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North Korea Fires Around 10 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles Toward the Sea Off Its East CoastNew
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were launched from the Wonsan area at about 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Japan said the object it tracked fell outside its exclusive economic zone, and no damage to vessels had been confirmed.
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WorldSaudi Air Defences Destroy Houthi Ballistic Missile Fired Toward Eastern ProvinceNew
The Saudi-led coalition said its air defences intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile aimed at the Eastern Province early on Thursday. Civil Defence alerts in the Eastern Province and Najran were issued and then lifted, and no casualties or damage were reported.
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WorldHong Kong Housing Secretary Winnie Ho Resigns as Leader John Lee Apologises Over Tai Po FireNew
An independent inquiry into the Wang Fuk Court fire, which killed 168 people in November 2025, found inadequate regulatory oversight. Ho is the first official to resign over the disaster, and Lee has promised wide reforms to the building rules.
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WorldScott Gillingham Wins Second Term as Winnipeg Mayor With 39.8 Per CentNew
Winnipeg voters returned Scott Gillingham to the mayor's office on Wednesday night, giving the former pastor and two-term St. James councillor a second mandate in a 12-candidate race fought on public safety, transit and property taxes.
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WorldCuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Elder Statesman of the Mexican Left, Dies at 92New
Cárdenas, the son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, challenged the ruling PRI in the disputed election of 1988, helped found the PRD and became the first elected mayor of Mexico City. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced his death on Wednesday.
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WorldNetanyahu Bloc Leads Israel Count 53 to 48, but No One Has 61New
With about 91 percent of votes counted, Netanyahu's bloc is ahead and short of a majority, Eisenkot's bloc trails, and Arab parties hold a record 19 seats that now decide who governs.
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WorldRussia Says It Downed Most of 613 Drones Sent Toward MoscowNew
Moscow's mayor said air defenses downed most of 613 drones heading for the capital overnight. In the same night, a Russian strike damaged an educational institution in Kharkiv, the city's mayor said. No casualty figures were reported in the first accounts.
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WorldUS Sanctions Rwanda Defence Ministry and Zigama Bank Over M23 Support in Congo
The Treasury Department sanctioned Rwanda's Ministry of Defence and Zigama Credit and Savings Society on October 28, saying both helped Rwanda back the M23 armed group in eastern Congo. Rwanda said unmet commitments in the Washington Accords remain the issue, and Congo welcomed the move.
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WorldTommy Robinson Found Guilty of Harassing Two Daily Mail Journalists
A jury at Southwark Crown Court convicted Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, on two counts of harassment causing fear of violence against two Daily Mail journalists. He was released on bail and will be sentenced on December 16.
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WorldAlvin Hellerstein, Federal Judge Who Oversaw Trump, Maduro and 9/11 Cases, Dies at 92
Alvin K. Hellerstein, a senior federal judge in Manhattan since 1998, died on Wednesday at 92. His pending cases, including the prosecution of Nicolas Maduro, will be randomly assigned to other judges.
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WorldQuebec Says This Weekend's Clock Change Should Be Its Last
Quebec's Parti Quebecois government says clocks going back one hour on Sunday, November 1 should be the province's last time change, with a bill planned in the coming months.
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WorldCarney to Attend Commonwealth Summit in Antigua in November
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, from November 2 to 4 for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, with trade, climate and security on the agenda.
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WorldDolores Huerta, United Farm Workers Co-Founder and Labor Leader, Dies at 96
Huerta, who co-founded the farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez in 1962, coined the slogan Si, se puede and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died at her home in Bakersfield, California, her family said.
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WorldNepal Suspends Trekking Permits as Snowstorm and Avalanche Risk Rises
New permits for restricted Himalayan areas are paused for the October 29 to 31 risk window as Cyclone Arnab pushes heavy snow toward the mountains, and trekkers already out are told to shelter in place.
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WorldLiu Yandong, China's Former Vice Premier and a Top Ranking Woman on the Politburo, Dies at 80
Liu Yandong, who served as a vice premier of China from 2013 to 2018 and sat on the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party for a decade, died in Beijing on Wednesday at the age of 80, the state run Xinhua news agency said.
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WorldAt Least 68 Dead as Two High-Speed Trains Collide Near Toledo in Spain
A Renfe AVE train ran into the back of an Iryo train on the Madrid to Seville line near Urda on Wednesday morning. Officials confirmed at least 68 deaths, warned the toll could rise, and suspended the Madrid to Andalusia line.
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WorldCruise Ship Odyssey Suspends World Voyage in Cambodia as Fuel Costs Force Passengers to Leave Their Floating Home
Villa Vie Residences halted the residential ship's three and a half year voyage at Sihanoukville after monthly fuel costs per cabin rose from about $1,800 to as much as $8,000. Its 203 passengers have been told to leave the ship.
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WorldUS Expels Cuban Diplomat After Waltz Clash on UN General Assembly Floor
Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed paperwork to eject Cuba's first secretary Richard Tur de la Concepcion after he allegedly shoved a US diplomat filming Mike Waltz's speech, Waltz said on Fox News.
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WorldKnife Attacker Shot Dead Outside Israeli Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia Raises Terror Alert to Highest Level
A minor with two knives wounded a Gendarmerie officer guarding the embassy just after midnight on Wednesday. The officer shot the attacker dead, and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic raised the threat level to red.
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WorldKing Charles Opens Caribbean Tour as Reparations Calls Grow
In Nassau, Charles called it only right to acknowledge the suffering of slavery and said Commonwealth leaders will discuss it next week. A formal apology and payments remain ruled out.
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WorldDutch Zookeeper Dies After Leopard Attack at Beekse Bergen Safari Park
A longtime keeper at Beekse Bergen Safari Park in Hilvarenbeek died on Tuesday, October 27, from head and neck wounds she suffered on Saturday in an enclosure with two male Persian leopards, the park said in a statement with her family.
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WorldDrone Strike on Nyala Market Kills at Least 21 in Sudan's Darfur
A drone strike hit a market in northern Nyala at about 8 p.m. on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 40 others, a medic at Nyala Hospital told AFP. No group had claimed the strike by Tuesday and responsibility remained unconfirmed.
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WorldLawler Says Phony Mailers in NY-17 Were Referred to the FBI
Rep. Mike Lawler said bogus mailers falsely claiming he backs amnesty for illegal immigrants are being sent to voters in New York's 17th District, and that the Justice Department has referred the matter to the FBI.
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WorldHouthis Say Missile Hit Ras Tanura Refinery as Two Missiles Aimed at Riyadh Are Intercepted
The Houthis said a ballistic missile hit Saudi Arabia's biggest refinery at Ras Tanura and caused a fire, a claim Saudi authorities did not confirm. The coalition said two missiles fired toward Riyadh on Tuesday afternoon were intercepted and destroyed.
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WorldProtesters Enter Pro-Vucic TV Station in Belgrade and Call for Editor's Arrest
Around 30 people walked into the Informer TV newsroom in Belgrade late on Monday, interrupting broadcasting and calling for the arrest of editor Dragan Vucicevic, as tens of thousands celebrated in the streets for a second night after the Student List election win.
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WorldUS Strike on Suspected Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Kills Five, Military Says
The US military said on Tuesday that a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific killed five people. The military said intelligence linked the vessel to narcotrafficking, and it provided no evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.
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WorldBrazil Cancels Flavio Bolsonaro's Passports as Reports Say He Has Left for the United States
Reuters and CNN reported on Tuesday that Senator Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after his runoff defeat. Federal police sources told Reuters his passports were canceled after a 24 hour surrender deadline lapsed, while his brother Eduardo called the flight reports a lie.
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WorldCanada's Planned EU Associate Status Would Come Closer to Membership Than Any Past Partnership, Officials Say
EU officials say the planned status is meant to deepen trade and defence ties with Canada. The name for the new relationship is still being debated, some member states objected to the term associate member last week, and how far the partnership will go has not been decided.
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WorldRomania Selects Thales to Supply Four Deployable Radar Systems for Its Air Force
Romania's defence ministry has chosen the French company to provide radar systems for civil and military airspace surveillance and for approach and landing operations, with delivery to four air force locations by 2030.
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WorldRSF Drones Hit Five Sudan Power Stations, Then Knock Out Khartoum Supply
Drone strikes blamed on the Rapid Support Forces hit five electricity substations in southeastern Sudan on Monday and a transformer station near Khartoum on Tuesday, cutting power in Sennar, Gedaref, White Nile, Gezira and large parts of the capital region.
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WorldFinland and Norway Leaders Call Putin to Urge an End to the War in Ukraine
President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store spoke with Vladimir Putin from Helsinki on Tuesday, in consultation with Ukraine. The Kremlin readout gave no sign of compromise, and Denmark criticised the move.
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WorldAntoine de Massy, Prince Albert II's Cousin, Dies Aged 29 in Monaco
The Prince's Palace announced the death of Antoine de Massy on Monday. His body was found on Sunday evening in a park below Boulevard du Larvotto, and prosecutors say the cause of death has not been established.
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WorldCanada Introduces Bill C-41 to Allow Advance Requests for MAID and End Mental Illness Expansion
The MAID Safeguards Act would let adults consent in advance after a diagnosis expected to take away their ability to decide, while provinces and territories would decide whether to offer advance requests.
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WorldSaudi Coalition Intercepts Three Houthi Missiles and Four Drones in Two Regions
The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed three ballistic missiles fired toward the Eastern Region and four drones fired toward the Southern Region on Tuesday. Civil Defense alerts were issued and later lifted, and no casualties were reported.
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WorldCattle Raids Kill at Least 72 in South Sudan Warrap State, Government Says
The Warrap state government said coordinated cattle raids in Tonj North County killed at least 72 people and wounded 38 on Monday, October 26. The state said the figures have not been independently verified.
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WorldEU Expects Major Investment Wave in Australian Critical Minerals
The EU ambassador to Australia, Lawrence Meredith, said on Tuesday that the bloc will invest heavily in Australian critical minerals to cut reliance on China. A European Investment Bank deal is very close, and a 5.5 percent tariff falls once the March trade deal is ratified.
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WorldCar Driven Into Group in Northern Germany Injures Four to Five, Suspects at Large
Police say a BMW was driven deliberately into a group of people in Neustadt am Rübenberge, close to Hanover, shortly before midnight on Monday. Officers nearby fired at the car, the injured were taken to hospital, and the occupants fled on foot.
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WorldAlvin Tedjo Wins Mississauga Mayor Race, Beating Parrish and Crombie
Alvin Tedjo has been elected mayor of Mississauga with 39.2 percent of the vote and 74,479 votes, ahead of incumbent Carolyn Parrish and former mayor Bonnie Crombie, in a result projected by the CP24 and CTV Election Desk and by CBC News.
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WorldOlivia Chow Wins Second Term as Toronto Mayor, Beating Brad Bradford 54 to 41 Percent
Olivia Chow won Toronto's mayoral election on Monday, October 26, 2026, with 522,139 votes and 54.15 percent in unofficial city results, ahead of Brad Bradford on 396,558 votes and 41.13 percent, earning her first full four year term.
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WorldCarney and First Nations Leaders Agree to Develop a Sovereign Wealth Fund and New Revenue Sharing in Ottawa
Nearly 200 First Nations chiefs and leaders met the prime minister and premiers in Ottawa on Monday, the first meeting of its kind in two decades, and agreed to work on revenue sharing, a possible First Nations Sovereign Wealth Fund and new funding for jobs, fire protection and policing.
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WorldRussian Ballistic Missiles Hit Kyiv University Campus and Medical Facilities, Killing One and Injuring 10
The late evening attack on Monday struck a university campus, a student dormitory, homes, a metro station area and two medical facilities in the Ukrainian capital, hours before a localised ceasefire took effect in the occupied town of Oleshky.
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WorldUS Suspends Visa-Free Entry for Chinese Visitors to Northern Mariana Islands
The Department of Homeland Security will suspend the EVS-TAP travel program on October 30, citing espionage risks near US military sites, boat smuggling to Guam and birth tourism. More than 3,000 Chinese nationals used the program in fiscal year 2025.
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WorldEducation Department Probes Three California Districts Over Surveys
The Education Department opened investigations on Monday into North Monterey County, Palo Alto and San Francisco school districts over ethnic studies activities that ask students for personal information.
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WorldOttawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe Wins Second Term in City Vote
CityNews and RogersTV declared Mark Sutcliffe re-elected as Ottawa's mayor on Monday night, with about 45 percent of the vote and more than 269 polls reporting.
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WorldYasuo Fukuda, Japan's First Second-Generation Prime Minister, Dies at 90
Fukuda led Japan for a year after Shinzo Abe resigned in 2007 and spent years working to steady ties with China. He died of heart failure in Tokyo on October 22, the Nikkei reported and a ruling party official confirmed.
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WorldCanada Liberal Lead Narrows to 13 Points in Liaison Poll
Liaison Strategies puts the Liberals at 44 percent and the Conservatives at 31 percent, a third straight week of narrowing, while Mark Carney's personal approval rises to 65 percent.
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WorldDelaware School Fire Cancels Week of Classes, Moves Polling Place
The Milford district cancelled a full week of classes at two elementary schools after Sunday's three-alarm fire at Lulu M. Ross Elementary, and election officials moved the district's November 3 polling place on Monday.
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WorldDOJ Election Monitors Go to All 50 States for November 3 Vote
Kentucky's Jefferson and Fayette counties confirmed federal monitors on Monday as the Justice Department's plan for about 1,000 observers, the largest in its history, reaches every state eight days before the midterms.
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WorldUN Inquiry Says Israel Continued Genocide in Gaza After Ceasefire, Israel Rejects Report
A UN commission report published on Monday said Israel kept committing genocidal acts after last October's ceasefire and committed war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel dismissed the report as misinformation and called for the commission to be dissolved.
