Washington's split with Kyiv deepened as Trump paused new Russia sanctions and Zelensky turned to Europe for funding. Ship attacks near Hormuz hit a record, pushing Brent crude to $110, while Houthi missiles struck Aden and Riyadh. From Paris to Delhi to Buenos Aires young protesters filled the streets, and Brazil's Amazon logged its lowest deforestation in decades.
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At an EU summit in Brussels, Ukraine's president asked European leaders for an additional €70 billion to fund the war effort. EU leaders reaffirmed their support as relations between Kyiv and the Trump administration deteriorate over Starlink restrictions and a US diesel deal with Russia.
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President Trump signed an executive order pausing parts of a sweeping new sanctions package aimed at Russia's economy, saying they run against US national interests and citing energy prices. The move came two days before a sanctions deadline and a week after a diesel deal with Moscow.
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BBC Verify analysis of UK maritime data found 12 vessels were struck in a single week near the Strait of Hormuz, a record, and the UKMTO says most attacks go unreported. Iran's IRGC said a tanker using a 'prohibited' route hit a mine, and President Trump said the US Navy is carrying out an 'effective' blockade of Iran.
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Forest clearance in Brazil's Amazon fell about 42% year on year to roughly 3,335 square kilometres in the 12 months through July, one of the lowest totals since records began in 1988. Deforestation had expanded under former president Bolsonaro; the figures are a boost for Lula ahead of the run-off.
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Oil prices jumped on Friday as Iran escalated attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, with Brent touching $110 a barrel. Ukraine's vow to keep striking Russian refineries added to supply fears.
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Ukraine says temporary speed limits on the Starlink network disrupted military missions, and its president says access has still not been fully restored. US senators have called for an investigation, while BBC reporting shows Starlink playing a key role in a Ukrainian offensive regaining ground in the Donbas.
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With front lines largely frozen, Russian missiles and drones are systematically hitting Ukrainian power plants in what analysts describe as an effort to make cities unlivable. Separately, authorities said the death toll from a Russian strike on a bus in eastern Ukraine had risen to 30.
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Yemen's government said Houthi ballistic missiles struck the al-Maashiq presidential palace complex in Aden, killing five people; the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt. Two more missiles were fired at Aden's airport, as government forces claimed advances in Marib.
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Yemen's Houthis said they struck Riyadh's airport and other Saudi sites, making Yemen one of the most active fronts in the regional war. Indian airlines cancelled and diverted Riyadh flights, and a BMX qualifier for the 2028 Olympics was cancelled.
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to olive trees and injuring several people, including Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine. The UN says settler attacks during this year's harvest have already surpassed the 2025 total; China's foreign minister separately urged Israel to stop the 'forced establishment' of settlements.
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President Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in the 25 October run-off. Days before the vote, Congress approved cutting the maximum working week from 44 to 40 hours, a Lula pledge, and Lula reversed his stance to back lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 for heinous crimes.
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A 16-year-old former student opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, killing three children aged 5, 8 and 11 and a teacher. Police say a teacher threw her phone at the attacker and tackled him before an armed parent shot him.
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Fanned by hot Santa Ana winds and unseasonable temperatures, the Norte Fire burned at least six homes in Orange County and prompted mandatory evacuation orders. It is one of 13 fires burning across California.
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Oil-rich Alberta votes on 19 October on whether to start the legal process toward separation. Polling suggests fewer than a quarter of residents want to leave; Prime Minister Carney campaigned for unity and suggested the US is trying to 'break' Canada after Elon Musk voiced support for separatism.
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Police detained Abhijeet Dipke, leader of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, ahead of a planned Delhi protest following mass detentions last week. Crowds are protesting a review of voter lists that critics say could disenfranchise voters, and the historic Jantar Mantar protest site has been closed to demonstrations.
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After weeks of student protests in which hundreds of high schools were blockaded, France faces nationwide demonstrations on 17 October as the Yellow Vest movement returns over rising fuel prices. Students cite absent teachers and crumbling classrooms; the UN has flagged concern over violence.
