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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

General Motors logo on the headquarters building in downtown Detroit
General Motors to take a $1.6bn hit as US tax incentives for EVs slashed
General Motors will record a negative impact of $1. 6bn (€1. 4bn) in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles (EVs) were slashed by the US and rules governing emissions are relaxed.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Google office building, Kings Cross, London, UK.
Google announces £11 billion investment in AI hub in India
Google has announced it will invest 15 billion dollars (£11 billion) in India over the next five years to establish its first artificial intelligence (AI) hub in the country.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Vatican Italy
Pope urges Italy to remain open to migrants in meeting with president
Pope Leo XIV thanked Italy on Tuesday for its efforts to combat human trafficking but urged the country to remain open to welcoming and integrating migrants as he took part in a pomp-filled meeting with the Italian president.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Missing bodies of hostages top list of uncertainties as Gaza ceasefire holds
Separately, the Israeli military said troops in northern Gaza had “opened fire to remove the threat” of several people approaching them on Tuesday across the “yellow line” and not complying with orders to stop

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Madagascar president dissolves lower house of parliament amid apparent coup bid
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina dissolved the country’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday in the midst of a military rebellion that led him to flee the country.

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Russia Ukraine War
Seven hurt as Russian aerial attack hits Ukrainian hospital
It came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to travel to Washington and ask US President Donald Trump for more American military help

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Italy Carabinieri Killed
Three Italian police officers killed in blast while evicting siblings from house
A brother and a sister in their 60s were detained after the blast in the town of Castel d’Azzano, six miles south west Verona, while a third sibling escaped

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Madagascar president leaves country after soldiers turn against him
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has left the country after an elite military unit turned against the government in an apparent coup, an opposition official said on Monday.

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

Mideast Wars Gaza
In Pictures: Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are welcomed home
The last surviving hostages from Gaza have been returned home to Israel in a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas.

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-PRISONERS
Hamas releases all 20 remaining hostages under Gaza ceasefire deal
Hamas has said 20 living hostages will be exchanged for more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

Nobel Economics
Nobel economics prize goes to trio for innovation-driven economic growth studies
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work on explaining innovation-driven economic growth.

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

Trump Mideast Wars Gaza
Trump warns Russia he may send Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles
Mr Trump suggested he could be ready to increase the pressure on Vladimir Putin’s government using a key weapons system

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

Trump
Trump sets off for Middle East to mark Gaza ceasefire deal
Mr Trump thinks there is a narrow window to reshape the Middle East and reset long-fraught relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Mass-Shooting-South-Carolina
Four killed and 20 injured in mass shooting at bar in US
A mass shooting at a crowded bar in South Carolina has left four people dead and at least 20 injured. Local officials said the incident occurred early on Sunday at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St Helena Island.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

France Politics
France’s re-appointed prime minister names new Cabinet
France’s newly re-appointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu named a new government on Sunday, as he faces pressure to urgently produce a budget and quell political turmoil that is scaring businesses and investors and staining the country’s image.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Russia Ukraine War
Ukraine’s power grid targeted again by Russia
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid in a major overnight operation, as part of an ongoing campaign to cripple energy infrastructure before winter.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Egypt Mideast Wars Gaza
Aid entering Gaza ramps up as Israelis await release of hostages
Egypt said it is sending 400 trucks carrying aid into Gaza on Sunday. The trucks will have to be inspected by Israeli forces before being allowed in.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Madagascar Protests
Attempted coup ‘initiated’ in Madagascar, says president
An attempted coup is under way in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, the country’s president has said, a day after members of an elite army unit were seen joining youth-led protests against the government.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Pakistan Afghanistan Border
Afghanistan claims 58 Pakistani soldiers killed in border operations
Afghanistan has said it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

The Open 2024 - Day Two - Royal Troon
Tiger Woods undergoes back surgery to replace collapsed disc in spine
The 15-time major winner had lumbar disk replacement surgery on Friday after experiencing pain in his lower back.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Tennessee Explosion
No survivors found after blast at Tennessee explosives factory, sheriff says
A blast in the US state of Tennessee that levelled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around left no survivors, authorities said. The total number of dead was unclear, as was the cause of the blast on Friday.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Biden-Cancer
Biden receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer
Former US president Joe Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy as part of a new phase of treating the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving office, a spokesperson said.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza
Palestinians return to ruins and US troops land in Israel amid plea over aid
Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have loaded cars, carts and bicycles with belongings and made their way back to their neighbourhoods, weaving through streets shrouded in dust as bulldozers began to claw through the wreckage of two years ...

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

France Politics
France’s reappointed PM Lecornu calls for calm amid political chaos
France’s newly reappointed prime minister has acknowledged there were not “a lot of candidates” for his job – and that he might not last long in the post given the country’s deep political divides.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

APTOPIX Greece Parthenon Scaffolding Removed
Greece’s famed Parthenon free of scaffolding for first time in decades
Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructed, scaffolding-free view of the Parthenon temple.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

APTOPIX Russia Ukraine War
Power restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes on energy grid
Power has been restored to more than 800,000 residents in Kyiv a day after major attacks by Russia on the Ukrainian power grid caused blackouts across much of the country.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Lebanon Israel
Israel strikes south Lebanon, killing one and wounding seven
Israel has carried out intense air strikes on southern Lebanon, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a highway that links Beirut with parts of south Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Philippines Earthquake
At least seven killed as two powerful quakes strike off southern Philippines
Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the same region in the southern Philippines hours apart on Friday, with the first 7.4 magnitude tremor killing at least seven people, setting off landslides and prompting evacuations of coastal areas nearby ...

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

France Politics
France’s Macron asks newly resigned Lecornu to try again to form a government
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

Trump
Donald Trump in ‘exceptional health’, says his doctor
US President Donald Trump is in “exceptional health”, his doctor said after he underwent a check-up that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

North Korea Worker's Party Anniversary
North Korea displays new long-range missile at military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has rolled out his nuclear-armed military’s most powerful weapons, including a new intercontinental ballistic missile he may be preparing to test in coming weeks, at a massive military parade attended by foreign ...

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025

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