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Shanghai / October 18, 2025 — An Air China flight from Hangzhou, China, to Incheon, South Korea, was safely diverted to Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Saturday after a lithium battery stored in a passenger’s carry-on bag caught fire, the airline said. According to Air China, the......
Madrid, October 18, 2025 — Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have asked a Spanish court to sentence David Morales Guillen, head of the security company Undercover Global, to 20 years in prison. Morales is accused of spying on Assange on behalf of the United States while the Australian......
Paris, October 18, 2025 — The recent downgrade of France’s sovereign credit rating by S&P Global Ratings has been described by French Economy Minister Roland Lescure as a “call for lucidity and responsibility.” He stressed that to convince rating agencies, the 2026 budget......
Sterlitamak, Bashkiria, October 18, 2025 — Three people have died and five others were injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in Bashkiria, located in the Ural region of Russia, local authorities reported on Saturday. The cause of the blast has not yet been determined. Governor Rady Khabirov......
Bern, October 18, 2025 — Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis urged on Saturday for a fresh approach to Switzerland’s agreements with the European Union (EU), calling the new package of bilateral accords “vital for the country’s prosperity and sovereignty.” Addressing......
Lisbon, October 17, 2025 (AP/Reuters) — Portugal’s parliament has approved a bill banning face coverings such as burqas and niqabs in most public spaces, a move widely perceived as targeting Muslim women and aligning the country with several other European nations that have enacted similar......
Beijing, October 18, 2025 — Chinese-born physicist Chen Ning Yang, a 1957 Nobel laureate in physics and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the 20th century, has died at the age of 103, Chinese state television CCTV announced Saturday. The scientist passed away in Beijing “after an illness,”......
Washington, October 18, 2025 — The United States and China have agreed to resume high-level trade negotiations in an effort to ease renewed tensions between the world’s two largest economies. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Friday that he will meet next week in Washington......
Tehran, October 18, 2025 — Ten years after its adoption by the United Nations, the Vienna nuclear agreement (JCPOA) officially expires this Saturday. But in reality, the deal had already collapsed weeks earlier when the UN reinstated sanctions against Iran. On the same day, Tehran declared that......
San Francisco, October 18, 2025 — The Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, known for developing the controversial spyware Pegasus, saw its financial penalty drastically reduced on Friday by a U.S. appeals court. Instead of the initial $168 million in damages awarded to Meta in May, NSO will......
Ajaccio, October 18, 2025 — The Corsican city of Ajaccio inaugurated on Saturday its first urban cable car, named Angelo, marking a milestone as the first city in the Mediterranean basin to adopt this mode of transport. The project, costing €38 million—70% funded by the French state—aims......
Kabul, October 17, 2025 — Tensions have flared once again along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border after Islamabad reportedly carried out airstrikes inside Afghan territory on Friday evening. According to Taliban officials, the attacks killed at least ten civilians, including two children, breaking......
The French Council of State has upheld the €8 million fine imposed on Apple by the CNIL (France’s data protection authority) in late 2022 for using advertising trackers on French users without their explicit consent. In its ruling on Wednesday,......