Trump suspends sanctions on Russian diesel for a 300,000-tonne first shipment

The GuardianOct 12

“Weeks before the midterms, Mr Trump blames Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities for high diesel costs. It is his own unlawful war on Iran that has raised prices.”The Guardian editorial board · rejecting Trump's justification for the diesel deal and blaming his Iran war for high fuel prices

It is clear that the problem is not a “rogue court”, as Mr Rubio has claimed, but a rogue superpower.The Guardian editorial board · arguing the US, not the ICC, is the threat to international law

the Guardian's editorial board wrote, and its news desk carried analysts predicting the shipments arrive too late to move prices before the midterms.

BBC NewsOct 12

“Congress was clear: the US should not import oil from Russia until it ends its aggression against Ukraine and ceases threats against our Nato Allies,”Seven US senators, three Democrats and four Republicans, quoted by BBC News · arguing the diesel deal violates a law banning Russian energy imports and urging the administration to reverse course

“All of this happened after the president of the United States made his statement about an energy ceasefire,”Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president, quoted by BBC News · saying Russia hit a Kyiv power plant and Kharkiv energy sites right after Trump announced the truce

the BBC wrote of the diesel deal, and it placed Zelensky's account of Russian strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv in its headline. PBS led its senators story with the call to "immediately reverse course" and wrote that Trump "has sought to blame record U.S.

The BulwarkOct 12

the Bulwark wrote, citing sources who said Ukraine was blindsided. On video, Michael Weiss said Jared Kushner announced the diesel arrangement during Miami peace talks and traced the idea to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund.

Antiwar.comOct 12

Zelensky told Axios that the energy truce was “news to me,” suggesting that Trump yet again announced an agreement that didn’t exist.Antiwar.com · arguing Trump repeats a ceasefire claim that already proved false weeks ago

Antiwar.com wrote of the ceasefire post. Its second report noted Zelensky's term expired in May 2024 and that he "has continued to reject the growing calls within Ukraine to hold a vote." Both pieces said Ukraine's refinery strikes are supported by US intelligence.

Fox NewsOct 12

“Under the agreement announced Friday, Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, with additional shipments expected in November and beyond.”Fox News, quoted by Fox News · describing the Russia diesel deal paired with temporary Treasury sanctions relief

“Trump argued that the agreement would help bring down fuel prices, while Zelenskyy criticized the decision as a concession to Moscow that could provide additional revenue for Russia's war effort.”Fox News, quoted by Fox News · contrasting Trump's fuel-price rationale with Kyiv's objection that sanctions relief funds Russia's war

Fox framed the ceasefire around buyers at home: "The issue has become increasingly urgent as diesel prices weigh on American farmers, truckers and businesses that rely on the fuel." OAN printed Trump's charge that Zelensky "does not want to make a deal," and Breitbart reported the ceasefire as a breakthrough.

The GuardianOct 12

The final piece that was stabilising the region’s tense equilibriums fell away when Trump decided that the safety and security of the US’s Gulf allies was secondary to his Iran “excursion”, as he called it.The Guardian (opinion writer) · blaming US policy under Trump for removing the last stabiliser of Gulf security

“What is upon Saudi Arabia now is a long, intractable war with a resourceful and impassioned antagonist, one willing to sustain a high degree of pain in ways that Riyadh can’t match without orienting itself entirely towards war.”The Guardian (opinion writer) · warning Saudi Arabia faces a prolonged, likely unwinnable war with the Houthis

Nesrine Malik wrote in the Guardian, arguing that Trump's Iran war ended the Gulf's reliance on the US security umbrella.

Antiwar.comOct 12

“The Armed Forces affirm their commitment to implementing the declared equation: an airport for an airport, a blockade for a blockade, and escalation for escalation, until their objectives are achieved,”Yahya Saree, Ansar Allah military spokesman, quoted by Antiwar.com · justifying airport strikes as reciprocal for Saudi bombing of Yemeni airports

“While the US isn’t launching direct strikes, it remains deeply involved in the war as it provides targeting and intelligence support and has resumed refueling Saudi warplanes.”Antiwar.com · arguing the US is already a party to the Saudi war on Yemen

Antiwar.com wrote, using the movement's own name, Ansar Allah, throughout. It printed Saree's "airport for an airport" warning and stressed that the US provides targeting support and refuels Saudi jets.

