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- Houthis Hit Saudi Oil Sites and Aden in Widening Retaliation Spiral
2026-10-25 07:58 EDT · 801 words · World
Houthis Hit Saudi Oil Sites and Aden in Widening Retaliation Spiral Saree Lists Seven Targets Across Saudi Arabia Yemen's Houthis said on October 24 that they had launched a broad wave of attacks…
- Settlers Turn the West Bank Olive Harvest Into a Season of Fear
2026-10-25 03:23 EDT · 589 words · World
Settlers Turn the West Bank Olive Harvest Into a Season of Fear A harvest that now starts with funerals The olive harvest that began in early October was supposed to be the West Bank's happiest…
- Serbia's Snap Vote: The Strongman Who Stepped Down to Face the Students
2026-10-25 06:30 EDT · 839 words · World
Serbia's Snap Vote: The Strongman Who Stepped Down to Face the Students A vote that finally feels uncertain Serbians voted on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that feels unlike any vote in…
- Soldiers Ring Milan as Europe's Youth Protest Wave Spreads
2026-10-25 07:43 EDT · 678 words · World
Soldiers Ring Milan as Europe's Youth Protest Wave Spreads A peaceful march under heavy guard in Milan Thousands of mostly young protesters marched through Milan, Rome and Turin on Saturday, October…
- Pope Leo to Skip Assisi Peace Gathering as Doctors Urge Post-Surgery Caution
2026-10-25 02:42 EDT · 462 words · World
Pope Leo to Skip Assisi Peace Gathering as Doctors Urge Post-Surgery Caution A Friday announcement cancels the October 27 trip Pope Leo XIV will not travel to Assisi on October 27 for the "Unarmed…
- U.S. Spy Chief Warns Iranian Assassination Plots Are Nearing Execution
2026-10-25 01:52 EDT · 519 words · World
U.S. Spy Chief Warns Iranian Assassination Plots Are Nearing Execution A One-Page Memo Sounds the Alarm on Tehran In a one-page unclassified memo dated October 23, Director of National Intelligence…
- Kim Crosses New Yalu Bridge Into China in First Trip Abroad in Over a Year
2026-10-24 09:14 EDT · 663 words · World
Kim Crosses New Yalu Bridge Into China in First Trip Abroad in Over a Year A train ride across the new span to Dandong North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong on…
- Ukraine Hits Deep Inside Russia: Electronics Plant, Rubber Works and Military Aircraft Struck
2026-10-24 09:24 EDT · 616 words · World
Ukraine Hits Deep Inside Russia: Electronics Plant, Rubber Works and Military Aircraft Struck General Staff confirms three hits across two days Ukraine's General Staff said on Oct.
- Fire Engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest; Suspect Detained as Arson Probe Begins
2026-10-24 06:29 EDT · 447 words · World
Fire Engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest; Suspect Detained as Arson Probe Begins Friday Night Alarm, a Mountaintop in Flames A major fire broke out on Friday evening at the Kehlsteinhaus, the mountaintop…
- Google's Illegal Clear-Cut in Finland: 400,000 Trees Gone for Data Centres
2026-10-24 09:32 EDT · 601 words · World
Google's Illegal Clear-Cut in Finland: 400,000 Trees Gone for Data Centres A quarter-million trees erased at Muhos Outside the rural town of Muhos in northern Finland, a forest of about 330 hectares…
- Met Police Admits It Sat on 2019 Letter About Meghan's Father
2026-10-24 14:37 EDT · 711 words · World
Met Police Admits It Sat on 2019 Letter About Meghan's Father Police confirm the letter, but date it a year later than Meghan The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Oct.
- France Deploys 70,000 Police as Students and Workers March Again Over Schools and Prices
2026-10-24 10:26 EDT · 971 words · World
France Deploys 70,000 Police as Students and Workers March Again Over Schools and Prices Smaller Paris Crowd Marches as Lyon Police Fire Tear Gas Thousands of students and workers marched in Paris…
- Trump Floats Warship Stopover Off Cuba at Florida Rally as Rubio Urges Islanders to Contact the CIA
2026-10-24 07:27 EDT · 738 words · World
Trump Floats Warship Stopover Off Cuba at Florida Rally as Rubio Urges Islanders to Contact the CIA A shouted question in Fort Myers revives the Cuba invasion talk On Friday, October 23, President…
- British Mother, 36, Drowns in Bahamas After Trying to Rescue Sons Swept Away While Snorkeling
2026-10-23 15:55 EDT · 444 words · World
British Mother, 36, Drowns in Bahamas After Trying to Rescue Sons Swept Away While Snorkeling A cruise stop turned tragic off South Bimini A 36-year-old British woman drowned on Tuesday, October 20,…
- Melania Trump Brokers a Local Truce for Oleshky Starting October 29, White House Says
2026-10-23 15:45 EDT · 576 words · World
Melania Trump Brokers a Local Truce for Oleshky Starting October 29, White House Says A one-city ceasefire announced in Washington The White House announced on Friday, October 23, that First Lady…
- Meghan 'Deeply Distressed' as Philippine Police Open Probe Into Claim Against Her Father
2026-10-23 16:01 EDT · 612 words · World
Meghan 'Deeply Distressed' as Philippine Police Open Probe Into Claim Against Her Father Son's Report, Broken by a British Tabloid, Sets Off the Case Late on October 22, Britain's Sun newspaper…
- Heat killed 'staggering' 50,000 people in Europe's cities this summer, scientists warn
2026-10-23 03:23 EDT · 710 words · World
Heat killed 'staggering' 50,000 people in Europe's cities this summer, scientists warn Study estimates over 50,000 heat deaths across 854 European cities Researchers from the London School of Hygiene…
- Ukraine's Drone Strikes on Russian Data Centers: Key Services Disrupted, AI Research Hit
2026-10-22 04:49 EDT · 407 words · World
Ukraine's Drone Strikes on Russian Data Centers Disrupt Services and AI Research Ukraine Targets Russian Data Centers With Drones In October 2026, Ukraine launched a series of drone strikes on data…
- Irish Politician Demands Common Sense After Gov-Funded PSA Tells Grandparents to Get Consent Before Hugging Grandkids
2026-10-22 01:41 EDT · 405 words · World
Irish Politician Demands "Common Sense" After Gov-Funded PSA Tells Grandparents to Get Consent Before Hugging Grandkids A Government-Funded Ad Sparks Outrage A government-funded public service…
- Hamas's Blunt Warning: Israeli Assessments Say the Capabilities Remain
2026-10-22 10:50 EDT · 905 words · World
Hamas's Blunt Warning: Israeli Assessments Say the Capabilities Remain A threat passed through a UN office Senior Hamas officials met Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN humanitarian coordinator, at his office…
- Super Typhoon Champi's 56-Kilometer Eye: Strongest Storm of 2026
2026-10-22 04:34 EDT · 896 words · World
Typhoon Champi's 56-Kilometre Eye Makes It the Strongest Storm of 2026 Born October 11, designated the season's thirtieth storm Typhoon Champi, called Rosal in the Philippines, is the thirtieth named…
- Macron Vows Order, Calls Foreign Criticism of French Police 'Stupid'
2026-10-22 01:45 EDT · 504 words · World
Macron Vows Order, Calls Foreign Criticism of French Police 'Stupid' Macron Pledges to Prevent Repeat of Weekend Violence French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Wednesday to prevent a repeat of…
- Iguazu Falls at the Brazil-Argentina Border: Water Flowing at Near-Record Rates
2026-10-22 13:24 EDT · 475 words · World
Iguazu Falls at the Brazil-Argentina Border: Water Flowing at Near-Record Rates Near-Record Flow at Iguazu Falls In October 2026, Iguazu Falls on the Brazil-Argentina border experienced one of its…
- North Korea Says Border Loudspeakers Will Be on Standby Within Days, Putting Seoul's Detente at Risk
2026-10-22 07:29 EDT · 663 words · World
North Korea Says Border Loudspeakers Will Be on Standby Within Days, Putting Seoul's Detente at Risk Speakers on standby across the whole border North Korean leader's sister Kim Yo Jong said on…
- Shark Nicknamed 'Bukangi' Returns to Sea After Third Rescue Attempt in South Korea
2026-10-22 02:30 EDT · 584 words · World
Shark Nicknamed 'Bukangi' Returns to Sea After Third Rescue Attempt in South Korea A Shark Trapped in a Busan Canal for Over a Month A 3-meter-long (9.8-foot) female dusky shark was first spotted on…
- UK Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia Extend a Century of Arms Deals
2026-10-22 01:48 EDT · 772 words · World
UK Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia Extend a Century of Arms Deals Britain Deploys Typhoons to Defend Saudi Arabia The United Kingdom announced on October 20 that it will deploy Royal Air Force Typhoon…
- Three Waves, 21 Ballistic Missiles: Russia Bombs Kyiv Hours After Talks
2026-10-22 09:46 EDT · 607 words · World
Three Waves, 21 Ballistic Missiles: Russia Bombs Kyiv Hours After Talks Twenty-one missiles in three waves Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles and attack drones in the hours after midnight on…
- Typhoon Champi Bears Down on Taiwan: Land Warning Issued, 125 Flights Cancelled, Japan Grounds 100+
2026-10-22 22:19 EDT · 600 words · World
Typhoon Champi Bears Down on Taiwan: Land Warning Issued, 125 Flights Cancelled, Japan Grounds 100+ Taiwan Issues Land Warning as Champi Packs 141 mph Gusts Taiwan's Central Weather Administration…
- U.S. Quietly Reduces Troop Footprint in Middle East as Iran Ceasefire Talks Continue
2026-10-22 04:24 EDT · 567 words · World
U.S. Trims Middle East Troop Footprint as Iran Ceasefire Talks Continue U.S. quietly reduces Middle East troop presence The U.S.
