Vladimir Putin tries again to intimidate people or to even get them scared: he has signed a decree lowering the threshold for Russia's use of nuclear weapons and the action follows a USA decision to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range missile strikes on Russia using American weapons. Ukraine has carried out its first such attack, with Russia confirming that US ATACMS missiles have hit its Bryansk region.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was supposed to be just three days and it became a war that's going on since, it will be three years in a few months and it may be going on for a few more years if there is no peace happening (the Russians being stoped). The foreign ministry in Moscow says Ukraine using long range missiles would mark a radical escalation of the conflict, a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged yesterday the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the USA Catholic Church in 2002, arguing that there’s no reason why children around the world shouldn't be kept just as safe from predator priests.

Current USA president Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles (and you can find why from what Deutsche Welle is presenting here) supplied by the USA has sparked a furious response in Russia. Today the president Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that “if such a decision has been taken it means a whole new spiral of tension and a whole new situation with regard to US involvement in this conflict".

In Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan glaciers are under threat, and BBC team have been in a part of an area referred to by some as the Third Pole to presen the situation. The place which currently has more ice than any other part of the world outside the polar regions but that will be most probably changed in the following years: climate change is altering the landscape across Gilgit-Baltistan and neighbouring Chitral, researchers say.

According to multiple media reports, President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use the USA-supplied long-range missiles for strikes inside Russia. This major policy shift comes after months of requests by Ukraine – and just two months before the current President-elect Donald duck Trump should take office, vowing to limit further support for Ukraine.

 Russia cut this morning the gas to Austria, just before winter, and this is not surprising at all - the Russians are doing whatever they are thinking without caring what's happening next to themselved and other people. Gazprom, the Russian company also doing some business in Romania, does not like that he had to pay 230 millon euros in some fees because of not respecting the contract terms.

France 24 is a French publicly funded international news television network based in Paris.Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market and Romania was spoken about on one of them not in quite a good way.

After Elon Musk bring involved in Donald duck Trups re-election as USA president he has been made head of a new so called Department of Government Efficiency by Donald Trump, the latest appointment to the duck's emerging team and it seems to be a very good joke.

One of the problems in the United Kingdom: the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned following a report into a child abuser associated with the Church of England, a fellow priest that kept abusing children for decades because he could.

A good news or a bad news, I don't know yet. Only time will tell how things will be going in Germany next year and the next few years. For the moment Deutsche Welle is saying that some reports were telling them that the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reached agreement with the main opposition conservatives on a date for early elections. Scholz fired his finance minister last week, leading to the collapse of his three-way coalition.

A New York judge is set to decide this week whether the President-elect Donald duck Trump's criminal conviction on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star should be overturned in light of the Supreme Court's July ruling on presidential immunity.

Last night was a hot night in Ukraine and Russia: Russia launched a record 145 drones at Ukraine, according to officials. Ukraine says it managed to shoot down 62 drones and also attacked an arsenal in the Bryansk region of Russia overnight. Ukraine also launched its biggest drone strike on Moscow since the start of the war in 2022.

Deutsche Welle (Germany’s international broadcaster) is saying us what many people ar thinking - 'the current crisis is based on an economy that is not working', and pressure is mounting on Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz to hold snap elections. His coalition government collapsed this week after he fired a top minister.

It seems they already started - the assassination plots may continue at least one of them will succeed and they may continue a little longer. This is what Donald duck Trump started being the duck he is and I don't known if and how much time the Secret Service will be able to protect the duck. I hope this does not start another world war, and for the moment three men have been charged by the USA Justice Department over an alleged plot by Iran to murder Donald Trump and other American citizens.

I've heard or read several times this last week things about the Germany's economic problems, and now Deutsche Welle (the Germany’s international broadcaster) is saying that Germany’s three-party coalition government is finished after the partners could no longer agree on a joint economic policy.

The USA citizen are electing their president today and the country is divided, so the future can be either bad or worse than bad. If Donald Trump wins he me want to remain president as long as he can, if he loses he may start a new civil war. Both will have bas effects in their country and the world so the Americans should be careful on which person they vote as president.

The good part of the yerterday election from Moldavia is that the current president Maia Sandu won the job as Moldavian president the second time (the first president that did that) after the second ballot that took place yesterday, ballot that knew the greatest number of people voting outside the country until now (83% voted Maia Sandu because „Toți vrem acasă - We all want home”). And Maia Sandu won the election inspite of the Russian meddling about many people are talking about.

I don't celebrate Halloween nor Day of the Dead but I understand them, so watching the cute zombies is fun (they are all cuter than the best well known zombie - Donald duck Trump, the USA president wanna-be). It's good to know that the Brazilians celebrated this year Day of the Dead on Saturday at the traditional Zombie Walk with their colorful, eerie make-up and costumes on Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach.

The Earth climate is changing, the temperatures are getting higher and higher, and the storms are getting more often and more powerful, all because the human actions in the last centuries. One of the results? Catastrophic flash floods in Spain killed dozens and devastated towns.