- Shenzhou Astronauts Stranded in Orbit After Suspected Impact Halts Return Indian Defence Review
- Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule Live Science
- A Piece of Space Junk Hit Their Ride Home. What Does This Mean for Space Exploration? Scientific American
- China Delays Return of Astronauts After Debris May Have Hit Spacecraft The New York Times
- Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris CNN
The Killing Field
Fault Lines investigates the killings of Palestinians seeking aid at GHF sites in Gaza.
Attackers target ship off Somalia’s coast amid piracy resurgence
A Malta-flagged tanker heading from Sikka, India, to Durban, South Africa, is targeted by suspected Somali pirates.
Video: Wife of murdered Mexican mayor takes his role in office
"I will continue his legacy". The wife of a murdered Mexican mayor has been sworn into the same role.
Trump claims California election was rigged. Is he correct?
White House claims mail-in voting fraud, but evidence and data misrepresentation disprove widespread election rigging.
India’s Bihar elections start with 74 million voters: What’s at stake?
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Attackers board a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing rocket-propelled grenades – AP News
Afghanistan opium crop falls sharply after Taliban ban – UN report – BBC
- Afghanistan opium crop falls sharply after Taliban ban - UN report BBC
- Afghanistan’s opium crop falls 20 percent as synthetic drugs surge Al Jazeera
- Opium farming in Afghanistan shrank by a fifth in 2025, UN survey finds Reuters
- Afghanistan: Opium cultivation drops sharply, but regional trafficking rises UN News
- Taliban Asked UN Not To Report On Badakhshan Poppy-Eradication Protests, Says UNODC افغانستان اینترنشنال
Afghan opium crop plummets after Taliban ban, UN survey finds
Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of global opium but a Taliban ban has cut that to a fraction.
Malaysian rapper Namewee arrested over alleged murder of Taiwanese influencer
Namewee detained after Hsieh Yu-hsin found dead in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room on 22 October
A well-known Malaysian rapper and film-maker, Namewee, has been arrested in relation to the alleged murder of a Taiwanese woman in Kuala Lumpur.
Hsieh Yu-hsin, 31, a former nurse turned internet celebrity who posted under the name Nurse Goddess, was found dead in a hotel room on 22 October. Police this week reclassified her death as murder, after unspecified new evidence emerged.
Continue reading...Pirates fire grenades and board vessel off Somali coast
The attack comes amid a resurgence of piracy in the region in recent days.
German nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients to reduce his workload – CNN
- German nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients to reduce his workload CNN
- German nurse gets life in jail after murdering 10 to reduce workload BBC
- Nurse gets life sentence for murder of 10 patients and attempted murder of 27 others in Germany CBS News
- Nurse Was Under Stress Due To Workload. So He Killed 10 Of His Patients NDTV
- Banality of evil: German nurse kills 10 patients - to reduce workload Times of India
Louvre heist a ‘deafening wake-up call’, says auditor
Report says Paris museum prioritised ‘visible and attractive’ projects over security in run-up to robbery
The spectacular theft of an estimated €88m (£77m) of crown jewels from the Louvre last month was “a deafening wake-up call” for the “wholly inadequate pace” of security upgrades at the Paris museum, the head of France’s state auditor has said.
Presenting the report, which was completed before the dramatic heist at the world’s most-visited museum, Pierre Moscovici said the Louvre had sufficient funds for the improvements and “must now implement them without fail”.
Continue reading...Tigray fighters enter Ethiopia’s Afar region, stoking fears of new conflict
Tigray was the centre of a devastating two-year war that pitted the TPLF against Ethiopia’s federal army.
Pope meets with Palestinian President, says action on Gaza is ‘urgent’ – Vatican News
- Pope meets with Palestinian President, says action on Gaza is 'urgent' Vatican News
- Pope Leo meets Palestinian president, calls for two-state solution to "end the conflict" in the Middle East CBS News
- Pope Leo XIV and Palestinian leader Abbas meet over Gaza situation Euronews.com
- Pope Leo meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas America Magazine
- The President Arrives in Italy for a Three-Day Official Visit وكالة صدى نيوز
US ends deportation protection for South Sudanese nationals
South Sudanese people with temporary protected status now have 60 days to leave
The US is ending temporary deportation protection for South Sudanese nationals, which for more than a decade allowed people from the east African country to stay in the US after escaping conflict.
In a notice published on Wednesday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said conditions in South Sudan no longer met the statutory requirements for temporary protected status. The agency said South Sudanese nationals with status through the programme had 60 days to leave the US or face deportation.
Continue reading...Arachnid Megacity Discovered in Cave May Be World’s Largest Spider Web – ScienceAlert
- Arachnid Megacity Discovered in Cave May Be World's Largest Spider Web ScienceAlert
- World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black Live Science
- This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe Could Be the World's Largest Smithsonian Magazine
- This Cave Holds a Spider Web ‘Megacity’ the Size of Half a Tennis Court Scientific American
- Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web Phys.org
At White House meeting, Hungary’s Orbán to seek Trump’s blessing to keep buying Russian oil – AP News
- At White House meeting, Hungary's Orbán to seek Trump's blessing to keep buying Russian oil AP News
- Orbán to visit White House to try to broker Trump-Putin summit for peace in Ukraine The Guardian
- Trump to meet Hungary's Orban to discuss Russian oil, economic cooperation Reuters
- Orban’s chummy relationship with Trump could help his oil sanctions pitch Politico
- Orban Turns to Trump as His Rivals Circle Bloomberg.com
Ukraine faces ‘forever war’ unless Europe steps up pressure on Russia, says ex-Nato chief
Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls for air shield on Nato territory and deployment of European protection force for Ukraine
Ukraine is facing a “forever war” and a slow erosion of territory unless Europe dramatically increases pressure on Russia, including by deploying troops and establishing a missile and drone shield on Nato territory to protect Ukraine from Russian attacks on its infrastructure, a former Nato secretary general has said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who held the Nato post from 2009 to 2014 and was the prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009, said in an interview with the Guardian that if countries such as Poland agreed to host such air defences, Russia would understand that an attack on them would be an attack on the whole of the Nato alliance.
Continue reading...Afghanistan’s opium crop falls 20 percent as synthetic drugs surge
UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.