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Kenya confirmed a third Ebola case, a relative of a man who died earlier this month after travelling from DR Congo. The cases have raised urgent questions about preparedness, border controls and Africa's domestic health funding.
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El Niño rains are flooding parts of South America, sending residents fleeing, and Uruguay warns its drenched northwest faces more heavy rain. NASA satellites are tracking what it calls a historic 2026 El Niño.
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Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh gave no signal on another interest rate hike in his last public remarks before the central bank's October meeting, while praising a 'synchronous tightening' by central banks worldwide. Upcoming inflation data may decide the move.
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Russia rejoined G20 finance talks in Bangkok on a US invitation that has angered European allies. On the sidelines, the US pressed China on market access for Mastercard and Citigroup, and Japan's finance minister urged the G20 to watch markets closely.
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Air strikes on 10 October killed at least 72 artisanal gold miners at Shamal al-Wadi, highlighting the growing fight over Sudan's gold.
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Antarctic sea ice reached its third-lowest winter maximum on record in 2026, extending a dramatic decline that began after years of relative stability.
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Russian officials said Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow, hours after President Trump urged restraint. Kyiv has vowed to keep hitting Russian refineries in response to attacks on its own energy system.
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Meeting in Brussels, Hungary's prime minister Péter Magyar and Ukraine's president agreed to improve bilateral ties. Hungary lifted its objections to further EU accession talks for Ukraine following progress on the rights of the ethnic Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
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Commercial goods including fresh produce, meat and winter clothing had not entered Gaza for two days, raising fears over food affordability. UNICEF says more than 340 Palestinian children have been killed since the ceasefire, and Israel still bars foreign journalists from independent access.
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Riot police clashed with protesters in Tirana for a fourth day as students demonstrated against corruption and poor university conditions, demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation. Rama said foreign interference was driving the unrest.
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Thousands of students and lecturers marched against President Milei's higher education cuts, while state employees staged a 24-hour strike. After a peaceful march, dozens of hooded demonstrators clashed with police outside Congress.
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced an interim administration for the Tigray region, tasked with restoring security, rebuilding institutions and preparing for elections within six months.
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On World Food Day, millions of people across northern Nigeria face severe food insecurity, and the strain is falling heavily on those caring for malnourished children.
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Massive wildfires in Indonesia have blanketed Singapore and Malaysia in toxic smog for weeks, turning into a regional public health crisis. Singapore is investigating companies over the fires.
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An alert warning of strong shaking from a magnitude 9.9 earthquake across northern, eastern and central Japan was withdrawn minutes later, rattling nerves across the country.
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North Korea says it tested a new torpedo system with AI capabilities, the latest in a run of weapons demonstrations that included its first underwater-launched missile tests.
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Chilean President José Antonio Kast and Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz pledged in La Paz to work toward normalising relations between the two neighbours.
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The EU has dispatched an envoy to Beijing as politicians and economists across the bloc see China's subsidies and export surge as a major threat. Britain has also left open the option of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
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An investigation linked nickel mines in the supply chains of VW, Ford and Tesla to widespread deforestation of primary rainforest on Indigenous lands in Indonesia.
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Parents are demanding accountability after a school roof collapse in Peshawar killed 34 children.
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A late try from Shoshanah Seumanutafa gave Canada a 24-21 win over England in Toronto, ending the Red Roses' four-year, 41-match unbeaten run, the longest in rugby union history.
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Pope Leo XIV was pictured for the first time since surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung, celebrating Mass at Rome's Gemelli hospital.
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The United States put another 17 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on offer as a fuel crisis deepens, even as US drillers held their rig count flat despite soaring prices.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Mukesh Ambani's Reliance refinery in Gujarat, a major supplier of diesel, as US diesel prices surge. Reliance is also investing in a US refinery and buying Venezuelan oil.
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A stock manipulation scandal could see Turkish companies frozen out of global stock indexes and puts Turkey's status as an emerging market at risk.
