- 5 more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge AP News
- Inside the Louvre Jewel Heist That Shocked the World The New York Times
- Five new suspects arrested over Louvre heist – but still no sign of looted jewels CNN
- Paris prosecutor says 2 suspects in the Louvre jewel heist acknowledge their involvement AP News
- MFA Boston’s Historic Restitution, Five New Louvre Arrests Made, and More: Morning Links for October 30, 2025 ARTnews.com
Protests in Tanzania spread after a disputed election, with the military on the streets – AP News
- Protests in Tanzania spread after a disputed election, with the military on the streets AP News
- More protests in Dar es Salaam after chaotic Tanzanian election Reuters
- Tanzania election: Fresh protests after polls marred by unrest as President Samia Suluhu Hassan takes count lead BBC
- Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Dar Es Salaam (October 29, 2025) U.S. Embassy in Tanzania (.gov)
- Tanzania elections: Who’s standing and what’s at stake? Al Jazeera
Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
Antoni Gaudí’s masterwork is still under construction but now stands taller than Ulm Minster in southern Germany
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica became the world’s tallest church on Thursday after a part of its central tower was lifted into place.
The masterwork of the architect Antoni Gaudí now rises to 162.91 metres (534ft 8in) above the city, the church said in a statement. That beats the spire of Ulm Minster in Germany, which tops out at 161.53 metres.
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UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan – The Guardian
- UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan The Guardian
- Executions and Mass Casualties: Videos Show Horror Unfolding in Sudan The New York Times
- Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, 'hero' doctors abducted NPR
- Rebels accused of massacring hundreds of people as videos emerge of atrocities and bodies in Sudanese city CNN
- Sudan war takes a turn as paramilitary force captures Darfur, threatening to split the country AP News
Russian activity increasing around key Ukrainian town, army chief says
The capture of Pokrovsk could unlock Russian efforts to seize the rest of the Donetsk region.
‘The bodies just kept coming’ – photographer at deadly Rio police raid
A witness says residents brought down body after body - some mutilated - after the massive police raid which has left at least 120 dead.
Photographer on Rio police raid: ‘The bodies just kept coming’ – BBC
- Photographer on Rio police raid: 'The bodies just kept coming' BBC
- Corpses line Rio street after Brazil's deadliest operation against drug gangs Reuters
- A bloody police raid in Rio was the deadliest in Brazil’s history The Economist
- Brazil: Death toll in Rio de Janeiro raid rises to at least 130 Vatican News
- Over 100 killed in Brazil’s deadliest police raid as Rio authorities battle drug gangs in favelas Fox News
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes the world’s tallest church – AP News
- Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes the world’s tallest church AP News
- Barcelona's Sagrada Família becomes world's tallest church BBC
- New images released of the iconic Sagrada Familia — now the world’s tallest church New York Post
- Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church The Guardian
- Spirit in the sky: Barcelona's Sagrada Família becomes the world's tallest church Euronews.com
The Canada-U.S. Trade War Is Pushing Carney Closer to Xi – The Wall Street Journal
- The Canada-U.S. Trade War Is Pushing Carney Closer to Xi The Wall Street Journal
- Scolded by Trump, Canada’s Prime Minister Turns to Asia for Trade The New York Times
- Canada's Carney to meet China's Xi in South Korea Reuters
- Canada Rebuilds Asia Trade Ties to Counter Trump Tariff Pain Bloomberg.com
- Carney’s Singapore visit eyes closer trade ties amid broader uncertainty - National Global News
What is COP30 and why does it matter?
World leaders will soon gather for the annual UN meeting on how to tackle climate change.
Trump hails ‘amazing’ meeting with China’s Xi but no formal trade deal agreed
The US president and his Chinese counterpart met face-to-face for the first time in six years.
Israel receives coffins Hamas says contain two Gaza hostages’ bodies
The government says the bodies were transferred by the Red Cross to Israeli forces in Gaza, who will take them to experts for identification.
Prince and Princess of Wales win privacy case against Paris Match
French magazine publishes judicial notice after using paparazzi images of family holiday in Alps
The Prince and Princess of Wales have won a privacy case against a French magazine after it published paparazzi photographs of them and their children on a private family ski holiday, Kensington Palace said.
William and Catherine launched legal action after their break was featured in Paris Match magazine in April, with a series of images documenting their activities with their children at a French resort in the Alps.
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Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election
Far right neck and neck with liberal D66 but all major mainstream parties have ruled out working with anti-Islam firebrand
Geert Wilders is almost certain to be shut out of the next Dutch government after a knife-edge general election in which support for his far-right Freedom party (PVV) slumped and the liberal-progressive D66 party made spectacular gains.
With 99.7% of ballots counted, the two parties were neck and neck on a projected 26 seats each in the 150-seat parliament, with D66 an estimated 15,000 votes ahead after the capital, Amsterdam, declared preliminary results on Thursday.
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Outcome appears closer to truce than durable peace but outline of broader diplomatic relationship is visible
When Donald Trump launched his trade war against China in April, threatening tariffs as high as 145%, the Chinese government said it would never bow to blackmail and vowed to “fight to the end”.
The question now is whether the consensus reached between Trump and Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday means that the fight really has come to an end, and if so on whose terms.
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Sudan RSF chief promises investigation as anger mounts over el-Fasher killings
The announcement comes after growing reports of mass killings, including of patients at a hospital.
Rob Jetten: anti-Wilders, ‘yes we can’ candidate poised to be next Dutch PM
As liberal-progressive D66 party makes huge gains in election, former junior athlete with ‘positive story’ and ‘vision’ leads race for power
Rob Jetten, a former junior athlete, was pictured last month in a sports magazine running merrily past the Dutch prime ministerial office in The Hague. The 38-year-old could be forgiven on Thursday for wondering when he will get the keys.
Such is the nature of Dutch politics that confirmation will not come for weeks or even months. But after a general election in which Jetten’s liberal-progressive D66 party made huge gains, he appears almost certain to be the Netherlands’ next prime minister.
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