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Questions remain about who ordered Nord Stream blasts — Russia’s ambassador to Germany
Sergey Nechayev said the topic is being pushed out of the public eye
Rising malnutrition in Nigeria as US war on Iran raises food costs
The war on Iran is raising the cost of living in Nigeria.
Germany’s rejection of Russian gas drives fivefold price surge over 5 years
Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexey Shevtsov said it resulted in economic stagnation turning into recession, a sharp decline in industrial production, and a reduction in the number of jobs
Utah is among states battling increasing cyberattacks on water systems
- A new Pew Research report finds cyberattacks targeting U.S. water systems on the rise. - New web-linked automation systems improve system efficiency but create opportunities for intrusion. - Researchers say additional federal and state funding is critical to keeping drinking water safe. A new report from Pew Research finds cyberattacks targeting U.S. water systems are on the rise including incidents this summer tracked by the FBI which threatened operations across seven states. While federal law enforcement officials did not identify states impacted by a rash of intrusion attempts in July, Utah facilities were among those in the crosshairs of cyber criminals in recent attacks. That includes a series of incidents outlined in an intelligence note reviewed by ABC News that confirmed Utah public safety officials “identified targeted reconnaissance” against the state’s water infrastructure last fall. The report notes the hacking efforts were traced to an internet signature linked to Iran and included nearly 500 attempted intrusions within 46 minutes in November 2025. According to Utah’s “Drinking Water Cybersecurity” audit released earlier this year, a June 2023 denial-of-service attack on an unidentified municipal water system forced staff to switch to manual operation for about three weeks. While water delivery was never impacted, according to the report, it took the city 18 months to recover from the attack and cost about $360,000 for equipment, software and overtime. In an analysis released Tuesday, Pew researchers note that while most incidents have not contaminated water or caused sustained outages, “cyber threats are increasing as more utilities adopt internet-connected technologies — often without appropriate safeguards.” The cost of cyberattacks on water systems Cyberattacks on water systems can include ransomware incidents, breaches of customer data and intrusions into operational technology that can disrupt service, damage infrastructure or compromise technologies used to operate and monitor water systems, according to the Pew report. In July 2026, a series of cyberattacks on water and wastewater utilities in more than 30 communities in Minnesota forced some systems to go offline, disconnect equipment or rely on manual operations. A cyberattack in October 2024 forced American Water, the nation’s largest water utility, to shut down customer systems, including billing, to protect data, which interrupted normal revenue processes, per the report. Similarly, a 2019 ransomware attack on Baltimore’s municipal systems prevented the city from issuing water bills for several months and ultimately cost the city an estimated $18 million for IT system repairs and lost or delayed late payment and penalty revenue. In Boston, a 2020 ransomware incident disrupted administrative systems for weeks and forced the city’s water and sewer commission to devote time and resources to restoring normal operations. “Things that even 10 years ago we never thought about are all now adding to the cost of what it takes to run a water supply system,” said Mike Grimm, vice chair of the American Water Works Association’s Water Utility Council, according to the report. As a result of intrusions into water systems, utilities shoulder much of the burden for cybersecurity, which they often then pass on to already stretched ratepayers, the report says. In their assessment, Utah auditors gathered information from 500 water system contacts across the state and found opportunities to improve vulnerability management, risk assessments, training and incident response plans. The report also cites similar findings from the Utah Education and Telehealth Network that many Utah water systems “lack foundational protections against growing cyber threats.” Auditors noted that drinking water systems generally use operational technology to control or monitor physical processes like pumps and valves. But while this technology can provide benefits such as real-time monitoring, automated controls and improved efficiency, it has also increased the cyber risk to water systems. How government agencies are responding In July, a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee introduced the Water Resources Development Act, aiming to authorize more than $35 billion in funding for water infrastructure programs over the next four years. In addition to allocations for revolving funds for drinking water systems and clean water efforts, the proposal authorizes two cybersecurity-focused programs sought by the American Water Works Association. Those include the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program and a new program to encourage utility participation in the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the effort represents a significant step forward in improving the safety of municipal water systems across the country. “Our markup to advance this significant package of legislation demonstrates a bipartisan commitment to maintaining and upgrading the nation’s water infrastructure,” he said in a press statement. In their January report, Utah auditors said they believed improved governance, including a more strategic approach to cybersecurity, will help elevate cybersecurity at Utah’s water systems and offered a trio of recommendations to achieve those goals: - The Utah Drinking Water Board should require all community water systems that use operational technology to adopt a plan to implement cybersecurity best practices like those outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Plans should target baseline best practices to provide a solid foundation for cybersecurity. - The Legislature should consider whether any additional steps should be taken to further address cybersecurity risk to drinking water systems. - The Legislature should consider modifying statute to require drinking water systems that have governing bodies to provide regular cybersecurity briefings to their governing council or board. Briefings should include information on existing protections, cybersecurity risk and the results of any cybersecurity assessments completed. Pew researchers underscored that the work to build up cyber attack resilience by water systems operators would be costly and warned that, even with additional state-level fiscal assistance and technical support, limited resources could lead to the necessity of passing on costs to ratepayers already facing household budget challenges. “Without more consistent or dedicated federal and state funding, the gap between cybersecurity needs and available resources is likely to remain a challenge for the nation’s critical water systems,” the Pew report reads.