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WorldFive Killed in Shooting Near Guwahati Hotel, Accused Arrested Within an Hour
Five people died and one person is in treatment after a gunman fired seven rounds in Guwahati's Bora Service area on Monday evening, police said. Officers arrested the accused and seized a licensed .32 bore pistol.
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WorldNurse Treating Ebola Patients Killed in Congo, Colleagues Shelter Under Police Guard
A longtime nurse was killed and a second health worker severely injured in Bafwasende, in Congo's Tshopo province, in an attack officials linked to misinformation. Other nurses are sleeping at the hospital under police guard, too afraid to go home.
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WorldUS Marine Indicted on Robbery and Murder Charges in Okinawa Killing
Japanese prosecutors have indicted Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, a 20 year old Marine stationed at Futenma, over the killing of Anna Yagi, 39, in a Naha hotel. Ballard has denied the allegations.
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WorldEthiopia Church Confirms 60 Orthodox Faithful Killed in Arsi Attacks
The Holy Synod said 14 people were killed in Merti district on October 20 and 46 in Shirka district on October 24, with more than 20 severely injured and 20 homes burned, and called on the government to protect civilians and bring those responsible to justice.
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WorldIsrael Election Tuesday: Netanyahu vs Eisenkot, What to Know
Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. on Tuesday for the 120 seat Knesset. A government needs 61 seats, final polls put Eisenkot's Yashar just ahead of Netanyahu's Likud, and neither bloc is close to a majority on its own.
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WorldMein Schiff 3 Hits Container Ships in Bremerhaven Storm, Canary Islands Cruise Cancelled
A gust of wind pushed the TUI Cruises ship into moored container vessels as it left Bremerhaven on Sunday evening. No one was hurt among the 2,428 guests and 922 crew, but the ship needs urgent shipyard repairs and its 20-night Canary Islands trip is off.
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World21 Indian Publishers Challenge Privacy Law in Supreme Court Over Press Freedom
Publishers including Network18 and NDTV say India's privacy law could force journalists to seek consent from people they investigate, expose reporters' sources and force stories to be erased, in a 698-page filing due to be heard on Tuesday.
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WorldJudge Rules Maurene Comey Firing Unlawful and Orders Reinstatement
US District Judge Jesse Furman ruled on Monday that the Trump administration broke civil service law when it fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey in July 2025, and ordered her retroactively reinstated with back pay.
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WorldBrazil Kept Its President, Serbia Ousted Its Ruler: Why
Lula came from second place to win a fourth term while Serbia's student movement ended 14 years of Vucic rule. The two Sunday results break the simple anti-incumbent story, and the difference is turnout, a trigger, and the cost of living.
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WorldPoilievre Asks Carney to Repeal BC Tanker Ban Ottawa Promised to Keep
A Conservative bill to scrap the north coast tanker ban reaches second reading this week, with a 250,000 barrel a day rail plan through Prince Rupert behind it and a July promise from Ottawa standing in the way.
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WorldWho Are Serbia's Student List? The Protest Winners Explained
They have no party machine and no single leader, but they hold a projected 140 seats. How a movement born after the Novi Sad station collapse won Serbia, and what forming a government will demand of it.
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WorldGujarat Declares Four Districts Drought-Hit and Announces Farm Relief
Kutch, Jamnagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka and Porbandar were declared drought-hit on Monday, with crop assistance of 8,500 rupees per hectare, cattle support at relief camps and 150 days of employment from November 1.
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WorldGerman Climber Dies in Fall on Nepal's Ama Dablam After Summit
Wolfgang Waschiczek, 57, summited Ama Dablam on Sunday with his guide and went missing from Camp III on Monday morning. His body was recovered at about 4,500 metres, the first death on the peak this season.
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WorldRahul Gandhi Acquitted in Sultanpur Defamation Case Over Shah Remark
A Sultanpur court acquitted Rahul Gandhi on Monday in the 2018 defamation case over his remark about Amit Shah, holding that the remarks were not defamatory. Gandhi was in court for the verdict, eight years after the complaint was filed.
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WorldBulgaria Heads to Presidential Runoff on November 1 as Iotova Leads Gyurov
Bulgaria will hold a presidential runoff on November 1 after no candidate won outright on Sunday. With 95 percent of votes counted, incumbent Iliana Iotova had 34.6 percent against 32 percent for Andrey Gyurov, and turnout was a record low at about 22 percent.
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WorldThree Killed in Daylight Firing Over Parking Dispute in Lucknow
Three people were killed in a daylight firing in the Naubasta area of Saadatganj, Lucknow, on Monday after a dispute over a boundary wall, a platform and car parking escalated. The accused, a Navy man named by police reports as Rishabh Shukla, is in custody, and the firing is alleged.
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WorldNHS Consultants in England to Strike on November 25 and 26 Over Pay and Workload
The British Medical Association said consultants will walk out for two days next month with emergency cover only, and said the action can still be avoided if the health secretary opens formal negotiations on pay and working conditions.
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WorldSheffi Paz, Israeli Activist Against African Immigration, Dies at 74
Sheffi Paz, who led campaigns in south Tel Aviv against African immigration to Israel for more than a decade, died of cancer on October 26 at 74. Her death was announced by Otef Tachana Merkazit, the residents group she worked with, and was reported by Haaretz and Ynet.
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WorldDrone Attack on Voronezh Kills Three and Injures 17, Governor Says
A large overnight drone attack on Russia's Voronezh region killed three people and injured 17, including a child, in the later toll reported on Monday. Governor Alexander Gusev said 113 drones were destroyed over the region, fires broke out at industrial sites, and a passenger train was damaged.
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WorldChina's Communist Party Opens Fifth Plenum on Discipline in Beijing
The fifth plenum of the 20th Central Committee opened in Beijing on Monday and runs to Thursday. Discipline, personnel and the road to the 2027 party congress are on the table.
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WorldSaudi, Pakistani and Turkish Delegations Meet in Tehran to Avert Renewed Fighting
Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkey intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin were in Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian security officials on de-escalation.
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WorldIsraeli Strike on Islamic University in Gaza City Kills Three, Eight Dead Across Gaza
Two attacks hit the Islamic University campus in Gaza City on Sunday. The second killed three university employees, and strikes elsewhere in Gaza brought the day total to at least eight dead, Al Jazeera and AFP reported.
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WorldMadras High Court Dismisses Anbil Mahesh Anticipatory Bail Plea in Rs 100 Crore Schools Case
Justice V Lakshminarayanan dismissed the former Tamil Nadu education minister's plea on Monday in a case investigated by the Chennai Central Crime Branch. A detailed order is awaited.
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WorldFormer Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge Mahadev Shankar Dies at 94
Datuk Mahadev Shankar, who served on three royal commissions and was an early Suhakam commissioner, died at Shah Alam Hospital early on Monday. He was 94.
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WorldHouthis Claim New Attack on Riyadh Airport and Oil Pumping Stations as Coalition Strikes Missile Launchers
Saudi air defences intercepted a ballistic missile toward Riyadh early on Monday, one day after the airport reopened, and the Saudi led coalition said it had destroyed Houthi missile launchers, a depot and tunnels.
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WorldFormer Pakistan Army Chief Abdul Waheed Kakar Dies at 89
General Abdul Waheed Kakar, who led the Pakistan Army from 1993 to 1996 and helped end the 1993 constitutional crisis, died in Rawalpindi on Monday. The army, the president and the prime minister led the tributes.
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WorldFire Guts Around 40 Shops at Shiv Market Opposite Jammu Railway Station
A fire that started late on Sunday night spread through Shiv Market opposite Jammu Railway Station and gutted around 40 shops, officials said on Monday. No casualties were reported.
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WorldVehicles in Rahul Gandhi Convoy Collide on Purvanchal Expressway, Several Injured and Gandhi Unhurt
Five vehicles and an ambulance at the rear of the Congress leader's convoy hit each other near Sultanpur on Monday morning as he travelled to a court verdict in a 2018 defamation case. Gandhi was in a separate vehicle ahead and was not hurt.
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WorldCyclone Arnab Forms in the Bay of Bengal and Heads for Andhra Pradesh Landfall on October 28
Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Arnab was centred over the west central Bay of Bengal early on Tuesday, nearly 50,000 people had been moved to shelters in Andhra Pradesh by Monday night out of 400,000 estimated to need evacuation, rail services on 53 southern routes are suspended, and Nepal has warned tourists of heavy rain, snowstorms and avalanche risk in high areas from Thursday night.
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WorldFather and Son Killed in Harsh Vihar Building Collapse in Northeast Delhi
Chanderpal, 60, and his son Vijay Kumar were pulled from the rubble at Milan Garden in Harsh Vihar after a roof gave way on Sunday evening during work on a new floor, and both were declared dead at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.
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WorldSerbia's Vucic Concedes Defeat to Student List in Snap Parliamentary Election
Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday that the Student List will hold between 135 and 140 seats against 105 for his list, based on a sample of results. An Ipsos and CeSID projection put the Student List on 138 seats, and no official final result has been certified.
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WorldProtesters Enter Rome Colosseum During Nationwide Demonstrations in Italy
Nine people were arrested and 371 were taken in for checks as protests over living costs, public services and the war in Gaza spread across eight Italian cities on Saturday.
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WorldINDIA Bloc Builds November 1 Delhi Rally, Sets Public Impeachment of Poll Chief
Venugopal met Rajasthan Congress leaders in Jaipur on Sunday, Kharge ordered party MPs to be in Delhi from October 30 to November 1, and the bloc set a symbolic public impeachment of the chief election commissioner for October 30.
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WorldFirst Nations Leaders Open Ottawa Summit With Ceremony Before Carney Meeting
The ceremony on Sunday in Ottawa, led by knowledge keepers and elders, opens a meeting with 28 seats at the table: the prime minister, the national chief, 13 premiers and territorial leaders, and 13 First Nations representatives.
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WorldPope Leo Appeals for End to Yemen Violence in Address 12 Days After Lung Surgery
The 71-year-old pope reached the St Peter's Square window unaided 12 days after lung surgery, appealed for the hostilities in Yemen to stop, and named Taiz, where he said people lack food, water and medical assistance.
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WorldMagnitude 6.2 Earthquake Strikes Near Port-Olry, Vanuatu, No Damage Reported
The USGS recorded the quake at 02:24 UTC about 21 km east of Port-Olry at a depth of about 136 km and issued a green alert, with no tsunami threat and no damage reports.
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WorldUganda Orders 21-Day Quarantine for Citizens Returning From Congo in Ebola Scare
Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi announced the 21-day quarantine on Sunday in Kampala, alongside tighter screening at Entebbe airport and all land borders, after Ebola cases in Kenya and Nigeria were linked to travel through Uganda.
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WorldIran Says Renewed War With US and Israel Will Not Change Its Positions
Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that Iran's policies would stay the same whether or not war resumes, two days after President Trump raised the prospect of another round of US strikes.
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WorldMachado Returns to Venezuela After Months in Exile and Appears in Lara
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado announced her return to Venezuela on social media on Sunday and made her first public appearance among worshippers at a church in Lara state.
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WorldBus Crash in Kenya Kills 22 on Nairobi to Mombasa Highway Near Mtito Andei
A church bus carrying 45 passengers collided head-on with a truck at Kanga, near Mtito Andei in Makueni County, on Sunday morning. Police said at least 22 people were killed and 24 others were injured.
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WorldCardinal Paolo Romeo, Former Archbishop of Palermo, Dies at 88
The Diocese of Acireale announced that Cardinal Paolo Romeo died on Sunday at San Marco Hospital in Catania after a long illness. His funeral will be celebrated on Wednesday in the cathedral of Acireale, his home city.
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WorldRiyadh Airport Reopens to International Flights After Two-Week Closure, as Houthis Warn It Remains a Target
King Khalid International Airport reopened two terminals on Sunday and flights left Riyadh for Jeddah, London, Dubai and Beijing, two weeks after a Houthi attack shut the airport. Saudi defences intercepted fresh projectiles the same morning, and the Houthis warned airlines the airport is still a military target.
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WorldBrazil Votes in Tight Presidential Runoff Between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro
Brazilians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, after final polls showed the two men level or separated by a single point.
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WorldTrump Falsely Claims US Got Greenland and Venezuela at Georgia Rally
At a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday, President Donald Trump said Denmark gave Greenland to the United States and that the US got Venezuela too. Neither territory has been transferred to US sovereignty, and the October 22 agreement his remarks followed states in its own text that it does not apply to Greenland.
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WorldMagnitude 6.5 Deep Earthquake Hits Bonin Islands Region With No Tsunami Threat
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck at a depth of 492.4 kilometres in the Bonin Islands region of Japan at 02:09 UTC on Sunday. Monitors reported no tsunami threat, no felt reports, and no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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WorldBorr Drilling Rig Prospector 5 Sinks Off Gabon, Five People Missing
The jack-up rig Prospector 5 sank off Gabon on Saturday night while preparing for a BW Energy drilling campaign on the Dussafu licence. Borr Drilling says 110 of the 115 people on board are accounted for and five are missing, with search and rescue under way.
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WorldUkrainian Drone Attack on Belgorod Kills Three and Injures 14
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian border city of Belgorod killed two people and injured 13, with another person killed near Shebekino, regional governor Alexander Shuvayev said. A drone attack in the Perm region injured five workers the same night.
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WorldStorm Boelo Leaves Tens of Thousands of Homes Without Power in the UK
Storm Boelo peaked on Sunday morning with gusts of 82mph on the island of Tiree. One network operator in the north west of England said more than 57,000 homes had been cut off, and amber wind warnings stayed in place.
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WorldWestern Sydney Airport Opens as First Flight Leaves for the Gold Coast
Jetstar flight JQ362 left Western Sydney International Airport at 11:22 a.m. on Sunday, starting passenger service at Australia's first major new airport in more than 50 years. The airport at Badgerys Creek runs 24 hours a day with no curfew.
