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Rodrigo Paz has promised improvements as Bolivia endures its worst economic crisis in decades

Two pro-business candidates

Bolivia elects center-right president, ending two decades of socialism

Rodrigo Paz has been elected Bolivia's president

First non-left winger in decades

'Capitalism for all': Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia's ideology-shy president-elect

The de facto border between the two Koreas is ridden with landmines

Standard guidance operation

North Korean soldier held by Seoul after crossing land border

Military officers saluted as Odinga's coffin was lowered into the ground and trumpets played the Last Post

Kenya buries long-time opposition leader Raila Odinga

Catholics gather at La Candelaria Square to attend the canonization ceremony of Venezuelan doctor Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Venezuelan Sister Maria Rendiles in Caracas

Including first female saint

Beleaguered Venezuela celebrates double canonization

Pakistan troops are seen at a funeral in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for a colleague who was killed in border clashes with Afghanistan

Cross-border clashes

Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to 'immediate ceasefire' in Qatar talks

At least 33 killed

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching Gaza truce amid strikes, clashes

Firefighters inspect the fire-damaged cargo terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on October 19, 2025, a day after the blaze

Tore through cargo complex

Bangladesh probes cause of massive, costly airport fire

The canonisation will be the second for the US pope since he was made leader of the Catholic Church on May 8

Nuns, ex-Satanic priest among seven new saints created by Pope Leo

Closing for the day

Chainsaw-wielding robbers flee Louvre with jewellery

Hamas has said it needs time and technical assistance to recover the remaining bodies from under Gaza's rubble

Military informed family

Israel identifies dead hostage returned Saturday

A person dressed in a Statue of Liberty costume participates in a 'No Kings' protest in New York

Over 2,700 demonstrations

Protesters out in force for anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies across US

Sanae Takaichi looks on track to become Japan's first woman prime minister with her LDP set to sign a new coaltion deal, reports say

Liberal Democratic Party

New deal puts Takaichi on track to be Japan's first woman PM: reports

Trump has waged an unprecedented military campaign that he says is aimed at choking the flow of drugs from Latin America to the United States

'Narcoterrorists'

Colombia accuses US of violating sovereignty in strike

Nicolas Sarkozy is to become the first former head of an EU country to serve time behind bars

Over Libyan funding scheme

France's ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza Saturday, bringing the total handed over to 135

Ceasefire enters second week

Israel receives bodies of two more hostages returned by Hamas

troops have at times reported unpaid wages and poor conditions

Under junta rule

Nigeria denies officers arrested over coup plot

People flood New York's Times Square during a 'No Kings' national day of protest

Thousands attended

'Manhattan straight up no ICE': New Yorkers unite at anti-Trump march

Kisumu has been the heartland of Odinga's support for decades

Outpouring of grief

Huge crowds as body of revered Kenya politician Odinga heads home

Pakistan troops at a funeral in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for a colleague who was killed in border clashes with Afghanistan

Broken ceasefire

Pakistan, Afghanistan officials to meet in Qatar after latest strikes

An Air China flight was safely diverted to Shanghai after a battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage caught fire

No one was injured

Air China flight safely diverted to Shanghai after battery fire in cabin

'Termination Day'

Premature end to Iran nuclear deal after reimposed UN sanctions

Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been re-elected leader of the country's Democrat Party

Thailand ex-PM Abhisit reinstated as conservative party leader

The king, who is still undergoing treatment for an undisclosed cancer, has previously visited the Vatican on five occasions as Prince of Wales, and has met three popes

Not seen in centuries

King Charles III to pray with pope during Vatican visit next week

'I will... no longer use my title,' Britain's Prince Andrew says after new allegations of sexual assault against him

Bombshell announcement

UK's disgraced Prince Andrew gives up royal title

A protester holds a bow and arrow during a demonstration outside the US embassy in Bogota, Colombia

Denouncing Trump's right-wing agenda

Anti-Trump protesters fire arrows at Colombian police, injuring four

US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) at the White House on October 17, 2025

Following US talks with Putin

Trump tells Zelensky to 'make a deal' as Tomahawk plea misfires

Chinese leaders will gather at the Great Hall of the People on Monday for four days of discussions to formulate economic strategy for coming years

Four days of closed-door discussions

Chinese leaders to hash out strategic blueprint at key meeting

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