent and Andrey Gyurov 39.3 percent. Turnout was just 27 percent.

Chapters on economic and monetary policy, statistics and social policy were closed at an intergovernmental conference in Luxembourg. Commissioner Kos calls for urgent constitutional changes.

The average summer temperature in Western Europe was 21.7°C, 2.5 degrees above normal. The Rhine, Danube, Po and Seine fell to record or near-record lows.

The map was produced with Google's AI and proofread by researchers at Janelia. It was published in Cell.