Norris, Piastri disqualified from Las Vegas GP, sparking F1 title race

A group of US lawmakers said the secretary of state told them the draft did not reflect Washington’s position. Marco Rubio has distanced himself from those claims. Source link

Russia has recorded its first rise in unemployment since February, climbing from a record low of 2.1% to 2.2% in September. Super-low unemployment, which Vladimir Putin loves to hail as an example of Russia’s economic success, is a sign of the on-going overheating in the labor market. Russia has long faced a labor shortage. The underlying reason — demographics — has not changed for years. The population is aging, birth rates are not growing. Even putting the pension age up five years has not solved the problem. For many years, the government satisfied labor needs via migrants from Central Asia, and,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received the controversial new US-drafted peace plan that calls for Kyiv to make major concessions, his office said, and Zelenskyy would seek to discuss it further with President Donald Trump. Source link