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WorldIsrael Closes All West Bank Land Crossings for Election Day and Bars Palestinian Workers
The Israeli military said all West Bank land crossings will close on Tuesday, when Israel holds its election, and that Palestinian workers are barred from settlements and industrial zones across the West Bank and the Jordan Valley from Sunday.
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WorldBC Conservatives Win Majority in 2026 Election, Doerkson Ends Nine Years of NDP Government
The Conservative Party of British Columbia, led by interim leader Lorne Doerkson, won a majority government in the October 24 provincial election, ending nine years of NDP rule. Early counts put the Conservatives ahead in 61 of 93 ridings.
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WorldFlash Flooding Forces Evacuation of 16 Homes in El Paso Enchanted Hills Neighborhood
Emergency crews evacuated 16 homes near Dawnlight Lane in northwest El Paso on Saturday evening after a reservoir overflowed in the Enchanted Hills neighborhood. The city opened its Emergency Operations Center, and the Red Cross and Sun Metro helped residents who had to leave.
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WorldModi in Varanasi and Bhubaneswar Sunday for Garment Factory, Air Show and RBI Centre
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Uttar Pradesh and Odisha on Sunday, October 25. He opens a garment factory in Varanasi, attends the Air Force display at Namo Ghat and opens the RBI Data Centre in Bhubaneswar.
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WorldTrump Says US Could Strike Iran Maybe Tomorrow, Or Reach a Deal
President Trump told reporters in Florida on Saturday that the United States was thinking about striking Iran, maybe tomorrow, and in the same breath held out a big agreement. No strike and no deal had been announced by Saturday night.
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World100 Arrested in Barcelona After Rioting, Looting and Fires Around Plaza de Catalunya
Hooded demonstrators who joined an anti-establishment rally looted shops and set more than 30 fires in central Barcelona on Saturday evening, and around a quarter of the 100 people arrested were minors.
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WorldOntario Education Workers Rally in Five Cities Over School Funding
Five education unions representing 255,000 workers staged the same rally at the same hour in Toronto, Ottawa, London, Sudbury and Thunder Bay, citing a $6.5 billion funding gap days before municipal elections.
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WorldAppeal Court Rules UNDRIP Act Does Not Bind Canada's Nuclear Regulator
A unanimous Federal Court of Appeal decision says the declaration act sets a framework for government, not a duty for the regulator that approved the Chalk River waste facility, overturning a 2025 ruling that had ordered new consultations.
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WorldJD(U) Expels Mokama MLA Anant Singh and Wife Neelam Devi for Six Years
Bihar's ruling party cancelled the couple's membership with immediate effect on Saturday after Singh campaigned for a rival candidate in the Legislative Council elections, and it has asked the Assembly Speaker to disqualify him as an MLA.
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WorldGunmen Kill at Least 40 in Attack on Binnari Village in Nigeria, Amnesty Says
Nigeria's emergency agency now says at least 62 people were killed in Friday's attack on Binnari village in Taraba State, with 52 wounded and thousands displaced, and police say more bodies are still being recovered.
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WorldArgentine Judge Dismisses LIBRA Criminal Case Against President Milei
A federal judge in Argentina cleared President Javier Milei and 10 others in the LIBRA memecoin case, finding no criminal offense in the promotion. Investors removed from the case are still challenging that step.
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WorldNepal Must Keep Watch to Stay Polio-Free, WHO Official Says
On World Polio Day, Prof. Dr. Srijana Shrestha said Nepal needs continuous surveillance and sustained immunisation to protect its polio-free status, with the virus at risk of entering through cross-border movement.
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WorldFour Injured in Drive-By Shooting Outside Loganholme Boxing Event, South of Brisbane
Shots were fired from a vehicle outside a licensed premises on Bryants Road at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, while a boxing event was being held at the venue. Four people were taken to hospital, and police say there is no ongoing threat to the public.
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WorldSlavi Binev Shot Dead at His Home in Sofia, Three Suspects Detained
The former member of the European Parliament and head of the Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation, 60, was found dead after reports of gunfire on Saturday morning. Police detained three armed men on the Trakia motorway and recovered two pistols.
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WorldNepal Rain Warning: 200 mm Possible as Bay of Bengal Cyclone Builds
Meteorologists say a cyclonic storm forming in the Bay of Bengal could bring more than 200 millimetres of rain to parts of Nepal from Wednesday through Sunday, with heavy snow and avalanche risk in the high Himalaya during paddy harvest and trekking season.
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WorldFour Philippine Air Force Pilots Killed as Two Trainer Planes Crash at Fernando Air Base
Two SF-260 trainer aircraft crashed during a training flight at Fernando Air Base in Lipa City, Batangas, at 3:51 p.m. on Friday, killing four pilots. The Air Force has grounded its SF-260 fleet while investigators work, and local media reports of a midair collision remain unconfirmed by the service.
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WorldHurricane Vance Nears Major Strength Off Mexico's Pacific Coast at 110 mph
National Hurricane Center Advisory 11 at 03:00 UTC on Saturday put Hurricane Vance at 110 mph, about 385 miles south-southwest of Acapulco, with no coastal watches or warnings and life threatening surf expected along southern and southwestern Mexico this weekend.
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WorldKim Jong Un Arrives in Dandong, China, Yonhap Reports
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government source, reported on Saturday that the North Korean leader crossed a newly opened bridge into the Chinese border city of Dandong. Neither Seoul nor Beijing immediately confirmed the report.
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WorldSaudi Air Defences Intercept Houthi Ballistic Missile Launched Towards Riyadh
The Saudi-led coalition said its air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthis towards Riyadh early on Saturday, October 24, after two explosions rang out in the capital and an early warning alert was activated for residents.
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WorldFrance Deploys 70,000 Police as Louvre Closes for Saturday Protests
France will deploy around 70,000 police officers and gendarmes on Saturday, October 24, and the Louvre and several other major Paris museums will stay closed, as authorities prepare for fresh protests over the rising cost of living after last week's unrest.
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WorldGreece Bans Social Media for Children Under 15 From January 1
Greece's parliament approved a bill on Friday, October 23, that bans social media use for children under 15, with the law taking effect on January 1, 2027, and platforms given two and a half months to build age verification that protects privacy.
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WorldCongo Begins Tumaini Ebola Vaccine Trial With First Vaccination in Bunia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo vaccinated the first participant in Bunia on Friday in the Tumaini trial, a Phase 2/3 study testing vaccine candidates against Bundibugyo Ebola during the largest recorded outbreak of that virus.
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WorldNigeria State Police Amendment Clears Threshold as 24 Assemblies Approve
Nigeria's presidency said on Friday that 24 state Houses of Assembly have approved the constitutional amendment for state police, clearing the two-thirds state threshold and sending the proposal back toward the National Assembly and the president.
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WorldFire Engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest Retreat in Bavaria, Suspect Detained
Around 200 firefighters battled a fire that tore through the Kehlsteinhaus above Berchtesgaden on Friday night. Police detained a suspect near the scene and said nobody was believed to have been inside.
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WorldHaryana Gangster Himanshu Bhau Detained in the US After Four Year Manhunt, Indian Reports Say
Indian outlets report that the FBI detained Himanshu Bhau in the Las Vegas region of Nevada, that ICE holds him in Henderson, and that India expects custody in the coming days. The crimes he is accused of remain allegations.
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WorldMagnitude 7.2 Earthquake Strikes off Vanuatu, Tsunami Warning Issued for Nearby Coasts
The shallow quake struck about 200 kilometres west of Sola at 02:31 UTC on Saturday, and a tsunami warning followed for coasts near the epicentre. A reviewed reading later put the quake at 6.9, and the first reports carried no word of damage or injuries.
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WorldSeven Missing After Building Under Construction Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
All 67 construction workers were accounted for after the Friday afternoon collapse on 9th Street, but seven people linked to the occupied ground floor shops are missing, and rescuers say they have made contact with some of those trapped under the rubble.
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WorldSudan Famine Risk Grows as Drought Cuts Rain to a 30 Year Low
Rainfall from July to September was the lowest in more than three decades across Sudan, and the lowest since 1984 in North Darfur. Aid agencies now expect severe hunger to rise instead of falling after the harvest.
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WorldJury Convicts Man in Faith Hedgepeth Murder, Judge Gives Life Without Parole
A Durham County jury on Friday found Miguel Salguero-Olivares guilty of first-degree murder, rape, sexual offense and burglary in the 2012 killing of UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, and the judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole.
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WorldCanada Launches Working Group to Link Its Patchwork Carbon Markets
Federal, provincial and territorial officials held a first meeting this week on linking Canada's separate carbon markets, a move business groups say could cut the cost of cutting emissions.
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WorldDOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification if Sullivan Loses
The Justice Department asked a federal court in Anchorage to stop Alaska certifying its Senate result if it may have been affected by voter confusion between Senator Dan S. Sullivan and another candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan.
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WorldTrump Rallies in Fort Myers Today for Byron Donalds at FGCU
President Trump speaks at 2 p.m. at Alico Arena on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus, campaigning for Representative Byron Donalds in a Florida governor race that has tightened in the final weeks before the November 3 election.
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WorldTrump Weighs Finishing Iran War Quickly or Letting It Wither as Istanbul Ministers Warn Against a New Attack
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that the United States could end its war with Iran very quickly, and he asked whether Washington should finish it off or let it wither. In Istanbul, foreign ministers from eight countries agreed that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war.
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WorldAmnesty Urges Sierra Leone to Halt Repatriation of Three US Deportees
Abalo Agba, Alfred Kamara and Fatou Traore were removed from the United States on October 12 despite holding court protection against return to their home countries, and Amnesty International says they face serious harm if Sierra Leone sends them on.
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WorldMelania Trump Secures Localized Ceasefire for Oleshky Between Russia and Ukraine
The White House said Russia and Ukraine agreed to stop all military action in the front-line city of Oleshky from October 29, so aid can enter and residents who want to leave can evacuate through a designated safe passageway.
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WorldNew Zealand Defence Chief Tony Davies Resigns Over Undisclosed Relationship
Air Marshal Tony Davies told Defence Minister Paul Goldsmith he was stepping down over an inappropriate relationship from his time in unit command that he had not disclosed. Vice Chief Mat Williams takes over as acting chief.
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WorldTwo Women Shot Dead in Riviere-du-Loup Restaurant Parking Lot, Quebec Police Investigate
Two women believed to be in their 20s were found shot behind a restaurant near Highway 20 in Riviere-du-Loup on Thursday night. One died at the scene, the second at hospital, and the Surete du Quebec is investigating with no arrests reported.
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WorldGunmen Kill Nine at Church Funeral in Karak, Jordan, as Wounded Toll Stays at 40
Jordan has named the three church attack suspects as brothers Hazza Zeidan Muhammad and Mishal Zeidan Muhammad and their relative by marriage Ahmed Sami Hussein. Jordan's air force has struck militant hideouts in southern Syria after the October 23 Karak church funeral attack that killed nine people. Syria says seven people, including three children, were killed in the strikes, disputes that they were coordinated, and has closed the Nassib border crossing with Jordan.
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WorldLagos, Nigeria: Building Under Construction Collapses in Fadeyi, Leaving One Dead and Three Rescued
A two-storey building under construction on Akinola Street, off Ikorodu Road, came down in the early hours of Friday. Rescuers pulled three men out alive, recovered one body, and kept searching the rubble for anyone else trapped.
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WorldCoal Mine Explosion in Northern Turkey Kills Three Workers and Injures Five
A methane gas explosion tore through a privately owned coal mine near Gelik in Zonguldak province on Friday morning. Eight miners were in the tunnel, and the governor said two of the injured are in serious condition with burns.
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WorldNepal Dashain Return Rush: Kathmandu Fills as Offices Reopen
Over 576,000 people left the Kathmandu Valley for Dashain in 79,676 vehicles. Return travel now builds through Oct. 27, and offices and banks reopen in stages after the Oct. 17 to 23 holiday.
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WorldDrive-By Shooting in Trappes and La Verriere Kills One and Injures Five Near Paris
A man fired bursts from a car in Trappes and La Verriere, two towns in the Yvelines west of Paris, on Friday morning, killing one person and injuring five others, three of them very seriously, including a 12-year-old girl. Police arrested a suspect in nearby Coignieres, and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has taken up the case as a terrorist crime.
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WorldRomania Blames Russia After Drone Strike Sinks Cargo Ship Khoryv: One Sailor Dead, Three Missing
Romania's President Nicusor Dan blamed Russia on Friday after a drone strike sank the cargo ship Khoryv off Constanta, killing one sailor with three still missing. Nine of the 13 crew were rescued alive, the Romanian Naval Authority said.
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WorldHeat Killed More Than 50,000 People in Europe This Summer, the Deadliest Toll on Record
A study in Nature Health puts heat deaths in 854 European cities at 50,391 for June to August, with about two thirds blamed on human caused climate change.
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WorldITBP Chief Confirms Face-Offs With Chinese Troops Continue in Arunachal Pradesh
Director General Shatrujeet Kapur told personnel in Alwar that confrontations at several locations along the Arunachal frontier happened in recent days and are still going on, the first official confirmation of the continuing standoff.
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WorldStorm Austen Lashes Britain With 80mph Winds, Cancelling Flights and Cutting Power to Thousands
The first named storm of the season brought an amber danger to life warning to the South West on Friday, shut airports in the Channel Islands and Southampton, closed or delayed 87 schools in Cornwall and left 9,251 homes and businesses in Cornwall without power.
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WorldJean-Paul Huchon, Who Led the Paris Region for 17 Years, Dies at 80
The Socialist former president of the Ile-de-France regional council and chief of staff to Prime Minister Michel Rocard died of cancer in the night of October 22 to 23, his family told AFP.
