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DR Congo boat collision kills at least 30, dozens missing 

05 October 2026

News|Regulation A boat collision on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 30 people, with doze...

Rubio: No direct link between US bombers removal and UK base incident 

05 October 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the first leg of a four-day European tour in wh...

What is ‘Herod’s Pool’, and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank? 

05 October 2026

Israel says that work has begun on a development project around an outdoor pool in the occupied West Bank filled after s...

Yemeni gov’t forces aim for Sanaa, but Houthi defeat will be a challenge 

05 October 2026

Yemeni government forces have claimed advances along the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait after the head of Yemen’s Pres...

Nigeria launches rescue after military plane crashes with 32 aboard 

05 October 2026

Nigeria has launched a search-and-rescue operation after a military aircraft carrying 32 people crashed in Ondo state in...

Nationalist, conservative parties enjoy a boost in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

05 October 2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s general election did not bring about many surprises in voter trends, but some developments co...

Nobel medicine prize honours US and German scientists for optogenetics work 

05 October 2026

American scientist Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiolog...

Murder in Okinawa: The US military’s history of alleged crime in Japan 

05 October 2026

The murder of a Japanese woman allegedly committed by a US Marine on the southern island of Okinawa has prompted public ...

Latest US military strike on alleged drug boat kills four in Caribbean 

05 October 2026

The United States has conducted another strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing four, accor...

Students continue to protest in France as hundreds of schools close 

05 October 2026

Hundreds of high schools in France are closed as student protests continue against rundown schools and teacher shortages...