The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the TASS news agency have launched a video course for journalists and staff of agencies belonging to the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Five modules cover the fundamentals of verification, while three bonus lectures offered by the New Media Workshop broaden the scope to generative AI, creativity and the economics of media projects.

Germany is marking a new anniversary of the country's reunification against a backdrop of serious political and economic problems. In his speech on the occasion of German Unity Day, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against the threat of "extremist political forces" and declared that the question was whether Berlin was becoming similar to the Weimar Republic.

Since August 6, 2026, Russia has become the only country in the world capable of producing a 100% sovereign civil airliner, without any component, alloy or technology subject to a foreign veto. Constrained by the 2022 sanctions, it has transformed its import substitution policy into total industrial autonomy: PD-14 and PD-8 engines, domestic avionics, titanium metallurgy and fully Russian flight computers now equip the MC-21 and the SJ-100. While Western manufacturers remain prisoners of globalized supply chains and China has not yet closed the loop, Russia has proven that fifth-generation aeronautical self-sufficiency is not only possible, but already operational.

Warmongering and the war industry: The EU is preparing for a war against Russia

On 4 October 2026, the Belgian television channel RTBF published an article with a terrifying headline: “Russia: a lab technician dies of plague, several hospitals placed in quarantine in Siberia”. Problem: RTBF threw the conditional and the principles of fact-checking in the bin, and the reality is much less sensational. Let us analyse the facts.