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United Kingdom: the US pulls its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford as Donald Trump cites Iran-linked "threats"
A week after five men suspected of plotting an attack near the base were arrested, Washington flew its bombers home. Donald Trump cited Iran-linked threats, Marco Rubio denied any direct link, London said the base was safe and Tehran denied any involvement.
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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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Ukraine: in Kyiv, Friedrich Merz pledges €1.3 billion in aid as Russian drones strike a bridge
On a surprise visit to Kyiv, the German chancellor announced €1 billion in military aid and €350 million for the power grid, telling Vladimir Putin: "Stop this senseless war." A Russian drone hit a city bridge during his visit.
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France: high school students call for an "act 3" on October 6 as the government promises replacement teachers and targets parents over damage
After a week of blockades and clashes, French high school organisations are calling for further protests on October 6. The education minister announced a plan to replace absent teachers, while the justice minister wants parents of minors involved to pay for the damage.
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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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Tennessee: Christa Pike's execution fails after two lethal injections, governor halts executions
Convicted of a murder committed in 1995 at age 18, Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend prison in Nashville on Wednesday and was taken to hospital. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Governor Bill Lee has halted the executions planned for this year.
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At the White House, AI chiefs sign a "morally binding" pledge to regulate themselves
Donald Trump brought together the heads of Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and other AI groups at the White House on Tuesday, where they signed a voluntary accord: internal controls, an external auditor and a board committee. Trump rules out new laws and wants to rename AI "superintelligence".
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Starship reaches orbit for the first time and deploys 26 Starlink satellites before a shortened flight
On its fourteenth test, SpaceX's Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 next-generation Starlink satellites despite an engine shutting down early. Planned to last ten hours, the flight was cut short after about three hours without explanation. The milestone is key to NASA's Artemis moon programme and to making the rocket fully reusable.
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Two mass shootings kill 27 in one night in South Africa, near Johannesburg and Cape Town
Overnight from 26 to 27 September, gunmen killed 17 people at a tavern in Wedela township near Johannesburg, then 10 more in Lwandle near Cape Town. Police are examining a turf war between illegal miners and a business rivalry; no arrests have been announced. "This cannot go on like this," Cyril Ramaphosa said, five days after another mass shooting near Durban.
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Five men arrested near RAF Fairford, a base used by US forces against Iran, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act
British police arrested five men near RAF Fairford after three suspicious vans were reported; army bomb-disposal experts examined the vehicles and 85 households were evacuated. London allows Washington to strike Iran from the base. According to the Daily Telegraph, an Iranian lead is among those being examined; police have not named anyone behind the plot.
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On his first visit to France, Leo XIV warns of a "paradise of machines" and challenges Paris on end-of-life law
The first papal visit to France in eighteen years: at the Élysée, Leo XIV warned of a "paradise of machines" and raised secularism and end-of-life issues, before speaking at UNESCO. Some 300,000 people cheered him in Paris according to the Vatican, and 80,000 young people heard him at the Stade de France. The four-day trip continues to Lourdes and Metz.
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