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France: after 1,800 arrests, Emmanuel Macron vows firmness against "seditious" groups
In a ten-minute address, the president spoke of his "anger" and "shame" but announced nothing on the cost of living; one protester died and hundreds of shops were looted.
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Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung cancer surgery: the Vatican confirms an adenocarcinoma after a lobe is removed
The first American pope had the lower lobe of his right lung removed at Rome's Gemelli hospital; further tests will show whether the cancer has spread.
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2026 economics Nobel: Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford honoured for the tools of economic stabilisation
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honours the microeconomic foundations of the models central banks now use to respond to shocks, from the pandemic to energy crises.
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Panama: buildings collapse in the centre of the country, tsunami alert lifted
The earthquake, followed by a magnitude 6.6 aftershock, hit the provinces of Herrera, Coclé, Veraguas and Los Santos: roads and buildings collapsed, a colonial church destroyed, people injured. The Panama Canal is operating normally; the tsunami alert issued for nine countries was lifted.
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Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay: the South African jurist is honoured as Washington sanctions the ICC hours later
A former judge of international criminal courts and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, 85, is honoured for her work for international law. The same day, the United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court; Israel criticised the Oslo committee's choice.
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October 7, three years on: Israel commemorates three weeks before an election that will judge Netanyahu
Three years after the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people and the war that has killed more than 74,000 in Gaza according to the local health ministry, Israel holds commemorations under tight security. Responsibility for the October 7 failure dominates the campaign for the October 27 election.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel honoured for optogenetics
The American and the two Germans were honoured for a technique that switches neurons on and off with light. Born from the study of a green alga, optogenetics is used to understand schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and addiction.
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Spain: Pedro Sánchez calls a snap general election for November 29
After the PP, Vox and Junts voted down his housing decrees, the Socialist prime minister dissolved parliament. Trailing in the polls, he is making the housing crisis the central issue of a vote that could bring the far right into government.
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Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro edges ahead of Lula in the first round, runoff set for October 25
Defying the polls, far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro came first with 47.06% of the vote, ahead of Lula (45.12%). The two will face off on October 25; markets cheered the result and Javier Milei congratulated Jair Bolsonaro's son.
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Brazil: Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in a neck-and-neck first round of the presidential election
More than 158 million Brazilians vote on Sunday. President Lula, 80, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son, are neck and neck in the polls, in a campaign shaped by relations with Donald Trump's United States.
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Flydubai Dubai-Tel Aviv flight: a pilot stabs his captain and the plane makes an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
Flydubai flight FZ1073, carrying more than 160 Israeli passengers, made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday after a pilot stabbed the captain. Israel calls it an attempted attack; passengers and a relief crew regained control of the aircraft. Flydubai has suspended its flights to Israel.
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