- Xi Jinping Urges "Qualitative Improvement" and "Reasonable Quantitative Growth" in China's Economy
2026-10-22 20:27 EDT · 502 words · World
Xi Jinping Urges "Qualitative Improvement" and "Reasonable Quantitative Growth" in China's Economy A Clear Signal: Quality First, Stability as Backdrop On Thursday, October 22, Chinese President Xi…
- Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Injuring at Least Two
2026-10-22 15:15 EDT · 485 words · World
Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Injuring at Least Two Strongest Quake to Hit China Since January 2024 A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck China's Tibet Autonomous Region late…
- UN Report: World Must Cut Emissions 18% in Four Years to Find Our Way Back
2026-10-21 14:31 EDT · 529 words · World
UN Releases Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released its Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return on October 21, setting out a "lowest…
- Pope Leo Needs No Further Cancer Treatment, Vatican Says
2026-10-21 16:29 EDT · 516 words · World
Pope Leo Needs No Further Cancer Treatment, Vatican Says Vatican: Surgery Successful, Tumor Localized The Vatican press office said Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV's cancer surgery earlier this month was…
- Philippines Explores Deeper Cooperation With Taiwan to Protect Undersea Cables
2026-10-21 22:49 EDT · 518 words · World
Philippines Explores Deeper Cooperation With Taiwan to Protect Undersea Cables A New Cooperation Idea Floated at a Washington Think Tank On October 21, 2026, Felipe F.
- Super Typhoon Champi, 2026's Strongest Storm, Takes Aim at Taiwan After Darkening Guam
2026-10-21 07:03 EDT · 614 words · World
Super Typhoon Champi, 2026's Strongest Storm, Takes Aim at Taiwan After Darkening Guam Peak Winds of 296 km/h Crown a New Wind King Super Typhoon Champi has become the strongest tropical cyclone of…
- Roman Sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey Held a Medieval Abbot, Study Finds
2026-10-21 16:22 EDT · 698 words · World
Westminster Abbey's Roman Sarcophagus Mystery Finally Solved: Medieval Abbot Identified A Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey in 1869 finally yields its occupant's identity A limestone…
- Australian MP Helen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Vehicle Attack
2026-10-21 15:27 EDT · 784 words · World
Australian MP Helen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Vehicle Attack A Deliberate Attack, Both Legs Lost Independent federal MP Helen Haines has had both legs amputated after a car allegedly…
- Champi Tops the Planet at 296 km/h and Bears Down on Taiwan
2026-10-21 05:57 EDT · 550 words · World
Champi Tops the Planet at 296 km/h and Bears Down on Taiwan Peak Winds Hit 296 km/h, Strongest of 2026 Super Typhoon Champi became Earth's strongest storm of 2026 by wind speed on October 20, with…
- Vinted Purges Suspected Loot as France Turns Up Heat on Resale Sites
2026-10-20 06:08 EDT · 591 words · World
Vinted Purges Suspected Loot as France Turns Up Heat on Resale Sites Looters Empty Luxury Stores, Listings Appear Within Hours What began on Saturday, October 17 as nationwide demonstrations against…
- Chinese Navy Shadows USS Charleston Near Sabina Shoal
2026-10-20 06:54 EDT · 536 words · World
Chinese Navy Shadows USS Charleston Near Sabina Shoal US Combat Ship Tracked Off Spratly Reef at Dawn China said on October 20 that it had deployed naval forces to track and monitor an American…
- A Friend Says Stockton Rush Built His Own Death Trap
2026-10-20 11:24 EDT · 578 words · World
A Friend Says Stockton Rush Built His Own Death Trap A new book turns an accident into an accusation of murder The Titan disaster is back in the headlines because of a new book.
- Missiles Over Riyadh: Saudi Arabia Shelves 'Davos in the Desert' Until 2027
2026-10-20 07:57 EDT · 499 words · World
Missiles Over Riyadh: Saudi Arabia Shelves 'Davos in the Desert' Until 2027 A flagship summit pulled a week before showtime Saudi Arabia has postponed its flagship Future Investment Initiative until…
- Bangladesh's Measles Outbreak Has Killed 1,201 People, Almost All of Them Children
2026-10-19 09:18 EDT · 809 words · World
Bangladesh's Measles Outbreak Has Killed 1,201 People, Almost All of Them Children A preventable disease, back at national scale Measles returned to Bangladesh in mid-March, spreading from dense…
- The Crucifix Was Behind Him: An Ecuadorian Priest Dies on Camera
2026-10-19 07:14 EDT · 944 words · World
The Crucifix Was Behind Him: An Ecuadorian Priest Dies on Camera GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — The evening Mass at Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro had been running for about 27 minutes when the crucifix…
- Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reaches an Eighth Province as Response Trails the Virus
2026-10-19 07:02 EDT · 995 words · World
Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reaches an Eighth Province as Response Trails the Virus Outbreak reaches an eighth province Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to an eighth province in the country's north, the…
- The Maya Collapse Wasn't Just a Drought Story
2026-10-19 09:26 EDT · 663 words · World
The Maya Collapse Wasn't Just a Drought Story A tidy explanation meets a counterexample For decades, the standard account of the Classic Maya collapse has fit into a single sentence: the rains…
- Champi Grazes Guam, Then Jumps to Category 5
2026-10-19 08:11 EDT · 972 words · World
Champi Grazes Guam, Then Jumps to Category 5 A ten-mile miss before dawn The center of Super Typhoon Champi passed about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Merizo, on Guam's southern tip, at 4:26 a.m.
- Kenya's Ebola Cases Reach Eight as Local Transmission Chain Emerges
2026-10-19 12:16 EDT · 482 words · World
Kenya's Ebola Cases Reach Eight as Local Transmission Chain Emerges Sunday screening finds one positive among 38 tested Kenya confirmed its eighth Ebola case on Sunday, Oct.