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Argentina has not issued a local dollar bond in two months, its longest pause since the programme began, as a wall of debt payments approaches. Economy minister Luis Caputo still predicts a strong fourth-quarter rebound, and President Milei is courting US investors.
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Credit default swaps on cloud company CoreWeave hit distressed levels as investors sour on the debt behind the AI data-centre boom. The loss-making firm carries about $50 billion in debt.
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Forecasters expect India's rupee to slide toward 100 per US dollar despite pushback from the Reserve Bank of India, whose recent moves lifted it from 96.79 back to around 95.
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A global LNG supply crunch has made Europe's remaining coal-fired power plants profitable this year. In Germany, two startup electricity retailers are shutting down as wholesale power prices spike.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the war involving Iran has cost Europeans more than $112 billion.
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Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria approved a wind farm that would be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
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After heavy rain across the river basin, Iguazu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Argentina-Brazil border, reached a record water flow of about ten times normal.
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Researchers at the University of Southern California found a way to create a potentially renewable supply of genetically engineered immune cells for fighting cancer.
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Rome prosecutors widened an investigation into the alleged abuse and sexual assault of detained flotilla activists to include Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz and 12 senior military, police and prison officials.
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Rights groups warn a young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was 15, calling it a 'new low'. Sri Lanka separately appealed to Riyadh to overturn a migrant worker's death sentence.
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US prosecutors charged Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro with ordering the torture of opponents and Americans.
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The International Criminal Court condemned new US sanctions as an assault on the rule of law and the international legal order, saying 'history will judge this moment'.
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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood threatened to bar all Eritrean nationals from entering Britain in a dispute over deportations.
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There has been a stark rise over the past year in anti-government activists being deported to Russia from the EU and US, where they had sought refuge.
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Police rescued about 200 people, some found in chains and with sores, from an unregistered rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga. Two people were arrested and 14 received medical treatment.
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Australia agreed to provide Fiji with solar-, wind- and wave-powered Bluebottle maritime drones and training for surveillance and efforts against drug trafficking, with deployment expected in 2027.
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A New Zealand museum released historical aerial survey photos of Nikumaroro, the remote Pacific island where Amelia Earhart may have crashed, offering new clues to the aviator's disappearance.
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The Ghanaian artist's monumental installations dig into the country's past while building foundations for its artistic future.
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NASA is playing a key role in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission.
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The Busan International Film Festival honoured Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi and Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh as it builds momentum as a top-tier showcase.
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Hybe shares jumped 10% as BTS' world tour and global demand for newer K-pop acts lifted earnings hopes.
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Great Britain's Mark Stewart and Anna Morris won gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Shanghai, where world number one Alexander Zverev also beat Alex de Minaur at the Shanghai Masters.
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Brent crude jumped 3.7% to about $110 a barrel as attacks on shipping near Hormuz escalated, and is up nearly 5% in a month. Wall Street slipped, with the S&P 500 down 1.1%, while most Asian and European indices edged higher and Brazil's Bovespa extended a month-long rally of more than 10%. With the US 10-year yield above 5%, central bankers are weighing how far to tighten as fuel and power costs ripple from US diesel to German electricity.
Record attacks on ships near Hormuz pushed Brent to around $110. Washington is releasing more strategic reserves and hunting for diesel abroad, while China's PetroChina and other traders profit from the volatility.
A global gas crunch has revived Europe's coal plants and is pushing small German power retailers out of business. Spain's prime minister puts the war's cost to Europeans above $112 billion.
The Fed's Kevin Warsh kept his options open before October's meeting while praising tighter policy worldwide, and the US 10-year yield sits near 5.1%. India is defending a rupee forecast to weaken toward 100 per dollar.
Russia's return to G20 talks in Bangkok split the US from its European allies, as Washington pressed Beijing on market access and the EU sent an envoy over China's export surge. Turkey's market status is at risk after a stock-fixing scandal.
Distress signals at CoreWeave are drawing attention to the debt financing the AI data-centre build-out, even as Argentina and other emerging markets work to keep investors on side.