European automakers urged policymakers on ​Tuesday to do more to help them cope with Chinese competition and the shift ‌to electric vehicles, as a drop in third-quarter deliveries at BMW and Stellantis underscored the pressure on the industry.

The European Union has signed an additional €25 million ($29 million) in funding to expand migration cooperation into eastern Libya, according to ​a letter from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ‌to EU leaders seen by Reuters.

Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that Europe must accelerate the production of ammunition and weapons to match Russia’s pace, warning that failure to do so would negatively impact Europe.

As Chinese electric vehicle makers challenge Europe's auto industry with cheaper cars and increasingly sophisticated technology, ​established automakers are fighting back with one asset their rivals lack: history.

Monthly rents in Yerevan now run to €800–900 for a two-room flat, up 23.5% year on year in August, while Tbilisi rents have stabilised after 60–70% jumps following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russian nationals account for 72% of all foreign property transactions in Armenia.

Dense heavy crude, which oil refiners around the world favor for its typically low cost, ​is piling up in the Americas as soaring freight rates have stifled exports and US refiners have been running close to their limits.

Deliveries of some US weapons systems to Poland ​are set to be delayed, ‌including interceptors for the Patriot air defence system, Polish army operational commander ​General Ireneusz Nowak said ​on Monday.

European spy agencies say Moscow is expanding covert operations against defense industry leaders, seeking to intimidate companies supplying weapons to Ukraine and weaken support for Kyiv.

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Saturday that an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal had ​ruled in its favour in a long-running ‌dispute with Finnish utility Fennovoima over the cancelled Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power project.

Ireland proposes cutting the next EU budget by 8%, with global cooperation and competitiveness taking the deepest cuts, while agriculture and cohesion funding is reduced by only 3%. It also includes a €55bn-a-year package of own resources. EU leaders will discuss the plan on 15-16 October.

Liubov Plakhina is turning 65 in November, with the 17-year term of imprisonment for remaining loyal to Ukraine meaning she would be around 80 if she survived the sentence