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WorldTV Reporter Rescues Driver From Sinking Car in Brisbane Floodwater
ABC journalist Will Murray swam to a stalled four wheel drive in a flooded Morayfield street and, with a bystander, pulled the driver out seconds before the car went under.
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WorldTwo Israeli Soldiers Killed in Shooting at Judea Junction in the West Bank
The Israeli army said Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem were killed and three other soldiers were lightly wounded in the Friday attack near Hebron. Both gunmen were also killed, Netanyahu blamed Hamas and held an emergency Security Cabinet meeting, and troops arrested dozens of people across the West Bank.
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WorldTyphoon Champi Sweeps Past Taiwan, Leaving One Dead and 527 Injured
Typhoon Champi glanced off Taiwan's northeast coast early on Saturday, October 24. One person was killed and 527 were injured, more than 288,000 homes lost power at one point, and 242 flights were cancelled on Saturday, Reuters reported.
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WorldIsraeli Fire Kills Four People in Gaza, Medics Say
Health officials in Gaza said strikes and gunfire killed at least four people in separate incidents on Thursday. Israel said it struck Hamas fighters in three areas and was not aware of the fourth reported incident.
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WorldModi Calls for Stronger Global Institutions at NDTV Summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi on Thursday that world bodies are struggling to keep pace with change. He called for a greater voice for the Global South and cooperation that holds in a crisis.
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WorldNepal Gets $20 Million From UN Loss and Damage Fund After Floods
The UN climate fund set aside its first ever disaster payment for Nepal after the August 26 Bhote Koshi floods, a sum that covers less than 1 percent of the damage bill.
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WorldHundreds of Ethiopians Flee Into Kenya After Fighting in Border Town of Moyale
Most of those who crossed were women and children. Kenyan officials and the Kenya Red Cross confirmed the arrivals on Thursday after fighting broke out on the Ethiopian side of Moyale a day earlier.
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WorldMan Falls From Dallas Overpass After Standoff Shut I-20 and I-45 for Hours
Police closed both interstates in all directions at the southeast Dallas interchange on Thursday after a man climbed onto an overpass. Hours later, bystander livestreams showed him fall. Police later confirmed the man fell from the overpass and died. The medical examiner has not released his name.
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WorldCanada Launches Judicial Symposium Tour to Widen Path to the Bench
Ottawa and the Canadian Bar Association opened a national symposium series on October 22 to help strong lawyers see themselves as judges, with a first stop in Halifax on November 20.
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WorldTwo European Women Freed After Long Captivity in Niger, Arrive in Libya
Austrian aid worker Eva Gretzmacher and Swiss community worker Claudia Abbt reached Benghazi overnight after months held in Niger, officials in Vienna and Bern confirmed on Thursday.
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WorldPSAC Strike Votes: 120,000 Federal Workers to Ballot Nov 16 to Jan 22
PSAC says 120,000 workers in the PA, TC and EB groups will vote from November 16 to January 22 after a year and a half of talks, as the union rejects a Treasury Board wage offer it calls a pay cut.
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WorldJudge Orders Trump to Sit for Deposition in $10 Billion BBC Lawsuit by December 11
A federal magistrate judge in Miami told President Donald Trump on Thursday that he must answer questions under oath in his defamation case against the BBC, or risk sanctions that could include dismissal of the suit.
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WorldMagnitude 7 Earthquake Strikes Northern Tibet, Strongest to Hit China Since 2024
The shallow quake hit Baqen County in Nagqu at 10:33 p.m. local time on Thursday, at a depth of 10 km. Early wire reports said casualties and damage were not yet known.
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WorldSaudi Aramco Evacuates Dhahran Headquarters as Houthi Attacks Intensify
The state oil giant told staff to leave its Dhahran headquarters and work remotely on Thursday, its first headquarters evacuation since the Iran war began, a day after deadly attacks at the Shaybah oil field and Dammam airport.
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WorldCanada and Turkey Sign Strategic Partnership as Carney Makes First Bilateral Visit by a Canadian Leader
Mark Carney and Tayyip Erdogan launched a three year partnership in Ankara on Thursday covering trade, defence, energy and people to people ties, with free trade talks set to open next month and a goal of lifting trade from 3 billion dollars to 10 billion.
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WorldSupreme Court of Canada to Hear Federal Appeal Over Emergencies Act
The top court agreed on Thursday to hear Ottawa's appeal of two rulings that found the 2022 use of emergency powers against convoy protests unlawful and unconstitutional.
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WorldModi and Tusk Agree to Double India-Poland Trade by 2030, Deepen Defence and Space Ties
After talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, the two prime ministers set a 2030 trade target and opened defence, space, nuclear energy and critical minerals to closer work.
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WorldSerbia's Student List and Vucic Coalition Hold Final Rallies Before Sunday Vote
Students who walked to Belgrade from across Serbia were greeted with fireworks on Wednesday night. Their list leads one major poll by a narrow margin before the October 25 snap election.
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WorldInternational Criminal Court Wins EU's 2026 Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament awarded its top human rights prize to the Hague court and its officials on Thursday, weeks after the United States sanctioned the tribunal.
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WorldMacron Says Illegitimate Protests Will Be Banned as France Braces for Another Weekend of Unrest
President Emmanuel Macron said protests not organised by groups such as trade unions will be banned in the coming days. Paris and Lyon have already barred planned gatherings, and union leaders are threatening rolling strikes from November 5.
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WorldTwo Japanese Climbers Missing on Gangapurna West in Nepal
Hidesuke Taneishi and Tetsu Hashimoto have been missing since October 15 on Gangapurna West in Manang district, and a helicopter search has found no sign of them apart from a bag near the summit.
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WorldKlobuchar and Demuth Clash Over Fraud in Final Minnesota Debate
In their only televised debate, in Rochester, Amy Klobuchar and Lisa Demuth fought over fraud in state programs, taxes and farm policy, in Minnesota's first open governor's race since 2018.
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WorldForeign National Beaten to Death by Crowd of About 50 in Central Durban
Police in KwaZulu-Natal opened a murder investigation after a man was attacked during a march in the city centre on Thursday morning. His nationality has not been released and the motive is unknown.
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WorldIran Says Seven Tankers Were Hit in and Near the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran says four oil tankers caught fire after Iranian forces hit them and three more struck mines, in what would be the worst single day for shipping in the waterway since the war began. No outside body has confirmed the claim.
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WorldFDA Approves First Hepatitis B Drug Aimed at a Functional Cure
GSK's Hibsago, approved on October 20, helped 19 percent of trial patients keep hepatitis B under control after stopping all treatment, against none on placebo. About 1.7 million Americans live with the chronic infection.
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WorldUS and Israel Draw Up Iran Strike Plans for After the Midterms
The New York Times reports detailed plans for a short, intensive campaign against Iran's nuclear, missile and energy sites. Nothing is approved, and Tehran is answering with a threat of its own.
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WorldToronto Crime Stoppers Pauses Program After 1.5 Million Canadian Tips Leak
Toronto Crime Stoppers stopped taking tips late on Wednesday and Toronto Police suspended its use of the program, after CBC found more than 1.5 million Canadian tips, many with names and addresses, exposed in a breach of the P3 platform.
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WorldNorth Korea Puts Border Loudspeakers on Standby, Kim Yo Jong Warns Seoul
Pyongyang says speakers aimed at the South will be ready within days and new countermeasures are on alert, the sharpest border warning since President Lee Jae Myung took office.
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WorldNATO Opens Its Buying Agency to Ukraine for Weapons and Ammunition
Ukraine will be able to buy weapons, ammunition and military equipment through NATO's central procurement agency, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, a route Kyiv says could bring supplies faster and at lower cost.
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WorldCanada Food Bank Visits Hit Record 2.35 Million as Working Clients Climb
Food Banks Canada's 2026 HungerCount counted 2.35 million visits in March, up 8.7 percent in a year and 117 percent since 2019, and nearly one in five clients now has a job.
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WorldCarney and Ford Unveil $8.7 Billion Plan to Shield Ontario Steel and Auto From US Tariffs
Ottawa and Ontario put $5.22 billion behind steel, $2.5 billion behind auto plants and up to $1 billion behind Ring of Fire roads, in the largest joint package yet in the trade war with Washington.
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WorldAndhra Pradesh Civic Polls Halted After Supreme Court Steps In Over Blocked Nominations
The State Election Commission stopped the election process for all 100 urban local bodies on Thursday after the Supreme Court found a prima facie case that opposition candidates were kept from filing nominations.
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WorldMissiles Hit Kyiv Hours After Russia Agrees to Resume Peace Talks
Kyiv authorities said the overnight missile and drone attack killed one person and wounded 22 in the capital, hours after the Kremlin said Russia was ready in principle to restart three-way peace talks with Ukraine and the United States in mid-November.
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WorldAttack on King Fahd Airport in Dammam Kills Two, Injures Eight
Saudi civil aviation authorities raised the death toll to two on Thursday, a Saudi citizen and an Indian resident, with eight people still injured after the Wednesday night attack on King Fahd International Airport.
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WorldUS Congressional Nominee Brad Lander Detained at West Bank Olive Harvest, Later Released
Israeli forces detained about 80 volunteers helping Palestinian farmers near Nahalin on Wednesday. Brad Lander, the Democratic nominee for a New York House seat, was released with a warning, and police later said most of the group had been freed.
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WorldDelhi Court Orders Release of Two Cockroach Movement Leaders
A New Delhi court ordered Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das released late Wednesday, after eight days of custody that began with a protest at Jantar Mantar.
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WorldQuebec Cabinet Sworn In Without Lieutenant Governor, a First
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon became Quebec's 34th premier on Wednesday as his Parti Québécois cabinet was sworn in without the lieutenant governor, the first time the Crown's representative has not presided in the province's history.
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WorldKerala Lottery Dhanalekshmi DL-74 Result: DP 663990 Wins 1 Crore
The Dhanalekshmi DL-74 draw was held at 3 p.m. today in Thiruvananthapuram. The 1 crore first prize went to DP 663990 from Chittur, with DW 235543 and DO 879725 taking the next two prizes.
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WorldTrump Rally Tonight in Clemson: Holyfield Joins, Speech at 7
Trump speaks at 7 p.m. ET at the T. Ed Garrison Arena in Pendleton for Senator Darline Graham, with doors at 3:30 p.m. and former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield flying in with him.
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WorldKremlin Warned Germany After Leipzig Airport Attack That It Would Not Be the Last
U.S. intelligence agencies say President Vladimir Putin directly ordered a stepped-up campaign of sabotage against NATO countries, and that the failed drone attack on a cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle Airport in August was one of its opening shots, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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WorldMacron Calls Foreign Leaders' Comments on France Riots Stupid and Unacceptable
Speaking in Doha, the French president said leaders campaigning for elections abroad had repeated AI generated claims about the unrest, and he vowed to stop disorder at protests planned for Saturday.
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WorldSuper Typhoon Champi Puts Batanes Under Signal No. 2
Super Typhoon Champi, local name Rosal, held winds of 215 kph on Wednesday as PAGASA raised Signal No. 2 over Batanes and warned of up to 200 mm of rain.
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WorldUkraine Peace Talks: A Release, a Visit and New Strikes in One Day
No deal terms have been published. A freed American, a framework outline from Oslo, a dispute over Patriot missiles and fresh strikes on the power grid show movement around a deal, not a deal itself.
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WorldToledo Chemical Leak: Evacuation in 1 Mile, Shelter in 3
A tank release at the MC Tank Terminal in north Toledo has forced a one mile evacuation and a three mile shelter in place order and closed two school districts for Wednesday. Officials have now named the chemical as glycidyl methacrylate, and a sheriff's deputy has been injured.
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WorldBurkina Faso Restores the Death Penalty After a Unanimous Vote
Burkina Faso's 71-member assembly voted unanimously on Tuesday to bring back capital punishment, eight years after abolition, as the military government fights an Islamist insurgency.
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WorldRussian Strikes Kill Four in Ukraine, Hit Energy Sites in Four Regions
Overnight Russian attacks killed four people, two of them in Kyiv, and struck power facilities in the Kyiv, Volyn, Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, Ukraine Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said.
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WorldBritain Approves Jackdaw Gas Field After Years of Court Fights
The government gave the North Sea project the green light on Wednesday and said homegrown gas will flow this winter. Climate campaigners say the decision breaks the spirit of Labour's pledge against new oil and gas licences.
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WorldGlobal Hunger Index 2026: India 100th, Child Wasting Near 19 Percent
India scored 24.1 and stayed in the serious category, with child wasting near 19 percent reported as the highest in South Asia even as stunting continued to fall.
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WorldRomania Confirms Luca Niculescu as Prime Minister, Ending Six Months of Deadlock
Parliament backed the independent former journalist and diplomat with 280 votes on Tuesday. His first test is a December budget that must cut one of the largest deficits in the European Union.
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WorldShark Kills 65-Year-Old Swimmer off Orient Beach in South Africa
A 65-year-old open-water swimmer died after a shark attack during a morning group swim at Orient Beach in KuGompo City on Tuesday. Officials closed Orient Beach and Eastern Beach until further notice, and police opened an inquest.
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WorldNigeria Confirms Ebola Case in Abuja, Starts Tracing 44 Contacts
A woman who arrived on a flight from Uganda tested positive in the Federal Capital Territory. She is in isolation, and health teams are tracing 44 close contacts.
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WorldDrone Strike on Abyei Market Kills at Least 153, Officials Say
A drone strike hit Amiet Market in the disputed Abyei region on Monday. A local minister told Reuters on Tuesday the confirmed toll had risen to 153, with fires still burning and about 8,000 people displaced.
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WorldIndia and Australia Open AUSTRAHIND 2026 Exercise in Kerala
About 240 soldiers began the fifth AUSTRAHIND exercise in Thiruvananthapuram on Oct. 19. The coastal drills run to Nov. 1, with New Zealand observing for the first time.