One America News NetworkOct 12

“The United States strongly condemns the recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the terrorist Houthis, including today’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that took numerous innocent lives, including an American citizen,”Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, quoted by One America News Network · condemning the strike that killed an American and labeling the Houthis terrorists

“We may. We’re going to look at it,”Donald Trump, US President, quoted by One America News Network · on whether the US might join Saudi strikes against the Houthis

OAN attributed the strike to "the terrorist Yemeni militant group, the Houthis," and built its report around Rubio's condemnation and Trump's "We may" on joining Saudi strikes. Breitbart opened the same way: "Iran-backed Houthi terrorists killed at least 12 people." Both centered the American dead and the decision facing Trump.

The American ConservativeOct 12

is how TAC's daily log placed the attack, alongside a tanker struck in Hormuz and gas at $4.36. The log stayed numerical and named no villain.

Al JazeeraOct 12

“The airport attacks have escalated the war in Yemen and threaten to draw in the US military.”Al Jazeera · warning that the strikes risk pulling Washington directly into the Yemen fighting

“There are fears that US intervention could prompt the Houthis to halt shipping through Bab al-Mandeb, further restricting the flow of oil out of the Gulf.”Al Jazeera · flagging the global oil and shipping cost of a US intervention

Al Jazeera wrote. It gave the most space of any outlet to diplomacy, reporting Iran's foreign minister offering to broker Saudi-Houthi talks, plus the travel warnings and Houthi advances toward Taiz.

World Socialist Web SiteOct 12

he has systematically shed the “left” rhetoric that carried him to the nomination.World Socialist Web Site · claiming the Michigan Senate candidate has hollowed out his progressive positions since winning the primary

the WSWS called the debate, and it catalogued each retreat: private insurance under Medicare for All, a "safe and secure border" repeated four times, and his Obama reversal. It condemned Rogers's Islamophobia and El-Sayed's answers in the same piece.

JacobinOct 12

Matt Bruenig argued that "all he has really done is drop his opposition to a type of duplicative insurance that nobody would ever want to buy." The piece defended the candidate against reporting that he had abandoned single payer. Jacobin and the WSWS read the same insurance shift in opposite directions.

ABC NewsOct 12

“If they want to make me the main character in the midterms, I’m not shying away from it,” El-Sayed said in an interview. “Run against me. See how well that works out for you.”Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, quoted by ABC News · defiantly embracing a Republican campaign, backed by tens of millions of dollars, to paint him as a dangerous radical

“If you want their votes, you have to make nice with those people, and he’s not really doing that,”Adrian Hemond, Michigan political strategist who supported Stevens, quoted by ABC News · warning El-Sayed's confrontational style may fail to unite Democratic factions and cost the party the Senate

ABC's AP copy described "a Republican effort, fueled by tens of millions of dollars, to portray him as a dangerous radical," and printed both his town-hall tenderness and his taunts of Trump.

The BulwarkOct 12

“Here in Michigan, Rogers’s solution has been to make the debate about El-Sayed—and then, to make El-Sayed seem as scary as possible—in hopes voters will forget about everything Trump has done to the state.”The Bulwark · arguing Rogers's attacks on El-Sayed are meant to distract from Trump's damage to Michigan

The Bulwark wrote that Rogers's strategy is to "make El-Sayed seem as scary as possible" so voters forget Trump's tariffs on Canada. It documented Rogers reversing himself on the Canada tariffs and the Iran war, and said Rogers skipped the first debate.

The Free PressOct 12

“I just don’t want to comment” on the assassination of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today” about his death.Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate nominee (per The Washington Free Beacon), quoted by The Free Press · leaked March strategy-call audio El-Sayed now dismisses as irrelevant to the Senate race

the Free Press opened. Its reporter pressed him on a leaked March call about Khamenei's death, and he called the topic irrelevant.

The Daily WireOct 12

“I wouldn’t have my life but for my dad’s efforts,” El-Sayed said. “At the same time, there’s a lot of things about my dad I would do differently, right?”Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate nominee, quoted by The Daily Wire · defending his 2012 essay saying Obama "was not the right choice" ahead of a joint Detroit appearance

The Daily Wire reported he "likened his past criticism of former President Barack Obama to second-guessing a parent," and listed his 2017 and 2020 criticisms to show a pattern. On video Benny Johnson called him a dual citizen of Egypt and declared that Rogers won the debate outright.

