LIVE: Israel returns 30 bodies of prisoners to Gaza, per terms of ceasefire
Bodies returned after Hamas hands over two more bodies of Israeli captives, as Palestinians wonder if truce will hold.
LIVE: Australia beat India by 4 wickets – second T20
Follow our live build-up, with toss and team news, ahead of our full text commentary stream of the World Cup warm-up.
Trump calls for Senate to scrap filibuster tactic to end the gov’t shutdown
The US president called for Republicans to go for the 'Nuclear Option' in order to end the Democratic Senate roadblock.
Iran condemns Trump’s call to resume US nuclear testing
Tehran rebukes US plans for nuclear tests, citing hypocrisy over peaceful nuclear programme accusations.
‘Give your money away,’ Billie Eilish tells billionaires
The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.
Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build
Grand Egyptian Museum next to pyramids of Giza billed as world’s largest archaeological facility for single civilisation
A vast $1bn museum billed as the world’s largest archaeological facility dedicated to a single civilisation will open outside Cairo on Saturday, after countless delays over the course of its two-decade construction.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, located a mile away from the pyramids of Giza, covers an area of 470,000 sq metres. The complex was announced in 1992 but it was not until 2005 that construction began. Some areas of the museum opened in a soft launch in 2024.
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Radio Free Asia says halting news operations due to Trump admin cuts
Announcing the move, staff at the outlet said 'authoritarian regimes are already celebrating' its potential demise.
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives
The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners.
After two days of debate, the upper house of Victoria’s parliament passed the statewide treaty bill without amendment by 21 votes to 16, just before 9pm on Thursday.
Continue reading...Barcelona’s Sagrada Família becomes world’s tallest church
The Gaudí-designed architectural marvel now stands at an impressive 162.91 metres.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Família becomes world’s tallest church
The Gaudí-designed architectural marvel now stands at an impressive 162.91 metres.
Man trapped in flooded basement dies as New York hit by severe rain
Officials say body of man, 39, pulled from Brooklyn basement as rainstorm closes roads and causes delays
A man’s body was pulled from a flooded New York City basement on Thursday during a rainstorm that shut down roadways and caused airport delays, authorities said.
A scuba team recovered the body of a 39-year-old man after firefighters received a call of a person trapped in a flooded basement in Brooklyn at about 4.30pm, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Continue reading...Trump caps refugee admissions at record low – with most to be white South Africans
The president sets the limit at 7,500 for the coming year, a dramatic cut from 125,000.
More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump demolishing East Wing – poll
Survey, in which one-third respondents voted for the president, found 56% disagree with move
More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and the construction of a new ballroom, according to a new poll from the Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.
The survey was conducted between 24 and 28 October and indicates 56% of the respondents disagree with Trump’s recent move while 28% are in favor of it. Most of the survey’s respondents were white, one-third of them voted for Donald Trump and another third for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Continue reading...‘Yes, we’ve been to the moon before’: Nasa rebuffs Kim Kardashian conspiracy theory
Nasa chief Sean Duffy confirms 1969 landing was indeed real after US celebrity on TV show says ‘I think it was fake’
Nasa has rejected comments made by Kim Kardashian about the 1969 moon landing and confirmed that it did, in fact, happen.
During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the Skims founder questioned whether the space mission ever took place while noting her interest in conspiracy theories.
Continue reading...Radio Free Asia suspends news operations amid cuts and US government shutdown
RFA will begin closing overseas bureaus, as well as laying off and paying severance to staff members, with the hope that it could return in the future
Radio Free Asia (RFA) has said it is suspending its news operations due to the US government shutdown and the Trump administration’s cuts to government-funded news services.
“RFA has been forced to suspend all remaining news content production – for the first time in its 29 years of existence,” said Bay Fang, RFA’s president and CEO, in a statement.
Continue reading...Five charged in overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson
The men are accused of running a drug ring in New York City that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media.
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can’t remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
‘Can’t go back’ – families in violence-hit Indian state fear resettlement deadline
Families displaced by the ongoing ethnic conflict are anxious as a government deadline to shut down relief camps nears.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,345
Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.