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WorldUK to Send RAF Typhoons to Defend Saudi Arabia Against Houthi Attacks
Britain said RAF Typhoon jets will fly defensive missions over Saudi Arabia to intercept Houthi missiles and drones, with a transport aircraft and military advisers also being sent and refuelling support extended for 90 days.
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WorldOver 576,000 Leave Kathmandu Valley for Dashain, Police Say
Traffic police counted 576,578 people leaving in 79,676 vehicles since Ghatasthapana, with 348,823 men and 227,755 women among them, as of Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.
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WorldUS Raises Kenya Travel Advisory to Level 3 as Ebola Cases Hit Eight
The State Department moved Kenya from Level 2 to Level 3 on Oct. 19, citing health risks as Kenya confirmed an eighth Ebola case and traced 130 contacts.
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WorldBC Conservatives Lead NDP 46 to 43 in Angus Reid Poll
Angus Reid surveyed 793 adults from Oct. 15 to 19 and calls the three point gap a statistical tie. Conservative voters look far more certain than NDP voters before the Oct. 24 vote.
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WorldIMD Warns Tamil Nadu Faces Very Heavy Rain Oct 21-22
The India Meteorological Department forecasts isolated very heavy rainfall over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal as two low pressure systems take shape over the Bay of Bengal.
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WorldTruck Hits Tour Bus on Egypt Desert Highway, Killing at Least 13
A truck collided with a tour bus on the Cairo-Asyut Western Desert Road in Giza on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 37 others, health officials said. Rescue crews cleared the wreckage as the toll rose through the day.
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WorldRubio Arrives in Mumbai for Jaishankar Talks, With Trade Deal and Russian Oil on the Table
Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Mumbai on Tuesday for talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, days after President Trump delayed tariffs on Indian goods and with a trade deal described as almost complete.
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WorldRussia Expands Energy Attacks to Western Ukraine, Outages Hit 12 Regions
Russian strikes overnight hit energy sites in western regions that had rarely been targeted, and Ukraine's grid operator reported new power outages in 12 regions on Tuesday morning.
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WorldCovid Inquiry Says Care Homes Were an Afterthought as 43,000 Died
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry said adult social care was something of an afterthought in pandemic planning, that no protective ring existed around care homes until mid April 2020, and that more than 43,000 care home residents died with Covid-19 between March 2020 and July 2022.
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WorldIllegal Gold Mine Collapse Kills 14 in Southwestern Colombia
An unlicensed open pit gold mine collapsed on Monday in the rural Chambero sector of Santa Barbara de Iscuande, in Narino province. Fourteen people were killed and seven were injured, and search and rescue work ended on Monday night in a town that can only be reached by boat or small plane.
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WorldMacron Secures Extra 200,000 Tonnes of Diesel a Month on Gulf Tour
France will get an additional 200,000 tonnes of diesel a month from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the Elysee said on Tuesday, as President Emmanuel Macron tours the Gulf while unrest over living costs continues at home.
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WorldRussian Drone Strike Near Kyiv-Odesa Highway Kills Three During the Morning Commute
A Russian drone struck near the Kyiv-Odesa highway in Chabany, just outside the capital, on Tuesday morning, killing three people and wounding four, prosecutors said. Cars caught fire near a shopping center and traffic was restricted on the road south from Kyiv.
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WorldZelenskyy Takes Ukraine Talks to Oslo, With US Envoys Witkoff and Kushner Joining
Zelenskyy said on Wednesday he would accept a peace deal that freezes the fighting along the current front lines, as US envoy Steve Witkoff took proposals from Oslo talks to Putin in St. Petersburg.
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WorldAlberta Votes to Remain in Canada, Rejecting the Road to a Separation Vote
CBC projected a clear win for the remain side early on Tuesday. Unofficial results put about 76 percent behind staying in Canada and 23 percent for starting the legal process toward a binding separation referendum.
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WorldMagnitude 6.3 Earthquake Strikes Off Vanuatu, No Tsunami Threat Reported
The shallow quake struck about 200 kilometres from Port Olry at 04:20 UTC on Tuesday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said it posed no tsunami threat, and the first reports carried no word of damage or injuries.
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WorldKim Jong Un Seen at Shoe Exhibition as Death Rumors Spread Online
State media published photos of Kim touring a clothing and footwear show on Monday. The death claims that swept social media came with no evidence, and no government has confirmed any medical emergency.
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WorldRomanian F-16s Shoot Down Two Drones Over the Black Sea
Bucharest says the two drones, downed near Sulina on Saturday, were likely Russian Geran-4 models flying at 450 km/h. NATO's council meets Tuesday on Black Sea defence.
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WorldUkraine Says a Heavy Drone Flew a Wounded Soldier Off the Front Line in a First
The 92nd Assault Brigade said mines and Russian drones made a ground rescue impossible, so a modified Gurzuf Defence hexacopter lifted a wounded 30th Brigade infantryman to safety. BBC Verify said the video shows no signs of AI manipulation.
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WorldRussian Drone Strike on a Park in Ukraine's Kharkiv Region Kills Six, Including Children
A Russian drone hit the central park of Nova Vodolaha on Monday afternoon while families were there with their children. Six people were killed and 15 wounded, and President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strike an absolute atrocity.
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WorldFour Salvadoran Soldiers Missing After Gang Ambush in Haiti
Gangs hit an armored vehicle with explosives and gunfire in Croix-des-Bouquets on Sunday, and four Salvadoran air force technicians who fled the burning vehicle are still unaccounted for, in the first major attack on the new Gang Suppression Force.
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WorldTrump Says Paris Will Be a Muslim City Very Soon, Blaming Migrants for the France Riots
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that migrants have taken over France. French officials say the protests are about school funding, the cost of living and fuel prices.
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WorldDrone Strikes Across Sudan Kill More Than 160, Including 80 Near a Market in West Kordofan
The toll from the wave of attacks since Friday has risen to more than 160 dead. An RSF strike on displaced people in Blue Nile killed 41 on Friday, and the UN called for accountability.
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WorldTrump Says Zelenskiy Should Get Somebody Else to Negotiate an End to the War
President Donald Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday that Ukraine should hand its talks with Russia to a different negotiator, and he pointed again to the heated Oval Office meeting of February 2025.
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WorldHormuz oil flows fall as ship attacks hit record 12
Ship attacks around the strait hit a record last week, Kpler data shows oil exports fell to about 11 million barrels a day, and many incidents are going unreported.
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WorldIndia Caps Margins on 137 Cancer Drugs, Prices May Fall up to 70%
The NPPA limited trade margins to 30% of the retail price from November 9, covering immunotherapy drugs used against more than 20 cancers.
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WorldSabarmati to Katra Express Extended to Vaishno Devi, No Change at Jammu Now
Trains 19223 and 19224 now run daily to Katra with new halts at Samba, Bari Brahmana and Udhampur. First return from Katra is October 20.
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WorldKerala Lottery Bhagyathara BT-76 Result Today: First Prize Ticket BX 224385
The Kerala State Lottery's Bhagyathara BT-76 draw was held at 3 p.m. IST today. The first prize of 1 crore rupees went to ticket BX 224385, drawn at Gorky Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram.
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WorldKenya Cult Leader Paul Mackenzie Found Guilty of Murdering 190 Children and One Adult
A Mombasa court convicted Mackenzie and about 30 co-accused on 191 murder counts over the Shakahola forest deaths. Sentencing is set for November 6.
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WorldTwelve Migrants, Including an Infant, Drown as Boats Capsize off Lesbos and Samos
Six people died off Lesbos when their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel, and six more died off Samos when a speedboat overturned during a chase. Two survivors were arrested on suspicion of smuggling.
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WorldStorm Adam Kills at Least Five in Spain and at Least Four in France
Spain's toll stands at at least five dead, while the toll in France rose to at least four after flooding in the south, where dozens of residents were sheltered in Mouries and Saint-Martin-de-Crau as Storm Austen approached the northwest.
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WorldBomb Threat Email Sent to 160 Northern Ireland Schools, Police Say Threat Not Viable
Police in Northern Ireland are carrying out urgent enquiries after a threatening email reached 160 schools on Monday morning. Some schools evacuated pupils or closed, but the education minister said the threat is not being treated as viable.
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World73 Killed, More Than 200 Injured in Houthi Strike on Yemen Camp in Shabwa
The Shabwa provincial media office says 73 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the Houthi missile strike on the al-Alam training camp near Ataq, and 14 people remain missing. The toll has risen from 58 reported earlier on October 20, and from the first counts of 18, 30 and 53 on October 19.
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WorldPatient Dies After Air Ambulance Door Opens Mid-Air and Flight Lands in Dhaka
A Beechcraft King Air air ambulance from Agartala to Kolkata landed safely in Dhaka on Sunday after a pressurisation failure opened its door at 12,000 feet. The 56 year old patient was declared dead at a Dhaka hospital, and reports do not link her death to the fault.
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WorldAustralian MP Helen Haines Critically Injured in Suspected Targeted Car Attack in Wangaratta
Helen Haines has now lost both legs after the alleged targeted car attack in Wangaratta. Her husband Phil told a press conference at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne on Wednesday that her left leg was amputated on Monday and surgeons have now removed her right leg too, and said she is alive and stable. Brendan Nugent, 43, faced court on Wednesday, did not apply for bail and will stay in custody until Feb 4.
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WorldOne Killed in Manipur Thoubal Clash, Prohibitory Orders Imposed
A man identified as Laishram Rakesh died after shots were fired during clashes in Khangabok and Sangaiyumpham on Sunday night. Police said the situation was under control on Monday morning.
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WorldRussian Missiles and Drones Hit Kyiv Overnight, Killing One and Injuring Eight
Ukraine's Air Force says Russia launched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and 269 drones at the capital. Air defenses destroyed or suppressed 243 drones and four missiles, with damage in three districts.
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WorldLula and Flavio Bolsonaro Trade Attacks in First Runoff Debate
Brazil's president and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro called each other liars in a heated first face-to-face debate in Sao Paulo on Sunday, one week before the October 25 runoff.
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WorldWorld Food Programme Cuts Gaza Food Aid for 500,000 People as Funding Runs Short
The UN agency says planned monthly help in Gaza will fall from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. Hot meals will drop from 250,000 a day to 150,000, just as winter nears and most families still live in tents.
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WorldWorld Off Track on 22 of 23 Nature Targets as COP17 Opens
Delegates opened the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan on Sunday for the first full review of the 2022 Kunming-Montreal pact. A draft UN report says countries are missing almost every 2030 target, and money is the main fight.
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WorldPhilippines Summons China's Envoy Over 'Use of Force' Remarks
Manila summoned Ambassador Jing Quan on Monday and gave him a serious concern and strong objection message after he said China could easily win if it chose to use force, Reuters reported.
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WorldEby Asks Green Voters to Back NDP in Final Week of BC Election
David Eby told Green supporters in Campbell River that their votes decided 11 ridings last time. Emily Lowan said he is trying to frighten voters, six days before the Oct. 24 vote.
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WorldIran Says Another Tanker Hit a Mine and Caught Fire in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that an oil tanker struck a naval mine in the southern Strait of Hormuz, exploded and caught fire in its engine room. It is the third tanker Tehran says has hit a mine in the waterway in two days, and no independent confirmation of the claim has been reported.
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WorldBomb Threat Diverts Austrian Airlines Flight From Tel Aviv to Sofia
Flight OS82, an Airbus A320 with 51 passengers and six crew, landed safely in Sofia under a fighter escort after a bomb threat was reported near the Romanian border. Passengers were taken off the plane and the aircraft was inspected.
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WorldNine Killed as Speeding Car Hits MGNREGA Workers in Punjab's Sangrur
A car rammed a group of rural jobs scheme labourers resting by a road near Alisher village on Sunday afternoon. Police said nine people died, and residents blocked the road in protest.
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WorldItaly Moves to Detain Minors for 12 Hours After Milan Riots, 500 More Troops Expected
Police clashed with protesters in Milan for a second day on Sunday. On Tuesday the government moved to widen police powers, with 12-hour detention for minors judged to pose a danger and 500 more army troops expected in the city.
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WorldPriest Killed by Falling Crucifix During Livestreamed Mass in Ecuador
Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari died after a large wooden crucifix fell from the wall above the altar at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Guayaquil on Saturday. The Archdiocese confirmed his death on Sunday, and the cause is still unknown.
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WorldIndia Reaches 103 Ramsar Sites as Sukhna and Sauj Jheel Join List
Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh have joined the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance, taking India's total to 103 sites.
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WorldMontreal Borough Bans E-Scooters From Parks, Trails and Sidewalks
Saint-Laurent has barred electric scooters and other motorized mobility devices from its parks, trails and sidewalks, as a Montreal children's hospital reports a sharp rise in youth injuries.
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WorldTrump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection Ahead of Israel's October 27 Vote
President Donald Trump gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his complete and total endorsement on Sunday in a Truth Social post, ending months in which he had withheld it. Israel votes on October 27 in its first national election since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
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WorldAlberta Referendum: What a Yes on Question 10 Actually Starts
Albertans vote Monday on ten questions. The last one sounds like a separation vote. It is not one, and the difference between starting a process and leaving Canada is the part voters most need before polls open at 9 a.m.
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WorldIndia and US Sign 10-Year Defence Framework in Kuala Lumpur
Rajnath Singh and Pete Hegseth signed a decade-long roadmap covering land, air, sea, space and cyber. It is not an alliance and replaces nothing. It is a schedule, and schedules are how partnerships become real.
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WorldManipur: 15 Kuki Houses Burnt in Kamjong After Gun Attack Kills One
Attackers shot up Chassad village on Saturday, killing Seikhohao Haokip and wounding four. Hours later, 15 houses were burning and families were sleeping in the forest. A second shooting wounded three men at the district headquarters.