La OpiniónOct 12

La Opinión's Spanish-language report headlined that he is counting on winning "con apoyo de trumpistas," leading with his claim that Trump voters tell him they will now back him over health care. It treated the race as an economic pitch to working-class voters.

World Socialist Web SiteOct 12

On CBS, he accused Belgal of being “absolutely selfish enough to put his child in danger.”Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security Secretary, quoted by World Socialist Web Site · defending an ICE agent's shooting of a driver who had his five-year-old son in the back seat

“The NYPD spent more time protecting a militia that just shot someone than protecting New Yorkers,”Darializa Avila Chevalier, DSA member and congressional candidate, quoted by World Socialist Web Site · accusing police of shielding ICE agents after the shooting while assaulting anti-ICE protesters

is the WSWS's name for ICE, and it linked the Texas run-down, the Fresno assault by an off-duty agent and the Bronx shooting into one pattern. It spent its back half on Mayor Mamdani, faulting him for keeping Commissioner Jessica Tisch while the NYPD shoved anti-ICE protesters.

The GuardianOct 12

“we didn’t know the five-year-old was in the vehicle”Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security Secretary, quoted by The Guardian · conceding ICE had studied the shot man's "pattern of life" yet did not know his child was aboard

The Guardian placed the Texas case in a count: "More than 30 people have died in 2026 during interactions with immigration officials." It noted DHS did not answer whether the agent wore a body camera, as ICE policy requires.

National ReviewOct 12

“All of this is on the driver who immediately when the agents showed up just should have complied with orders.”Rich Lowry, National Review editor · arguing the driver, not ICE, is responsible for being shot with his five-year-old son in the car

“this isn't an agency, again, that is acting in a malicious way.”Rich Lowry, National Review editor · defending ICE by pointing to agents tending the wounded driver after the shooting

Rich Lowry called the reaction of Ocasio-Cortez and the mayor "completely lunatic and dishonest," citing NYPD camera evidence that Belgal rammed agents' cars. He put the danger to the child on the driver and praised Tisch as the city's most responsible official.

The Daily WireOct 12

“All 258 of those deaths were 100% preventable because those illegals shouldn't be here.”Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security Secretary, quoted by The Daily Wire · answering questions about the shooting by pivoting to murders he attributes to unhonored ICE detainers

“If anybody should be outraged, it should [be] the public to the sanctuary states and sanctuary politicians that continue to release these murderers and thugs back to the streets and put the public in danger.”Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security Secretary, quoted by The Daily Wire · blaming sanctuary jurisdictions for releasing detainer subjects rather than the agents' tactics

The Daily Wire wrote that "Mullin answered with numbers of his own," printing his claim that 258 people in New York City who are in the country illegally are wanted for murder. Breitbart ran Mamdani's call to remove ICE from the city in full and without comment.

TheGrioOct 12

“A single ICE agent fired seven shots into Belgal's vehicle Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the backseat.”TheGrio · stating the core fact driving the investigations and political backlash

TheGrio wrote, setting neighbors' allegations beside the federal judge's order and the Bronx district attorney's investigation. It reported a bullet remained lodged in him after his transfer between facilities.

The ForwardOct 12

“spent more time protecting a militia that just shot someone than protecting New Yorkers.”Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic primary winner and Mamdani ally, quoted by The Forward · accusing the NYPD of shielding ICE agents who shot the driver rather than residents

The Forward's JTA copy recalled that retaining Tisch "was seen as a reassuring move by moderates and establishment Jewish organizations." It framed the shooting through DSA allies' new demand that she be fired, linking it to the protests against Mamdani at an Oct. 7 vigil.

Washington ExaminerOct 12

The Examiner's headline said Mullin "spurns martyrdom concerns," and its brief report noted moderator Margaret Brennan's point that Hasan uses a wheelchair. It reported the exchange without endorsing either side.

The Christian PostOct 12

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Al JazeeraOct 12

Al Jazeera wrote that Mullin was "playing down warnings that images of his death by firing squad might be used as a propaganda tool for violent groups." It gathered Republican objections from Tillis, Murkowski and Rep. Tom Barrett.