- Seven Days to Reopen Hormuz, and 6,000 Crews Still Waiting
2026-10-19 09:45 EDT · 776 words · World
Seven Days to Reopen Hormuz, and 6,000 Crews Still Waiting The offer has not been withdrawn Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told Iranian outlets on Sunday that Tehran has not pulled its…
- Sixteen Chinese Ships, Four Fronts: Taiwan Calls It 'Hybrid Warfare'
2026-10-19 06:23 EDT · 882 words · World
Sixteen Chinese Ships, Four Fronts: Taiwan Calls It 'Hybrid Warfare' Sixteen vessels across four flashpoints Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration said on Sunday, October 18, that it had confronted and…
- Sydney's A.6 Billion Airport Opens With Six Flights a Day at Most
2026-10-19 07:19 EDT · 742 words · World
Sydney's A$5.6 Billion Airport Opens With Six Flights a Day at Most SYDNEY — At 11am on Sunday, a Jetstar Airbus A320 will leave Badgerys Creek for the Gold Coast, and Australia's first new…
- Rubio's First Central Asia Trip Comes With Questions About What He Skips
2026-10-19 04:08 EDT · 875 words · World
Rubio's First Central Asia Trip Comes With Questions About What He Skips A first Central Asia visit, starting in Samarkand Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on the…
- Trudy Skirts Mexico's Pacific Coast, Shutting Manzanillo and Emptying Beaches
2026-10-18 12:12 EDT · 842 words · World
Trudy Skirts Mexico's Pacific Coast, Shutting Manzanillo and Emptying Beaches Category 2 storm hugs the coastline Hurricane Trudy lashed parts of Mexico's southwestern and west-central Pacific coast…
- Kolkata Durga Puja Stampede: Rain, Whistles and a Narrow Lane Kill 19
2026-10-18 14:16 EDT · 818 words · World
Kolkata Durga Puja Stampede: Rain, Whistles and a Narrow Lane Kill 19 Nineteen die at a north Kolkata puja pandal A crush outside one of Kolkata's oldest Durga Puja venues killed 19 people and…
- Congo's Ebola outbreak reaches an eighth province as recorded deaths top 4,500
2026-10-18 14:23 EDT · 764 words · World
Congo's Ebola outbreak reaches an eighth province as recorded deaths top 4,500 Two cases in Nord-Ubangi, one of them fatal Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to an eighth province, Nord-Ubangi in the…
- Pope Leo Returns: Angelus From the Apostolic Palace, Five Days After Lung Surgery
2026-10-18 09:07 EDT · 623 words · World
Pope Leo Returns: Angelus From the Apostolic Palace, Five Days After Lung Surgery A window, a square, and five days At noon on 18 October, Pope Leo XIV appeared at a window of the Apostolic Palace…
- A Thousand Drones Over the Neva: St Petersburg's Largest Air Raid of the War
2026-10-18 10:05 EDT · 980 words · World
A Thousand Drones Over the Neva: St Petersburg's Largest Air Raid of the War The sky lit up at 2:50 a.m. Residents of St Petersburg were woken by explosions in the early hours of October 18.
- A Livestreamed Mass, a Falling Crucifix: Redemptorist Priest Killed in Guayaquil
2026-10-18 09:18 EDT · 813 words · World
A Livestreamed Mass, a Falling Crucifix: Redemptorist Priest Killed in Guayaquil A parish Mass in Guayaquil, cut off in its 27th minute On Saturday, October 17, 2026, the parish of Nuestra Señora del…
- Skip the giant models: World Bank tells developing countries to build 'small AI' that runs on a phone
2026-10-18 11:02 EDT · 975 words · World
Skip the giant models: World Bank tells developing countries to build 'small AI' that runs on a phone The bank puts narrow models at the centre The World Bank is telling developing countries to put…
- Pakistan Orders School Safety Inspections After Peshawar Roof Collapse Kills 35
2026-10-17 06:23 EDT · 862 words · World
Pakistan Orders School Safety Inspections After Peshawar Roof Collapse Kills 35 A three-storey school came down during morning lessons The upper roof of the privately run Al-Khair Education Centre in…
- Turkey's Kekova Wreck May Be the World's Oldest Ship—If the Pottery Is Right
2026-10-17 08:03 EDT · 830 words · World
Turkey's Kekova Wreck May Be the World's Oldest Ship—If the Pottery Is Right Thirty jars, three anchors, thirty metres down Off the shore of Kekova Island in Antalya province, southern Turkey, more…
- Vatican Releases First Images of Pope Leo XIV Celebrating Mass in Hospital After Cancer Surgery
2026-10-17 06:14 EDT · 934 words · World
Vatican Releases First Images of Pope Leo XIV Celebrating Mass in Hospital After Cancer Surgery First images since the surgery The Vatican released two photographs on Friday showing Pope Leo XIV…
- An American Pope Brings American-Style Governance to the Vatican — Even in a Health Crisis
2026-10-17 10:22 EDT · 984 words · World
The American Pope Rewrites the Vatican's Playbook The first American pope runs the Vatican like a boardroom Leo XIV — born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago on Sept.
- Drone Strikes on Black Sea Shipping Put NATO's Resolve to a New Test
2026-10-17 10:39 EDT · 1000 words · World
Drone Strikes Turn the Black Sea Into NATO's Hardest Test Two tankers hit off Romania's Danube mouth Two chemical tankers were struck by drones within 24 hours off Romania's Black Sea coast, Romanian…
- Life Sentence in Gansu: The Kindergarten That Painted Its Food With Lead
2026-10-17 11:11 EDT · 928 words · World
Life Sentence in Gansu: The Kindergarten That Painted Its Food With Lead Six defendants, six prison terms On the afternoon of 16 October 2026, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court in Gansu…
- A Harvest Under Siege: Eighty Masked Men, One Beaten Photographer
2026-10-17 05:57 EDT · 810 words · World
A Harvest Under Siege: Eighty Masked Men, One Beaten Photographer Eighty masked men came down the hill Shortly after dawn on Friday, October 16, some 80 masked Israeli settlers descended from a…
- Isabel Allende Won Spain's €1m Planeta Prize — Then Admitted She Had Entered as Someone Else
2026-10-17 11:16 EDT · 532 words · World
Isabel Allende Won Spain's €1m Planeta Prize — Then Admitted She Had Entered as Someone Else A pseudonym, a sequel and a seven-figure cheque Isabel Allende has won the 75th Premio Planeta, Spain's…
- Twelve Ships in Seven Days: Hormuz Attacks Hit a Wartime Record as Brent Touches $110
2026-10-17 10:12 EDT · 999 words · World
Twelve Ships in Seven Days: Hormuz Attacks Hit a Wartime Record as Brent Touches $110 Twelve attacks in a week, and another twelve behind it BBC Verify's analysis of UK Maritime Trade Operations…
- Sixteen Pulled From the Pacific Off Baja California as the Search Goes On for Eleven
2026-10-17 03:02 EDT · 727 words · World
Sixteen Pulled From the Pacific Off Baja California as the Search Goes On for Eleven A 1 a.m. Mayday, Then Only People in the Water The U.S.
