Sunday, October 12, 2025
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President Donald Trump flew to Egypt on Monday to co‑chair a Sharm el‑Sheikh summit with Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi aimed at finalising a Gaza ceasefire and planned hostage release.
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress best known for Annie Hall and The Godfather, died in California on Saturday at 79, her family said.
President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to use all available funds to pay U.S. military personnel on October 15 despite the ongoing federal government shutdown.
The director of the Nobel Institute in Oslo said he suspected espionage after unusually large online bets on María Corina Machado preceded her Nobel Peace Prize win.
The Trump administration moved to restore scores of CDC experts mistakenly dismissed in recent government shutdown cuts, officials said, though it was unclear when hundreds of staff would return.
Volodymyr Zelensky phoned Donald Trump on Saturday to request U.S. approval to supply Tomahawk cruise missiles after major Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid.
President Donald Trump threatened new 100% tariffs on Chinese goods after Beijing tightened controls on rare-earths and semiconductor exports, prompting market turmoil and heightened trade tensions.
A truce between Israel and Hamas entered into force Friday, allowing some 500,000 to return to northern Gaza and prompting Macron to travel to Egypt to support implementation.
Reappointed by President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu faced refusals from Les Républicains, the UDI and the Socialist Party to join his new French government and looming censure.
Gold hit record highs while major stock indexes also reached records worldwide, prompting renewed warnings from analysts and officials about a possible "everything bubble" amid economic uncertainty.
Storm system 'Alice' lashed Spain’s east, causing floods, evacuations in Alicante’s Pilar de la Horadada, cancelled flights across Valencia, Catalonia, Balearics and Murcia, and prompting criticism of AEMET.
Torrential rains in Mexico killed at least 30 people and flooded thousands of homes across multiple states, and authorities later found an escaped zoo tiger.
Restoration crews removed scaffolding from the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, revealing the UNESCO site for the first time in decades, though new scaffolds return next month.
A family in New Orleans unearthed a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman gravestone in their overgrown garden, which VRT said had disappeared decades earlier from an Italian museum.
Norway defeated Israel 5-0 in Oslo as Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick, while pro-Palestine demonstrations and heightened security surrounded the World Cup qualifier.
Tadej Pogacar won Il Lombardia in Bergamo for a fifth consecutive time, equalling Fausto Coppi’s record, after a decisive solo attack that left Remco Evenepoel second.
Roei Shalev, a survivor of the Oct. 7 Nova festival massacre who lost his girlfriend and friend, was found dead after setting his car ablaze in Tel Aviv on Friday.
Rapid Support Forces carried out drone and artillery strikes on a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, on Saturday, killing at least 60 people, local groups said.
Ian Watkins, the 48-year-old former Lostprophets singer serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences, was reportedly killed by fellow inmates at HMP Wakefield.
