Wholesale prices jump, Ukraine refinery strikes, Black Sea tankers, Maduro plea, ad spyware

Wholesale prices jump 1.3% in September, most since 2022

The Labor Department's producer price index rose 1.3% in September, the largest monthly increase since March 2022, and 6.3% from a year earlier. Fuel costs helped drive the jump. Stocks still rose: the Dow closed up 556 points, or 1.1%, at 52,177.69; the…

✔ Sources: AP via Transport Topics, CNN via KVIA, AP via KRMG

Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries

Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, starting a fire, according to Russia's Defense Ministry and the regional governor. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Financial Times that Ukraine had paused refinery…

✔ Sources: AP via PBS NewsHour, The Moscow Times

Seven sailors missing after two tankers catch fire off Romania

Seven of the 12 crew of the San Marino-flagged tanker Wine Trader are missing and five were rescued after it caught fire off Romania's Black Sea coast near Sulina. A second tanker, the Comoros-flagged Yara J, caught fire Wednesday evening; its crew is…

✔ Sources: Reuters via gCaptain, Al Jazeera

Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture charges

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to new charges accusing them of conspiring to torture people held in Venezuelan prisons, including Americans. Maduro faces one count of…

✔ Sources: ABC News, AP via ABC7

Researchers say spyware was hidden in online ads

The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab says Israeli firm Discover-Tech, which presents itself as an ad company, let spyware makers use online ads to infect devices without any click. Researchers say computers at Al Jazeera were targeted. Citizen Lab's…

✔ Sources: TechCrunch, Engadget, Citizen Lab report

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