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October 6, 2025 3:59 PM

UN cultural agency votes for new chief after US withdrawal

UNESCO will choose its next chief on Monday to lead the organisation after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it for a second time. While outgoing chief Audrey Azoulay has worked to diversify funding sources, the U.N. culture and...

October 6, 2025 3:38 PM

Thai PM orders urgent relief as floods hit 16 provinces, killing 12

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday ordered urgent relief efforts after flooding triggered by days of heavy rain and storms hit 16 provinces over the past week, killing 12 people and affecting more than 100,000 households. The Interior...

October 6, 2025 2:56 PM

France’s one-day old government quits, deepening political crisis

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history, driving stocks and the euro sharply lower. Theswift resign...

October 6, 2025 4:45 PM

Negotiators gather for Gaza talks, mediators caution deal may not be swift

Hamas officials were in Egypt on Monday ahead of talks with Israel that the U.S. hopes will bring a halt to war in Gaza and release of hostages despite contentious issues like disarmament of the Palestinian militant group under Donald Trump's plan. ...

October 6, 2025 1:46 PM

France’s new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu resigns

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, just hours after appointing his new cabinet, after allies and foes alike threatened to topple his government. His resignation was unexpected and unprecedented and marked anoth...

October 6, 2025 3:11 PM

Iran says release of French citizens in exchange for Iranian detainee in France is ‘under discussion’

Iran is in discussions on the release of two French citizens it detained in May 2022 in exchange for an Iranian citizen detained by France, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday. Baghaei added that Paris had never info...

October 6, 2025 9:27 AM

Hundreds of trekkers escape from blizzard-struck Everest in Tibet

Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet have been guided to safety by rescuers, Chinese state media reported on Sunday, as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas. As of Sunday, 3...

October 6, 2025 9:15 AM

At least 50 bodies recovered after Indonesian school collapse, 13 remain missing

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to at least 50 people as rescuers have cleared nearly all of the debris, rescue authorities said on Monday, in the country's deadliest disaster this year. Piles of concr...

October 5, 2025 5:11 PM

OPEC+ agrees modest oil output hike from November, sources say

OPEC+ will raise oil output from November by 137,000 barrels per day (bpd), the same fairly modest increase as in October, three people close to the matter said on Sunday. The group comprising the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pl...

October 5, 2025 5:07 PM

As shutdown drags on, US voters see blame game threatening Democrats and Republicans

Betty Snellenberg and Grace Cook stood on opposite sides of the walkway into the early voting center in Virginia Beach - one promoting the Democratic ticket for the November 4 statewide election, the other distributing pamphlets for the Republican no...

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