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Sudanese military drone strike kills more than 100 in Nyala market, MSF says one hospital received 36 bodies and treated over 150 wounded UN calls drones the deadliest threat to civilians in the world's largest humanitarian crisis
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Jordan bombs southern Syria after church massacre in Amman Amman claims more than 20 ISIS militants dead while Damascus counts seven including three children, punishment raids become post-Assad routine
zerohedge.com
Lula wins Brazilian runoff as Bolsonaro drops annulment bid Federal Police seize the losing candidate's passport hours after his party concedes, opposition now plans to rule from congress
zerohedge.com
US military bans BYD vehicles from Kadena airbase in Japan Restrictions cover private cars taxis and delivery vans at America's largest east Asian air facility, no specific threat identified while tariffs already keep the Chinese maker out of the US market
theguardian.com
Pope Leo XIV confirms Latin America trip after lung surgery Itinerary spans Uruguay, Argentina and Peru from November 6 to 17, Vatican says contained illness needs no further oncological treatment
euronews.com
Brent crude falls more than 6 percent as Iran diplomacy gathers pace Qatari mediators fly to Tehran while Houthi strikes on Saudi targets continue, 40 percent of Gulf crude now bypasses Hormuz by pipeline
euronews.com
Trump says US makes a fortune from high oil prices, boasts of hundreds of billions from Gulf conflict as pump prices run 40 percent above last year 73 percent of voters disapprove
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Nobel laureate Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months of exile Arrives in Barquisimeto church as US-backed interim government holds fire, Trump says he knows nothing about it
theguardian.com
Brazil extends runoff voting by two hours after bus shortages hit Lula strongholds Court grants campaign request amid suppression claims in ten states, early count puts Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly ahead
theguardian.com
Philippine minister says signs point to Thomas Markle Sr being sex offender of the grossest kind Police found a trove of child abuse material at his former Cebu home, Met passed 2019 allegations to Meghan's office and no other agency
theguardian.com
Saudi Arabia reopens Riyadh airport more than two weeks after Houthi strikes killed 17 King Khalid terminals resume international flights while attacks on the capital continue, Tehran says after the recent war nothing will be like the past
wtop.com
More than a million Lula supporters pack Copacabana on eve of Brazil runoff 80-year-old incumbent lost first round 47-45 to Flávio Bolsonaro, no first-round loser has won presidency since democracy returned in the 1980s
theguardian.com
First Russian diesel shipment since 2023 sails for New York Trump waived Graham Act sanctions in Putin fuel deal, cargo covers a couple of hours of US demand
foxbusiness.com
Musk says Ukraine broke Starlink terms with offensive drone strikes Kyiv declares stable connection ten days after speed limits, each party blames another for what Zelenskyy calls a planned operation
theguardian.com
France deploys armoured vehicles against cost-of-living protests Centaure truck parked behind National Assembly as unions march through Paris, Moody's keeps Aa3 as riots deepen uncertainty over deficit cuts
euronews.com eurasiabusinessnews.com
Typhoon Champi injures more than 500 in Taiwan One dead as winds cut power to hundreds of thousands of households, Taipei closed for second day by a storm that never made landfall
theguardian.com
White House says Melania Trump brokered ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky First lady and a representative defined terms directly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership, neither Kyiv nor Moscow has commented on the October 29 truce
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Trump says Starshield runs at full speed for Ukraine again Every party blames another for the military network outage, Pentagon outsourced an allied army's nervous system to a private constellation nobody admits to controlling
theguardian.com
Indian police shoot hundreds of alleged cow smugglers in the legs AP review finds over 90 percent of injured suspects in Uttar Pradesh are Muslim, Operation Langda runs with no officer punished for excessive force
wtop.com
Magnitude 7 earthquake kills sixteen on Tibetan plateau, hundreds of homes collapse near Nagqu as winter closes in Every figure comes from the state that keeps the region closed
independent.co.uk wtop.com
Canada and Turkey sign strategic partnership in Ankara, first Canadian PM visit builds trade lanes around US tariffs Two NATO members hedge against Washington the same week Turkey signs defense pact with Pakistan Qatar and Indonesia
independent.co.uk
Seven tankers burn in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran threatens cables and data centers October worst month for shipping attacks since war began, Netanyahu election on Oct. 27 decides whether Israel strikes again
wtop.com
US military never told UK police of airman's drink-driving 1950s agreement gives British police primary jurisdiction over off-duty offences, second offence a year later reached a British court
theguardian.com
Shamonda virus kills first documented human in France Insect-borne cattle virus reached Western Europe this summer, no vaccine exists and authorities see no general risk