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WorldSri Lanka Orders Expert Inquiry After Seven-Hour Islandwide Blackout
Power returned to most of Sri Lanka by Saturday evening. The suspected trigger is a breakdown at the Upper Kotmale hydropower station, and the government has promised a technical inquiry instead of a shrug.
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WorldPolice Officer Shot in the Foot in Nottingham City Centre, Two Suspects Hunted
A Nottinghamshire Police officer is in hospital with a foot wound after he was shot on Angel Row early on Sunday. A man and a woman fled the scene and have not been found, and police have recovered a firearm.
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WorldZelenskyy Warns Siding With Putin Would Be a Historic Mistake, Says US Intelligence Sharing Is Back
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News Meet the Press on Sunday that the United States would make a historic mistake if it formally aligned with Vladimir Putin, and he said United States intelligence sharing with Ukraine has been restored after a block of about three days.
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WorldMan Dies After Fatal Assault on Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin
Gardai found a man with serious injuries on a footpath at Blackhorse Place in Dublin 7 in the early hours of Sunday. He was taken to the Mater Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A senior investigating officer is leading the inquiry.
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WorldAmazon Deforestation Falls to Record Low of 3,335 Sq Km
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell about 42 percent in the 12 months through July to 3,335 square kilometres, the lowest level since satellite records began in 1988, official Inpe data released on Friday showed.
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WorldIndia Signs Rs 4,106 Crore Deals for GSAT-7C and Varunastra
India's Defence Ministry signed contracts worth about Rs 4,106 crore on October 15 for the GSAT-7C satellite for the Air Force and Varunastra heavyweight torpedoes for the Navy. Both systems were designed and built in India.
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WorldLithuania Sends Residents to Shelters as Unidentified Object Crosses Its Skies
A red air warning closed Kaunas airport and brought out NATO fighters on Sunday morning, and possible drone fragments were later found in Pasvalys district near the Latvian border.
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WorldChennai Records 36 cm of Rain Overnight as Streets and Airport Entrance Flood
Parrys recorded 36 cm and Kathivakkam 34.4 cm in 12 hours as northeast monsoon rain waterlogged Chennai, flooded the airport entrance and put rescue teams on standby, with more heavy rain forecast for Sunday and Monday.
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WorldTug Struck by Two Projectiles Northeast of Khor Fakkan, UKMTO Says
A southbound tug off the UAE east coast was damaged by two unknown projectiles on Sunday and kept sailing, with one minor casualty reported. It was the second projectile strike UKMTO reported in the area in two days.
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WorldUkrainian Drone Attack Hits St Petersburg Oil Terminal, Killing One and Injuring 15
Local authorities raised the injured toll to 15 on Sunday, Reuters reported, after fires broke out at the oil terminal, an oil depot and warehouses. Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine killed a woman, the AP reported.
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WorldRussia Fires 180 Drones at Ukraine, Vinnytsia Loses Power
Zelenskiy says Russia has hit Ukraine's energy, oil and gas sectors 76 times since Trump announced a ceasefire a week ago. Ukrainian authorities, via CNN, put the 24 hour toll at 11 killed and nearly 50 injured.
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WorldUS Floats Russian Gas Transit Through Ukraine in Peace Talks
Witkoff and Kushner have raised restarting Russian gas flows through Ukraine as part of a peace deal, reports say. Germany and other European governments are pushing back hard.
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WorldTruck Crashes Into Devotees Near Gwalior Temple, Killing at Least 14
A paddy laden truck lost control on a sloping road barred to heavy vehicles and crashed into devotees near the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior during Navratri. The district collector confirmed the death toll had risen to 14, and families gathered at the hospital alleged delays in the rescue.
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WorldPete Fry Beats Ken Sim to Become Vancouver's Next Mayor
The Green Party councillor took 47.6 percent of the vote after COPE and OneCity cleared the field for a single progressive run against the incumbent.
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WorldSaudi AH-6i Helicopter Crashes in Najran, Killing Two Crew Members
The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday that a National Guard AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter came down in Najran because of a technical malfunction, and that both crew members died.
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WorldWainwright Fire Started on Grenade Launcher Range, Military Says
Officials said on Thursday that the Oct. 17 fire at CFB Wainwright began on the automatic grenade launcher range during routine training, stayed in a danger area firefighters could not enter, then raced into another training area when the wind shifted. Twenty seven of the 39 injured remain in hospital.
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WorldGuatemalan Anti-Corruption Lawyer Solorzano Foppa Shot Dead at a Football Field in the Capital
Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, 43, a former prosecutor who took on powerful politicians and business figures, was shot on Saturday morning at the Campo Marte sports complex in Guatemala City. Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar Gamarro also died, police detained two brothers as suspects, and President Bernardo Arevalo condemned the killing.
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WorldNavy Commissions Samarthak, First Big Warship From a Private Yard
INS Samarthak joined the Indian Navy at Karwar on October 16, the first major warship built by a private shipyard in India, with more than 75 percent indigenous content.
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WorldLavrov Heads to Tehran on October 19 for De-escalation Talks
Russia's foreign minister will meet Iran's Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on October 19, with de-escalation in West Asia at the centre of the talks as attacks continue around the Strait of Hormuz.
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WorldStampede at Kolkata Durga Puja Pandal Kills at Least 19
The death toll from the crowd crush at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin pandal in north Kolkata on Saturday evening rose to 19, with 25 people still in treatment. Police detained 12 people and later arrested seven, and the state government ordered a probe headed by a sitting High Court judge.
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WorldGagan Thapa Takes Oath as Nepali Congress President
Gagan Kumar Thapa took the oath of office and secrecy at the Nepali Congress central office in Sanepa on Saturday, after winning the party presidency with 6,584 votes at the 15th general convention.
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WorldThousands March in Tunis in Biggest Protest in Years Against President Saied
Thousands of Tunisians marched along Habib Bourguiba Avenue on Saturday in the largest protest against President Kais Saied in years, led by the UGTT union and bringing opposition parties, lawyers, doctors and journalists together in one crowd.
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WorldSettlers Attack European Diplomats Near Taybeh in the West Bank
Police opened an investigation after diplomats from France, Belgium and Poland were attacked during an olive harvest visit near Taybeh, a day after settlers beat a Washington Post photographer in the same area. A Belgian consulate car was damaged and a French mayor travelling with the group was beaten.
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WorldSisi Asks Egypt's Parliament to Back Defending Saudi Arabia if Riyadh Asks
Egypt's president told a military academy graduation that Cairo would take any measure needed to defend Saudi Arabia, and parliament called an emergency session for Sunday to authorise it. In the same speech he said his own presidency ends in 2030.
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WorldIran Says Two Tankers Hit Mines and Caught Fire in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said two oil tankers, each carrying about 2 million barrels of crude, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. Reuters said there was no independent confirmation of the reports.
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WorldFire Kills 10 at Cox's Bazar Beach Resort That Had No Fire Licence
The blaze tore through the wooden Tuptup Resto and Resort at Inani on Saturday morning. Six people were injured, and the Fire Service says inspectors warned the owners in June and issued a notice, but the resort kept operating without a licence.
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WorldAlberta Referendum Tops 1 Million Ballots Before Monday Vote
Elections Alberta expects turnout of 80 to 85 percent. Advance polls close Saturday, Carney closed his tour before 5,000 people in Edmonton on Friday night, and referendum day is Monday.
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WorldFrance Sets Second Curfew Night, Vows Massive Police Deployment
Paris, Bordeaux and Lille will run curfews again on Tuesday night, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu promised a massive police deployment for Saturday protests, and the military will back up police after a weekend that saw more than 2,000 arrests and at least two deaths.
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WorldInternet Access Is a Fundamental Right for Children Too, India's Supreme Court Rules
The court rejected a blanket ban on children going online, said safety and freedom are not at odds, and ordered a national database to track down child abuse material.
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WorldAustralia Is on Track for Its Wettest El Niño Year on Record
A strong El Niño usually means drought for Australia. This year the rain kept coming, and storms are set to soak more than half the country in the next seven days.
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WorldH5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed on Macquarie Island in Elephant Seal
Federal testing confirmed the virus in an elephant seal and a kelp gull on the sub-Antarctic island, the first H5 event there, days after Tasmania reported the detection.
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WorldBoy, 16, and Man, 80, Killed in Light Aircraft Crash Near Drymen, Scotland
Police Scotland said the aircraft came down north east of Drymen, Stirling, at about 4.45 p.m. on Friday. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, and airspace over the village is now restricted while investigators work.
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WorldTwo Infiltrators Killed as Army Foils LoC Bid in Kupwara's Keran Sector
Troops saw movement at about 3:30 a.m. in the Jumgund area, challenged the group, and killed two men in a brief gunfight. A search stayed under way on Saturday under cordon.
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WorldFamily of Five Found Dead in Greater Noida Village, Food Poisoning Suspected
Mahesh, his wife Lalita and their three young children were found dead in bed in Nagla Shri Padam on Saturday morning. They had eaten noodles the night before, and police say only the post-mortem can set the cause.
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WorldBangladesh Measles Outbreak Is the World's Worst, With 1,147 Dead
WHO figures counted to October 9 show 202,000 suspected cases in Bangladesh since mid-March, the most of any country this year. Almost all of the 1,147 people who died were children under five.
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WorldKindergarten Head Gets Life in Prison for Lead Poisoning of 247 Children in China
A Lanzhou court sentenced Li Huifang to life, the principal to 15 years and four kitchen workers to six to eight years, after inedible lead pigment was mixed into food at a Tianshui kindergarten and 247 of 251 children tested showed abnormal blood lead levels.
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WorldMagnitude 5.7 Earthquake Strikes Near Khuzdar in Balochistan
One person has been killed in the Khuzdar earthquake, Dawn reported on Sunday. Officials said Abdul Rahim of Wadh was killed by a falling rock in the Naal area, and several mud houses were damaged.
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WorldFive Workers Killed in Reactor Blast at Gujarat Pharma Plant in Bharuch
A reactor exploded during a hydrogenation process at SynZeal Pharmachem in the Saykha GIDC estate late on Friday night, killing five workers, injuring five others and leaking methylene dichloride gas.
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WorldBoy, 9, Dies After 39-Hour Rescue From Rajasthan Borewell
Bhomaram fell into a 1,050-foot borewell at his father's farm in Phalodi district on Thursday. Teams brought him out on Saturday, but doctors declared him dead at the hospital.
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WorldEight Killed as Pilgrim Minibus Falls From Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Kota
The bus was carrying pilgrims from Bhopal to the Khatu Shyam temple when it left the expressway near Simliya early on Saturday and fell about 15 feet into a culvert. Officials confirmed eight dead, with critical patients in intensive care in Kota.
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WorldFour Injured as Nairobi Building Collapses During Night Demolition on Moi Avenue
A building that once housed Club Avenida came down on Moi Avenue in central Nairobi on Friday night while demolition work was under way. A county official confirmed four injuries and called for an investigation into approvals, supervision and safety standards.
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WorldNorth Korea Tests AI-Guided Torpedo in Underwater Trial, State Media Says
Pyongyang said the Zam-2.0 super speed torpedo used artificial intelligence to find and track targets in a Thursday test, the latest step in a naval build up on both sides of the Korean border.
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WorldMissiles Hit Aden Airport as Coalition Stops Missile Fired at Yanbu Oil Port
Two missiles landed inside Aden International Airport on Friday evening near a Yemenia plane preparing for Cairo, with no casualties reported, hours after the Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed a ballistic missile headed for the Yanbu oil port.
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WorldIPCC Session Suspended in Addis Ababa Without a Deal on Report Timeline
Chair Jim Skea suspended the 65th session on Friday with the Seventh Assessment Report timelines and the budget still open. Reuters reported the meeting ended without an agreement, putting the 2028 stocktake timing at risk.
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WorldItaly probes Israel minister Katz over Gaza flotilla treatment
Rome prosecutors name 12 other senior officials as suspects after complaints from 50 Italian citizens detained in 2025 and 2026 missions.
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WorldPope Leo urges Putin to allow aid into occupied Oleshky
Leo asked for a ceasefire and a voluntary evacuation for the Kherson town, where about 1,700 residents remain, including 47 children.
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WorldPutin says Ukraine border security zone is not negotiable
The planned zone spans 660 kilometres, the Kremlin said, with 70 percent now under Russian control in Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
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WorldDashain Travel: Queues at Kathmandu New Bus Park From Dawn
Hundreds queued at Gongabu from early Friday for long distance tickets home. Advance bookings reached 153,732, and damaged highways are slowing buses.
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WorldAbout 200 People Found at Illegal Rehab Centre in Mpumalanga, Some of Them Chained
Police arrested a pastor and his wife in Siyabuswa after an inspection found about 200 people, including two children, living in crowded rooms at an unregistered centre run from a church.
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WorldNorwegian Teen Gets 20 Years for UK Murder Plot Tied to Iran-Linked Gang
Johannes Natland, 19, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday. He flew to Britain in March 2025 with orders to kill a target whose name he never learned.
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WorldWashington Post Photographer Beaten in Settler Attack on West Bank Olive Harvest
Masked settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at villagers harvesting near Abu Falah on Friday. Photojournalist Heidi Levine was kicked while on the ground, taken to hospital, and her newspaper has demanded an investigation.
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WorldMeerut Court Sentences Woman and Lover to Death in Snake-Staged Murder Case
Ravita Kashyap and Amardeep strangled her husband Amit in April 2025 and placed a live snake by his body. A postmortem found no venom, and a Meerut court sentenced both to death on Friday.
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WorldUkraine Runs Out of Patriot Interceptors: What It Means for Kyiv This Winter
CNN reports Ukraine has used its last Patriot missiles as Russian ballistic strikes hit power plants in Kyiv and winter nears.
