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USA's Coco Gauff reacts during her women's singles match against Belgium’s Elise Mertens at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing on October 7, 2026.

Gauff says online abuse was 'draining' after China Open exit

Déi gëlle Statu vum Donald Trump, iwwersat "orange Plo" genannt, war och schonn zu München ze gesinn.

Uproar in Strasbourg

Naked Donald Trump statue sparks debate in European Parliament

HSBC is reportedly looking at hundreds of job cuts as it uses AI more in its wealth management business

Growing concern

HSBC 'consults' over UK unit job cuts amid AI adoption

August Hanning in 2007. The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of passing sensitive information to foreign powers

Court orders German ex-spy chief kept in jail after spying, treason arrest

A combination of file pictures created on July 4, 2016 shows former Barclays employees (L-R) Jay Merchant, Jonathan Matthew and Alex Pabon whose convictions for manipulating the Libor and Euribor interest rate benchmarks have been overturned

UK court quashes five ex-traders' Libor rate rigging convictions

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva told AFP the institution is preparing to support countries impacted by El Nino

Upcoming challenges

IMF preparing El Nino assistance, concerned about AI bubble burst: chief to AFP

Water sachets are sold in a number of African countries

Guinea caps bottled water prices after sachets banned

The woman had married her husband when she was just 12

At 25 years old

Spared, married, hanged: the last weeks of Iranian protester Alireza Sepahi

France had already recorded its lowest production since 1957 last year

Scorched by heatwaves

French wine harvest set to hit historic low

US giant Micron makes around 50-60 percent of its chips in Taiwan

Memory chip giant

Micron workers at Taiwan plant vote in favour of strike

The killing of a Japanese woman has triggered protests against US military bases in Japan

48h operational pause

US military on Okinawa face curfew, alcohol ban after murder case

Fiji's Minister for Information, Environment and Climate Lynda Tabuya speaks during an interview with AFP on the sidelines of the Pacific Pre-COP31 Summit in Nadi on October 7, 2026.

Wants streamlined access

'It's personal': Fiji minister pushes better climate finance at pre-COP

Since Russia launched its assault on Ukraine, criticism of the past has been cast as unpatriotic

Stalin-era repression

Russia glosses over dark Soviet past in reinvented museum

Benin, ranked 89th in the world, provided the opposition for Lionel Messi's final match with Argentina

Benin full of pride at role in Messi's last dance

Climate advocates and Greenpeace campaigners sail towards the venue of the Pacific Pre-COP31 Summit in Nadi on October 7, 2026

'Keep 1.5°C Alive'

Pacific presses world for help 'surviving' climate change at pre-COP summit

Mourners gather at the site of the Nova music festival in Re'im, southern Israel to mark the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack

Mourning, war and elections as Israel marks October 7

Four plaintiffs, including a local chapter of Indigenous NGO AMAN filed a class action lawsuit against the government over wildfires and haze making their communities sick

Causing respiratory ailments

Indonesian court hears 'negligence' complaint against state over fires, haze

Protesters around the world -- seen here with a sign that reads 'AI? No thanks!' in Linz, Austria -- have voiced opposition to new data centers and their heavy demand on resources, as well as the use of AI in public surveillance and warfare

Powerful intelligence

US, China, EU: three paths to regulating AI

Days of heavy rain late last month inundated parts of the capital Bangkok

Water levels still rising

Thailand floods death toll rises to 60 since mid-September

Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor says no special measures have been ordered after the death of a lab technician set off a pneumonic plague alert

US pushes Russia for information on plague reports

Jeremy Allen White at the premiere of 'The Social Reckoning' in New York

'The Social Network' sequel

In 'The Social Reckoning,' Jeremy Allen White takes on Facebook's 'frightening' ambition

Myanmar's leader has started a visit to Malaysia for migrant return talks

International pariah

Myanmar leader lands in Malaysia for migrant return talks

South Korean activists campaigning for workplace safety in the nation's booming semiconductor industry called on the government to recognise the cancer diagnoses of three former SK hynix employees as work-related illnesses

Workers face exposure

Chip industry activists call for South Korea to recognise cancer cases

A 2021–2022 famine in southern Madagascar was described by the United Nations at the time as the first in the world caused by climate change

'Increased drought risk'

Famine-scarred southern Madagascar braces for El Nino

Companies, consultancies, non-governmental organisations and unions that want to influence policymaking must be listed in the transparency register

Tightened since 2022 Qatargate

How the EU regulates lobbyists

The EU has vowed to ban 'forever chemicals' in everyday consumer products, like clothing and pizza boxes as activists demand action

Battle against PFAS

Fierce lobbying in EU over 'forever chemicals'

The Arche centre in Ivory Coast's second city, Bouake, is one of the country's few specialised sites helping people with developmental disorders

'Right to life'

I.Coast refuge offers lifelong care for youngsters scorned as 'sorcerers'

Stockpiles of washed coal ready to be transported at the Moolarben mine, operated by Yancoal Australia, in New South Wales on September 3, 2026

Top coal exporter

Climate champion Australia digging more coal

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