euronews.com
Pharma giants pay 7000 dollars into UN nature fund Cali Fund seeks one percent of profits from companies using genetic data, top 15 drugmakers earned 161 billion dollars last year
theguardian.com
Papua New Guinea parliament set to reject Bougainville independence vote Ratification threshold raised to three-quarters of MPs seven years after 98 percent backed secession, guerrilla-turned-president plans unilateral breakaway for 2030
theguardian.com
Four states sign Badr defence pact in Doha Turkey Pakistan Qatar and Indonesia pledge joint arms production and technology sharing, deal follows August pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia where attack on one counts as attack on all
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French protests adopt slogan suspected of police origin Bismillah c'est les ténèbres began as a Snapchat message from user Mamadou, interior ministry admits its officials may use online personas amid France's worst unrest in years
independent.co.uk
Serbia's student movement contests Sunday's election with 250 candidates, two years of street protest meet Vučić's twelve-year machine Slogan asks Serbia or Mafia
theguardian.com
US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in St Petersburg, shuttle diplomacy runs Oslo to Constantine Palace while Trump presses Zelensky to deal Europe waits outside the room
theguardian.com independent.co.uk
Japanese electricity prices jump over 25 percent in a week LNG at four-year high as Hormuz war strangles tanker traffic, coal-burning nation without reactors pays spot price for Fukushima retreat
zerohedge.com
Britain sends RAF Typhoons to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks Missile strike on Yemen training camp kills 73 recruits in deadliest attack for months, US envoy calls ground war fruitless
newsweek.com
North Korea counters Kim Jong Un death rumors with new photos Daughter Kim Ju Ae appears at his side while claims trace to Chinese dissident posts without evidence, Seoul intelligence puts his weight at 140 kilograms
timesnownews.com
Zelensky accuses Pentagon of delaying missiles Europe already paid for Patriot interceptors await Hegseth signature while Kyiv got no warning before Sunday's power plant barrage, Trump says maybe time for Zelensky to get somebody else to negotiate
theguardian.com
Independent MP Helen Haines in critical condition after vehicle strike outside her Wangaratta office Albanese calls it a deliberate act while police say the motive is unknown, knife seized from the car as counter-terrorism team joins the case
theguardian.com wtop.com
Chinese rocket stage lands in Minnesota cornfield Zhuque-2E deorbited over the American Midwest the same day it launched ten Qianfan satellites, sheriff works to notify the owner while the liability convention has never paid a claim
arstechnica.com
5-billion-dollar gas ring proposed for Central Asia Over 3,000 kilometres of pipeline would carry 20 billion cubic metres a year and let winter flows run in reverse, only agreement announced so far is with an autonomous republic inside Uzbekistan
euronews.com
Ukraine hits St Petersburg oil terminal in thousand-drone raid Ruchi depot also ablaze with one dead and five injured, Trump accuses Zelensky of prolonging war while waiving Russia sanctions to keep Moscow at the table
independent.co.uk
Saudi helicopter down near Najran kills two pilots Houthis claim shootdown while coalition blames technical fault, Egypt offers 'all possible support' as Yemen war widens
zerohedge.com
Airstrike kills at least 114 goldminers near Sudan's Egyptian border Cairo confirms campaign against illegal mining but not the strike itself, miners who dug graves for their colleagues say they will return because the pits are their only income
theguardian.com
Japan to launch world-first sample return from Martian moon MMX spacecraft departs Tuesday on H3 rocket for five-year voyage, ten grams of soil to settle whether Phobos is captured asteroid or Mars impact debris
theguardian.com
Russian satellite closes to three miles of US imaging spacecraft aiding Ukraine Cosmos 2612 had been over 200 miles away a day earlier, no law governs satellite proximity and countries keep at least six miles apart by custom
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Supertanker ablaze after striking mine in Strait of Hormuz IRGC declares waterway closed while CENTCOM insists it remains open for business, 24 ships hit in two weeks as oil holds above 100 dollars
independent.co.uk timesnownews.com
Pope Leo phones Putin four days after lung cancer surgery, urges ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky where no food has arrived since May Kremlin answers by blaming Kyiv
foxnews.com
Russian signals officer helped Ukraine kill 300 of his own soldiers WSJ traces lieutenant Lev Stupnikov from February 2024 missile barrage to drone-guided defection, the man who ran his brigade's communications now fights against Russia
timesnownews.com
Trump calls seven-month Iran war a military exercise Pentagon death toll now 21 while CENTCOM claims Iranian proxies send money back to Tehran, strike pause near Hormuz ordered ahead of midterms
newsweek.com
UN biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan far short of promised billions Countries pledged 200 billion dollars a year by 2030 but raised under half of that, 30-by-30 target on course for 26 percent of land and 12 percent of sea
wtop.com
