Germany's foreign minister said EU sanctions have made it more difficult for Putin to continue military operations in Ukraine.

Oct 12 — Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model built on Alibaba's Qwen. Microsoft said the model was trained from Qwen3.5-9B and outperforms other LLMs and Jev 1.13.0 on latency and accuracy in structured decision tasks. CEO Satya Nadella said on social media Microsoft is testing the model across functions including incident response, quality control and scientific discovery.

Saudi energy minister said Saudi Arabia is seeking international participation in an alternative pipeline project to diversify ownership, operating rights and financing sources and to position the pipeline as an international asset.