Press review: Ukraine to spend EU loan by end-2027 as US-China trade truce may extend
Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, September 25th
Iran pitches seven-day roadmap to end conflict with US
Tehran seeks rapid implementation failed ceasefire deal, offering to open Hormuz if regional conflicts halted.
UK Foreign Office: We will pursue those who trade with or profit from settlements
UK Foreign Office: We will pursue those who trade with or profit from settlements (machine-translated headline from a Turkish-language source)
Approximately 100 detained at Netanyahu protest in New York
Approximately 100 detained at Netanyahu protest in New York (machine-translated headline from a Turkish-language source)
Hamas: Netanyahu's UN speech is full of lies
Hamas: Netanyahu's UN speech is full of lies (machine-translated headline from a Turkish-language source)
Yemen's war erupts again as Houthis push for a vital Red Sea choke point
After months largely on the sidelines in the U.S.-led war against Iran, the Houthi rebels mounted a stunning offensive earlier this month along Yemen’s Red Sea coast that sent global oil markets reeling. Now, as the Iranian-backed militia group continues to push for more territory and the military coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally-recognized government increasingly fights back, a brutal civil war has been reignited. A humanitarian disaster is on the horizon.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. The developments in Yemen, an impoverished country of 35 million at the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula, are directly linked to the war in Iran, analysts and officials say, with the Houthis capitalizing on it to make their push for control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. But the Trump administration, which last year launched a brief military campaign against the Houthis because of its attacks on U.S. ships in the Red Sea, so far is avoiding getting involved. Pleas by the Yemeni government to Washington for airstrikes on the Houthis have gone unanswered, according to two Yemeni officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. The administration previously had eliminated the position of special envoy to Yemen and did not appoint a permanent ambassador. Trump also slashed U.S. foreign assistance to about $53,000 last year from $763 million in 2024. “Militarily, diplomatically and in terms of support, the United States put Yemen in the rearview mirror after Operation Rough Rider,” said April Longley Alley, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, referring to Trump’s bombing campaign against the Houthis, which ended in May 2025 with a truce. She added that the Trump administration hoped to “off-load the problem to Saudi Arabia,” which has backed Yemen’s coalition government in its fight against the Houthis, including in the country’s brutal civil war between 2015 and 2022. But while the U.S. has been “focused on other immediate interests,” she added, the Houthis have been gaining strength. Dozens of U.S. troops are deployed to Saudi Arabia and assisting its military in an expanded effort there to counter the Houthis, said two U.S. officials familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The U.S. support falls short of launching strikes on the militants, but includes the sharing of targeting information and logistical help, one of the officials said. Both officials said the effort, reported earlier this month by CNN, is overseen at least in part by Marines. U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the region, declined to comment. One of the Yemeni officials said that American diplomats stress the support that Washington is providing in terms of intelligence but that Yemen is seeing little in the way of concrete help. “Talk is easy ... and talk is cheap,” said the official, who added that humanitarian conditions are worsening by the week. “People are suffering, and the government has limited resources to support them.” Abdullah al-Alimi Bawazir, vice president of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that his government “highly appreciates” the steps the Trump administration has taken against the Houthis, but that more military and security support is needed. The Houthis, which started as a ragtag militia in northern Yemen in the 1990s, have long wanted to oust Saudi Arabia - which they accuse of placing a blockade on their country - from Yemen. Nadwa Al-Dawsari, an associate fellow with the Middle East Institute, said that while the Houthis have their own specific grievances against Saudi Arabia, the timing of their offensive and weight they threw into it were because they wanted to “strengthen Iran’s position against the U.S., as Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz faltered.” Meanwhile, she said, humanitarian assistance to Yemen - including from the United States - has declined so much over the past year that “displaced families are lacking the basics they need to survive this latest wave of violence.” More than 120,000 Yemenis were displaced within three weeks, according to the United Nations, while thousands of others have fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti, Somaliland and Puntland. Malnutrition rates, already high, are spiking