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WorldDelhi Locks Down Connaught Place for CJP Tiranga March as Central Park Stays Shut
Police deployed thousands of personnel, closed Central Park for two days and restricted 20 roads after denying permission for the Cockroach Janta Party flag march set for 5 p.m. on Friday.
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WorldRussian Attacks Kill at Least Eight in Ukraine, Cut Power to a Million
Ukrainian officials raised the toll from Friday's attacks across nine regions to at least eight killed and 60 injured. Power was cut to more than one million people, and crews later restored supply to more than a million.
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WorldPipe Bomb Explosion at Belfast House Forces Evacuations on Stanhope Street
Police put cordons around the Stanhope Street area of north Belfast and moved residents out of their homes after an explosion at a house in the early hours of Friday, October 16. No one was injured, a local councillor said.
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WorldRamaphosa Reinstates South Africa Police Chief Masemola After Charges Withdrawn
President Cyril Ramaphosa lifted Fannie Masemola's suspension on Friday. The national police commissioner returns to full duties on Monday, six months after he was charged over a police health contract.
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WorldItaly Flight Strike Grounds easyJet Crew for 24 Hours on Friday
The nationwide easyJet walkout runs all day Friday, October 16, alongside airport staff strikes in Pisa, Florence and Venice. Only the morning and evening protected windows must fly.
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WorldBolsonaro Adds Four Parties to Runoff Bloc Ahead of Oct 25 Vote
PP, Uniao Brasil, Republicanos and Podemos backed Flavio Bolsonaro after staying neutral in round one, putting his coalition on course for majorities in both chambers of Congress.
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WorldIraq Completes Cabinet, Names US-Sanctioned Militia Leader Deputy PM
Parliament filled 11 vacant portfolios on Thursday, five months after the Zaidi government took office, and made Asaib Ahl al-Haq leader Laith al-Khazali a deputy prime minister.
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WorldMagnitude 7 Earthquake Strikes Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, No Tsunami Threat
The quake hit at a depth of about 140 kilometres near Ozernovskiy. Tsunami officials cleared it within minutes and the USGS put the risk of casualties and damage at low.
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WorldThree Dead and 19 Injured as Two Calgary Transit Buses Catch Fire in Chain Reaction Crash
Three people were killed and 19 were injured in Calgary on Thursday when a transit bus hit a car, crossed an intersection and struck a second bus at a stop, setting it on fire. Police say the cause is still under investigation and the mayor has promised a full inquiry.
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WorldHezbollah Says Seized Explosives Were Its Own, Meant for Israeli Troops
A Hezbollah lawmaker said the 780 kilograms seized on the Bekaa to Beirut highway belonged to the group. Washington told Lebanon that returning them should be out of the question.
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WorldLula Pledges Free Weekend Transit Across Brazil Days Before Runoff
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he will send Congress a constitutional amendment for free public transport on weekends and holidays, paid for with money lawmakers control, as he tries to close a narrow polling gap before the Oct 25 runoff.
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WorldMinibus Hits Train at Channel Tunnel Terminal in France, 19 People Hurt
A minibus carrying lorry drivers struck a train at the Le Shuttle loading platform in Coquelles on Thursday evening. Officials said no life was in danger, and tunnel traffic kept moving.
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WorldWaterford Arson Attack: Two Arrested After Family of Four Killed
Gardai arrested a man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s on Thursday afternoon over the firebombing of a Waterford home that killed Philip and Kim English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, 9.
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WorldRussell Brand Called a Ruthless Sexual Predator as Rape Trial Opens in London
Prosecutors opened the case at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, and on Thursday jurors heard the first accuser describe an alleged rape at a 1999 Labour Party conference. Brand denies every charge.
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WorldNHS England Tells Hospitals to Place Trans Patients on Wards by Biological Sex
New guidance published on Thursday reverses the old gender identity approach for patients and for staff facilities, 18 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in equality law means biological sex.
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WorldPakistan Parliament Approves Emergency and Governor's Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 214 to 56
A joint sitting endorsed the federal takeover of the PTI run province on Thursday, four days after President Zardari imposed the measures over the province's record on terrorism. The opposition protested the count and says the security case is being used against it.
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WorldNorth Korea Test-Fires Two Types of Cruise Missiles From Its Nuclear Attack Submarine
State media said the October 14 test in the East Sea fired two kinds of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles, in what experts believe was the first public launch from the Hero Kim Kun Ok. South Korea said it tracked the missiles throughout their flights.
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World76 Percent of Canadians Back a Smoke-Free Generation Law, Poll Finds
An Abacus Data poll for the National Lung Health Alliance found 76 percent support for barring people born in 2009 or later from ever buying tobacco or vaping products.
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WorldHeavy Rain Lashes Delhi as Weather Office Issues Orange Alert
The IMD issued an orange alert for Delhi-NCR on October 15 as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit the capital, with winds gusting to 60 kmph and more rain due Friday.
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WorldActor Imran Khan Told to Leave India by October 28 After Protest
Actor Imran Khan, a US citizen with an OCI card, has been told to leave India by October 28 after joining the October 10 Mumbai protest against the election chief.
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WorldOttawa Mayoral Candidates Clash on Transit, Housing and Taxes
Mark Sutcliffe faced Jeff Leiper, Neil Saravanamuttoo and Alex Lawson in the October 14 CTV debate. Transit, return to office rules and housing led the night, 11 days before the vote.
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WorldBrazil Senate Approves 40-Hour Workweek in Win for Lula Before Runoff
Senators voted 75 to 1 on Wednesday to cut the maximum workweek from 44 hours to 40 with no pay cut, ending the six-day schedule for millions of workers ten days before the presidential runoff on Oct 25.
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WorldHouthi Missiles Hit Presidential Palace in Aden, Killing Five
Five ballistic missiles struck the al-Maashiq palace complex in Aden on Thursday. Yemen's health minister said five people were killed and 16 were injured. Prime Minister Shaya al-Zindani and his ministers were unharmed.
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WorldClimate Change Beat El Nino in Strengthening Record Hurricane Polo, Study Finds
A joint study published Oct 15 found warming added about 6 mph to Hurricane Polo, more than El Nino did, and made the conditions behind the record Category 5 storm 23 times more likely.
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WorldCanada Puts $100 Million Behind Nova Scotia's Wind West Offshore Wind Plan
Ottawa committed $100 million on Oct 15 to advance Nova Scotia's Wind West project, starting with wind measurement buoys ahead of a Winter 2027 call for bids.
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WorldCarney Rallies in Calgary as Alberta Separation Vote Nears
Mark Carney headlines a Forever Canadian rally in Calgary on Oct. 15 and Edmonton on Oct. 16, days before Albertans vote Oct. 19 on 10 referendum questions including a non-binding separation question.
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WorldKolkata Scrubs Rainbow Paint Off Flyovers After Bikers Skid
Rainbow paint laid for Durga Puja beautification was scrubbed off overnight after dashcam videos showed bikers skidding on the wet Chingrighata flyover, and a probe was ordered.
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WorldHurricane Trudy Moves Away From Mexico's Pacific Coast, Hurricane Warning Dropped
Mexico changed the hurricane warning to a tropical storm warning from Playa Perula to Cabo Corrientes on Sunday and dropped warnings south of Playa Perula, forecasters said. Trudy held Category 2 strength at 105 mph, about 165 miles west of Manzanillo, and rapid weakening is forecast.
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WorldKenya Confirms Second Ebola Case, Found in Quarantine
A 39 year old relative of Kenya's first Ebola patient tested positive while in quarantine, the Health Ministry said on October 14. Officials have traced 113 of 128 contacts and say there is no sign of spread in the wider community.
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WorldFormer DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson Jailed for 15 Years for Child Sex Offences
Jeffrey Donaldson, who led the Democratic Unionist Party and sat in parliament for 27 years, has been sentenced at Newry Crown Court for 18 offences against two women who were children when the abuse took place.
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WorldMauritius Says Island Is Calm After Worst Unrest Since 1999, Curfew Extended
Police said on Thursday that roads across Mauritius are clear and work can resume after days of protests over water and living costs. The government extended an overnight curfew for two more nights.
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WorldEU and Gulf States Postpone Riyadh Summit as Houthi Threats Keep Airport Closed
The second EU and Gulf Cooperation Council summit, set for October 24 in Riyadh, has been put off with no new date, as Houthi attacks keep the Saudi capital's main airport shut.
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WorldRussia Fires More Than 850 Drones at Ukraine, At Least Six Killed
Ukraine said the overnight wave alone brought 580 drones, and the central Kirovohrad region took the heaviest blow of the war so far, with more than 360 drones and three people killed in Kropyvnytskyi.
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WorldUkraine Hits Ryazan Refinery as Energy Strikes Resume After Brief Pause
Ukrainian drones set a fire at the Rosneft refinery in Ryazan early on Thursday, the first energy strike since Trump announced a ceasefire on Sunday. Russia says it downed four Flamingo missiles and 69 drones.
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WorldUkraine Neptune Strike Hits Six Russian Su-34 Jets at Borisoglebsk Air Base
Ukraine says an overnight Neptune missile strike damaged six Su-34M fighter-bombers at the Borisoglebsk air base in Russia's Voronezh region. Satellite pictures published on Thursday show four of the jets destroyed and two badly damaged.
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WorldTwo Cargo Ships Sink Near the Strait of Hormuz as Attacks Surge
A Singapore registered container ship and a bulk carrier first hit in September have both sunk near the strait. They are only the second and third ships lost since the US and Iran war began in February.
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WorldRussia Builds a Jet Drone Base in Six Weeks, Satellite Images Show
An empty field in the Rostov region on Aug 31 was a launch complex the size of 126 soccer pitches by Wednesday, built for Geran 4 and Geran 5 jet drones that fly at up to 600 km an hour.
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WorldTwo Ships Ablaze Off Romanian Black Sea Coast, 7 Sailors Missing After Drone Strike
NATO said the drones that set two tankers ablaze inside Romanian waters were of Russian origin, and named two more ships targeted overnight. Rescuers searched in very big waves for seven missing crew from the Wine Trader. Five crew were rescued.
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WorldSchool Roof Collapse in Peshawar Kills at Least 34 Children and a Teacher
The roof fell during morning classes at a private school in the Dir Colony area of Peshawar. The death toll has risen to at least 34 children and a teacher, more than 50 people were injured, rescuers have cleared the rubble, and families are preparing mass funeral prayers. The provincial governor has now ordered a safety audit of all schools across the province. He has announced compensation of 1 million rupees for each bereaved family and 200,000 rupees for each injured person. Police have now registered a criminal case against the owners, shareholders and contractor, alleging substandard materials and ignored warnings about the building. Provincial authorities have now ordered inspections of all private schools in the province, with district committees to report findings within three days.
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WorldIndonesia Blames Peatland Damage for Worst Wildfire Season in 11 Years
Air pollution readings in Central Kalimantan hit nearly 1,600 on Thursday, five times the hazardous level, as the government pledged to restore peatlands drained by old food estate projects.
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WorldUkrainian Drones Hit Sberbank Data Centre, Fourth Russian Site in a Week
Sberbank confirmed its Balakovo centre on the Volga was attacked on Oct 14, after three Yandex data centres were hit in four days. The bank said its systems kept working normally.
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WorldBritain Pledges £17 Million to Repair Chornobyl Shelter Hit by Russian Drone
London said the money will restore the confinement and ventilation systems of the protective shelter over the plant, as Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy network leave hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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WorldAlbania Protests: Students Set Education Ministry and Banks on Fire in Tirana
Student led protests reached a fourth day on Friday, October 16, with thousands marching in Tirana and unrest spreading to Lezha, Elbasan, Shkodra and Korca, as Prime Minister Edi Rama said his government would not bow to violence.
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WorldBC Leaders Face Off in Only Televised Debate of Snap Election
David Eby, Lorne Doerkson and Emily Lowan debated in Vancouver on Wednesday night, ten days before British Columbians vote on October 24. The deficit, taxes and the cost of living framed the only head to head meeting of the campaign.
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World13 Children Die as Boat Capsizes in the Ganga in Bihar's Vaishali
A boat carrying families to a feast overturned in the Ganga near Rampur Shyamchand village on Tuesday evening. Thirteen children aged 15 or younger died, seven people were rescued, and divers searched the river through the night.
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WorldBoy, 14, Dies in Istanbul Floods as Schools Close for Thursday
Torrential rain flooded homes, roads and the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul on Wednesday. A driver also died on the Greek island of Rhodes as storms hit both sides of the Aegean.
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WorldGreenland Pushes Back After Trump Touts Massive Exploration
Trump said massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is about to begin in Greenland. Greenland deputy mining minister told CNN the island is very far away from that.
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WorldZelensky Says Trump Betrayed Ukraine With Russian Diesel Deal
In London, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Piers Morgan that Ukraine is losing a strong partner, and he called the Starlink limits a big mistake that will cost lives.
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WorldStreamer Jhapalish Held Over Swear Words as Nepal Wins UN Rights Seat
Jhapa police detained rapper and streamer Manish Pandey over abusive words on social media and freed him after he promised to watch his language. His own account of handcuffs and a signature he could not read asks a harder question of a government that, one day later, won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
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WorldUkraine Says Starlink Slowdown Hit Drone Operations
Ukrainian intelligence officials said SpaceX imposed temporary speed limits on Starlink terminals in Ukraine, and military sources said at least nine long-range drone missions were cancelled. SpaceX had not confirmed the limits in the reports.
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WorldCanada Paused 16 Black Hawk Purchase for Special Forces
Ottawa quietly paused the purchase of 16 US-made UH-60M Black Hawks for its special forces before trade talks with Washington last summer, CBC reported, citing government and industry sources.
