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October 10, 2025 5:50 PM

Japan ruling party outlook darkens after coalition partner quits

Japan's Komeito quit the ruling coalition on Friday, dealing a blow to new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's premiership bid and potentially to her party's grip on power in the world's fourth-largest economy. TAKAICHI'S PM BID JUST GO...

October 10, 2025 4:37 PM

Details of the Gaza ceasefire agreement

Israel's government approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal early on Friday, setting the clock ticking on the first phase of an agreement that aims to end the two-year-old war. The agreement covers only an initial stage, including handi...

October 10, 2025 5:16 PM

COP29 President Calls for Stronger Climate Finance and Synergy Among Global Environmental Conventions

President of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), President Mukhtar Babayev, addressing the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, emphasized the need to strengthen climate f...

October 10, 2025 4:58 PM

Gazans stream towards wrecked homes as Israeli forces pull back under ceasefire

Thousands of displaced Palestinians streamed back towards their abandoned homes on Friday after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect and Israeli troops began pulling back from parts of Gaza. A massive column of displaced Gazans file...

October 10, 2025 5:36 PM

Pakistan carries out aerial strikes in Afghanistan’s Kabul

Former U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad warned that Pakistani strikes against Afghanistan’s capital represented a “huge escalation” and posed dangerous risks, cautioning that military confrontation between the two countries could lead to increased d...

October 10, 2025 3:10 PM

From Bharat to Belém: Delhi Declaration amplifies Global South’s urban voice ahead of COP30

The Delhi Declaration on Local Action for Global Climate Goals emerged as the central outcome of the first ARISE Cities Forum 2025, setting the tone for urban climate leadership at the upcoming COP30. Adopted in New Delhi on October 9, the declaratio...

October 10, 2025 7:58 PM

France’s Macron holds crunch talks with party chiefs as deadline to name a PM nears

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed mainstream political leaders to a crunch meeting at the Elysee ahead of a self-imposed late-Friday deadline to name a new prime minister, as the country's central bank chief warned political turmoil was sapping grow...

October 10, 2025 5:15 PM

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, receiving the award despite U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated insistence he deserved it. ...

October 10, 2025 2:44 PM

Myanmar’s junta says Malaysia to send observers for contentious polls

Malaysia will send observer teams for Myanmar's contentious general election, set to be held in phases from December 28, state media said on Friday, a day after talks between the leader of the ruling junta and Kuala Lumpur's top diplomat. Myanmar ha...

October 10, 2025 2:36 PM

India to upgrade technical mission in Kabul to full-fledged embassy, says Jaishankar after meeting Afghan foreign minister

India will upgrade its technical mission in Kabul to a full-fledged Embassy, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar announced on Friday after meeting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. “India is fully committed to the sovereignty, territo...

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