further, according to aid groups on the ground, while fragile medical systems are reaching a breaking point. “By any conventional definition, war is back,” said Adam Baron, a fellow with the Future Security Program at New America, a Washington think tank, who studies the Houthis. “The government is aware that this is existential.” The civil war had ended with a fragile truce that left the Houthis in control of Sanaa, the capital, and the government in control of much of the south. This month, following their offensive on the west coast, the Houthis have expanded to push inland. . Yemen’s military coalition, supported by Saudi Arabia, initially seemed paralyzed but is now putting up a fierce defense. Mohammed al-Basha, a Yemeni American risk adviser, said that more than 500 Houthi combatants - including commanders - have been killed in the southwest and northeast in recent weeks during fighting for control of the Kahboub Mountains and resource-rich Marib province. Recent Houthi efforts have seen far more resistance than their initial push on the west coast, he said. “We are back to a Sudan scenario, instead of a Syria scenario,” al-Basha said. “And what it seems like is that we have another Somalia, with islands of stability amid violence.” Hachem Osseiran, a Middle East spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, described Yemen’s health care system as “pushed to the brink, after being weakened by successive shocks.” “Already, more than 40 percent of Yemen’s health facilities were partly or completely nonfunctioning,” Osseiran said. “Now, there are not enough facilities or people to treat the influx of wounded.” Maternity wards are being converted to emergency rooms, he said, while medical workers scramble to address the crisis. Marc Schakal, the head of Doctors Without Borders’ Middle East programs, said that hospitals have been damaged by fighting and medical staff have seen an influx of injuries and fatalities, with the hospital in Aden, the de facto capital of the government, receiving 25 dead bodies in two days. The hospital in Mokha, the city that the Houthis seized on Sept. 10, is still operating but with fewer patients because so many people have fled. “What we are concerned about is civilians, because at the end of the day, they will pay the price,” Schakal said. “No authority in Yemen is focused on them, and both sides are very determined.” The first wave of Yemenis arriving in Djibouti, a country of 1.2 million in East Africa, just across the Bab al-Mandab Strait, were fishermen in small boats, said Sandrine Desamours, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Djibouti. They arrived with their families and nothing else, she said, and were followed by more organized waves of refugees. Many of those who have been arriving are women and children, Desamours said, and many are malnourished. “When we ask them why they fled, they just describe indiscriminate bombing, indiscriminate shelling,” she said. About 30 percent are people who had been refugees during the civil war but returned to Yemen after determining that it was safe enough “to rebuild their lives.” “Now,” she said, “they are back again.” Suzan Haidamous in Beirut contributed to this report. Related ContentThis article originally appeared on Washington Post at https://washingtonpost.com/world/2026/09/25/houthis-capitalize-us-led-war-with-iran-fighting-engulfs-yemen/
Russian strikes on data centers in Kiev to disrupt Ukraine’s troop control — expert
According to Andrey Marochko, the Kiev-based data centers provided continuous secure communication for the Ukrainian armed forces
Russia to respond to Russophobic moves by EU countries — MFA
On Thursday, the European Union added Ksenia Fedorova, the former head of RT’s French bureau, to its sanctions list
Putin relieves Andrey Kelin of his duty as Russian ambassador to UK
Andrey Kelin held this post since November 2019
Stubb asks Musk to allow to use Starlink to launch strikes deep into Russia
The Finnish leader also noted that Ukraine needs air defense capabilities, and extending Starlink coverage across the entire territory of Russia could help repel attacks by the Russian Armed Forces
IN BRIEF: Man killed in drone attack on Perm Region as Russia downs 592 UAVs overnight
Teenagers aged 17 and 14 were injured in a drone attack on the Volga city of Ulyanovsk
Russian container market grows 6% to 4.72 mln TEU in January-August 2026
Transportation group Fesco said import shipments increased by 16% to 2.03 mln TEU
Russian forces hit Ukrainian drone deployment, command posts in DPR, Kharkov Region
The Russian military used FAB-500 air bombs with the unified glide/adjustment module
Bank of Russia buys $23.56 mln worth of yuan on September 24
The volume of foreign currency purchases on the domestic market with settlement on September 23 totaled 1.9 bln rubles
Mamdani plants olive tree with Gaza families
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a video of himself planting an olive tree alongside Palestinian families from Gaza.
Flamingo engines storage facility, Ukrainian logistics sites: results of Russian strikes
Russian forces struck two logistics centers in Odessa and the town of Nerubaiskoye, which were used to store and distribute military and dual-use cargo delivered to Ukraine from European countries