- A Camera Trap in the Peruvian Amazon Caught a Giant Armadillo Pup — and Researchers Say They Never Dreamed of It
2026-10-16 09:18 EDT · 716 words · World
A Camera Trap in the Peruvian Amazon Caught a Giant Armadillo Pup — and Researchers Say They Never Dreamed of It A pup filmed in a Loreto community In mid-October 2026, a camera trap set by the…
- Magnitude 7.0 Quake Strikes Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula; No Tsunami Threat, and a False 9.9 Alert in Japan
2026-10-16 05:15 EDT · 972 words · World
Magnitude 7.0 Quake Strikes Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula; No Tsunami Threat, and a False 9.9 Alert in Japan A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Kamchatka on Friday The European-Mediterranean…
- Baku Sideline, Blunt Message: China Tells Israel to Reverse West Bank Settlements
2026-10-16 05:09 EDT · 994 words · World
Baku Sideline, Blunt Message: China Tells Israel to Reverse West Bank Settlements A meeting Beijing says Israel requested Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Baku…
- Rubio Brings 200 Business Leaders to Central Asia in a Bid for Room in Russia and China's Backyard
2026-10-16 11:07 EDT · 993 words · World
Rubio Brings 200 Business Leaders to Central Asia in a Bid for Room in Russia and China's Backyard Rubio's first Central Asia trip pairs ministers with business chiefs US Secretary of State Marco…
- Satellite Imagery Backs Ukraine's Claim of Six Su-34s Hit in Russia, and a $200 Million Bill
2026-10-16 18:36 EDT · 888 words · World
Satellite Imagery Backs Ukraine's Claim of Six Su-34s Hit in Russia — and a $200 Million Bill Ukraine's navy strikes a rear airfield with Neptune missiles Overnight on October 14–15, Ukraine's Naval…
- Rubio Tells Addis Ababa to Hold the Line as Shelling Kills Civilians in Tigray
2026-10-15 16:15 EDT · 952 words · World
Rubio Tells Addis Ababa to Hold the Line as Shelling Kills Civilians in Tigray A call from Washington, and a blunt warning US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone with Ethiopian Prime…
- Trudy Becomes a Hurricane Off Mexico, With a Category 4 or 5 Still on the Table
2026-10-15 17:12 EDT · 969 words · World
Trudy Becomes a Hurricane Off Mexico, With a Category 4 or 5 Still on the Table A Category 1 storm 300 miles off Acapulco Trudy strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it closed on Mexico's…
- American Airlines Quietly Exits Three Destinations in a Single Year
2026-10-15 01:16 EDT · 748 words · World
American Airlines Quietly Exits Three Destinations in a Single Year Three cities erased from the route map American Airlines has ended service to Santa Maria, California; Tijuana, Mexico;
- Peshawar School Roof Collapse Kills 28, Mostly Children, as Owner Is Arrested
2026-10-15 06:55 EDT · 831 words · World
Peshawar School Roof Collapse Kills 28, Mostly Children, as Owner Is Arrested Classes were in session when the roof came down A privately run school in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's…
- Sally Rooney's Novels Pulled From UK Shelves as Publisher Cites Terrorism Law
2026-10-14 17:08 EDT · 904 words · World
Sally Rooney's Novels Pulled From UK Shelves as Publisher Cites Terrorism Law Faber stops supplying Rooney's four novels in the UK On Wednesday, Irish novelist Sally Rooney and her publisher Faber &…
- China and North Korea Open a Bridge 12 Years in the Making
2026-10-14 10:57 EDT · 657 words · World
China and North Korea Open a Bridge 12 Years in the Making Thursday ends a 12-year wait Xinhua announced on Wednesday that the New Yalu River Bridge will officially open to traffic on Thursday,…
- A Flashing Light in the Dark: Cruise Passenger Found Alive After 20 Hours at Sea
2026-10-14 23:21 EDT · 695 words · World
A Flashing Light in the Dark: Cruise Passenger Found Alive After 20 Hours at Sea Overboard off Zakynthos in the early hours A 44-year-old passenger went into the water from Royal Caribbean's Odyssey…
- Pope Leo XIV Is Eating, Walking and Saying Mass After Cancer Surgery — but His Latin America Trip Is in Question
2026-10-14 22:32 EDT · 872 words · World
Pope Leo XIV Is Eating, Walking and Saying Mass After Cancer Surgery — but His Latin America Trip Is in Question Out of bed and eating a day later Pope Leo XIV has resumed his regular diet, begun…
- A Boxship Sinks in Hormuz as Iran Widens Its War on Shipping
2026-10-14 22:24 EDT · 970 words · World
A Boxship Sinks in Hormuz as Iran Widens Its War on Shipping A Singapore-Flagged Vessel Goes Down The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) confirmed that GFS Pride, a Singapore-flagged…
- Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Opens in Hamburg as Defence Seeks Dismissal
2026-10-14 23:29 EDT · 938 words · World
Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Opens in Hamburg as Defence Seeks Dismissal First trial, four years after the blasts A former Ukrainian army officer went on trial in Germany on Wednesday over the…
- Delta's Business-Class Revamp: New Seats, Better Plates and a Bigger Porsche Fleet
2026-10-14 08:02 EDT · 684 words · World
Delta's Business-Class Revamp: New Seats, Better Plates and a Bigger Porsche Fleet Delta Unveils Its Biggest Delta One Redesign in Decades On Wednesday, Delta Air Lines previewed a sweeping overhaul…
- Five Dead as Twin Storms Batter Mexico's Pacific Coast
2026-10-13 06:03 EDT · 746 words · World
Five Dead as Twin Storms Batter Mexico's Pacific Coast Five confirmed dead across two states Mexican authorities said on Monday, October 12, that Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel battered…
- Hijack Code, Radio Silence: What Shut Nuremberg Airport for Hours
2026-10-13 09:11 EDT · 770 words · World
Hijack Code, Radio Silence: What Shut Nuremberg Airport for Hours Airport suspends all flights over 'aviation emergency' Nuremberg Airport in Bavaria, southern Germany, halted all takeoffs and…
- Drones Sink Cargo Ship Off Bulgaria as 11 Crew Vanish in the Black Sea
2026-10-13 22:19 EDT · 801 words · World
Drones Sink Cargo Ship Off Bulgaria as 11 Crew Vanish in the Black Sea Two merchant ships hit within hours Drones struck two merchant vessels inside Bulgaria's Black Sea exclusive economic zone…
- Pope Leo XIV Has Lung Cancer; Surgeons Remove Lower Lobe of Right Lung
2026-10-13 22:10 EDT · 803 words · World
Pope Leo XIV Has Lung Cancer; Surgeons Remove Lower Lobe of Right Lung What the Vatican announced On Tuesday afternoon the Holy See press office issued a medical bulletin confirming that Pope Leo…
- Man Killed in Tiger Attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Named as William Chapman
2026-10-13 12:04 EDT · 715 words · World
Man Killed in Tiger Attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Named as William Chapman Saturday Afternoon Attack Left Chapman Dead at the Scene A man who entered a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park…
- Pope Leo XIV to Enter Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday for Lung Nodule Surgery
2026-10-12 13:20 EDT · 972 words · World
Pope Leo XIV to Enter Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday for Lung Nodule Surgery The Vatican sets a late-morning admission for Tuesday The Holy See Press Office announced on Monday, October 12, that Pope…
- NHC Watches a 20% Chance System Off Cabo Verde Days After Isaias Hits the Gulf
2026-10-12 11:27 EDT · 658 words · World
A disorganized low sits a few hundred miles west of Cabo Verde The National Hurricane Center has tagged an elongated area of low pressure in the eastern tropical Atlantic, centered a few hundred…
- North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles days after South Korea's hypersonic test
2026-10-12 03:53 EDT · 509 words · World
SEOUL — North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea on Monday morning, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, in what Seoul described as a show of…
- Nepal flash flood: landslide dam burst on Budhi Gandaki, 5 missing as helicopters rush in
2026-10-12 04:04 EDT · 500 words · World
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A flash flood swept the Budhi Gandaki River in north central Nepal on Sunday after a landslide dammed and then breached the river.
- UK Woman Denies Five 'Orwellian' Charges for Silent Prayer Outside Abortion Clinic
2026-10-12 23:25 EDT · 883 words · World
UK Woman Denies Five "Orwellian" Charges for Silent Prayer Outside Abortion Clinic Five New Counts Entered, All Not Guilty Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, 49, pleaded not guilty to five fresh charges at…
- Flash flood from landslide burst swamps Nepal's Budhi Gandaki, five missing
2026-10-11 10:54 EDT · 496 words · World
Flash flood from landslide burst swamps Nepal's Budhi Gandaki, five missing A sudden flash flood on the Budhi Gandaki River in north-central Nepal swept away dozens of homes on Sunday, October 11,…
- Six Years After Biking 700 Miles With Her Injured Dad, the Cycle Girl Says Fame Didn't Help
2026-10-11 14:09 EDT · 496 words · World
Six Years After Biking 700 Miles With Her Injured Dad, the "Cycle Girl" Says Fame Didn't Help In 2020, during India's strict COVID lockdown, 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari spent her last $20 on a hot-pink…
- Fugitive in Venezuelan Bribery Case Taken Into US Custody, to Appear in Court Tuesday
2026-10-11 23:07 EDT · 641 words · World
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- Eight Orangutans Rescued From Borneo Fires Get a New Home in a Protected Forest
2026-10-11 18:59 EDT · 504 words · World
Eight Orangutans Rescued From Borneo Fires Get a New Home in a Protected Forest Indonesian authorities and the wildlife rehabilitation foundation YIARI announced Sunday that eight orangutans rescued…
- Tiger That Fatally Mauled Visitor at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Will Not Be Euthanized
2026-10-11 11:54 EDT · 497 words · World
Tiger That Fatally Mauled Visitor at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Will Not Be Euthanized A man died on October 10 after climbing into a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in northern England,…
- Djibouti Shipwreck: Migrant Boat Capsizes, at Least 139 Dead, 84 Missing
2026-10-11 14:54 EDT · 609 words · World
Djibouti Shipwreck: Migrant Boat Capsizes, at Least 139 Dead, 84 Missing The International Organization for Migration said Sunday that a migrant boat traveling from Djibouti to Yemen capsized on the…
- Panama Earthquake Aftermath: 27 Injured, 147 Aftershocks, Buildings Collapsed
2026-10-10 05:59 EDT · 595 words · World
Panama Earthquake Aftermath: 27 Injured, 147 Aftershocks, Buildings Collapsed 27 injured, no deaths or missing reported Damage assessments from Panama's magnitude 7.7 earthquake are coming in.