World Bank and IMF annual meetings in Bangkok shadowed by collapsed aid budgets Fragile states can neither borrow nor attract private capital as grants disappear, sixty years of assistance left dependence where capacity was promised
independent.co.uk
IEA releases 20 million barrels of diesel to calm record fuel prices Emergency reserve built for external shocks now absorbs the cost of members' own sanctions and war, consumer pays the premium at the pump and again in the emptied tanks
globalnews.ca
India fortifies Delhi against flag-waving protesters 130 million deleted voter names fuel demand for election commissioner's resignation, police offer to facilitate selected persons to carry the national flag
independent.co.uk
Nepal flood wiped out village built to resettle earthquake survivors Geologists had classified Khalte as red zone before the water came, displaced ask not to be moved like cattle again
independent.co.uk
Spanish wind sled to cross Antarctica without fossil fuels Kites haul 16 research projects over 3,400 kilometres of ice, comparable tracked expedition burned 170,000 litres
euronews.com
Pentagon's new Iran strike plans include MOAB, largest non-nuclear bomb in US arsenal eyed for energy and nuclear sites Seven-month campaign lacks defined end as Houthis strike Aden presidential palace
zerohedge.com
Ukraine tests drone that flies wounded soldiers out of kill zone SkyFall's StarGate carries 150 kilograms over 15 kilometres, ground robots need two to three hours for the same trip
independent.co.uk
Baku gathers friends and foes at rare Asian summit, Israel's president and Iran's deputy foreign minister under one CICA roof Trans-Caspian fibre cable inaugurated as Eurasian corridors route trade around the Gulf
euronews.com
Russia arrests Swedish citizen in Pskov region FSB claims he commanded drone section in Ukraine's Aidar battalion, detention follows Medvedev's call to fill exchange pool with Westerners
euronews.com
Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian refineries as energy ceasefire collapses Ryazan targeted by 69 drones and four cruise missiles after Kyiv's unilateral pause, record Russian drone swarm kills three in Kirovohrad
theguardian.com
Zelensky calls Trump's Starlink cutoff a betrayal Speed cap grounds Ukraine's strike drones and disables the interceptors over Kyiv, Moscow's missiles land for a second night without American warning
independent.co.uk newsweek.com
Russia bombs Ukrainian energy grid for third straight night 600,000 without power as Trump insists energy ceasefire holds, Kyiv spares Russian refineries while Washington imports Russian diesel
globalnews.ca
WHO cannot determine cause of Russian plague lab worker's death 28-year-old researcher died of pneumonia at Soviet-era antiplague institute, global agency relies entirely on Moscow's own assurances
zerohedge.com
Pope Leo has lung cancer Adenocarcinoma confirmed as surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung, predecessor Francis died a month after leaving the same hospital
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham says RAF Fairford terror plot almost certainly directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Base is used by American forces to launch strikes against Iran, seven suspects released without charge after police found gasoline but no explosives
zerohedge.com
Seven candidates line up to succeed Tedros as WHO chief US withdrawal cuts budget from 5.3 to 4.2 billion dollars, only 41 percent of funding is flexible while trust in science slides from 77 to 72 percent
english.elpais.com
Trump threatens Iran with annihilation at UN US envoys meet Iranian officials on sidelines in New York, Tehran links Hormuz reopening to end of blockade
independent.co.uk
Moldova declares emergency in energy and water sectors Drought hits Dniester and imported power costs rise, 60-day decree arrives before winter demand spike
independent.co.uk
EU cyber early-warning shield remains offline Auditors say €1.4 billion programme lacks basic verification and information-sharing, procurement delays leave networks in name only
euronews.com
Iran warns of long war with United States Trump weighs strike blockade or UN deal as Hormuz rhetoric returns, Saudi fuel depot fire follows Houthi attack on Riyadh
euronews.com theguardian.com
Ukraine launches weekend drone wave toward Russia Russia answers with strikes on Zaporizhzhia and other regions, Moldova closes airspace as jamming blurs attribution
euronews.com euronews.com
Germany exit polls show CDU heavy losses Linke leads Berlin while AfD gains in two states, Merz cancels UN trip but vows to stay
euronews.com euronews.com
US military strike kills four on suspected drug-smuggling boat Southern Command cites counter-narcotics campaign at sea, evidence and oversight remain thin as operations expand
independent.co.uk
Ceuta reception centre hits capacity as migrants return to beaches Port facility built for 1700 fills after mass transfer from shoreline camps, processing pace keeps the enclave in permanent overflow
euronews.com
US military aborts Chinese ship operation after AI hallucination Analyst used chatbot to fuse open-source and classified signals intelligence, official-looking formatting moved faster than verification
independent.co.uk techcrunch.com
Russia begins three-day Duma election Voting held in occupied Ukrainian territories as Kremlin watches turnout, anti-war Yabloko excluded from party-list ballot
euronews.com euronews.com
