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We study sparse semi-continuous tensor data with excess zeros, heavy right tails, and slice-specific dispersion. Such features arise naturally in monetary-valued multi-way data, such as international trade, where most exporter--importer--product--year cells are zero while positive values are continuous and highly variable. To model these data, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical tensor factorization model that places a low-rank CP structure on a latent Poisson rate tensor and couples it with a conditional Gamma model for positive outcomes, with rate parameters that can vary across slices within a mode. The model therefore separates the occurrence and magnitude of positive observations while borrowing strength across all tensor dimensions through a shared low-rank latent structure. To scale posterior inference to large arrays, we develop a hybrid variational--Monte Carlo algorithm that combines efficient coordinate ascent updates with a partially collapsed augmented-data sampler. Applied to approximately 60 million trade flows, the method surfaces multiway dependence across exporters, importers, products, and years that is difficult to recover from gravity-type or pairwise network analyses, which do not jointly model the product and temporal dimensions.

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'Leave Kyiv': Why Russia's latest Ukraine threat is a major escalation Russia has urged foreigners to leave in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, and warned of more strikes on the city, suggesting a major escalation in its more-than-four-year-long war on Ukraine. In a statement issued on Monday, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it planned to target "decision-making centres and command posts" and drone manufacturing facilities in the Ukrainian city in a series of strikes. The ministry's statement also urged Kyiv residents to avoid all military and administrative infrastructure facilities in the capital, which could be potential targets. A later statement said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had advised US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the plan and urged him to evacuate his embassy staff from Kyiv. Moscow said these planned strikes were in response to a drone strike on a student dormitory in Starobilsk, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine, which killed at least 18 people. The threats come just days after Russian drone and rocket strikes on Kyiv on Saturday night killed at least four people and injured about 100 others.

Russia warns foreigners to leave Kyiv as it prepares'systematic strikes' Russia has warned it plans to launch a "series of systematic strikes" on defence industrial facilities in Kyiv, and urged foreign citizens to leave the Ukrainian capital. In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said the strikes are in response to a Ukrainian drone attack last week that struck a student dorm in Starobilsk in the occupied Luhansk region, killing at least 18 people. Moscow, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour four years ago and claims four of Ukraine's eastern regions as its own, has branded those attacks as "terrorism" and responded with large missile and drone launches. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in Monday's statement that the strike on Starobilsk signalled "the last straw" and that Russia will launch a systematic series of strikes in response, which will target "specific sites where UAVs are designed, manufactured, programmed, and prepared for use". Noting that such facilities "are scattered throughout Kyiv," the statement said it was warning "foreign citizens, including personnel of diplomatic missions and international organisations, to leave the city as soon as possible".

Cuba says U.S. fabricating pretext for conflict after report on drone purchase Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks during a news conference in Havana in October 2025. HAVANA - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. on Sunday of fabricating a fraudulent case to justify economic sanctions and potential military intervention. The minister's comments followed a report by Axios the same day citing classified intelligence, which said Cuba had acquired more than 300 military drones. Cuba neither threatens nor desires war, Rodriguez said in a post on social media, adding that the country prepares itself to confront external aggression in the exercise of the right to legitimate self-defense recognized by the U.N. Charter. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.