- Kenya Reports First Ebola Death After Patient Slipped Through Three Countries Undetected
2026-10-10 01:53 EDT · 568 words · World
Kenya has reported its first Ebola death, a patient who died in a Nairobi hospital after slipping through border screening in three countries without being detected.
- Man Dies After Climbing Into Tiger Enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
2026-10-10 14:05 EDT · 433 words · World
Man Dies After Climbing Into Tiger Enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park A man who climbed over a fence and into a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England died Saturday after the tiger…
- Hurricane Simon Strengthens to Category 4, Puerto Vallarta Boards Up
2026-10-10 17:54 EDT · 768 words · World
Mexico's Pacific coast went into full alert on Saturday as Hurricane Simon strengthened into a Category 4 storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph) and taking aim at the resort city…
- Flydubai Co-Pilot Planned to Crash Jet Into Tel Aviv Terminal, Inspired by 9/11
2026-10-10 01:07 EDT · 489 words · World
Flydubai Co-Pilot Planned to Crash Jet Into Tel Aviv Terminal, Inspired by 9/11 Attorney general reveals the target: Ben Gurion Airport The UAE's Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi announced…
- Chile Declares Disaster Zone as 76-Year Record Rains Flood Santiago, Kill One
2026-10-09 12:00 EDT · 400 words · World
Chile Declares Disaster Zone as 76-Year Record Rains Flood Santiago, Kill One 74mm of rain, wettest October in 76 years Santiago, Chile received 74 millimeters of rain in the first seven days of…
- Stolen Renoir Paintings Recovered, Six Arrested in France
2026-10-09 10:07 EDT · 430 words · World
Stolen Renoir Paintings Recovered, Six Arrested in France A month-long art heist saga on the French Riviera has reached a turning point.
- Landmark UK Review Warns ADHD and Autism Diagnoses Are Nearing a 'Tipping Point'
2026-10-09 14:08 EDT · 580 words · World
Landmark UK Review Warns ADHD and Autism Diagnoses Are Nearing a 'Tipping Point' A landmark government-commissioned review published on October 9 has warned that ADHD and autism diagnoses in England…
- 7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Panama, Tsunami Warning Issued; Canal Unaffected
2026-10-09 15:57 EDT · 539 words · World
A powerful earthquake struck off Panama's southwestern coast on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the magnitude-7.7 quake hit at 12:56 p.m.
- Drones Hit Yandex Data Center in First Major Strike on Russian Data Hub
2026-10-08 11:05 EDT · 739 words · World
Drones Hit Yandex Data Center in First Major Strike on Russian Data Hub The Russia-Ukraine drone war has reached digital infrastructure.
- Britain and Israel Strike Last-Minute Deal: Jerusalem Consulate Stays, Shrunk to 7 Diplomats
2026-10-08 06:59 EDT · 601 words · World
A last-minute deal on deadline day Israel's 30-day closure order, issued September 8, expired on October 8 — and at the last moment, Britain and Israel announced a compromise: the nearly 200-year-old…
- Russian Glide Bomb Hits Kramatorsk Bus Stop, Killing 33 and Wounding 18
2026-10-08 09:06 EDT · 502 words · World
Russian Glide Bomb Hits Kramatorsk Bus Stop, Killing 33 and Wounding 18 Glide bomb strikes bus stop in broad daylight At about 10 a.m.
- Hormuz Tanker Attacks Hit Weekly Record Since Iran War Began, Oil Prices Climb
2026-10-08 03:48 EDT · 589 words · World
The most dangerous week since the war began Tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have hit a new record.
- Anne Carson Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
2026-10-08 07:54 EDT · 419 words · World
Stockholm pick: Toronto-born poet honored for bold reinvention The Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Canadian poet, essayist and…
- Tanker Hit by Multiple Projectiles North of Qatar, Crew Casualties Reported
2026-10-08 04:57 EDT · 598 words · World
Tanker Hit by Multiple Projectiles North of Qatar, Crew Casualties Reported A tanker was struck by multiple projectiles on October 7 in waters north of Qatar, with crew casualties reported.
- Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz "Closed"; U.S. Military Calls It a "False Claim"
2026-10-08 05:00 EDT · 722 words · World
Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz "Closed"; U.S. Military Calls It a "False Claim" Mohammadreza Naqdi, a senior adviser to the commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told the…
- Sydney Elite Boys' School Teacher Charged Over Alleged Sexual Abuse of Student on School Trip
2026-10-08 14:10 EDT · 410 words · World
A 32-year-old geography teacher, Deandra Kontou, has been charged over the alleged grooming and sexual abuse of a boy under 16 while she worked at Newington College, an elite all-boys private school…
- Andrew Secures Key Court Victory as Police Admit Raid Warrants Were Unlawful
2026-10-08 13:07 EDT · 708 words · World
Andrew Secures Key Court Victory as Police Admit Raid Warrants Were Unlawful Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has won the first round of his legal fight against British police after Thames Valley Police…
- Rubio Delivers Acropolis-Backdrop Speech in Athens, Fueling 2028 Speculation
2026-10-08 09:09 EDT · 615 words · World
Rubio Delivers Acropolis-Backdrop Speech in Athens, Fueling 2028 Speculation Western civilization, staged beneath the Acropolis At sunset on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a…
- Settlers Beat AFP Photographer With Rifle Butts as Israeli Soldiers Watch
2026-10-07 02:53 EDT · 419 words · World
Settlers Beat AFP Photographer With Rifle Butts as Israeli Soldiers Watch "Press" markings did not save him Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for Agence France-Presse in Palestine,…
- A New Crocodile Species Emerges From the Rocks That Built the Great Sphinx
2026-10-07 11:57 EDT · 558 words · World
A New Crocodile Species Emerges From the Rocks That Built the Great Sphinx A nearly complete fossil skull dug up in Egypt in the 1920s — and misclassified for almost a century — has been identified…
- Maricarmen Abascal, 87, Whose Eviction Shook Spain, Has Died
2026-10-07 16:05 EDT · 503 words · World
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, Whose Eviction Shook Spain, Has Died Madrid's tenants' union announced Wednesday that María del Carmen Abascal, 87, has died.
- Ex-German Spy Chief Hanning Formally Detained; Lawyer Denies Treason, Azerbaijan Denies Link
2026-10-07 13:15 EDT · 546 words · World
Ex-German Spy Chief Hanning Formally Detained; Lawyer Denies Treason, Azerbaijan Denies Link The espionage case against Germany's former intelligence chief took a new turn on October 7: an…
- Former German Spy Chief Hanning Arrested on Treason Charges in Espionage Probe
2026-10-06 14:26 EDT · 490 words · World
Former German Spy Chief Hanning Arrested on Treason Charges in Espionage Probe Germany's Federal Prosecutor General ordered the arrest of August Hanning, the 80-year-old former head of the Federal…
- Flydubai Co-Pilot Planned Attack Before Joining Airline, Israeli Officials Say
2026-10-06 16:36 EDT · 517 words · World
Planned Before Hiring: He Picked an Airline That Flew to Tel Aviv The flydubai Flight FZ1073 attack case has produced a critical new confession.
