U.S. Senate Minority Leader McConnell: Confidence that the Senate will pass aid to Ukraine later this year.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Schumer: We will avoid a government shutdown and agree with U.S. Senate Minority Leader McConnell to provide more aid to Ukraine.

USGS: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Northern California.

According to RIA Novosti: Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmeygar announced that Ukraine’s draft budget for next year plans to increase spending on the production of defense products sevenfold to nearly 56 billion hryvnia ($1.5 billion).

U.S. House Speaker McCarthy: Republicans provide complete $16 billion in disaster aid.

Market news: U.S. House Speaker McCarthy challenged Republican hardliners seeking to remove him as speaker.

U.S. House Majority Leader Scalise: The Republican funding bill needs Democratic support to pass the House.

U.S. House Majority Leader Scalise: The government funding proposal will exclude aid to Ukraine but include disaster aid.

New York State Governor: The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has fully restored network services.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Wal-Mart (WMT.N) is changing the pay and job titles of its employees.

State Gas Transport Company of Ukraine: 41.99 million cubic meters of Russian natural gas will pass through the Sudzha crossing on October 1 and 40.8 million cubic meters on September 30.

The Reserve Bank of India has extended the deadline for exchanging 2,000 rupee notes to October 7. Previously, the Reserve Bank of India suddenly announced on May 19 that it would withdraw 2,000 rupee banknotes from the circulation market from that day and immediately stop issuing banknotes of this denomination.

The Indian Meteorological Department predicts that the northwest monsoon in India from October to December will be normal.

According to the Financial Times: British digital banking giant Revolut is in discussions with British regulators about dangerous accounts.

Egyptian President Sisi: It is expected that the revenue of the Suez Canal will reach 10.5 billion US dollars by the end of 2023.

According to the Kyiv Independent: Romania is investigating whether Russia violated Romanian airspace again in its latest attack on Ukraine on the night of September 29-30. The Romanian Defense Ministry reported that as Russia attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, air sirens were sounded in the nearby cities of Tulcea and Galati after a radar system detected an unsanctioned object in Romanian airspace heading toward Ukraine.

Egyptian Prime Minister: Egypt will produce all petroleum fuel products within the next year. Egypt only imports crude oil to produce fuel locally.

National Hurricane Center: Storm Rina remains stable but is expected to weaken over the weekend.

National Hurricane Center: Storm Philip is expected to remain east of the Northern Leeward Islands for several days. Tropical Storm Philip is expected to intensify over the next few days and develop into a hurricane early next week.