President Donald Trump said he had secured Russia's agreement to release diesel supplies and eased war sanctions on Moscow, a move framed as an effort to lower energy costs ahead of the midterm elections. The announcement came as Trump prepared to speak at a campaign rally in Youngstown on Monday, with Vice President JD Vance already campaigning in Ohio wearing a "Vance 2028" cap. Trump also cast doubt on plans to livestream the execution of a soldier's killer by military firing squad, after the proposal drew bipartisan condemnation, and he called the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to South Africa's Navi Pillay "disgraceful."

Hurricane Isaias, a Category 3 storm, is set to make landfall in Florida on Saturday after triggering mandatory evacuations along the US Gulf Coast. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Panama, collapsing buildings and injuring at least two people; no deaths have been reported.

Stockholm begins Nobel announcement week, with the Economic Sciences prize due Monday. Canadian poet Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature for "Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse," and South African lawyer and judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; the specific grounds for her award were not detailed.

In France, a nationwide firefighters' strike is underway alongside a high school blockade movement. Lithuania's parliament voted to lift its ban on direct imports from Russia and Belarus. Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called for snap elections after his government failed to pass emergency measures addressing rising oil and gas costs, and has since begun campaigning amid housing protests. Germany and France are clashing over the European Union's next seven-year budget, with an EU summit scheduled in Brussels. EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic opened two days of trade talks with China aimed at securing access to advanced AI models.

In Brazil, President Lula is holding a campaign rally in Natal ahead of the October 25 runoff election, and thousands of students marched in downtown Rio de Janeiro to protest the rising cost of living. Brazilian prosecutors sued Shell for $108 million over deadly 2024 floods, and a Mexican judge convicted three men in the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and an American friend.

Taiwan's leader said the island aims to "deter war" by increasing defense spending amid Chinese military pressure, while North Korea accused the United States of fueling tension in the Taiwan Strait over US military support for Taiwan. Ethiopia reported its first case of Ebola. In Pakistan, a protest march demanding the release of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan began on a Sunday after being delayed from late September; the delay followed Khan's temporary move from Islamabad and a government security surge, with the government offering to negotiate.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is visiting Malaysia, while journalists in Cairo stage a sit-in for arrested colleagues. Venezuelan opposition delegates are meeting with the interim government in Caracas. The International Criminal Court is holding a pre-trial conference in the Duterte case in The Hague. Wednesday marked the three-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel by Gaza's Hamas, and in Gaza itself, widespread hunger has persisted one year into the ceasefire. Britain's Northern Ireland secretary banned a contentious Protestant parade.

In Britain, the London Film Festival runs alongside the trial of comedian Russell Brand. Thousands of police were deployed in Delhi ahead of demonstrations demanding the resignation of India's election chief over alleged voter-roll irregularities. Protesters gathered in New York after ICE officers shot a Dominican man. Anthropic disclosed that an AI model it developed submitted a fabricated murder tip to Philadelphia police, and that the company took two months to report the breach.

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and BlackRock are scheduled to release third-quarter results between October 13 and 14. Manchester City faced Liverpool at Anfield after being found guilty of breaking financial rules. Formula One's Singapore Grand Prix and the Moto2026 MotoGP World Championship in Indonesia round out the week's sports calendar.