- A Dozen Fled Russian-Held Oleshky Through a Minefield in September; the Route Is Now Re-Mined
2026-10-06 14:29 EDT · 490 words · World
A Dozen Fled Russian-Held Oleshky Through a Minefield in September; the Route Is Now Re-Mined Between 10 and 12 civilians escaped the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky in September via a…
- Yemen Government Forces Claim Recapture of Strategic Port Mocha from Houthis
2026-10-06 02:56 EDT · 504 words · World
Yemen Government Forces Claim Recapture of Strategic Port Mocha from Houthis Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance along the western coast on Oct.
- Australia Probes FlyDubai Co-Pilot's Past: Melbourne Studies, Visa Canceled
2026-10-06 00:01 EDT · 429 words · World
Australian Federal Police confirmed on October 4 that the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team is investigating the links to Australia of the co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 — the first foreign…
- Saudi East-West Pipeline Back to Normal After New Attack, Pumping 5.5M Barrels a Day
2026-10-05 13:13 EDT · 521 words · World
Conflicting reports emerged Monday over Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline: Agence France-Presse cited a Saudi energy-sector source saying the conduit was attacked again on Sunday and halted,…
- Türkiye and Pakistan to rapidly deploy forces to Saudi Arabia under Mecca defence pact
2026-10-05 19:05 EDT · 551 words · World
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan held an emergency session of the Mecca Alliance for Defence's Strategic Political and Defence Committee in Riyadh on October 5, deciding to move immediately to the…
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wins permission to challenge police search warrants
2026-10-05 06:53 EDT · 466 words · World
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been granted permission to bring a judicial review against Thames Valley Police over the search warrants that led to his arrest in February, the Telegraph reported on…
- French 15-year-old loses hand after picking up police grenade amid school protests
2026-10-05 19:08 EDT · 565 words · World
A 15-year-old student lost his hand and part of his lower arm on Monday morning after picking up a police dispersal grenade during clashes between high-school protesters and riot police in Lens,…
- British Airways BA295 Plunges 28,000 Feet, Squawks 7700 and Returns to Heathrow
2026-10-05 13:07 EDT · 416 words · World
A British Airways flight bound for Chicago declared an emergency over Ireland on Monday after plunging from 36,000 feet to about 9,000 feet in seven minutes, then turned back to London.
- US Pulls All B-1 Bombers Out of Britain Over Suspected Iran-Linked Terror Plot
2026-10-05 02:54 EDT · 678 words · World
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- Ethiopian Rebel Forces Withdraw From Tigray Regional Capital
2026-10-04 13:03 EDT · 566 words · World
Ethiopian Rebel Forces Withdraw From Tigray Regional Capital The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the rebel movement governing Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, has announced its forces have…
- Singapore's Last Cross-Border Shuttle Train Is Running Out of Track
2026-10-04 01:58 EDT · 818 words · World
Singapore's Last Cross-Border Shuttle Train Is Running Out of Track The train covers just 1.1 kilometers and the ride lasts about five minutes, but the KTM Shuttle Tebrau is the cheapest rail…
- France to Close Up to 500 Schools Monday as Student Protests Escalate
2026-10-04 20:55 EDT · 703 words · World
France will fully or partially close between 400 and 500 secondary schools on Monday, October 5, as a wave of student protests that began in the Paris suburbs escalates into one of the country's most…
- Tinubu's Month-Long Absence Sparks Constitutional Fight as Shettima Returns from UNGA
2026-10-04 02:00 EDT · 889 words · World
Tinubu's Month Abroad Without Handing Over Power Sparks Constitutional Fight in Nigeria Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima visited President Bola Tinubu at his Lagos residence on October 3, days…
- Badenoch pledges free childcare for high earners as Tory conference opens
2026-10-04 05:54 EDT · 658 words · World
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch announced on October 3 that a future Tory government would scrap the £100,000 income cap on free childcare, extending the 30-hours-a-week entitlement to high-earning…
- Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City Apartment, Killing at Least Five
2026-10-04 07:53 EDT · 610 words · World
Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza City Apartment, Killing at Least Five Residents Asleep When the Strike Hit At about 1:28 a.m.
- Flydubai Co-pilot Tried to Seize Flight FZ1073 After Axe Attack on Captain, UAE Says
2026-10-04 06:57 EDT · 748 words · World
Flydubai Co-pilot Tried to Seize Flight FZ1073 After Axe Attack on Captain, UAE Says A Flydubai co-pilot attacked his captain with a cockpit crash axe during a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on…
- British Museum Rolls Out New Measures to Ease Bayeux Tapestry Queues
2026-10-04 14:01 EDT · 795 words · World
British Museum Rolls Out New Measures to Ease Bayeux Tapestry Queues Under mounting public pressure, the British Museum has announced a package of new measures — effective Monday — to ease the long…
- India's Gen-Z "Cockroach Party" Corners Election Chief: Nationwide March on Delhi Set for Oct. 10
2026-10-03 10:53 EDT · 610 words · World
Title: India's Gen-Z "Cockroach Party" Corners Election Chief: Nationwide March on Delhi Set for Oct.
- Yemen's Army Claims 700 Houthis Killed in Hundreds of Strikes
2026-10-03 20:59 EDT · 538 words · World
Yemen's Army Claims 700 Houthis Killed in Hundreds of Strikes Yemen's Army Claims 700 Houthis Killed in Hundreds of Strikes Yemen's internationally recognized government forces said on Oct.
- Ukraine Talks Now Include Multibillion-Dollar Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
2026-10-03 12:56 EDT · 439 words · World
The Trump administration's negotiations with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine have taken on a new dimension: the talks now include a multibillion-dollar oil deal involving the international…
- Argentina Is Selling Passports: 50,000 Buys Citizenship in South America's First CBI Program
2026-10-03 02:01 EDT · 471 words · World
Argentina Is Selling Passports: $350,000 Buys Citizenship in South America's First CBI Program Caputo announces in Paris: applications open in Q4 Economy Minister Luis Caputo announced at the…
- Trump Warns Iran of 'Very Hard' Strikes If Linked to FlyDubai Attack
2026-10-03 03:01 EDT · 525 words · World
President Donald Trump said Thursday, October 1, that Iran would be struck "very hard" if investigators establish a link between Tehran and the cockpit attack on FlyDubai flight FZ1073 — the first…
- Stephen Harper Warns Alberta That Separatism Brings "No Benefit"
2026-10-03 01:57 EDT · 487 words · World
Stephen Harper Warns Alberta That Separatism Brings "No Benefit" The former prime minister's column in the Calgary Herald Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper published a column in the…
- Kyiv and Moscow Trade Strikes, at Least 5 Killed as Russia Hits Second Dnipro Bridge
2026-10-03 13:03 EDT · 459 words · World
Russia and Ukraine traded strikes over the weekend, with casualties reported on both sides.