Europe rushes fuel relief after Saudi East-West pipeline attack Leaders reach for tax cuts and emergency measures as cargoes reroute via Oman, pump prices become election arithmetic
infobae.com euronews.com
US House passes Russia and Iran sanctions bill NBC says measure authorises tariffs on countries buying Russian energy, Congress hands Trump a tool it cannot enforce itself
nbcnews.com
EU invites Canada to become associate member Von der Leyen unveils new status category with rules still undefined, regulatory alignment is offered before any voting rights are even discussed
euronews.com globalnews.ca
Alex Saab pleads guilty in US money-laundering case Maduro ally agrees to cooperate and forfeit $195 million, sanctions-era dealmaking meets courtroom leverage
euronews.com
US confirms weapons deployed in space Air Force secretary cites on-orbit space-control systems, treaty bans nuclear arms while jammers stay legal
theguardian.com
NATO jets shoot down drone over Lithuania Alerts sound around Vilnius after airspace violation, debris hunt begins before anyone can explain intent
bnonews.com euronews.com
Zelenskyy suspends Ukraine prosecutor general Kravchenko NABU says call-centre bribes probe sparked systematic attack, top law office empties out during wartime oversight fight
euronews.com
Oil surges after Hormuz vessel strike and Saudi pipeline shutdown Euronews reports Brent above $108 as bypass route closes, shipping permission regimes replace open transit
euronews.com euronews.com
Colombian armed groups scale weaponised drones ACLED data shows events rising from one in 2023 to nearly 200 in 2026, cocaine corridors turn cheap consumer tech into air power
independent.co.uk
US blocks more than 100 commercial ships near Iran Centcom calls operation a steel wall after ceasefire framework collapses, diesel prices hit display limits at some California stations
timesnownews.com infobae.com
Jackson police arrest man in death of Tasia Fortune Coroner rules Mississippi hanging a homicide, investigators promise more arrests while key details stay undisclosed
nbcnews.com independent.co.uk
Putin arrives in New Delhi for BRICS summit Xi Jinping also set to attend in first India visit since 2019, expanded membership brings Gulf war and sanctions into same room
euronews.com
North Korea builds new Yongbyon enrichment facility IAEA cites satellite imagery after inspectors barred since 2009, sanctions track construction from orbit while production stays unverifiable
infobae.com
Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with United Arab Emirates Algiers gives Emirati ambassador 48 hours, rupture announced without naming a specific trigger
https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2026/09/10/argelia-rompio-relaciones-diplomaticas-con-emiratos-arabes-unidos-y-dio-48-horas-al-embajador-emiratí-para-acatar-la-decision/ infobae.com
ECB raises deposit rate to 2.5% Energy inflation jumps as Strait of Hormuz fighting lifts oil above 100 dollars, core prices cool while borrowing costs rise anyway
independent.co.uk euronews.com
Russian drones disrupt Moldova airspace Zelensky flight delayed en route to Norway, border-state logistics become part of the battlefield
independent.co.uk independent.co.uk
Finland completes 200-kilometre fence on Russia border Migration surge and hybrid-war claims reshape Nordic security policy, EU funding is sought after the bill arrives
euronews.com
US targets Iranian oil tankers after attempted strike on Navy vessel Iranian state TV broadcasts evacuation warning near Kuwait and Bahrain ports, anonymous briefings replace formal red lines at sea
independent.co.uk euronews.com
Ukraine prosecutor general resigns amid corruption probe NABU and SAPO allege prosecutors took bribes from fraudulent call centres and laundered proceeds, office search and Kozyn property claims shadow wartime governance
euronews.com
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 12 in southern Lebanon Lebanon Health Ministry reports children among dead as truce frays, framework deal stalls while villages absorb the enforcement gap
wtop.com
Nepal holds national day of mourning after floods kill more than 1300 Families protest slow searches at hydropower sites where hundreds are feared trapped in tunnels, heavy equipment arrives by helicopter days later
wtop.com
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow new mail ballot restrictions States begin mailing midterm ballots as injunction blocks Postal Service enforcement, election rules shift on the court’s timetable
foxnews.com independent.co.uk
Wedding party fire kills at least 22 in Kinshasa Local officials cite narrow hallways and rising toll risk, deadly city fires recur as urban growth outruns fire services
independent.co.uk
Masked protesters block access to Port of Dover Anti-immigration roadblocks snarl a key UK gateway as police say they had no warning, traffic clears after miles of queues
independent.co.uk theguardian.com
UN General Assembly endorses Equal Earth map projection Resolution urges shift away from Mercator distortion of Africa’s size, United States votes no
independent.co.uk
US tightens economic squeeze on Iran Reuters describes near-total oil export cutoff and attacks on sanctions evasion, gasoline reserves and rial slide sharpen domestic risk
infobae.com timesnownews.com
Zelenskyy says US negotiators to visit Kyiv Putin talks up chance of Ukraine deal at economic forum, Coca-Cola plant near Brovary hit as diplomacy returns to the headlines
theguardian.com theguardian.com