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WorldRubio Heads to Mumbai and Jamnagar as Energy Tops India Agenda
Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels October 17 to 22 to Samarkand, Mumbai and Jamnagar. The refinery stop, not the capital, shows what Washington wants most from India on this trip.
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WorldEthiopian Troops Reach Zalambessa on the Eritrea Border
Government forces advanced to a border town of about 15,000 people on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Diplomats are working to stop a new war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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WorldTwo Ships Hit in Hormuz as Iran Says It Changed Tactics
A container ship and a tanker were struck on Tuesday. Iranian officials told Reuters the stepped up attacks aim to keep oil high before the US midterms, and Brent held at $106.
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WorldChina and North Korea Open Yalu River Bridge on October 15
The New Yalu River Bridge, finished on the Chinese side in 2014 and left idle for more than a decade, opens Thursday with a joint ceremony, Xinhua said.
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WorldFrance Student Protests: 214 Schools Closed as Thunberg Joins March
High school protests over crowded classes and missing teachers entered another nationwide day on Tuesday. The education ministry said 214 schools were closed, and Paris police counted 41,500 marchers.
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WorldEastern Libya Executed 31 People, Rights Groups Say 50 More at Risk
Human Rights Watch said the executions were the first known in Libya since 2010 and followed secret military trials. At least 50 prisoners at Gernada prison face the same fate.
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WorldMan Killed by Tiger at UK Wildlife Park Named as William Chapman
An inquest opening on October 15 heard Chapman, 24, died from multiple traumatic injuries after climbing two fences into the enclosure on October 10. His family has raised concerns about his mental health care, and a full inquest is set for March 18, 2027.
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WorldWest Nile Virus Kills Two in North Carolina as US Cases Pass 1,172
State officials confirmed two adult deaths in central North Carolina and 11 cases in the state this year. With no vaccine and no specific treatment, prevention is the only defense.
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WorldTrump Ousts Kimberly Guilfoyle as Ambassador to Greece
The White House asked Guilfoyle to resign on Tuesday after weeks of reports about her conduct. She denies the allegations and says she will defend her name.
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WorldDrone Attack Sinks Cargo Ship Off Bulgaria, 11 Sailors Missing
A second cargo ship was hit by three drones near the Bulgarian coast and its whole crew got off safely. Sofia summoned Russia's ambassador while rescuers searched for the 11 missing sailors off Krapets.
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WorldSix Flags Closes Nine Coasters After Man Dies in Georgia Ride Fall
The company shut down similar hypercoasters at six parks on Tuesday, a day after police say a 42-year-old rider was ejected from the Goliath coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia and struck other patrons as he fell.
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WorldMexico Flood Death Toll Rises to Six as Simon Lingers Offshore
Flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel killed five people in Ensenada, Baja California, and Hurricane Simon killed one person in Guerrero. Five people are still missing, and forecasters say a new storm, Trudy, could become a major hurricane by Friday.
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WorldCU Denver Gets Nod for Hyderabad Campus, First Class in August 2027
CU Denver's UGC letter of intent, announced Oct. 6, sets up the first foreign university campus in Telangana, with business, computing, engineering and analytics planned from August 2027 if final approvals land.
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WorldIndia Top Court Presses Centre to Cap Prices of All Medicines
The Supreme Court bench gave the Centre until Oct. 27 to work out price cap plans beyond cancer drugs, after the government capped cancer drug trade margins at 30 percent, a move it says will save patients 2,500 crore rupees a year.
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WorldPearson Gold Heist Organizer Testifies at Ex Air Canada Worker Trial
Arsalan Chaudhary, serving four years for the 2023 Pearson theft of 6,600 gold bars worth more than 22 million dollars, testified Tuesday in the Brampton trial of ex Air Canada worker Parmpal Sidhu, who has pleaded not guilty.
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WorldAdvance Voting Opens in Alberta Vote With Separation on the Ballot
Advance polls run Oct. 13 to Oct. 17 in Alberta's ten question referendum. The tenth question asks whether Alberta stays in Canada or starts the legal process toward a binding separation vote. Leger polling puts remain at 70 percent.
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WorldUS Orders Emergency Power Moves for 65 Million in PJM Grid Region
The Energy Department order lets PJM run named plants and tap backup generators, including at data centers, from Oct. 13 to Oct. 16 as demand nears 111,500 megawatts with 61,591 megawatts of generation out for maintenance.
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WorldSupreme Court Takes DOGE Records Fight, Its Second Look at the Case
The justices agreed on Tuesday to decide whether the Trump administration must hand over records about the Department of Government Efficiency to a watchdog group that sued under the Freedom of Information Act.
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WorldDashain Exodus: 207,000 Leave Kathmandu as Peak Rush Nears
More than 207,000 people left Kathmandu's New Bus Park between October 3 and 11, and 56,809 left the valley in the latest 24 hours. The peak Dashain rush runs October 15 to 20, before Tika on October 21.
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WorldJury Selection Begins in Federal Death Penalty Trial Over Buffalo Supermarket Shooting
Payton Gendron, who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo Tops store in 2022, is already serving life in prison. A federal jury will now decide whether he should be executed.
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WorldUK Says Iran Likely Coordinated Suspected Plot Against RAF Fairford Base
The two charged men appeared in court on Oct. 27, where prosecutors said a handler believed to be working for Iran directed vans loaded with petrol to the base and then told the drivers a bomb had been placed in one of them. Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Parliament on Monday that the suspected plot against the air base used by U.S. bombers was highly likely coordinated in Iran and almost certainly directed by the Revolutionary Guard. Iran denies any role.
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WorldNorth Korea Confirms Tactical Missile Test, Its 11th Launch of 2026
KCNA said on Tuesday that Monday's launch tested an upgraded core element of a tactical ballistic missile. One missile flew more than 900 kilometers. It was North Korea's 11th launch of the year and its fourth in a month.
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WorldNATO Commander Warns Russia Any Attack Would Be Broken
Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday that NATO would block, blunt and break any attack on an ally, and strike the forces that support it.
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WorldMagnitude 6.1 Earthquake Strikes Panama Near Río Grande in Aftershock Sequence
The USGS reviewed a magnitude 6.1 quake at 23:20 UTC on Monday, 17 kilometers west of Río Grande in Veraguas, at 11 kilometers deep, with no tsunami flag. Reuters, citing the EMSC, reported a magnitude 6 quake in Panama the same evening. No damage toll has been tied to this tremor yet.
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WorldRetired San Francisco Sergeant Suspected of Killing Deputy Chief Wife and Daughter in Marin County
Marin County deputies found three people dead in a Strawberry home on Sunday. The sheriff's office said on Monday that retired sergeant Kevin Mannix was the suspected shooter.
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WorldFlash Flood Sweeps Away Dozens of Homes in Nepal's Gorkha
Five villagers are missing and more than 100 foreign trekkers are stranded along the Manaslu Circuit after the Budhi Gandaki flash flood. Rescuers had brought out 321 people by Monday.
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WorldDOJ Probes TV Networks Over White House Pool Boycott
The Antitrust Division is examining whether ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC broke the law when they briefly halted pooled coverage after Trump barred CNN from the White House.
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WorldFederal Agents Raid Rep. Ilhan Omar's Home in Criminal Probe
Homeland Security agents searched the congresswoman's Washington-area home early Monday. The Justice Department called it part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
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WorldIran Sets Supertanker Ablaze Hours After US Blockade Strike
A supertanker caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after a projectile strike, hours after a US fighter jet disabled a ship trying to run the blockade. Iran claims the tanker hit one of its mines.
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WorldUkraine Says Russia Broke Trump's Energy Ceasefire Within Hours
Zelensky told the Warsaw Security Forum that Moscow struck a Kharkiv power plant and a gas facility hours after Trump's surprise announcement, while the Kremlin refused to confirm any deal and Washington warned Kyiv over its refinery strikes.
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WorldStolen SUV Hits Woman, Nearly Plows Into Melbourne Marathon
A 16-year-old allegedly drove a stolen Ford Escape into a pedestrian and within meters of the cordoned Melbourne Marathon course on Sunday morning. Victoria Police say it was not terrorism.
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WorldPope Leo Leads Angelus in First Public Appearance Since Lung Cancer Surgery
The 71-year-old pope appeared at the window of the Apostolic Palace on Sunday, five days after surgery to remove part of his right lung. He thanked his doctors, said he is gradually resuming his duties, and his surgeon cleared the planned November trip to Latin America.
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WorldPhiladelphia Officer Shane Seiber Killed, Second Officer Shot 12 Times in West Philadelphia Ambush; Suspect Faces State and Federal Charges
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, a 10-year veteran with two children, was shot and killed early Saturday after responding to a report of a man with a gun on a porch. A second officer was shot 12 times and is in stable condition. Suspect Eric Lewis, 35, faces about 80 charges including homicide of a law enforcement officer. This is a developing story. On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Lewis on five counts, including discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and he faces up to life in federal prison if convicted.
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WorldHouthis vow more attacks after Aramco HQ hit and missile downed over Riyadh
A ballistic missile was intercepted over Riyadh on Wednesday, October 14. The Houthis claimed Aramco targets in Dhahran and Riyadh, debris injured four people in the capital on Tuesday, and the airport stays shut until October 17.
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WorldNine Dead, Including Two Children, in Erie Mass Shooting
A gunman shot and killed eight people at a home in Erie on Friday evening, including two children and a woman who was eight months pregnant, before dying of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say all the shootings happened before officers arrived. This is a developing story.
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World3,000 detained in Delhi protest over poll chief's resignation
Police boarded an Air India flight to detain protest leaders on arrival, then swept up 3,000 people, four former chief ministers and sitting MPs in a crackdown over alleged voter-roll tampering.
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WorldRussian glide bombs kill 17 in Zaporizhzhia, including 3 children
Five guided bombs hit apartment blocks before dawn, killing three children and flattening a five-story building. Kyiv says the attack is Moscow's answer to Washington's diesel deal.
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WorldVideos Show the Chaotic Seconds Before an ICE Agent Shot a Man in the Bronx
Surveillance cameras caught two plainclothes agents surrounding Oscar Belgal's car before gunfire rang out off camera. The recordings do not show the shots, and the two official accounts of what happened next still clash.
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WorldThree men found guilty of killing two Australian brothers and an American friend on a surfing trip in Mexico
A Mexican judge convicted Jesús Gerardo García, known as "El Kekas," and two co-defendants of aggravated homicide, violent robbery and vehicle theft in the April 2024 deaths of Callum Robinson, 33, Jake Robinson, 30, and their American friend. Sentencing is set for October 16.
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World6.0 Earthquake Strikes Panama as Aftershock Swarm Follows Morning's 7.7
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the latest tremor near La Tronosa at 11:14 p.m. local time Friday. It followed a violent day that collapsed buildings in central Panama and triggered tsunami warnings across five countries.
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WorldTrump and Mamdani Held a Two-Hour Call After the NYC ICE Shooting. It Ended in a Split.
The mayor pressed the president to release the man ICE shot in Marble Hill and to halt immigration enforcement in the city. Hours later, the administration was criticizing him on camera.
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WorldLong Beach Home on Verge of Collapse as Tropical Storm Rachel Pounds the Peninsula
Waves from former Hurricane Rachel tore apart sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk at Friday's high tide, leaving one beachfront home on the verge of collapse. The city red-tagged two structures and yellow-tagged three more, and the NWS has a coastal flood advisory in effect through Tuesday as worse conditions are expected this weekend.
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WorldNYPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Aftermath in Bronx ICE Shooting
The video shows the first city officers arriving after Thursday's shooting, finding Oscar Belgal handcuffed on the ground and rushing him to the hospital. The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the shooting.
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WorldPowerful 6.6 Aftershock Strikes Western Panama Hours After Friday's Main Shock
The USGS revised the quake down from a preliminary 6.9 to a reviewed 6.6, striking at 20:25 UTC about 14 km west of Río Grande at 10 km depth, the largest aftershock of Friday's seismic sequence. ShakeMap estimates severe shaking near the epicenter; no damage reports had come in yet.
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World7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Panama; Tsunami Threat Lifted
The USGS revised the shallow quake up to a reviewed 7.7 near Pitaloza Arriba; tsunami warnings for Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Guatemala were later lifted, and the Panama Canal is operating normally. A red PAGER alert warns some casualties are possible.
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WorldAOC Accuses Target of Letting ICE Use Bronx Stores as 'Staging Sites' After Shooting
The congresswoman demanded the retail chain stop offering Bronx properties to federal agents, hours after an ICE officer shot 28-year-old Oscar Belgal with a 5-year-old boy in the back seat.
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WorldDHS Chief Defends New York ICE Shooting, Calls Victim One of the 'Worst of the Worst'
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the federal agents who shot a man in the Bronx with his 5-year-old son in the back seat, setting up a clash with city leaders who called the shooting an outrage.
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WorldNavi Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for Defending International Law
The 85-year-old South African jurist who took on apartheid and later reshaped international justice receives the prize for a lifetime defending the rule of law.
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WorldIsaias weakens to remnant as 'sting jet' slams coast at 117 mph
Isaias came ashore near Destin as a 105-mph Category 2 hurricane Friday night, weakened to a post-tropical cyclone Saturday, killed five people in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, and cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers across the Southeast.
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WorldICE Agent Shoots Man in NYC Car With 5-Year-Old, Sparking Protests
Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck during a federal arrest operation in the Bronx; the child was unharmed. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting 'unconscionable' as hundreds protested outside the hospital.
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WorldTrump Pledges No Iran Strikes Before November Midterms as Oil Prices Jump
The Truth Social pledge followed reporting that the Pentagon had drawn up limited strike options. Markets swung as investors weighed war risk against talk of productive negotiations.
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WorldTear Gas in France as 266,000 March for School Funding
What began at one Paris-region high school has grown into the largest protest wave in months, pressuring the administration of outgoing President Macron.