- Houthis Say They Hit Aramco Facility in Riyadh With Missiles and Drones
2026-10-03 17:56 EDT · 407 words · World
Houthis Say They Hit Aramco Facility in Riyadh With Missiles and Drones Houthis claim retaliatory strike on the Saudi capital Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on October 3 that they had targeted a…
- Spain Takes to the Streets Over Housing a Day After Parliament Kills Tenant Decrees
2026-10-03 15:54 EDT · 767 words · World
Spain Takes to the Streets Over Housing a Day After Parliament Kills Tenant Decrees On Saturday, October 3, 2026, hundreds of thousands of people marched across Spain to protest a deepening housing…
- "We Had Hardly Any Choice": India's Envoy Explains Why New Delhi Let Sheikh Hasina In
2026-10-03 17:53 EDT · 609 words · World
"We Had Hardly Any Choice": India's Envoy Explains Why New Delhi Let Sheikh Hasina In India says it was caught off guard in August 2024 India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, said…
- Carney names Pacific Link pipeline Canada's first "project of national interest"
2026-10-03 22:53 EDT · 605 words · World
Carney names Pacific Link pipeline Canada's first "project of national interest" Pacific Link takes the title On October 1, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood beside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in…
- After 1,000 years, Czar Samuel's remains come "home" to Bulgaria
2026-10-03 22:55 EDT · 592 words · World
After 1,000 years, Czar Samuel's remains come "home" to Bulgaria Two culture ministers sign the deal On Tuesday, September 29, the culture ministers of Greece and Bulgaria signed a memorandum of…
- G-7 Agrees to Release 100 Million Barrels of Oil Reserves, With Diesel First — Europe Yields to Trump
2026-10-03 02:04 EDT · 609 words · World
G-7 Agrees to Release 100 Million Barrels of Oil Reserves, With Diesel First — Europe Yields to Trump October 2 video summit: 100 million barrels over four months Leaders of the Group of Seven agreed…
- Kasparov Says U.S. and Lithuanian Security Services Warned Him His Life Is in Danger
2026-10-03 02:05 EDT · 543 words · World
Kasparov Says U.S. and Lithuanian Security Services Warned Him His Life Is in Danger The 63-year-old former world chess champion goes public Russian opposition figure and former world chess champion…
- U.S. Sanctions Russia's A7 Payments Network for Helping Iran Dodge Sanctions, Labels It a Transnational Criminal Organization
2026-10-03 02:07 EDT · 607 words · World
U.S. Sanctions Russia's A7 Payments Network for Helping Iran Dodge Sanctions, Labels It a Transnational Criminal Organization Treasury's Thursday strike: three moves at once The U.S.
- Stabbed FlyDubai Captain, From Hospital Bed, Tells Modi: 'I Couldn't Let Everybody Else Die'
2026-10-02 04:54 EDT · 741 words · World
The Indian captain stabbed in a suspected hijacking attempt aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv has broken his silence, telling India's prime minister from a hospital bed in Abu Dhabi that he kept…
- Widdecombe Murder Suspect Charged With Preparing Terror Acts Against Farage
2026-10-02 16:04 EDT · 490 words · World
A murder suspect faces an additional terror charge British police announced Friday that Joshua Kerry, the 28-year-old man accused of murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe, has been charged with one…
- RAF Fairford Probe Widens: Dual UK-Iranian National Arrested on Terror Suspicion
2026-10-02 01:59 EDT · 446 words · World
RAF Fairford Probe Widens: Dual UK-Iranian National Arrested on Terror Suspicion A sixth arrest in London British counter-terrorism police on Thursday arrested a 27-year-old dual U.K.-Iranian…
- Coast Guard Seizes Dark-Fleet Tanker Bound for Cuba, Escorts It to Mexico
2026-10-02 15:59 EDT · 487 words · World
The M/V Grace, seized and escorted to Mexico The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that on September 5 it intercepted a large cargo ship, the M/V Grace, in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Mexico…
- Merz coalition on the brink: reform row explodes ahead of crunch talks next week
2026-10-02 14:13 EDT · 515 words · World
Chancellor Friedrich Merz's governing coalition is edging toward a cliff. Deutsche Welle reported on October 2 that Merz's conservatives are dialing up pressure on their center-left partners, the…
- Starbucks Opens Its First Stores in Xinjiang; U.S. Lawmaker Calls Move "Morally Bankrupt," Demands Closures
2026-10-02 03:57 EDT · 490 words · World
Starbucks Opens Its First Stores in Xinjiang; U.S. Lawmaker Calls Move "Morally Bankrupt," Demands Closures Starbucks has opened its first two stores in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi — one at the city…
- Two days before Brazil vote: U.S. suspends consular services, Australia shuts embassy
2026-10-02 14:03 EDT · 416 words · World
Two days before Brazil's presidential election, the U.S. State Department abruptly announced it was suspending consular services at its embassy and consulates in Brazil starting Friday, October 2,…
- Spain's Parliament Rejects Housing Decrees as Protests Swell, Snap Election Looms
2026-10-02 12:02 EDT · 585 words · World
Spain's parliament on Friday voted down two emergency housing decrees, 178 to 172, dealing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez the costliest legislative defeat of his tenure.
- Putin Warns the West: Russia Prepared to Use "All Weapons" If Kaliningrad Is Attacked
2026-10-02 03:56 EDT · 448 words · World
Putin Warns the West: Russia Prepared to Use "All Weapons" If Kaliningrad Is Attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on October 1 that Moscow is prepared to use "all weapons" in its…
- Trump Promises a Quick End to the Iran War — While Sending 9,000 More Troops
2026-10-02 15:56 EDT · 559 words · World
Two messages in one day: more troops, a promise of a quick end President Donald Trump told supporters at the Peterbilt Motors plant in Denton, Texas, on Thursday night that Iran "is ready to fold up"…
- France's High-School Protests Escalate: 1,000+ Schools Hit, 400+ Closed Friday
2026-10-02 05:56 EDT · 737 words · World
France's High-School Protests Escalate: 1,000+ Schools Hit, 400+ Closed Friday France's student protest movement entered its second week on October 2 with scale and violence both rising.
- Pakistan's Container Blockade Backfires: Cargo Piles Up at Karachi Port as Truckers Refuse to Drive North
2026-10-02 04:55 EDT · 613 words · World
Pakistan's effort to keep supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan out of the capital is creating a nationwide supply-chain crisis.
- Fighting Intensifies Around Yemen's Taiz as Fears of All-Out War Grow
2026-10-02 11:56 EDT · 662 words · World
Warplanes of Yemen's internationally recognized government carried out 20 airstrikes in three hours on Friday against Houthi targets in Taiz province — the most serious escalation between Saudi…
- Turkey's F-35 Comeback Hits an Israeli Roadblock: The Stalled S-400 Transfer to the UAE
2026-10-02 09:02 EDT · 682 words · World
Turkey's F-35 Comeback Hits an Israeli Roadblock: The Stalled S-400 Transfer to the UAE Turkey's escape route back into America's F-35 fighter program looked almost open — and then it slammed shut.
- Cuba Has 20-Hour Blackouts and Six Grid Collapses This Year: How Close to the Brink?
2026-10-01 17:07 EDT · 995 words · World
Cuba Has 20-Hour Blackouts and Six Grid Collapses This Year: How Close to the Brink?
- Dangote Breaks Ground on $16B Kenya Refinery as Land Protests and Court Battle Loom
2026-10-01 17:41 EDT · 732 words · World
Dangote Breaks Ground on $16B Kenya Refinery as Land Protests and Court Battle Loom Groundbreaking: East Africa's biggest industrial project On September 30, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote —…
- Putin: Touch Kaliningrad and Russia Will Use Every Weapon It Has
2026-10-01 17:12 EDT · 981 words · World
Putin: Touch Kaliningrad and Russia Will Use Every Weapon It Has Russian President Vladimir Putin issued his bluntest nuclear warning yet on October 1, telling the Valdai Forum in Moscow that the…
- Naomi Campbell Wins Appeal, Overturns Five-Year Charity Trustee Ban
2026-10-01 15:41 EDT · 665 words · World
Tribunal Overturns Campbell's Five-Year Ban Naomi Campbell won her legal battle in London on October 1: a three-judge panel of the First-Tier Tribunal overturned the five-year disqualification from…
- Withdraw by Friday or Face Disqualification: Israel's Supreme Court Pressures Arab Party Leader
2026-10-01 17:27 EDT · 642 words · World
What happened: nine justices hear the case, a party leader is told to quit Israel's Supreme Court opened hearings on Thursday (October 1) on appeals against the Central Elections Committee's…
- Sanctioned by Washington, Cut Off From Everyday Life: An ICC Judge on a Year Under U.S. Sanctions
2026-10-01 17:24 EDT · 642 words · World
What happened: a year of sanctions, from dead credit cards to a silent Alexa If you want to see how far American sanctions can reach, ask Kimberly Prost's Alexa.
