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NARRATIVE: Oleshky, the town where elders ate grass, is finally waiting for its convoy
Grass, on the menu. Weeds, too. Foraged outdoors, under the drones. The elders’ meal. In Oleshky, this autumn. Not in an old textbook. This year. An occupied Ukrainian town. Kherson sits right across. The river divides them.

NARRATIVE: A fire watched all day, a wind that turns, four soldiers who do not come home
It is about 4 p.m. Mountain time. Saturday, October 17. The Wainwright base, in Alberta. A live-fire exercise. It is called Apollo Shooter.

NARRATIVE: At 11:18 a.m. on a Monday, the Kremlin strikes Dnipro with its offices full
In Dnipro, once the search was over on September 28, the regional police were still trying to put a name to a woman found…

FIELD REPORT: Under four litres, the ban Trump signed stops the small distiller’s bottle
The bottle of wheat rye that James Lester used to sell in the United States has not crossed the border since 12:01 a.m. this…

NARRATIVE: 1,198 days after Surrey, Los Angeles puts a price on the man accused in Nijjar’s assassination
The FBI made Satinderjeet Singh, known as Goldy Brar, the 543rd name on its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives on September 28, 2026,…

NARRATIVE: Moscow says it targets only the military, and its bomb hits a second floor in Saltivka
In Kharkiv, rescuers spent the whole morning of September 28 searching the second floor of a building in Saltivka, and Mayor Ihor Terekhov finally…

FIELD REPORT: In Sumy, the Kremlin’s bombs shatter a refuge for child victims of violence
When the Barnahus in Sumy opened in December 2023, the regional council had set out toys, candy and tea; on Sunday, September 27, Russian…

FIELD REPORT: In Valcourt, Trump turns back the Spyder on Tuesday, and January will pay
On September 29 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, a Can-Am Spyder built in Valcourt will become an object the United States refuses to import.

NARRATIVE: Trump speaks 37 minutes without saying Canada, Carney leaves the UN without a Washington meeting
On Tuesday, September 22, Donald Trump spoke for 37 minutes before the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.