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APTOPIX Kenya Obit Raila Odinga
Two killed in stampede at funeral of Kenyan former prime minister Raila Odinga
A stampede at a football stadium during the state funeral service for Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga has killed two people and injured more than 100 others.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Portugal Face Coverings
Portuguese parliament approves bill banning face coverings in public
Portugal’s parliament has approved a bill banning face veils worn for “gender or religious” reasons in public, in a move seen as largely targeting the face coverings worn by some Muslim women.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Kenya Obit Raila Odinga
18 injured in stampede at funeral for Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga
Eighteen people have been injured during a stampede at a football stadium during the state funeral service for Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga, the democratic reformer who died this week in India at the age of 80.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Belgium NATO Defense Ministers
US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel – reports
The US has seized survivors after a military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region last month, a defence official and another person familiar ...

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

APTOPIX John Bolton
John Bolton pleads not guilty to charges of sharing classified information
John Bolton has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing the former President Donald Trump national security adviser-turned critic of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top secret documents at his Maryland home.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Russia Ukraine Trial
Russia convicts 15 captured Ukrainian soldiers on terrorism charges
Fifteen captured Ukrainian soldiers have been convicted on terrorism charges by a court in southern Russia after a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Poland Germany Pipeline Attack
Polish court blocks extradition and frees Ukrainian suspected in pipeline blasts
A Polish court has blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and ordered his release, a ruling welcomed by Poland’s prime minister.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Hamas reaffirms commitment to ceasefire amid delays returning hostages’ bodies
Hamas has moved to shore up its brittle ceasefire agreement with Israel by reaffirming its commitment to the terms of the deal that includes a pledge to hand over the remains of all dead Israeli hostages.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Italy Journalist Explosion
Italy’s anti-Mafia police investigate after journalist’s car explodes
A car belonging to one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists exploded outside his home overnight, prompting an investigation by Italy’s anti-Mafia authorities and condemnation from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Trump Mideast Wars Gaza
Hungary ‘the only place in Europe’ where Trump-Putin meeting can be held – Orban
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban has celebrated his country’s status as the host of upcoming talks between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a meeting where the two leaders are expected to discuss an end to the ...

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Trump Zelenskyy
Trump signals he might not be ready to send Kyiv Tomahawk missiles
US President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks at the White House on Friday, with the US leader signalling he is not ready to agree to sell Kyiv a long-range missile system that the Ukrainians say they ...

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Coup
Madagascar’s coup leader sworn in as president after military takeover
An army colonel who seized power in a military coup has been sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader in a power grab that ousted the president and sent him into hiding.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Italy-Journalist-Explosion
Meloni offers solidarity with top journalist after blast hits car
Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned those behind an explosive device that detonated under the car of one of the country’s leading investigative journalists while it was parked outside his home.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Japan Obit Murayama
Former Japanese PM Tomiichi Murayama dies aged 101
Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologising to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, has died aged 101.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Obit Ace Frehley
Kiss original lead guitarist and founding member Ace Frehley dies at 74
Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the rock band Kiss who captivated audiences with his elaborate makeup and smoke-filled guitar, has died aged 74.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

John Bolton Harvard
Ex-national security adviser John Bolton charged in classified information probe
Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has been charged with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives diary-like notes about his time in government that contained classified information.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Trump warns Hamas ‘we will have no choice’ if bloodshed persists in Gaza
US President Donald Trump has warned Hamas “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Kenya Raila Odinga
Kenyan police fire at mourners as violence erupts at viewing of body of ex-PM
Kenyan police opened fire on Thursday, killing two people as they tried to control a crowd of mourners gathered for a public viewing of the body of former prime minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day earlier in India, ...