- Paris Probe Clears BAPS in Eiffel Tower Row: No Explicit Request to Remove Female Staff
2026-10-01 18:41 EDT · 495 words · World
Paris Probe Clears BAPS in Eiffel Tower Row: No Explicit Request to Remove Female Staff The General Inspectorate of the City of Paris has cleared the Hindu organization BAPS of the most damaging…
- Trump Xi’s Washington Summit is over: the trade truce lasted two months, and many issues of consensus and disagreement coexisted.
2026-09-28 03:06 EDT · 1497 words · World
On 25 September 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his three-day State visit to the United States, concluding the Washington Summit with very high diplomatic specifications and limited…
- Trump-Xen Jinping Washington Summit: a well-scheduled and limited substantive outcome
2026-09-28 06:05 EDT · 891 words · World
[Phone] President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, and a three-day State visit ended this week.
- Vucić resigned as President of Serbia seven months early and will run for the October parliamentary election of Prime Minister.
2026-09-28 03:03 EDT · 1305 words · World
On 27 September 2026, the President of Serbia, Alexander Vucić, who has been in office for more than 10 years, officially announced his resignation from the presidency, completing his second…
- Ukraine discloses the details of the transfer of Korean prisoners of war and the Republic of Korea requests an apology and warns of further measures
2026-09-28 02:04 EDT · 966 words · World
The Korean Government formally requested an apology from President Zelensky of Ukraine to Kiev for the disclosure of the transfer of Korean prisoners of war at the United Nations General Assembly and…
- The key Saudi pipelines were repaired and exports resumed. Back litres
2026-09-28 09:04 EDT · 1143 words · World
On 27 September 2026, local time, after Saudi Arabia had completed the full rehabilitation and resumed export operations of the core East-to-East pipeline, which had been shut down by an armed…
- Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the expansion of the army to 2.44 million and the addition of 155,000 active soldiers.
2026-09-28 22:09 EDT · 1316 words · World
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new presidential decree calling for the expansion of the Russian armed forces to 2,441,630 personnel, of whom 1,550,500 are active.
- Putin has issued a number of executive orders to expand to 2.44 million troops and advance multi-line countermeasures.
2026-09-28 19:08 EDT · 1223 words · World
In late September 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued numerous executive decrees in various areas, including military expansion, the control of Western corporate assets, the temporary…
- Pope Leo XIV's French campaign stands for European democracy, with a clear difference of position with Trump.
2026-09-28 10:05 EDT · 821 words · World
[Phone] Pope Leo XIV is conducting a four-day visit to France during which European democracy, multiculturalism and freedom of the press are publicly praised on numerous occasions, in contrast to the…
- Pentagon, leaking personal data on nearly 4 million active and former servicemen.
2026-09-28 20:13 EDT · 1107 words · World
The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) of the United States Department of Defense has confirmed that security gaps in a document-sharing system have led unauthorized users to access unencrypted…
- Over 50 people were arrested outside the Labour Congress for supporting a British-convicted organization, Palestine.
2026-09-28 03:07 EDT · 878 words · World
Summary of events According to numerous media reports, over 50 supporters of Palestine Action were arrested outside the meeting during the British Labour Party congress in Liverpool.
- Netanyahu made a covert visit to Abu Dhabi and asked the UAE to deny the 10-7 alert report.
2026-09-28 10:07 EDT · 884 words · World
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu travelled secretly to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on weekends to hold a closed meeting with the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed…
- The United States Marines were injured by an Iranian missile attack on a non-military ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
2026-09-28 19:07 EDT · 1424 words · World
According to numerous media reports, on 14 September 2026, Iran fired anti-ship cruise missiles at a non-military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, injuring eight members of the United States Marines.
- At least 10 people were killed by Russian jet drones hitting the Kiev Academy.
2026-09-28 22:07 EDT · 1742 words · World
On 28 September 2026, Russia launched a multi-wheel drone attack on the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, one of which directly hit the building of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in the centre of…
- The release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Islamabad blockade
2026-09-28 23:43 EDT · 1265 words · World
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is still in detention and his party, the Pakistan Justice Movement (PTI), was postponed until 4 October, when a large-scale march was scheduled to…
- Leo XIV Four-day visit to France: bridging divisions, opposing euthanasia and artificial intelligence warnings
2026-09-28 23:44 EDT · 1701 words · World
Pope Leo XIV paid an official four-day visit to France from 25 to 28 September 2026.
- Flood surveillance throughout New Mexico.
2026-09-28 19:11 EDT · 1352 words · World
Flood surveillance throughout New Mexico and the risk of rapid flooding at life-threatening levels in parts of Texas stem from the massive flow of water from Hurricane Polo to the south-west of the…
- On September 23rd, 2026, Madrid 87-year-olds were evicted to protest the housing crisis
2026-09-28 23:13 EDT · 1761 words · World
On 23 September 2026, an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, Spain, was forcibly evicted from an apartment where she lived for more than 70 years.
- America's ban on Canada's three commodities came into effect on September 29th.
2026-09-28 23:47 EDT · 1536 words · World
The United States ban on the importation of alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles into Canada will enter into force on 29 September at 0000 hours, the latest upgrade of the United States since the…
- There was a lot of incremental agreement between Trump and Xi at the Washington Summit.
2026-09-27 21:24 EDT · 1268 words · World
From 23 to 25 September 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a State visit to the United States and held a three-day bilateral summit in Washington with United States President Trump.
- The Pope calls assisted suicide a false form of compassion and is concerned about the medical options of the American dying.
2026-09-27 21:05 EDT · 909 words · World
Pope Leo XIV publicly characterized assisted suicide as "false compassion" during the French pilgrimage to Ludh, reiterating the Catholic Church's firm position against euthanasia and medical…
- North Korea testing drone-missile-mixed swarm attack tactics.
2026-09-27 21:32 EDT · 1330 words · World
Core conclusions Numerous media reports indicate that the DPRK is testing a combination of drone and missile strike tactics.
- Front-line urban fighting in Yemen: the Al-Houthi armed advance triggered massive displacement and humanitarian crisis
2026-09-27 21:29 EDT · 892 words · World
Conclusion: The conflict escalated sharply, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee and the humanitarian situation in Yemen faced a total collapse In the recent past, heavy fighting between…
- The loss of food for the Oleški civilian population in April and the Russian obstruction of the evacuation have exacerbated the humanitarian disaster.
2026-09-27 21:28 EDT · 914 words · World
Status of the current crisis According to numerous media reports, the city of Olyshki and surrounding towns and villages in the south of Ukraine, which are currently occupied by Russia, are facing an…
- First joint interception of Russian military aircraft by Finland and Sweden and entry into operational phase of joint Nordic air defence cooperation
2026-09-27 23:04 EDT · 822 words · World
[Phone] The recent joint interception of a group of Russian military aircraft by Finnish and Swedish fighters over the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea represents the first joint air interdiction…
- The Egyptian intelligence chief flew to Israel to warn Hamas of an imminent mass attack, and Netanyahu denied receiving any warning.
2026-09-27 21:29 EDT · 876 words · World
Numerous media reports indicate that, prior to the Hamas raid on Israel on 7 October 2023, which caused extensive casualties, Egyptian Intelligence Director Abbas Kamel warned the Israeli side…
- The Democratic Party has a historic rift in Israeli policy: growing divisions within the party and accelerating legislative action
2026-09-27 21:31 EDT · 1239 words · World
Conclusion : The attitude of the U.S. Democratic Party towards Israel is undergoing the most dramatic change in decades.
- Bangkok floods: Thailand's capital declared disaster and tens of thousands forced to evacuate
2026-09-27 21:30 EDT · 1239 words · World
Conclusion: Bangkok is in an emergency situation. Thailand ' s capital, Bangkok, had suffered from severe monsoon storms that had left the country with extensive water accumulation and traffic…
- The Holmuz crisis hit the LNG market.
2026-09-27 13:05 EDT · 1271 words · World
The Holmuze crashes. One fifth of the global supply of LNG is under attack. Following the outbreak of the US-Iraq war at the end of February 2026, shipping traffic in the Straits of Hormuz came to a…