**Good day, team! Here are the top stories for the morning of October ****

According to monitoring sites and local channels, Russian drones attacked targets in Kiev, Brovary, the Fastov and Vyshhorod districts, and Izmail overnight. A strike on a substation near Vyshhorod has been reported, along with explosions in Sumy. Aircraft struck targets in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions, including areas around bridges over the Dnepr River, Yasnaya Polyana, and Omelnyk;

Members of the European Parliament are calling for “Russian Houses” to be shut down across EU countries — LRT;

The cost of chartering an oil tanker on a major Middle Eastern trade route has surged to $1.33 million per day, its highest level on record;

Fuel prices at California gas stations have broken all previous records;

Three people were killed and 36 others injured in strikes on airports in Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. The airport in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, was among those attacked;

Former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan remains the frontrunner in the race to become UN secretary-general following another informal Security Council vote;

Tokyo may allow nuclear weapons to be brought into the country under special circumstances. The move is being considered as a way to strengthen deterrence against potential adversaries under the US “nuclear umbrella”;

The first execution since the incident involving Christa Pike has taken place in the US, the Associated Press reports.

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