Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited London on Oct.

14 to meet British Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Britain announced a £45 million air-defense package and will speed up delivery of £10 million worth of lightweight missiles.

The missiles have been used against Russian jet-powered drones, which are faster and harder to intercept than older models.

Katie Zacharia made her first White House briefing on Tuesday, October 13, after replacing Karoline Leavitt as press secretary.

She praised President Donald Trump and read a list of what she described as his administration’s achievements.

She took questions from only three reporters before ending the 15-minute briefing, leaving others shouting questions unanswered.

A slip in which she said “my president” instead of “my husband” prompted laughter as she spoke about her family.

Former DRC President Joseph Kabila is leading a new political-military coalition called the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, or FRN.

It was announced on October 12 in Goma, an eastern city controlled by the M23 rebel group.

The coalition brings together figures from the AFC/M23 movement, which is fighting the government of President Félix Tshisekedi.

Kabila ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 until 2019 and had previously denied links to M23.

The US Treasury imposed a $1.2 billion penalty on Bank of America, the country’s second-largest bank, for failures involving money laundering controls and sanctions.

The Treasury said the bank failed to identify and report suspicious transactions, including risks linked to Chinese money-laundering networks and illicit finance along the southwest border.

It said the bank did not report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions to the government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

A separate $11.6 million settlement covers apparent violations of sanctions involving Iran, Russia, narcotics and global terrorism.

Microsoft released its October security update on Tuesday, fixing more than 1,400 vulnerabilities across Windows and other products.

Counts differ across the available information, which gives totals of 1,411 and 1,413 fixes.

One patched Windows flaw is already being exploited by attackers.

It can let a malicious file bypass warnings that normally help protect people when they open files from the internet, but the attack requires a user to interact with the file.

Moscow’s Spartak beat Khabarovsk’s Amur 2-1 in a KHL regular-season game.

Amur scored first through Vitaly Abramov, but Spartak tied the game late in the first period when a puck struck forward Alexander Belyaev in the face and went into the net.

The goal ended Amur’s 13-game run without conceding while short-handed, a stretch that had included 44 penalty-kill situations.

Belyaev left the ice briefly with a cut, then returned to play.

Nintendo has released a new pre-order trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake on Switch 2.

The trailer appeared on Nintendo’s Dutch YouTube channel and shows Link facing the Great Deku Tree, taking up the Master Sword and battling the lava dragon Volvagia.

It also includes new footage of Link riding Epona and returning his sword to the Pedestal of Time.

The game remakes Nintendo’s 1998 N64 adventure, and is set for release on November 5.

The WHO says the Tumaini Ebola vaccine trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo should start before October ends.

The country is facing its 17th Ebola outbreak, which has caused more than 9,000 cases and 4,000 deaths.

The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which no vaccine or treatment is approved.

The trial will first test Ervebo, a vaccine approved for a different Ebola strain, the Zaire strain.