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Trump Russia Ukraine War
Trump speaks to Putin as he considers Ukraine’s push for long-range missiles
US President Donald Trump is speaking to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as he considers Ukraine’s push for long-range missiles.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Russia Ukraine War EU
EU unveils plan to be ready within five years to fend off any Russian attack
The European Union has laid out a plan aimed at ensuring that Europe can defend itself against outside attack by the end of the decade as concern mounts that Russia is already probing the bloc’s defences.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Ryder Cup - Day One - Bethpage Black Course
Shane Lowry: Delhi car horns not as off-putting as Ryder Cup crowd in New York
His bogey-free eight-under 64 saw him overtake long-time clubhouse leader Keita Nakajima by a stroke.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

People - Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift fans flood German museum to see Ophelia painting echoing hit video
A German museum has been unexpectedly overrun by Taylor Swift fans because one of its paintings bears a striking resemblance to the opening scene of the star’s current number one hit video The Fate Of Ophelia.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Nepal Obit Kanchha Sherpa
Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of 1953 Mount Everest expedition, dies
Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, has died, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Russia Ukraine War
Russian barrage causes blackouts in Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks Trump’s help
Russia has battered energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in its latest heavy bombardment of the country’s power grid, authorities said.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

France Politics
Embattled French PM Sebastien Lecornu survives no-confidence vote
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived a vote of no-confidence on Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza
Red Cross receives remains of two more Hamas hostages to be given to Israel
The confusion added to tensions over the fragile truce that has paused the two-year war

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Titanic Tourist Sub
Faulty engineering led to implosion of submersible headed to Titanic – report
Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded in a report.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Military coup leader says he will be sworn in as Madagascar’s president
Madagascar’s military coup leader said that he is “taking the position of president” in an interview at his barracks.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

France Politics
French prime minister Lecornu faces further attempts to topple his government
France could sink deeper into political crisis when the prime minister faces two attempts in Parliament to topple his fragile new government, which could leave President Emmanuel Macron with no palatable option other than calling snap legislative ...

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Haiti National Palace
Doctors Without Borders closes care centre in Haiti capital because of violence
Doctors Without Borders said ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care centre, which had been a key lifeline in a city now 90% controlled by gangs.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Tensions rise as Israel says body released by Hamas was not that of a hostage
Gaza’s health ministry said it received 45 additional bodies of Palestinians from Israel

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Afghanistan Pakistan
Pakistan says 48-hour ceasefire has been agreed with Afghanistan
Pakistan said it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan following days of violence that have killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the ceasefire was at Afghanistan’s request.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Russia Syria
Syria’s interim leader arrives in Russia for first visit
Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian president Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, has arrived in Russia on his first visit.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Pakistan Afghanistan
Civilians killed in renewed fighting between Afghan and Pakistan forces
More than a dozen Afghan civilians were killed and over 100 others were wounded as renewed fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan broke out along their shared border, officials said.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Kenya Obit Raila Odinga
Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga dies aged 80
Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, a key figure in African politics, has died of a heart attack in India, the Devamatha Hospital in India’s Kerala State confirmed on Wednesday. He was 80.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Israelis identifying second group of bodies from Hamas as fragile truce holds
Three of four bodies handed over on Tuesday night were identified as Israeli hostages, but the identity of the fourth remained in question

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians
Red Cross hands over remains of four Israeli hostages
Hamas has eased the pressure on a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel by returning the bodies of more dead hostages.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Madagascar’s president ousted in military coup after weeks of protests
Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina has been toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Social media and mental health
Instagram restricts teenagers to ‘PG-13 content’ by default
Teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and will not be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Trump
Trump threatens to pull Argentina support ‘if politics don’t align with US’
US president Donald Trump has threatened to pull assistance for Argentina if the nation’s internal politics do not go the United States’ way in its upcoming elections.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Obit D'Angelo
Grammy-winning R&B singer D’Angelo dies aged 51
D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who garnered mainstream attention with the shirtless Untitled (How Does It Feel) music video, has died. He was 51.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages
The ceasefire plan introduced by Donald Trump called for 'all hostages, alive and deceased' to be returned within 72 hours of the agreement’s acceptance

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Newtown Shooting Infowars
US Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal over £1bn Sandy Hook judgment
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the 1.4 billion-dollar (£1 billion) judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by ...

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

France Politics
French PM proposes suspending controversial pension age law until 2027 election
French Prime minister Sebastien Lecornu has proposed the suspension of a contested plan raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a move to avoid his fragile minority government being immediately toppled.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

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